The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-08

LOOMS, general attorney IOr Kansas, VI
the Union Pacific railroad, Topeka, and
Charles Blood Smith and J. G.. Slonecker.
| both Of Topeka Each is q well-known
attorney capable Of making q good and
Competent federal judge. and each has his
friends upon the Kansas delegation
OF course, technically, the recommen-
dation OF a man for the district judgeship
viii lie with Senators Long and Burton
Their Endorsement will be accepted by
| The president and attorney general. But
| il has been the idea Of Senator Long and
| Of Senator Burton as well. TO have the
entire Kansas delegation agree upon the
man to be appointed, II such thing be
possible.
Consideration BY the delegation. as q
! delegation. on this subject has been post
| poned until the arrival in Washington Of
all the members. and until about tho time
/ when the president shall send in to the
senate the name OF Judge Hook for pro-
motion. and a vacancy shall exist, in
/ fact in the district judgeship. So while
a number Of members have been in town
the past two and three weeks. there has
been no formal consideration OF the sub
/ jet; although individual Kansans on the
| delegation have given the matter much
! prayerfuI consideration
All the members OF the delegation are
now in town except Senator Burton and
/ Representative Reeder OF the Sixth dis
/ trict. Early next week it is likely there
/ VIII be a meeting Of the delegation, and
/ the subject will be formally taken up
| Indeed, before the adjournment. there
! viii likely be an informal ballot taken, to
/ show where the individual members all
stand,
/ Il is the hope OF most of the members
OF the delegation that at some subse-
! quent meeting. in the near future. an
agreement may be reached which Will
permit of the two senators and the eight
1 representa- ives giving 10 the president
and attorney general a solid Endorsement
! CT one man 70 succeed Judge Hook. To
predict. at this time, with the diversity
OF opinion and the number OF candidates.
just who the lucky man will be is not
only folly. but an almost impossibility.
The appointment OF Judge Hook to be
/ circuit Judge in the Eighth circuit is not
the first time the honor has come TO
Kansas. Back in the seventies. Judge
John ?. Dillon was a member Of the cir
| cult court for the Eighth circuit He IS
now in New York city. representing the
Gould interests. Judge Dillon is the ia
/ Their of Hiram P. Dillon of Topeka.
David J. Brewer. Of L,eavenworth. was.
| in 1854, an associate justice of the state
supreme court Of Kansas. To fill a va
cancy. he was appointed a Judge of the
Eighth circuit, and in 1899 was promoted
to the United States supreme court. Judge
-
the court in the Eighth circuit for the
five years he was on that bench.
The Eighth circuit includes the states
Of Kansas. Missouri. Nebraska, Minneso-
ta, North and South Dakota, Colorado,
Wyoming. Montana Iowa. Arkansas,
Titan. Oklahoma. New Mexico and the
Indian Territories. Owing to the size of
this circuit and the great volume Of bust
ness. the number of judges was increased
IN the last congress to four. Willis Van
deventer. Of Wyoming, who had been as
sistant attorney general for the depart
meut of the .terior. was added. to Judges
Sanborn OF Minnesota. Thayet of Mis-
souri, and Caldwell of Arkansas.
Settling the judgeship is about the only
matter of great Importance that con-
fronts the QelSSdLon as a ueLesdllOu the
comm gsessien of congress. OF course
there are several matters the delegation
is 1.,aIly interested in. such as some prac-
teal means OF irrigation, if any may be
found; and the correction OF the food
evils. brought home by the events Of last
spring. If there De any reasonable and
practical method Of legislation on this
point Government aid for Strengthening
the channels Of the Missouri and Kansas
rivers may be asked by the delegation
but this is predetermined as yet, and may
not he preached. The delegation will be
chary about venturing on uncertain
ground and certain ground means prac-
teal ground-both as 70 irrigation and
food evils. So that. the judgeship out
Of the way. each Kansas senator and
representative, for the most part, viii
attend to the matters which chiefly con-
Germ hun individually
Kansas seems 10 have preempted GER
tain location in the northwest section of