One Man Who Declines

Washington-, Dec. 18 -Congres Culberson of j t xas is to malee reputation as a decliner. Last Octobe eclined a tender of a place orí th Inter-State Commerce commission to sdoceed Gen. llragg of Alabam. Las Saturday, after a talle with liis Texa friends and with Commissioner Morri son, he íormally accepted. A fevv days i-efieotion seems to have chang-ed hi mind,for to-day he with equal formality Dotified the President of his final de claration. Three ye ars of Commissionc Bragg's term reinain, and Culberson a the end of that period would undoubt edly bave been reappointed for the ful six years' term. 11e had, therefore, a certainty of drawing $7,500 a year foi the next nine years. His friends say that when he looked into the duties of the position he found there was too much routine, to many details .i.imit railroad manag-ement, and he thought in justice ■ to himself and to the President he should not accept ; i :i e where lie -.ould not í'e I at home true reikson was that he had decided to go into the Texas Senatoria tiplií nnd think.s he can win. Culierson's declina lion will tln-ow upon the President the duty of finding another Southern man. He wil] probably make sliort wprk of this. as tlie longer he keeps it open the greater the pressure will be. The three most likely men now mentioned are ex-Congressman Clements of (ieorg-ia. ex-(ov. l'orter of Tennessee. and ,Indge Ljndav of Kentucky. The deelmation of Cuiberson will not, affect the clnmces of the candidates who want so suceeed Commissioner Cooley. T3iis choiee will be made frorn west of the Mississippi, and the President's mind is poised pretty evenly between his old collegemate, Jiidge McDill of bwa, and Judg-e Lambertson of Sehviiska. Hut if he throwsthe DemoTatie appointment east of the Missis sippi and north as far as Teïmess e he svill have a. chance to go as far southwest as Cansas. Telegrama sig-ned by all the State officers have been coming in to-day urging1 the sèlecüon of ex-Gov. Goorge ï. Anthony of that State, flow far the opposition of ■Col. D. R. Anthony of Leavenworth to his kinsman's appointment will count no one knows. The idea is that if Gov. Anthony is not named it will be because else has strong-er claims.