Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — SEVENTH ON THE BENCH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SEVENTH ON THE BENCH

Melville W. Fuller Eelected to Preside Over the Um’ed States Supreme Court. An Interesting Biography of the New Heal of the Federal Judiciary. [Washington special to Chicago News.l Th* appointment of Mr. Fuller to be Chief Justice xss not a surprise to those who have ■been in the confidence of the President, for he had nearly a week ago decided to appoint him, and told a friend so. There will be i o trouble about Mr. Fuller s confirmation, although the Senate will not take unbecoming haste in acting upon the nomination. It will go first to the Committee on the Judiciary, which is composed ■of Messis Edmunds. Hoar, Ingalls, Wilson of •lowo, Evarts, Pugh, Coke, Vest, and George.

To nearly all of these gentlemen Mr. Fuller is personally known, and I am assured that no objection will be raised to him on the Republican side. When Mr. Farwell went to the White House last week to carry some recommendations for Mr. Fuller from prominent Chicago Republicans, the President asked if he indorsed Mr. Fuller himself. “I am not recommending any Democrats to ■office," replied Mr. Farwell, “but I will tell you what 1 will do. If you will nominate Fuller I will get every Republican Senator to vote for /his confirmation, providing you will keep the Democratic Senators straight. All of our fellows will vote for Fuller, every man of them, for the only tjiing we know against him is that he is a Democrat." The President replied that it was a pretty difficult thing to get all the Democrats in the Senate to vote for auy one, snd he thought Mr. Farwell would have an easier job than he.