The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-13
Governor HOch Appoints Judge
for New District.
viii Now Be Seen if the Law Is
Valid.
THINKS TT WILL STAND
Has Had Stormy Passage From
Start.
New Judge Has Been in Kansas
Since 1876.

Arthur Fuller of Girard, Crawford
county, came to Topeka Monday and
received from Governor Hoch his an
polntment to the position of Judge in
tn Thirty-eighth judicial district the
district which the last legisIaturs
created, or attempted to create. Judge
Fuller seems to be the unanimous
choice of the people of his county.
There has been no opposition to his
appointment.
It is likely that Robert Colburn, q
onerarmed man who lives in Crawford
county, will get the job Of stenog-
rapher, which pays $1,000 a year. 1t
will possibly be considerable of a
mystery how a one-srmed man can
pass the required examination to quail
11y Tor the position of court stenOg-
rapher- He manipulates a typewriter
with his one hand as rapidly, it is said,
! as most operators who use two hands.
Judge Fuller says he has received
hundreds of applications for the Job
OF StenOgrapher, but that the desire
OF the people of his county is to keep
the appointment at home il possible.
1t remains to be seen whether the
law which the legislature passed will
be held good. If it is, Judge Fuller
viii hold his position under the COVER
nors appointment until 1907. If not.
the county of Crawford Will be obliged
~ 4C0AAAA~ HAN4A Af-lA4l dl44 oQnA-
bon counties. under the jurisdic-
ton of Judge W. L. Simon. Judge
Fuller said to a State Journal reporter.
while waiting in the governors office
for his appointment to be made out:
After many vieissitudes, this new
law is about to be carried into effect.
1t has had 4 stormy time of it. When
the bill was before the legislature, we
supposed that it was to take effect
when published in the official state
paper. Some time during the prog
ress of the bill, an amendment was
made to the last section making it take
effect on publication in the statute
book. This change was not noticed by
the friends of the bill, and we came
up here three months ago expecting
the appointment to be made. 1t was
agreed that Governor HOch should
name me for the place, and every
thing was supposed to BE all right
1 when we discovered by inspecting the
law, that it did not take effect until
publication in the statute book. So
we were obliged to 90 home.
Then Colonel Snoddy went to in
vestigating, and found that the bill
when before the house for passage re-
| ceived only SO votes, which is one less
! than a tWO-thirdS vote. However, the
records of the house show that the bill
/ passed by two-thirds vote, 4the
speaker announced that the bill had
/ received a two-thirds vote, and be-
| lieve that the supreme court viii hold
/ that the law is good.
Then it was discovered that through
mistake, one of the friends of the bill
had put in an amendment to the wrong
section, in such way that it changed
the places of holding the court which
had been originally intended.
THE fact that the law went into ef-
feet on publication III the statute book,
instead of in the official paper, Will de-
lay the actual work of the new court
until October, because the present term
of court commenced on June 3, and the
law did not go into effect till June 8.
The next term provided for is not until
the first Monday in October.
There is not likely to be any difficult
ty about the trial of civil actions in the
new district, for the litigants can usual
ly reach an agreement about the mat
ter, but 1 suppose that when a criminal
case comes before the court the supreme
court may be asked to decide whether
the new law is valid.
"At the present time the docket is
very much Oyercrowded, and there is
more work than Judge Simons can han
die The growth of that part of the
state has been very rapid; Crawford
county alone now has $4,000 population
or thereabouts. The growth seems to
have been general throughout the
county, both country and city showing
up well Of course the largest increases
have been in the coal mining districts
Crops are looking splendidly-~deE'FlT
in that corner of the state. and there is
no sign of depression. The coal mines
have not been rushed with work, owing
to the slack demand"
Judge Fuller came to Crawford coun-
ty in 1875 He did not move into the
city of Girard, however. until 1881, and
there he studied law in a law Office,
and was admitted to the bar - 1882. He
was admitted to practice befofe the su-
preme court in 1885, and his rise in his
profession has been rapid. He is now
one of the acknowledged leaders Of the
Crawford county bar. He is member
of the Knight Templars, Knights OF
Pythias, Woodmen, Ellxs, Eagles ana
other frateTnal orders. and has a wife
and two children. He is a brother-in-
law of A. P. Riddle of Minneapolis.