Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-18
Four important District Ap-
pointments Hung Up.
NEW RECORDER OF DEEDS
President, It Is Thought, Will Not
Reappoint Dancy.
MARYLANDERs SEE MIR. TAFT
Recommend Judge Stockbridge for
Federal Bench - Conference
Held With the Tariff Board.

Four important District appointments
are still hung up at the White House
those of United States attorney, police
judge, recorder of deeds and collector OF
customs at Georgetown
AS to the first two. which have been
under consideration by Attorney General
Wickersham for several months. little
progress appears to have been made. Mr..
Wickersham has been crowded with work
for the President in relation to important
measures in Congress and has had much
else to occupy his time. He states that
he has had no time to make final rec
ommendation to the President. but that
he will do SO as soon as possible. Mr..
Wickersham is not handling the other
two appointments for the President. One
of these, collector of customs, comes un-
der Secretary MacVeagh's jurisdiction.
while the other, recorder Of deeds. most
likely will be passed upon by POSTMASTER
General Hitchcock, the appointment hav-
ing for years gone to colored man OF
political influence.
The understanding today is that the
President will not reappoint John {.
Dancy, the present recorder of deeds.
Dancy has held the place eight years.
He is from North Carolina. where he
was prominent politically for number
Of years. He succeeded II. p. Cheatham
a prominent negro of the same state.
There is no complaint as to the man
agement of the office since Dancy has
been in charge. but prominent negroes
in different sections of the country who
took part in the last presidential cam
paign claim that some other man should
be recognized. Dancy was a speaker in
that campaign and was praised for his
work. but there are so many other in.
fiuential men demanding a chance to gel
into federal employment that it seems tC
have been determined to give one of them
the position.
stockbridge Favored.
Both houses of Congress have passet
the bill providing for an additiona
federal judge in Maryland. Judg,
Thomas ]. Morris has served thirty on,
years as District judge in Maryland
and advancing years prevent his giving
as close attention to the duties of tha
position as he formerly did. That the
business before the court may not be-
come congested 1t was decided to pro-
vide an assistant.
A delegation of Baltimore lawyers
called on the President today TO urge
the nomination of Judge Henry Stock
bridge of the city court of Baltimore
Judge StOckbridge has a powerful in
dorsement from the legal fraternit,
and judiciary of Baltimore and vicin-
ity, and if the appointment should gt
to that city he appears to be the mar
who would be selected. His qualirica-
tions are undisputed. Representative
Pearre. who has been instrumental In
passing the bill for an additional judge
would like to land a man from tn.
western part of the state, Charlie.
Waggaman of Hagerstown being ons
| of those mentioned. Mr.. Pearre think.
that the nomination of Judge Stock.
bridge would give Gov. Crothers the
naming of a democrat to go on, the
state bench of Maryland, and he say:
all the republicans on the bench there
NOW are needed. The President tolc
the members of the delegation he would
consider their statements, but would mo-
be in haste about selecting a man. The
delegation consisted Of George r. Gather
Edgar Cans, Joseph c. France, Franci,
L. Homer and John P. Hill.
Collectorship for Maryland.
The contention between Maryland ant
Delaware as to which state shall have
the next collector of internal revenue hat
| about been determined in favor of Mary
land. The district embraces the two
states and the District of Columbia
While Maryland has been given the ap
pOintment for years and the adminiStra
ton would like to aid the Delaware sen
| atOrs by appointing a man recommended
by them, it is admitted that Baltimore
furnishes the bulk of the business for the
district and that it is proper that the
headquarters should be in Baltimore. The
question in dispute has not been whether
Philip Goldsborough. the present collector
should be succeeded by some other man
but solely which state should have the
appointment. 1t is not known whether
the Maryland republican organization In
tends to present a new man for the col
lectorship.
Tariff Board Sees President.
The tariff board Of the Treasury, Henry
C. Emery, chairman, conferred with
President Taft this morning as to the
tariff attitude of several countries. The
tariff difficulty between France and the
| United States is still. unsettled and the
President is accommodating through the
board all the facts possible as to the tarifl
| schedules of the French government anG
the effect of their application to the eX-
ports of the United States. The Canadian
| tariff and it's application to the United
States also is under consideration, the
board presenting to the President today
important data that had been gathered.
Goods from this country pay the maxi
| mum tariff rate of Canada, but it is
said that the Canadian tariff schedules or
nearly all goods exported from the Unit
| ed States are favorable to this country
really giving the United States, in an in
direct way. preference. Under these
circumstances a decision is to be made
| whether the United States shall apply to
Canadian goods the maximum rates OF
the Payne bill. A tariff war with Canada
! Is not desired by the administration. un-
less it is clearly shown that Canada is
trying to discriminate against this cOun
try.
COOK ADMITS HE IS COOK.