The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-06-01
CoIone|iMcLoughIin Lost No TimsI
in rendering it.
Nj LAuRlN FOR JuDeEsHlr|
1t is Thought That President Roosevelt
viii Name Him for the Federal
Bench-SpeciaI Order Neces-
sarY to Guard Against van-
daIism in Public Build
ings at Capitol.
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Especial Dispatch to The Timssiy
WASHINGTON, D. c., May H--A ros
cent editorial in the New York Heralds
which. it is said, bears the double dis
tinction of having been cabled from
Paris by James Gordon Bennett himself.t
and of being the longest editorial eveEt
printed in that weu-knowu Journal. haDf
aroused a great deal of comment amonSt
the newspaper correspondents in Washs
inSton and the members Of the d1pior
matte corps. The subject of the edlto-f
rial is Colonel o Loughlin. a recent naem~f
her of the Heralds Washington bureau
staff. and the cause of it is MIR. Y. Lougn- !
lin having accepted from the Russians.
Government decoration of the order OF :
st. Stanislaus. .
When Mr. Bennett heard that Mr1 !:
O'LoughIn had accepted this decorations :
from Count Cassin. the Russian ambas-
sador TO Washington. he cabled his ems
ploye that he could take his choice o8
returning the order or resigning from the
Herald,s staff. Mr.. OLoughIin resigned.
Whereupon Mr.. Bennett wrote the above:
mentioned editorial. which severely
scores both Mr.. O'Loughlin and the RUS
sian ambassador. and hints that tha
former was bribed by the latter for writ"
ing articles favorable to Russia and hes
position in regard to China Mr. OLnugii~
lin was the Heralds special man for all
matters dealing with the Chinese ques-
ton here in Washington. and has al-
! ways interviewed the different members
| OF the diplomatic corps upon news aHo
occurrences in the Orient.
The Herald editorial watch IS under
the head of Romans Civis Sum-. lays
special stress upon the lack OF patrlot-
ism of all Americans who accept deco
rations and orders from foreign govern
ments and holds Mr.. O'Loughlin up as
a terrible example of the class
The sentiment among newspaper men
an diplomats alike in Washington Is
almost unanimously in favor of Mr.
! O'IIoughIin who has been with the Her
| aid for ten years. and has Il very high
| stand with his profession at the Capital
| His record as n newspaper man Is clear
and his reputation for efficiency and ca
! pacity is of the highest. and is upheld on
all sides for his attitude in accepting tbs
! decoration and refusing to give 1t up be.
| cause of the disapproval of his chief
M,LAURIN FOR BENCH.
| It now seems practically settled thao
| Senator McLaurin. of South Carolina.
will be nominated by the President to be-
! judge of the Court of Claims CT the Dis
I trict of Columbia and it is rumored that
| the President has already promised the
| South Carolinian the place. The Presf-
dents attitude settled. the question nat
urally arises: What will the Senate do?'s I
! It has long been sort OF custom with /
| the members of that body TO band tot
gether and use their influence with tho {
President to have him take care of one}
| Of their number who has been forced outt
| Of the Senate by no fault of his own. andf
| the general impression prevails that Mc.f
\ nkaS <r~ kSSnI
benefits arising from out of this esprtsf
| de corps Conspicuous examples of thfsa
| custom are Senator Matt. Ransom, OH
| North Carolina, and Senator w. Ed
| Chandler of New Hampshire. In thai
| case OF the former, President Cleveland8
was prevailed upon to send the rettreQ
| North Carolinian to Mexico Uniteda
| States minister. position Of dignity and
| good pay. Senator Chandler was defeated
| for the Senate last year. and although III
| had not been thought that he was a par-i
| ticularly popular man with his compan-3
| ions In the upper branch of the NltonAIf
I Legislature. he turned up at the Whttef
I Rouse one fine morning armed with pe-j
| titiou signed by every Senator asking thael
| he be appointed president OF the Spanishl
! Treaty Claims Commission, which waSl
! created to pass Judgment as to the va
| lidity of claims against the United States
| arising out of the war with Spain. such.
| 4 man as the late EfTeSiOeut
| could not do otherwise than appoint hftfS
| under such circumstances
| It is understood that the good work II
| going on In the case of the junior Sem
/ a:or from South Carolina. whose recent
| announcement OF his retirement from
| South Carolina politics created somewhat
| of a sensation. In that it was q frank
| admission on his part that Tillman ruled
! In the Palmetto State. Already. It II
/ said, a number OF Democratic Senator's
have written to the President in his be-
half. among them Pettus and Morgan.
| OF Alabama: McEnery. OF Louisiana:
McLaurin, Of Mississippi, who. by the
way. is q cousin CT the South Carolinian.
| ard TaIiaferro. OF Florida. OF course.
| the Republicans are for him for the posi-
| ton. Just what Senator Tillman's atti-
! tude on the matter OF his colleagues cp-..
| pointment to the Fedora; judgeship will
| be is not known. but It Is thought that
he would not oppose his confirmation u
| the President nominated him. The tak-
ing care OF McLaurin by the administra-
ton and hts acceptance OF SO important
a position at the hands OF the Republican,
/ party, would. IN the opinion OF the ma
| fcrity of the public men here In WASH
i instor, amount to aSverificatton OF Till
mans charges against him.
/ Apropos of this. 1t may be added that
nothing Is likely to come of the proposed
Investigation CT the McLaurin-Tt llnan
episode. and the charges that led up to
| the di.gracetul elimination on ne eoors
THAI it would involve the name OF Press
.dent Mckinley has caused the lcaisana
Republicans to drop 1t.
i GUARD AGAINST vANDAI,s
1 An order recently Issued TO the watca.s
men OF the State. War and Nary k,,iid-