The Rock Island Argus and daily union., 1922-02-25
BOOM GRAHAM
FOR JUDcESHIP
CAPITAL RUMOR
Lands Resignation and New Cir.
cult Makes Two Vacancies
Manufacturers Open Barage
WASHINGTON News Bureau.
Rock Island Argus

gressmen representing districts
outside OF Chicago to induce Sena-
tors Mckinley and Mccormick to
recommend a down-state man as a
successor to Judge K. M. Lands.
Failing in this attempt, the down.
state members, 1t appeared here
this week, will unite in endorsing
a candidate for the additional feder-
al iudgeship in the northern dis
tfict, soon to be created by the en-
actment of the pending federal
judicial bill.
A report gained currency among
Illinoisans in Washington this
week to the effect that William j.
Graham. Aledo, now representing
the 14th Illinois district in the
house, is under consideration for
either one of the two vacancies.
Graham is a candidate for renom-
ination and reelection in the Four
teenth district and refuses to dis
cuss the rumors linking his name
with the Appointment 1t is known,
however, that he is ambitious to
go on the federal bench. He could
undoubtedly get substantially a un-
animous endorsement from the IL
11IO4b uElS6illODy IL lis
nally decide to urge his candidacy
and with such backing he would
have to be reckoned with.
Before the Graham boom" had
gained much headway, Representa-
tive Charles E. Miller, Belvidere,
of the Twelfth district, strolled over
to the senate and conferred with
Senator Mckinley, urging him to
recommend Circuit Judge Adam C..
Cliffe. Sycamore, of the Sixteenth
circuit, as a successor for Judge
Landis.
"Judge Cliffe is a former state
senator and member of the state
Republican committee, he is in the
prime OF life, well trained in the
law and would make an excellent
judge" was the comment of Repre-
sentative Fuller, who is himself a
former circuit judge.
The Illinois judicial appointments
will be made by President Harding,
with the consent of the senate. The
endorsements of the Illinois sena-
tors will carry considerable weight
and since both have stood by the
administration in all recent clashes
in the senate, their choice may fl
nally determine both appointments
An effort was made here this
week by former Representative
Welty of Ohio to prevent the ac-
ceptance of the resignation tender
ed by Judge Lands. Welty intro
duced a resolution in the last con-
gress for the impeachment of Judge
Landis and argued that the Judge
should be compelled to remain in
office until action can be had N
the Impeachment proceedings. The
president gave no consideration to
Welty's plea, it is understood here.
zone downstate primary contest
was eliminated this week when
Colonel Charles Durfee of Golconda
dropped into the office of epresen-
tative Thomas S. Williams, Louis
vile. of the Twenty-fourth district,
his prospective opponent, and an
nounced his retirement from the
race.
Colonel Durfee filed at SPRING
field a few weeks ago, but admit
ted to friends in Washington that
support he had expected from state
leaders had not materialized and
he decided to withdraw.
Representative Clifford Ireland,
Peoria. the only other downstate
member with the exception of Ira
Copley, Aurora, who will have op-
position, left Washington Wednes-
day for the west. After speeches
to Sons of Veterans camps at Ak
ron and Kalamazoo, he returns to
Peoria Sunday to confer with his
friends. His opponent, Ed Hull, is
already busy in the district and
Ireland plans to spend much of the
time between now and April con-
testing the ground. The Sixteenth
district contest is regarded here as
the warmest in downstate Illinois.
The soldier bonus remained the
subject of primary interest to mem
berS OF the house, when congress
adjourned here over the weekend.
Half a dozen Illinois members
were aligned during the week with
the Republican classes as opposed
to the presidents suggestion that a
sales tax rider be appended to the
bonus bill. These members, it is
understood, are pledged to oppose
any attempt in the house to link
the bonus with the sales tax, al
though few of them will go SO far
as to vote against the bonus should
the sales tax advocates win out.
The Illinois members listed with |
the Republican group opposed to a |
sales tax are the following: Ed |
ward j. King, Galesburg: Frank H. |
Funk, Bloomington; Thomas S. |
Williams, Louisville; Allen F.
Moore, Monticello, and Edwin B. |
Brooks, Newton.
Other Illinois members, like |
Charles E. Fuller, Belvidere, are
known to be unfavorable to the |
sales tax, but only the members |
listed above have been regarded as
in open alliance with F'rear of Wis
consin. Dickinson of Iowa and 9TH
ers who have been leading the
fight against the tax.
A strong protest from Illinois
manufacturers greeted the an
here this week that the
American valuation plan, as en-
bodied in the Fordney bill, had been
from the senate bill.
Z The Rockford Chamber of Com
merce and other organizations
downstate wired members of the
senate finance committee declaring
hat If the valuation plan is dropped
the bill cannot be truly protec-
i've OF American industry.
Representative William A Rod
East St Louis, protested
against any move to lower the tar
III duties, declaring that many in