People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — RAUM’S SUCCESSOR. [ARTICLE]

RAUM’S SUCCESSOR.

Th® President Select* a New Penaloa Commissioner—Judge William Lochren, of Minnesota, Named for the Place— Sketch of the Nominee. Washington, April 7.—The president has sent the following nominations to the senate: Hannis Taylor, of Alabama, to be envoy extraordinary and minister *lenlpotentiwy of the United States te Spain. William Lochren, of Minnesota, to be commissioner of pensions. Judge Lochren’s reputation as a jurist is of the first order, and his military record particularly brilliant He has never sought office, and his popularity is best attested by the fact that although he is a democrat his candidacy for the place which he is nominated was indorsed by the unanimous vote of the republican legislature of Minnesota. [William Lochren is 57 years of age and was born in Vermont where he was ed jcated in the public schools and admitted to the bar. He went to Minnesota in 1857 and practiced his profession, but when the war broke out he was one of the first men in the state to abandon his civil pursuits and enlist in the First Minnesota regiment. His service during the war was severe, culminating at Gettysburg, where his regiment made the famous charge that checked Pickets’ onslaught Ofc the 300 men who made that charge only forty came but whole, and young Lochren, who started on the rush as the first lieutenant of Company E, came out in.command of the regiment every officer above his grade having been killed or wounded. When the war. was over William Lochren returned to Minnesota and resumed the practice of law. He was very popular and was twice the democratic nominee for a seat in the United States senate. In 1882 he was appointed by a republican governor to a judgeship on the circuit bench and at the expiration of his appointment was twice reelected the same place without opposition. Hannis Taylor, nominated to be minister to Spain, is a lawyer living at Mobile and his reputation is of the fiast water. He is 41 years of age. He was stringly recommended to Secretary Blaine by Senator Morgan as one of the arbitrators or counsel in the Bearing sea arbitration matter and was also strongly indorsed by Mr. Phelps and some of the leading lawyers of New York.]