Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-01
KENYON ACCEPTS
NOMINATION AS
FEDERAL JUDGE
His Name Is Sent to Senate
By Harding and He Is
Confirmed BY That Body
in Open Session.

Washington, San. Ex-senator
Kenyon, of Iowa, announced today
he would accept the nomination as
federal Judge for the Eighth circuit
rendered to him by President Hard
ing and sent to the senate.
The senate soon after receiving
the nomination confirmed it IN open
executive session, an honor only
rarely paid to nominees.
The Iowa senator, who is one OIL
the leaders of the senate and chair
man of the agricultural bloc OF that
body, in a formal statement issued
upon receipt of his nomination by
the senate, expressed appreciation
of the presidents action which ne
said would enable him to achleVe
his ambition ito serve on Inc leu
eral bench"
Every Senator Stood.
The motion to confirm the Iowa
senator was made by his colleague
Senator Cummings, and when Sen
ator Curtis, of Kansas, presiding at
the time. called for the vote on
advising and consenting' to the
nomination, every senator IN the
chamber stood.
senator Kenyon, after the contir-
nation, said that he would be I'M
able to leave Washington to take
Inn his new duties short of week
or ten days.
He expected, he added, TO exam
inc senatorial precedents to de-
termine whether after the con"
firmation he may yet vote. the
Ico-operative marketing bill, sched-
| uled to take the next place on tne
Icalendar of business, Is one IN
which he is vitality interested ana
/ Mr.. Kenyon said he hoped TO cast
n vote on that measure betore
| finally abandoning his seat in the
senate. Should precedents estap-
|Ush that he has not the right, MI
/ Kenyon added that he thought ne
had been on the senate floor TINS
morning for the last time as a
senator" 49,,
The Bench His Ambition.
"The president has known since
our service together in the senate
that political life did not appear
/ to me and that my ambition was 10
serve on the federal bench, the
senator said in his statement,
/ "When a vacancy occurred last tall
( in the federal district judgeship III
/ NV state the legislative situation
was such then that it seemed 10
me could not accept. The situa-
Itiou is somewhat different now, as
the West Virginia investigation Il
out of the way, likewise the New
berry case, and a large portion Oh
the agricultural program mas peen
put through. $3.50
"The question is presented to me
again. as to the circuit judgeshlp III
the Eighth judicial circuit ana the
president has rendered me the ap,
imminent of circuit judge for tha'
circuit which | am pleased to ac'
crpt and have notified him.
states in the Circuit.
The Eighth circuit, to which i've
iudges are assigned, lncluaes til'
states Of Minnesota, MISSOURI iowa
Arkansas, Nebraska, Colorado, kan
sas oklahoma, Wyoming, Utah
New Mexico and North and SOUR
| Dakota. The salary of a circul
nudge is $500 and that of unltel
States senator $500. 80,
Entering the senate in l9Il az
the successor of Jonathan ?. DOM
var Senator Kenyon rapidly ros'
IN a place among the senate LEAD
ors having previously become wei
known as assistant to the attorney
general in which office he was th'
Governments representative in
1unber of big cases. He was re