Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-14
SENATE WILL NOT DO ANYTHING
WITH FEDERAL APPOINT
MENTS FOR A TIME.
URICK is OPPOSED
President Known to Be Adverse to Rec.
omnendIno Iowa Slate Of Appoint
nents and Delegation Hopes State
Job May PIacate Candidate.
TBY F.. H. HANSON,1

President Taft until after the holiday
Is now certainty. That no execu
tive session may Ne held during tn
two months between Christmas ant
the adjournment on March is a pos
sibility, even probability.
The democrats are doing everythin,
in their power to prevent an executive
session before the holidays and If sue
cess attends their efforts they may per
sist afterwards. Another thing which
tends to prevent the calling of such {
session is the Archibald impeachment
the progress Of which has been very
slow
! There will not be great deal Of
soreness on the part of many of the
republicans II an executive session il
not held. Many Of them confront q
condition where they find it impos
sible to get their own men through
and they do not want to have to stand
for other men whom they might be
/ forced to advocate.
The attitude of the president will
make 1t extremely difficult for any
nominations to be confirmed. Mr.
Taft has signifed his intention Of
sending nominations to the senate as
fast as vacancies occur. Furthermore
| he intends to nominate only stand
patters and only those stand-patters
who worked for him in the recent cam.
paign.
. TAFT Opposes Urick.
At the present time it is almost Ger.
tain that no compromise can be
reached on the Iowa federal slate. The
president is known to be absolutely
opposed to A. l.. Urick, candidate for
marshal in the southern distract. and
to favor other men for some of the
other positions If Governor-elect
Clarke names Urick for suitable
state position, he would relieve the
senators of an embarrassing PROPOSE
ton there, as both of them would like
to see Urick made marshal, yet
whether any other man they might
suggest would prove acceptable to the
president is doubtful. Unless some
sort of a compromise is reached, the
giving Of half of the Offices to one wing
Of the party and the other half to the
other, it is very doubtful if any con-
f1rmations can be had and it is doubt
full If any can be had anyway.
Taft to Renominate NImocks.
1t is practically certain now that
President Taft will renominate Frank
Nimocks for the position of postmas-
ter at Ottumwa. Nimocks' term is
up January &C. He was originally
named by Representative Kendall who
has aligned himself at times with the
insurgents but who has felt no hest
fancy at naming standpatters for Of
fees in standpat communities. At
the time Of. his appointment, it was
thought that Senator Cummins would
fight his confirmation. Cummins
yielded to Kendall's wish at the time
four years ago, however and consented
to Nimocks
Kendall retires from office in March
and whether he will again ask Cum
Minis to help Nimocks is problemat-
ical. Even if he does ask it. the &C.
ton of the senior senator is just as
problematical.
That both senator's will fight the
confirmation Of S. A. Finger Of Da.
venport for four year term is GER
tain. Under no conditions will either
say anything favorable for him, and
his failure of confirmation is as GER
tain as anything in the world can be.
There Is some doubt as to what
their attitude may be on the appoint
ment of Mcfarland to the postmaster
ship at Marshalltown over Representa-
tive Goods wishes. Senator Cum
Minis joined with Mr.. Good in recon-
mending another man, but Mr.. Nc.
Farland has the support of the COM
munity in which he lives back Of him.
;oh -. To oh "
one.
Representative Pepper is of the opinion
that the house committee on rivers and
harbors will report favorably on the
proposition to extend the jurisdiction
of the Mississippi river commission
from the mouth of the Ohio to Rock
Island, Illinois. Mr.. Pepper, with Mr..
Mckinney of the fourteenth Illinois,
appeared at the hearing on Monday
and spoke in favor of the project. Rep
resentative Kennedy Of Iowa is mem
Der of the committee on rivers and
harbors and will doubtless be for the
extension.
Kenyon Bill May Be Delayed.
Because Of the slowness Of the Arch.
bald trial, it is now doubtful if Senator
Kenyon's bill prohibiting the interstate
shipment Of liquor into dry states will
be considered on December Is. The
bill is under special rule for next
Monday but everything in the senate
must give way to the impeachment
Many forceful stitutional argu-
ments have been made against the
Kenyon-Shepherd bill and it is doubt
full If any other one measure has pro-
duced as many fine legal questions in
a decade. Many of it's sponsors, how
ever, prefer to have it become law
AMI then have the supreme court pass
on its constitutionality.
On Sunday Senator Kenyon pre-
sided at largely attended rally at the
First Congregational church when
resolutions were passed beseeching
congress to, pass his red light injunc-
ton law, so as to clean up Washing
ton in time for the inauguration. the
Johnson Sunday rest law, the Jones'
Works measure for increased re-
striction Of the liquor traffic, and for
a stricter divorce law for the District