The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-10-23
Was Appointed by Presi.
dent Lincoln.
Possibly Attorney-Ceneral McKen
ma May be Justice Fields
Successor.

CHICAGO, Ill.,, October 12-The
Times-Herald tomorrow will print the
following from it's Washington corre
spondent: Associate Justice Field of
the Supreme Court, having now brok-
en- all records for length of service up
on the bench, has made formal appli
cation to be retired on December 1st
next. Attorney-General McKenna is to
be his successor, and Judge Day, now
Assistant Secretary of State, will prob
ably be appointed Acknowledgement
The changes have all been decided up
on and will be effected as soon as Con-
gress meets, so that the Senate may
confirm the appointments.
At the same time, there may be 9TH
er changes in the Cabinet. Secretary
Sherman may conclude to retire from
the State Department. If he does, it
is believed that Secretary Long of the
Navy will be chosen Secretary of State
and that Assistant Secretary Roosevelt
will be promoted to Secretary of the
Navy. But the retirement of Justice
Field, the appointment of Attorney
General McKenna to the vacancy and
the promotion of Judge Day to seat
in the Cabinet are the only changes
now decided upon
President Mckinley will not ask Sec
rotary Sherman to retire, but if Mr..
Sherman should conclude that the Of
flee makes too great demands on his
strength and asks to be relieved of it's
burdens, it is possible that Judge Day
will be promoted to the Secretaryship
of State. Otherwise he will be made
General, in accordance with
the program outlined above.
When Judge McKenna was asked to
become Attorney-General in the Nc
Kinley Cabinet, he expressed a prefer
ence for something upon the bench,
where he was as United States Circuit
Judge in California. 1t was then init
mated to him if he would consent to
take the Attorney Generalship for a
time he might be chosen as the sue
cessor of Justice Field upon the Su-
preme bench should that Justice decide
to retire. 1t has been an open secret
ever since McKenna took the place in
the Cabinet that he was slated for the
first vacancy in the Supreme Court.
His desire to return to his judicial ca
reer, and Judge Days wish to be At
were known from the
first to fit together and form a combi-
nation which only awaited the oppor-
tunity to be effected. The opportunity
has now come, and, barring the con-
tingency that Judge Day may possibly
become Secretary of State, it is tacitly
understood the program is to be car
ried out.
Justice Field has been eligible for
retirement for a long time week
ago he called upon the President and
formally presented his letter asking for
retirement. 1t was on August 9Th last
that Justice Field broke the record for
length of service on the Supreme
bench, as it was on that day he ex-
ceeded the term of service of "a years,
five months and six days to the credit
of Chief Justice Marshall, whose serv-
ice had up to that time been the long
est in the history of the Court
The total length of Justice Field S
service up to the time when his re-
tirement will take effect, December 1st,
will be "a years, seven months and 20
days. Under the law Justice Field will
receive the full salary of an Associate
Justice of the United States Supreme
Court-s10,000 per year-for the re-
mainder of his life.