Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — SENATE REJECTS PECKHAM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SENATE REJECTS PECKHAM.

The Upper House Refuses to Confirm Mr. Cleveland** Nominee. President Cleveland has enjoyed another test of strength between himself

and the New York Senators, and again he has been defeated. On the 16th day of January last the Senate, by” a vote of 30 to 24, rejected the nomination of Willjam B. Hornblower to be an Associate Justice of 'the Supreme Court of the United States, and, by a vote of 41 to 32.

the Senate rejected the nomination of Wheeler H. Peckham to the same office. Mr. Peckham said to a reporter that he had nothing to say to the press in regard to his rejection. William B. Hornblower was seen at his home and said: “I am very sorry that the Senate has refused to confirm Mr. Peckham’s nomination. Of course, under the circumstances, it is proper that I should say very little on the subject. ” The charges Mr. Peckham’s opponents made against him were that he is a lawyer of but ordinary ability; that he is not known outside of his own State and hardly beyond his own district; that he is petti&h, quick-tempered and overbearing: and that he is in no manner of the ability and does not possess the qualifications for filling the eminent position for which he was nominated.

W. H. FECKHAM.