The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-01
FOR LAWYERS ONLY?
Politicians Excited Over Dread
and Grave Possibility.
WICHITA NOT BOOKED
No Local Men Will Get APP
pointmentS in First Batch.

The question with most of the politicians,
and good share of the people this morn
ing, in Wichita is-now that the house and
senate have passed the law creating the
court of visitation and the solicitor gen
eral-what is the next step and who viii
take =?
The law, as it passed. fixes the first
session of the new court April l Of the
present year, Governor Stanley TO appoint
the three members of the court and the
solicitor general.
What the railroads will DO is as much
a mystery as their indifference TO its pas
sage has been. Some think that the rail-
roads will at once attack the constitution
atty of the law in the courts, but they
cannot attack the law until the court has
begun operations.
Others, and those seemingly to speak by
the book, contend that the railroads viii
let the new law alone as the new board,
being a court, viii have to listen to every
thing brought before it in a perfectly de-
Hberate and judicial way, setting dates for
hearing, listenening and deciding upon mo-
tons, giving time for the preparation of
briefs and celebrating at length and TAX
ing time to hunt up the legal authorities
cited
If the new court is a court TO this extent
and proceeds in a judicial manner, there
seems to be little doubt that the appOintees
will have to be lawyers. There is no ques-
ton about the necessity of the solicitor
general being a lawyer. But the eligibility
of none but lawyers to a membership on
the new board is going TO cause all kinds
of 5eep-blue woe among the politicians.
Governor Stanley was seen last night and
asked about his views of the new cor.
and he said fatty: at will not talk about
it at this time
There is no question, however. that the
matter Of lawyers for the new board is
creating a great stir. Lit Crum, one of
the leading candidates, couldn't tell a COM
mitatus from a res adjudicata if he met
both on the open prairie, and Jim Simpson
doesn't know whether Chitty was law
yer, or farmer over in Saline county.
Not an application has been received for
the place of solicitor general for a wonder.
The story which was bruited about yester-
day coupling Mort AlbaUgh's name with
the place, was joke started at Topeka,
and Mort Albaugh, who was in town yes
terday, so designated it to his friends.
The last of the letters of application are
filed away and the Office of the governor
elect presents a rather tidy appearance.
The governor relaxed on his message
yesterday, and from remarks he dropped
he is still far behind with it, with only a
week to spare
1t is believed now that no appointments
except that of private secretary will be
announced from Wichita. The rest will be
announced from Topeka; a few right after
the inauguration and others later. 1t is
thought that the two appointees to the
state board of charities have been selected.
offered the place and have accepted. Kan
avel is believed to be one of these 1t is
claimed that Spencer of Fort Scott has
also received the inspectorship Of coal oil
The selection of insurance commissioner is
still in doubt and the rivalry for the place
is burning low and feeb.y
i is not expected among the politicians
here that the Populist extra session the.
last week of its existence, tina. is this
week, will do anything to cut down the
number of appointments to be made bv
Governor Stanley. but still the fear that
1t may do so has perceptibly diminished
the number of callers at Stanley's office.
1t IS said that, in the matter Of the first
batch of appointments, no Wichita man
will be named