The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-03-07
rERRrroRx PLACE HUNTERS.
The Appointments Fer POSitionG
UndOr the New Court Law
Net Yet 1Gado.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-The news
napers last evening and this morning
insisted that the president intended
to leave the city just as soon as he
could get away after the congress ad-
iourned. but the members of the body
did ont believe it. and acting on this
belief, they trOOped to the white
house in squads this morning to make
requests of him. Every man OF them
wanted to make one final request for
an office for a constituent, but the
president, anticipating this, had
flown, and was on his way down the
river TO the CarOlinas for hunting
trip. Three or four days ago the
lighthouse tender boat, which was at
Baltimore, was ordered to come
. around to Washington, and it was
then reported that the president in
tended to get away on the 9TH of the
month.
When the congressman found that
he was gone they fairly raved. They
said, or many OF them said, that he
had promised to meet them this
morniug. II he did, he either viOlat-
ed his word or forgot his appointment.
Anyhow, he was gone, and that was
the end of the matter.
His action will delay the appoint
ment Of the officers of the new courts
created in the Indian Territory until
his return. a resolution passed both
houses just before their adjournment
which provided that the preselt court
there should continue to exercise I he
jurisdiction that it had always exer-
ciSed until the president appointed
the officers of the new courts, and this
action on the part of the houses re-
lieyed TIE president OF the necessity
for organizing the new courts at once.
CulbersOn shied at this proposition,
as he wanted the new courts put un-
der way at once. l have it from the
white house that there Is not the most
remote chance of these officers being
n appointed until his return. The de-
lay without doubt shows that the
president wants to look into the
qualifications of the applicants, and
that he intends To take his time and
make thorough examination, hence
any statement as to whom he will ap-
point would be mere gueSSwOrk. lie
is very anxious to get the proper. man
for each position, aS lie told me that
this WAS an epoch in the lives of the
d Indian tribes, and that he wanted
judges and other officers for these
courts who had kindness. sense, and
y yet tirmneSs. He will exhaust the
whole list OF candidates, and it is a
long one, to iiQd the men he desires.
This evening [ was informed by a
congressman from Mississippi, that
the congressman from that state had
been working hard for the nomination
Of fex-Congressman Barry. from that
state, but who now lives at ArdmOre,
in the Indian Territory, for judge.
ship under the new law. Congress-
man Catchings, who had interviewed
the president on thesubject, was con
vlnced that the president did not in
tend to appoint the officers of these
courts from the Indian Territory, and
80 positive were they of this deter
mination on the part of the president
that they tore up the petition fol
Barry, which they had all signed
There is no doubt that this was done
and that the Mississippians are con
Vinced that the officers of the new
courts are to come from outside the
territory. Mr.. Catchings, who wa
close to the president, was bhe auth
Ority for this determination, ant
what he saws is to be relied ON.