The Shreveport correspondent of
the New Orleans Times-Picayune re
ports the finding of the Caddo jurist
as follows:
"Judge Bell exhaustively reviewed
the authorities in passing on the
cause. He stated he was aware that
his judgment as to the inability of
the governor to appoint during leg
islative recess would upset executive
usage in this state, but he neverthe
less felt that the organic law plain
ly dlenied this right to the gover,
nor. His decision on this point was
hbased on constitutional provisions cf
18,52 and 1897, and the interpreta
t ions of these provisions by the su
preme court. The court found it
strange, in view of the custom which
has long existed in the governor's
office of appointing during recesses
of the senate successors to public of
ficers whose terms have expired, the
constitution makers of 1898 and 1913
did not change the organic law in <
this respect." I
ANOTIIER SWING OF THE WAR
PENDULUM.
s it The Germans and their Austro
who Hlungarian allies have again turned
the the tables on the' Russians in the
ago, (astern theatre of the European war,
aeO:xt and are forcing the invaders to
for- retreat from their advanced posi
the tions in east Prussia and Bukowina.
resi- iHrlin and Vienla lay claim to very
d-cided if not decisive victories ov
er their eastern enemy, and Ber
and lin advices place the losses of the
ling Russians in the eastern Prussia bat
has ties alone at 50,000 in killed, wound
ws, ed and prisoners.
ortl I Petrograd does not admit such a
ac- serious, not to say calamitous re
ci- verse, but does acknowledge that be.
