Show HON ilon RANDOLPH RANDOLP 0 TUCKER ais IT is p retty pretty well understood understood that ibe the hon li candolph Han dolph andolph tucker at present chairman of bf the judiciary committee of the US house of representatives has declined a in his district because he anticipates receiving poriae some lucrative appointment udder the present administration 1 he was strongly recommended lor for the solicitor geneia generalship ship but mr jenks gained the position in spite 0 the tucker influence it has bad beep been stated in some prominent papers that tue tile gentleman heis has an eye to a place on the supreme bench of the united states there is no BO vacancy at present but there are pros prospects for an opening and his advisers think him fully qualified fled for the post he is ua doum edly an experienced and talented lawyer and cornea comes of legal stock in a state which has produced some of our most eminent jurists but the latest report conce concerning the gentleman is that ne lie is lili likely bly to be appointed Minister to austria Thi thisie bitts is said would buit his family as well as himself his wife and two daughters daught erv being desirous de airous of spending a season seabon or two abroad secretary bayard is a fast f friend of mr tuckers and this appointment would be agreeable to him it As s stated that the austrian authorities would receive the gentleman with pleasure we nave have no doubt that the member from virginia would do honor to his bis state and ana the country on a foreign that he be is eminently juall qualified to represent the united states slates at horne home or abroad we have nothing nothing against mr tucker but his bis sanction to co the t e desecration of democratic and constitutional principles in the bill with which his bis name Is connected concerning utah and can but marvel maryel that so good a lawyer and so previously a democrat could be led to fattier father so 3 monstrous a measure we hope be will get the appoint men genf and that he will gain mare honor in it than thag he is likeley to reap from the remarkable bill which came from his committee at the last session of cou con gress |