Show IS QUARLES ELIGIBLE THE T ELIGIBILITY of or Senator A Quarles to the office of United I States judge forthe fO he eastern district of ol Wisconsin Is being seriously questioned I by b lawyers In congress President Roosevelt appointed Senator Quarles some days clays ago aso the appointment to tc take effect on his retirement March 4 There is ili a clause in the thc federal con cn constitution that provides that nb no sen senator senator senator ator or representative shall be ap appointed appointed pointed to any office which has been beer I created or its emoluments increased I II during the term of service of such suet I senator or representative f I Now Senator Quarles was a member of congress when about a year ear ago the puy of district judges was in increased increased increased creased from to per y yar ar Strictly speaking he lie is therefore in ineligible i ineligible l eligible It is i said that if it the president dent had waited until after the retire retirement retirement retirement ment of oC Quarles before appointing him bin i ino no question of eligibility would have hav boen been raised Unless senatorial courtesy courtes I intervenes to prevent it the executive u will under the circumstances havea ve a t contest on his hands It is said that Governor LaFollette who starts his first term as United I States State senator March Murch 4 will enter en r vigorous objections to the appoint appointment t inept ment of or A dispatch says sn s that tha t the Uthe president may not care to offend a senator by insisting on an appoint appointment ment to t which the senator sana tor objects Whoever wrote that sentence does docs not no t know Roosevelt There is nothing the th e president gets ets more apparent enjoy enjo enjoyment meat ment out of 0 than a fight with the tl e sen senata senata senate ata ate 10 pp it of oi t the Crum tum Uth to be collector of the port of ot Charles CharIes Charleston ton is ac se in point The promotion of or Brigadier General Wood to be be a major general is another And other instances could be cited The pre pr preL l dent has won In most instances Zie 1 e ehas has never yet et withdrawn an ment because a senator did not like ft Ti We Ve do not very cry much fancy Senator Quartos Quarles as a federal judge because he lie v has haH been too closely identified with the Wisconsin corporations but it is i perfectly safe to wager that his ap nt will be confirmed objections tIon or no objections |