Evening star., 1914-02-07

President Wilson today sent to the Sem
ate the nomination of Edward B. Kimball
as judge of the Municipal Court of the
District of. Columbia in place of Judge
Charles S. Bundy. This is the first of
the vacancies in this court to be filled
The terms of four of the five judges of
the court expired January II. nearly a
month ago. and the court has been at
work with only one judge. George c.
Aukun on the bench
Attorney General McReynolds turned
the sitting of the candidates over to
Assistant Attorney General Graham.
and the two have consulted together at
frequent intervals. Mr.. McReynolds has
understood the Importance of filling
the vacancies as early as possible. but
his plans for doing 50 have not worked
out MIR. Graham at first recommended
to Mr. McReynolds the immediate re-
appointment of Judges Bundy and
Terrell. but the Attorney General him
self objected to Judge Bundy simply On
account of his advanced age. and Sen
ator Vardaman has held up the nomind-
tion of Judge Terrell by his threat to
oppose the nomination if it went in.
Fifty-Year Age Limit Set.
The influence for another term for
Judge Bundy was exceedingly strong,
ing his fitness for the position and his
physical and mental ability, in spite of
his age. to hold up his part of the work
Mr.. McReynolds, however, has drawn the
dead line at fifty Years of age for ap-
pointments on federal courts and has
threshed this out with the President a
number of times He is insistent that
this rule be not departed from and did
not yield in this particular case.
! today that the Attorney General has been
urging that Mr.. kimball's nomination 20
in promptly, leaving disputes as to other
candidates or the recommendation of the
Department to go over il necessary
The President decided today to send
in Mr. kimballs nomination, although
he had not been expected to take up
the matter before Monday. Mr. Wilson
did not play golf in the morning, as is
his Saturday custom, and returned to
his offices after a trip through the city
iii his automobile.
Tyler's Name Withdrawn.
AS to Judge Terrells case, it was said
today that Mr.. McReynolds stands pat on
his recommendation that this judge get
another term, although this recommends
ton is not now before the President The
recommendation of Frederick s. Tyler,
sent to the White House some days ago
by Mr.. McReynolds, has been withdrawn
from there for reasons not known at the
White House and about which Mr. Nc
Reynolds will have nothing to say.
| The recommendation of Mr.. kimball
/ was the only officially before the
/ President today, leaving three other rec
| concentrations Yet to be made.
| Kimball Educated Here.
| Edward Bachelor kimball was born
i'll this city March -. 1871. was educated
i'll the public schools and was graduated
| from hign school in 1890. His legal edu-
| cation was received at Colombian, now
| George Washington, University, and at
the Harvard Law School. He holds the
| degree of bachelor of laws from both in
| stitutions. He was admitted to the bar
| has continuously followed that profess
sion. For the past twenty-three years
he has been associated with Henry f.
| Davis. Mr.. kimball. who is unmarried,
/ makes his rome at the Portner
! Although there has been great conges-
! tiun of the Municipal Courts business
/ during the past few weeks, it is denied
by court officials that property owners
have suffered from alleged delay in the
landlord and tenant cases. 1t is denied
that the postponements and continuances
have been SO numerous that taking ad-
/ vantage OF this condition. dishonest ten
ants have been Withholding the payments
o ftheir rent, with the knowledge that
no effective action could be taken against
them for month at least.