The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-05-22
.SLATTERY MAY HOLD
OFFICE UNTIL NEXT
CONGRESS SESSIONS


Is Not Expected to Retire at Expira-
ton of Term Next Month; Cores
pOndents Find Recess Appointments
Unlikely.
Great Falls, May 9.-Whether or
not eastern newspapers were right in
their prediction that the chances of
John l.. Slattery, United States dis
trict attorney, to succeed himself de-
pended on the outcome of the Sena-
tor Wheeler trial, it is well establish
ed that unless he resigns he at least
will not retire Immediately on the eX-
piration of his term, which is UNDER
stood here to take place within the
next month.
According to newspaper accounts
based on reliable authority" at
Washington, no recess appointment of
a successor to Mr.. Slattery is likely
and that he will continue in office
until his successor is confirmed by
the senate after the converting of
congress next December. Cores
pondents making inquiries at the de-
partment of justice have received no
information, but it is automatically
known" says one writer, chat the
: matter of whether Slattery CIR an
: other will be selected has not been
: taken up for determination and is not
+, expected to be for several months"
'The impression in Washington isl
this writer continues, chat President
Coolidge as a matter of policy does
: not favor recess appointments to any
major Office except in cases of emer-
: gency, since the failure of the SEN
: ate to confirm would mean serving
= without salary. So far as known no
d candidate has been seriously advanced
= as a successor to Mr.. Slattery and
, none are expected to be for some
, time. Aspirants are believed to be
keeping under cover to avoid, so far
: as possible, opposition that might de-
j. velOp to an announced candidacy
L Newspaper correspondents who
u came from Washington, New York
u and Chicago to report the Senator
+, Wheeler trial, declared it was com
Y monty understood among political OBJ
I servers in the east that Slattery
l. would not succeed himself if Wheeler
Il were not convicted. After making
= observations here, the visiting scribes
II sent out dispatches in which it was
= asserted that there was ample reason
!! for the forecast that Senator Wheel
* er's acquittal would be followed by
II the present district attorneys retire
Z ment.
7y Forecasts made in the east in this
!. regard correspondent with reports cur
II rent here shortly after the first of the
70 year, when it was widely rumoreC
II that Mr.. Slattery would immediately
retire and that his successors frs
official act would be to dismiss the
n Senator Wheeler case. Tending t,
IL confirm this rCmor were receipt O.
queries by different Montana attor
neys as to whether they would accep
the district attoTneyship. At leas
lF one such inquiry, emanating from higl
ID places, was received by a Great Fall
N lawyer las January.
N The elevation of former Attorne
General Stone to the supreme benc
the defeat Of the presidents nOmins
ton of Warren and the eventual az
pointment of Attorney General Sal
III gent were followed by the setting
and the Wheeler case for trial here. Sla
MA terry was in, Washington part of til
ra- time while matters were taking for
- in relation to the new attorney gene
. al. Correspondents who came here
20 report the trial said it was general
M. understood that Slattery favored II
une prosecution of the senator. Wheel,
,sod' was acquitted on the trial iury's fir
toll ballot.
teG Slattery has made no comment,
Oh far as known, as to whether he is
candidate to succeed himself, but r
mors seeping in from Helena al
!; Washington are that if he again a
pires to the Office he will be oppos,
= by 0. NJ LanstrUm, state republics
committeeman, and Congressma
snCs Leavitt. Republican attorneys W
ng- would be found in a receptive mood
,r the district attorneyship were tendt
20 ed to them have, it is said, found
20 measure of confirmation for the
ILL., port that the present prosecutor wou
- find opposition in high republic
N councils if he again is candidate.