Show OS IS CAUSE Of EXCITEMENT PUT OVER QUIET LITTLE JOKE ON KNOX AND TAFT He Hc Suggested Suggest d in Letter to Senator That He Might Be Ineligible For Position Offered by Tart Taft Chicago Fob Feb 13 It was a oan says the Chicago Tribune Jr I i a news DOWS item today toda who put over ocr a quiet Q iet little Joke the other day on Phil Philander ander ceder C Knox William II H Pelt Talt aid virt H several other othel persons supposed to know a good deal about aboul constitutional I law At Al least this his is tho the assertion of if r Dr Eugene president 01 ot the American Geographic institute Dr ron nas been buen smiling quietly over the hubbub In the house h ul toe and senate and the lobbies at Vasa Ington about Senator eligibility ity by to the office of secretary of ot state but said not nol a word and went right righton on with his editorial work Then he heard that lint some one in a Buffalo Bufalo I newspaper office had bad been given crud it il for fo staring tho the thing This troubled him and he began looking through his correspondence files filos The result was a carbon copy cop or of a n aletter aletter letter January 25 last and reading as follows I 1 Dear Senator Knox Allow me to I call your our attention to the tho second par 1111 paragraph of section VI first of o othe the United States constitution Is rot riot this a bar to tho the position now no of offered offered you OU by Judge Taft Is not DoL an enabling act for first Signed I EUGENE I have been working lately along lines of or that sort on a volume touch ing fog on constitutional matters Dr explained and a d as us soon as tho senators proposed appointment came up I saw tho the difficulty My first thought was to write to Mr Taft Tail Then It occurred to me ale that the tip IIII i was unsettled and inns Inas Inasmuch much as I have hae known Knox for sev several se oral eral years I decided to write nito to him aim |