Show LAND OFFICE JOBS HELD UP Utah Senators Are Hav Having ng Much Muon Trouble in Putting Their Slate Through i HOBBS IS MAKI MAKING JG A FIGHT ROOSEVELT REPORTED TO BE HOSTILE TO THE CHANGE Appointments for r register ister and reedy er of the Salt Lake land office are held up In Washington notwithstanding the fact that the commissions of the Dres res resent ent incumbents expired over a week ago Pressure from Utah combIned it Is said with a reluctance on the part of President Roosevelt to accede to the th changes demanded by Senators Reed Smoot and George Sutherland axe sie the causes of the delay The senators recommended E D R Thompson for register and also recommended recommended mended that Register ter F D Hobbs be appointed receiver to succeed George A Smith who Is retiring vOluntarily President Roosevelt It Is intimated has demanded to be shown why Mr Hobbs if he is competent to hold office at all should not be retained In hid hiti resent present position Instead or of being switched Supreme Judge Takes Hand Among the thIngs whIch have con to clogging the machInery set In motion by the senators is said to be bea bea a vIgorous letter written by Justice William M I McCarty of the state su en supreme preme court Justice McCarty Is said to have wrItten to Senator Sutherland protesting against the switchIng of Mr Hobbs Not content with that It is said Justice McCarty mailed a copy ot of his letter to President Roosevelt after frankly notifying Ing Senator Sutherland that he intended to do so The followers of Heber iL DI Wells are also taking a hand In the therow therow row and are backing Mr lIr Hobbs They have caused several letters in protest to be sent to Washington and one Wells man predIcted yesterday that the upshot or of the matter would be the retention of Mr Hobbs In his present position with a possibility that Mr Thompson might land second place Among those who are active In hv hay hayIng ing protests against dIsturbIng Mr Hobbs sent to Washington are C W Yo Penrose and George A Smith the tho re retiring retiring tiring receIver Both are apostles in inthe inthe the Morman church and the enmIty ike e et t tween een Mr Penrose and Sen Smoot is Mr Penrose it is said is taking ad advantage 4 vantage C of tUb presidents to make the change to even up his old score with his fellow apostle while hUe Apostle Smith after four years of as association with Mr Hobbs feels frIend frIendly ly to him Mr Penrose and Mr Ir Smith it is said are keeping in the back baek background ground themselves but are seeing to It that others take a 2 posItion on the firing line Une Thompson Is First Love Mr Thompson is the first love of the Ule senators In the matter They recommended recommended mended him for regIster because the receIvership may be abolished and it if either Mr lIr Thompson or Mr lIr Hobbs is isto isto to be deprived of an office by legisla legislative legislative tive enactment they prefer that It should be Mr Hobbs Mr Thompson was one of the Utah Gentiles who tes testified tilled for Senator Smoot before the senate committee on privileges and elections It Is known that Secretary of the In Interior tenor Hitchcock scans each person parson recommended for a land office appoint appointment mont ment with the most minute scrutiny It Itis Itis is also known that he has the utmost contempt for senatorial courtesy and senatorIal prerogatives In a recent Oregon case he forced the appointment of a land official utterly distasteful to the only Republican senator fr from m that state and the latter after g that he would fight the officials confirma confirmation lion tion yielded gracefully and held his peace while the ceremony of confirma confirmation confirmation tion was going on Protests Against H E Booth Protests against the appointment of Hiram E 9 Booth as district attorney are being forwarded from Salt Lake to the department of justice on the supposItIon supposition tIon that he will ivill be recommended by bythe bythe the Utah senators when Joseph Lipp mans term expires in June and more will probably be forwarded The pro protests protests tests attack Mr Booths ability and also go into matters connected with his administration ot of the office ot of United States commissioner here In territorial days |