The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-26
CARLISLE MAY GO ON THE BENCH

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A Washington dispatch to the New
York Evening Posi- says that if another
vacancy occurs ON the supreme bench
during the present administration, Sec
rotary Carlisle is likely to receive the
appointment. Although there are less
than eight months left of this admins
tration, it is not at all improbable that
such a vacancy will occur if Justice
Fields health does not rapidly mend,
and of which ait present there seems no
likelihood.
It is quite probable that Mr.. Car
Isle would now be upon the supreme
bench had he desired. The Post dis
patch says that at the time the last
vacancy in the supreme court occurred,
two reasons existed for not considering
Mr.. Carlisle's name seriously as the
president would otherwise gladly have
done. Mr.. Carlisle's appointment to the
court in the midst of his term as sec
rotary of the treasury would have been
taken up by the opponents of the adj
ministratfon as an ilnputafion upon the
secrestary's conduct of his great office.
To the danger of such construction
OF his appointment the president was
unwilling to subject Mr.. Carlisle, and so
he was not seriously considered" An
other reason was Mr.. Car-lisle's per-
sonnl wishes. He was not without
presidential ambitions, and the supreme
bench seemed like a place to go into
retrear.
That Mr.. Carlisle would adorn the sll-
preGne bench there is not the least
doubt Against his appointment there
could be urged with reason his age He
is now 81 years DID, and the tendency
in the last few years in the matter
of appointment is to return to the
earher practice and appoint younger
men, If he were appointed, his age
would not be very different from that
of the other members of the court.
PeclnhaHn, the most recently appointed
judge, was born in 1888; White was
born in 1915; Shiras in 1882, and APP
pointed in 1892; Brown in 1886, and APP
pointed I'm 1891; Brewer in 1887, and APP
pointed in 1889; Gray in 1928, and APP
pointed in 1881; Harlan in 1885, and ap-
pointed in 1877, and Chief Justice Full
Ter, also born in 1888. was confirmed
in 1883.
Were he to be appointed, it is not
certain that if the income tax law
were again brought before the court
he would not vote to sustain it; and
while lit is believed that Justice Peck
ham, vino succeeded Judge Jackson on
the bench, is against the validity of the
law, still there is some uncertainty ON
this point
Should a vacancy occur and Mr..
Carlisle be appointed to it, the appoint
ment would give general satisfaction.
We have been very much interested
in the proceedings of the Populist CON
vention at st. Louis but for the life
of us we cannot tell what is meant by
this choice bit of English descriptive OF
the opposition of Arthur SewaM: 1T
was a sunilen often, unmarked upoI
the battlefield, which, clutching with
its muddy fingers ait the wheels of his
artillery, bore down Napoleon and his
eagles at Waterloo" A sunken ditch
clutching with muddy fingers ait ar
tilleIy wheels is something new in the
line of metaphor The muddy fingers
Of this particular sunken ditch must
belong to some arm Of the sea.
When Democrats remember that
N, NV will M