The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26
MORE NEW PLACES.
Nineteen Jobs Created by the
Appellate Court Bill.
Over Thirty Applicants for the
Judgeships
Have Actually Filed Applied
tiOnS With Gov. Morrill,.
UNSEEMLY SCRAMBLE
By Men Who Want to Wear the
Ermine,
And Are Not Afraid to Leg
for 1t.
UNSEEMLY SCRAMBLE


judges for the new appellate court i'm
mediately in order that they may be con-
firmed by the senate and the court can
be organized.
OF the six judges to be appointed three
must be Republicans, two Populists, and
one Democrat, and the bill provides that
the judges cannot take their offices until
their appointments have been confirmed
by the senate.
Governor N Morrill will have enough ju-
dicial material from which to make MS
selections, there are over thirty an
nounced candidates for the six places on
this court, and there are said to be almost
one-half as many more able lawyers who
would be candidates if they had the
slightest encouragement.
Whom the governor will appoint is not
positively known, but in political circles it
is said that there is d strong probability
that the southern department will be
presided over by two Populists and one
Democrat-Senator billiard for the east
ern division, Senator Dennison, Populist,
for the central division, and George w.
Clark, late Populist candidate for asso-
ciate justice, for the western division.
Senator billiard lives at Fort Scott,
Senator Dennison at Ell Dorado and Geo.
thing said to be in the way of this ar
rangement is the recommendation made
by Governor Morrill, in his message, that
the constitution ought to be revised SO
that no member of the legislature could
be appointed to fill any office created by
the legislature of which he was a mem
Der.
If Governor Morrill, takes this into
consideration several of the candidates
vri1 ho Oh, 70 "a
Senators billiard, Dennison and Brown
and Representative Sutton of Russell
David Overmyer is not an announced
candidate but it has been suggested that
! if Gouernor Morrill, should decide not to
| appoint Senator billiard for the eastern
division of the southern department he
may appoint Mr. Overmyer for this div
ision as the Democratic member of the
court. 1t is generally conceded that Mr..
Overmyer can have the place if he
wants it.
The only other judgeship which is re-
| garded as at all settled is for the central
| division of the northern department, and
almost all the lawyers agree that this
place will probably go to T. F. Carver,
of Salina, who was the Republican can
didate for attorney general in 1892.
The following are the names of the
candidates who filed regular applica-
I LlOnS Will lH0 BON0fHOf IOI appointments
| to places on this court:
Eastern division. northern department,
| S. B. Bradford, Topeka; Geo. W. Clark,
Topeka; John W. Day, Topeka; John
Guthrie, Topeka; W. C. Webb, Topeka;
A B. Jetmore, Topeka, Robert Crozier,
Leavenworth; H. w. Ide, Leavenworth
j. F. Perdue, Kansas City; Thomas J.
White, Kansas City; A. F. Martin. Atchi-
son and Abijah Wells, Seneca.
l.
T. F. Carver, Salina; w. T. Dillon, Belle
Vile; Chas Smith, Washington; L. J.
Craus, Concordia; Clark Smith, Cawker
City and E. F. Robinson, Osborne
Western division northern department:
w. B. Ham, Stockton; l. H. Thompson.
Norton: F. D. Turck, Hill City; G. Webb
Bertram, Oberlin; W. B. Sutton, Russell;
W. G. Gill, Colby and Harry Pestana,
Russell
Eastern division southern department:
Oscar Foust, lola; Almerin Gillett. EN-
poria: ]. Jay Buck, Emporia.
Central division, southern department
L. Houk, Hutchinson, and James McDer-
mott, Winfield.
Western division, southern department.,
Senator Milton Brown, Garden City
1t was understood few months ago
| that this legislature was to cut off a large
number of existing office, but by this one
bill alone nineteen new offices
are created, including six judges,
six clerks. six stenographers
and one assistant to the supreme court
! reporter, who is to be the official re-
porter of the appellate court.
The judges are to receive salaries of
So, 500 year each. TIE clerks of the
several divisions are to be paid in fees
on the same basis as the clerk of the
supreme court, but no clerk is to receive
in excess of $1,000 year. The judges
ttenographers are to be paid 5000 a year
each and the assistant reporter of the
supreme court will receive $1,000 wear.
CHILDISH NEGLECT.
House Pays No Attention to Senate Bills,
Although Senate Passes House Bills