Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-07
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
The Delay in Selecting the Court of Appeals
Judges.

/ Inc Delay IN Selecting the Court OF Appeals
| Judges.
! The oniv bit of news about the new Distric,
I Coart Of Appeals which leaked out at the White
Z House today OF a negative nature. The
President has not yet announced whom he will
appoint. bat ne named one man whom he Won't
appoint.
This is Mr.. Benton J. Han OF Iowa. ex-com-
missioner of patents Congressman Hayes OF
Iowa. who has been pushing Mr.. Hall for this
place. told by the President this morning
that he cannot appoin: him.
THE NEW PENSION COMMISSIONER
Judge Lochre1. the newly appointed Com
missioner of Pensions. has said goodbye to the
President and returned to Minneapolis to ar
range his business affairs preparatory to az
Stunning charge of the pension bureau about
May 1. He will stop at Gettysburg on his way
west to verify the site of the monument. which
the state will erect in honor of the first Mime
sofa regiment. which was almost annihilsted in
a charge during that battle.
The gossiDs at the White House say that
Judge Lochren may not remain at the head of
the pension bureau longer than three years.
There viii probably be a vacancy on the dis
trict bench of Minnesota at that time. occa-
it is though, that the President will appoint
Judge Lochren to ii. 1t is a life position, and
an Office that Judge Lochren would hardly re-
fuse.
MAY NOT ACCEPT.
1t is rumOred that a couple of President
Cleveland's recent Apprentices may not accept
the places offered them One of these is Mr..
]. C. Riley Of Ohio, who. it is said, has been
selected to be third auditor II is said that i'll
ness in his family may prevent his assuming
tine duties of the Office.
The other one is Editor Lewis J. Baker of st.
Paul. nominated minister to Costa Rica. Mica
ragua and San Salvador. He does not fancy
the idea of exchanging the bracing winds OF
the northwest for the nalarisl atmosphere OF
Central America, and may decline the appoint
menL He applied for the Brazilian mission,
and, 1t is said, did not know tina. he to be
given the one which he received. Mr.. Baker is
now in the city, and will probably endeavor to
get transfer to some other berth.
SENATOR KYLE on KIcKERs.
Senator KYLE OF South Dakota called at the
White House today with Judge Thomas of the
Black Hills, who would like to be consul at
Montreal or Melbourne or be given judgeship
IN mlluer climate tuan tnat OI DdkOa- oeua-
tor Kyle said that he will take no notice OF the
protest of some South Dakotans against the re-
cent appointment of Hughes East to division
chiefshp in the weather bureau.
The kickers are some disgruntled fellows"
he said. land their protest is not based upon
fact. Mr.. East is a good man and has fine
family, whom he is trying to support. He was
once a man of fortune and after he lost it was
private secretary to the late Mr.. Hendricks Of
Indiana"
Col Kilgore presented good-looking Texas
Judge T. j. Low, now of Guthrie, who wants
to be governor Of Oklahoma. Judge Low
comes under the home rule requirement be-
cause he has been q resident of Oklahoma ever
since there has been any such territory.
THE CABINET MEETING.
The cabinet meeting at II o'clock cut of the
stream of callers in its prime and the official
portion Of the mansion was deserted for q time.