Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-26
W|LfLEY CAUSES TROUBLE FOR
 TAFT
Serious Charges En Route To Washington Against Judge of the United States Court For the Orient.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24.-More trouble for President Roosevelt and his Cabinet, and particularly for the ij,5I ,i;i. iiii and =3itet: I;Eis=set: Istt The trouble is going on to Washington, and there is a hint that it will worry the administration as much as Dr. Burchard worried Blaine.
 The cause of the woe is the Hon. Lebbeus R. Wilfley, judge of the United States court of the Orient, To- cated at Shanghai and drawing sS.000 a year gold, or S16,000 yen or Mexi- can. Wilfley is pet and appointee of Mir. Taft aud he has set the Orient aflame with passions and almost pro voked a religious war.
 Lorrin Andrews, who was Attorney General for Hawaii under both Gov ernors Dole and Carter, but who is now practicing law at Shanghai, is on the way to Washington to file charges against Judge Wilfley.
 At it's last session Congress created the position of United States judge Tor the Orient and attached the nice little salary of $S000 year to the place. Lebbeus R. WiIfiey had been out in the Philippines with Taft. In fact, he had been Attorney General for the islands during part of the time Taft was Governor General So Taft secured him the appointment as judge at Shanghai.
 Evidently Wilfley is a trouble breed CT. He had not been long in office before he stirred up the Americans who practice before the Oriental court They were not competent to try cases before him. Then, having stirred up the lawyers u his hearts content, he started in to stir up all the other Americans and Europeans in the Orient.
 He has succeeded beyond his fond est hopes. The charges against Judge Wilfley fly thick and fast. The China Gazette and the Shanghai Mercury have been full of then. He was ac- cused of all manner Of undesirable practices, and his enemies grew in number and ferocity.
 And then, in a decision, he started the religious trouble. From the bench he criticised the work and standing of the Catholic church in the Orient. His words were those of an extreme opponent of the Church of Rome.
 At once there was a flame and sec tarian discussion grew in intensity the more Judge Wilfiey's decisions was discussed. Naturally, the Catholics were very much incensed. They joined with the other enemies of Will fley in denouncing his habits and methods, and united in pronouncing him a narrow bigot, utterly unfit for such a post of honor.
 The charges against Wiley took form in short order. They were sworn to in the afhdaVits of leading citizens. The evidence was piled up. Then Attorney Andrews was com manded to carry the news to Wash ington. He came over on the Man churia and Is on his way to present his evidence to President Roosevelt On his way through he said:
 My afidavits show the unfitness of Judge wilfley for a judicial office. I do not want to touch upon the re- ligious matter, although do not sup pose the administration would care to be burdened with it at the time of a presidention campaign. Judge Will fley seriously and unnecessarily re- flected on the Catholic Church in one of his decisions, but we hope to have him removed on other grounds,and l believe our evidence is sufficient to do so.
 And so it WAS that trouble is 0f tisfe way to Washington.