Show DOUBT REPORT OF DISMISSAl Land Office Officials Receive No Word WordIn I. I In the absence of ot any communication I tion official or otherwise dealing wIth I tho subject of or resignations Surveyor General I. I C. C Registrar I Gould B. B Blakely and Receiver Receiver- Herbert C. C Jex of ot the local land office were not inclined d toda today to place much credence In a report from Washington that Secretary Sec Sec- I Albert B B. Fall of or tho Interior department de- de had called for their resl ua- ua I I While White neither of ot the federal officeholders office office- I holders was in a l position fo to definitely definite state his attitude on the point there II are arc Indications that In at least two Instances in instances instances In- In stances any attempt to bring about re rei removals re- re mo ats will be met with opposition Surveyor Sur- Sur i Iv or General w while stating that no request had been received for foi his resignation up to this time declared that there would be no voluntary action of ot this kind on hl his hii part in view of ot the fact that his commission does docs not ex expire expire ex- ex pire until April 1 1922 Receiver Jex stated that in every In Instance instance In- In I stance so so far tar as he knew Democratic appointees s had waited until their Re- Re had completed their terms of office and that he would expect Republican successors to do the same His year four commission is dated July 29 1919 which would make his term of ot office extend to July 29 1923 As in tho the case of ot all aU commissions Issued In the tho interior department the term term of ot office Is given as ras four tour years unless unless unless un un- un- un less revoked by the tho president of ot tho the United States Executive EXeC removal would not be possible possible pos pos- sible present officeholders believe unless unless unless un un- un- un less for causes Involving inefficiency or orI Incompetence Mr rr Blakely registrar of ot the tho Salt Lake land office said he would I make no statement or decide what I action he might take until formal re reI request request re- re qu quest st for tor his resignation wa was received I All An three of ot the officeholders referred to toI the tho fact that reports of ot requests s of resIgnations resignations resignations res res- res- res I had emanated ted with considerable consider consider- I able ablo regularity from tho the same source In inI I tho the past few tew months I Regarding probable successors to the three officials referred to to Senator I Reed Heed Smoot Is quoted in the Washington Washing Washing- I ton dispatch as having made no recI rec rec- rec- rec There Thero are re indications I I however that A. A T. T Moon former fonner Progressive Pro Pro- J I Is slated for tor the tho office of ot re receiver receiver receiver re- re and that E. E D. D of ot ManU Mantl may succeed Surveyor General Thore Thore- sen |