The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-06-27
W|CKERSHAM WILL
Be RE-APPO|NTED
WILL RETURN AT ONCE TO ALASKA
President Says Judge VIII Hold office
at Least as Long as He Does, r.
regardless OF Congress.
Yesterdays dispatches state that the

Yesterdays dispatches state that the
president will keep Judge Wickersham
in office in Alaska, according to his
own declaration, as long as he remains
in office The friends of Col. L, s.
Hewlett will be glad to know that the
matter has been determined finally,
since it means the immediate appoint
ment of Colonel Hewlett to lucrative
position which he will fill with credit
to himself and the source of the ap-
pointment as well.
The Wickersham fight, which has
been waged in the judiciary commit
tee and in the senate for two weeks,
is over for the present and it will not
be renewed until next winter If at all.
The friends and supporters of the
judge, who comprise more than nine
tenths of the membership of the sem
ate, have given up hope of getting
vote at this session, for the filibuster
Iinaugurated by Senator Nelson and
Senator McCumber has shown staying
qualities of the first order and a vote
seems out of the question.
Judge Wickersham, who has been in
Washington for several months under
to remain here until his case is dis
posed of, will be reappointed by the
president as soon as the senate adj
iourns the latter part of this week
Assurances of this have been given
voluntarily by the president who said
to one of his callers last Sunday, Il
expect to be in the office for two years
and eight months, and Judge Wicker
sham shall remain upon the bench in
Alaska as judge as long as I remain
here"
Judge Wickersham called on the
president to pay his respects be-
fore leaving Washington for Alaska
On the strength of his interview at the
White House, he will leave tomorrow
morning and reach Alaska in the short
est possible time in order to open a
term of court at Fairbanks. Judge
Gunnison of the Southeastern Alaska
district will probably be asked by the
department of justice to go to Valdez
for the purpose of holding term of
court there, so that Judge Wickersham
may go Immediately to Fairbanks,
where a crowded docket awaits him.
Senator Foraker, who is a member
of the subcommittee of the senate ju-
dietary committee, which has had
charge of the Wickersham case and
is the judges chief champion In the
senate, became convinced last week
that 1t would be impossible. on account
of the extraordinary tactics employed
by Senator Nelson, to secure vote,
and communicated the fact to Attorney
General Moody.
| After a conference with the presi-
dent, the attorney general wrote let
ter saying the president would insist
on keeping Judge wickersham in Of
flee, regarding him as one of the ablest
Judges on the bench in any of the ter
ritories and he regretted that a vote
could not be had.
The course pursued by Senator'S Nell
son and McCumber has aroused strong
feeling in the senate and the depart
ment of justice. The third division
has been deprived of a judge for SIX
months, despite the fact that II dila-
tory tactics ending in an out-and- out
hlibuster had not been employed by
the two senator's the nomination of
Judge Wickersham would have been
confirmed at any time during the last
five months by a verdict of something
like 81 to on a full vote of the sem
ate.
| This case has assumed a national
aspect within the last few weeks since
the case was brought up In executive
sessions of the senate. The new APP
pointment. which will be made on Sat