The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-06-30
WICkERS#AM CASE
|No VOTE on CONFEDERATION IT
this SESSION.
President Intimates, However,
Alaska Judge Will Be Reap
pointed as Often as May Be
Wickersham VIII
Return at Once to Alaska.

sham fight which has been waged IN
the senate judiciary committee 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 COM
prise more than nine-tenths OF the
mem bership of the senate, have given
up hope of getting vote at this ses-
sion, for the filibuster inaugurated by
Senator Nelson and Senator McCum-
Der has shown staying qualities of the
first order and vote seems out of the
question.
Judge Wickersham has been in
Washington for several months under
orders from the department of justice
to remain here until his case is dis
posed of, will be appointed by the
president as soon as the senate ad-
journs, the latter part of this week.
Determined to Reappoint Judge
Assurances of this have been given
voluntarily by the president, who said
to one of his callers last Sunday: II
expect to be in the Office for two years
and eight months, and Judge Wicker
sham shall remain upon the bench in
Alaska as long as remain here"
Judge Wickersham called on the
president yesterday to pay his respects
before leaving Washington for Alaska.
On the strength of his interview at
the White House he left this morning
and will reach Alaska in the shortest
possible time in order to open q term
of court at Fairbanks. Judge Gum.
ison, of the Southeastern Alaska dis
trict, will probably be asked by the
department of justice to 60 to Val
DEE for the purpose of holding term
of court there, so that Judge Wicker.
sham may go Immediately to Fair.
banks, where q 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 il
the judges chief champion in the
senate, became convinced last week
that it would be impossible, on &C.
count of the extraordinary tactics
employed by Senator Nelson, to secure
a vote, and communicated the fact tc
Attorney General Moody.
After q conference with the presi.
dent the attorney general wrote a let.
ter saying the president would insist
on keeping Judge Wickersham in office
regarding him as one Of the ablest
judges on the bench in any Of the ter.
ritories and he r regretted that . vote
could not be had.
Will Be Seventh Appointment
The course pursued by Senators
Nelson and McCumber has aroused
strong feeling in the senate and the
department. of justice. The third di-
vision Of Alaska has been deprived
Of judge for six months, despite the
fact that if dilatory tactics ending in
an out-and-out filibuster had not been
employed by the two senator's the nom-
nation of Judge Wickersham would
have been confirmed at any time dur
ing the last We months by vote of
something like 81 to 2 on full vote
of the senate.
This case has assumed q national
aspect within the last few weeks since
the case was brought up in executive
sessions of the senate. The new ap-
pointment, which will be made on
Saturday or, Monday. next, will be the
seventh that Judge Wickersham has
received from the president. The
case is almost unequalled in the an
nails Of federal Office holding, and er-
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