The Portland daily press., 1877-10-30
WASHINGTON.
Nominations by the President.

WASHINGTON, Get. 29.-The President TODAY
sent the following nominations to the Senate:
Theodore Roosevelt, Collector of Customs,
Edwin A. Merritt, Surveyor, and L Bradford
VIM. Henry Smith, Collector of Customs for
Chicago; Robert T. Smith, Collector of Gus
toms for Mobile; Francis Dodge, Collector of
Customs for Georgetown, d. q; Edwin w.
Stoughton OF New York, to be Envoy Extraor-
binary of the United States to Russia
VIM. Hayden Edwards. of the District of
Columbia, Secretary of the Legation in Brazil;
John Oslesby of Louisiana, to be Assistant APP
praiser of Merchandise, and James Lewis,
Naval Officer of New Orleans; J. T. Collins.
Collector of Customs for Brunswick, Ca; Ga.
briel c. Wharton, Uuited States Attorney of
the District of Kentucky; Lewis E. Parsons,
Attorney for the Northern and Middle District
of Alabama; Edgar M. Marble of Michigan to
be Assistant Attorney General; Guilford Wiley
Wells of Mississippi, to be United States Consul
General at Shanghai.
United States Consuls-Charles Bartlett of
Maine, at Turks Island; Walter 81. Garfield of
Massachusetts, at Martinique l, T.. McLain,
York, at Osaka and Hiogo; John A. Campbell
of Wyoming, at Basic.
Uaited States Marshals-Owen P. Fitzsim-
| mons for Georgia; M. j. Wadron for the Weg-
tern district of Tennessee; Charles G. Allen for
for Delaware.
Hugh 1. Campbell to be United States At.
torney for Dakota
To be Postmasters-Henry M. Bearce of Nor
way. Me-, A. G. Spaulding Richmond, Me.
Nominations Confirmed by the Senate.
| The Senate today confirmed the following
nominations:
VIM. W. Upton, Second Comptroller of the
Treasury in place of Carpenter, resigned; JAS
| Gilhllan, Treasurer of the United States; AL
bert III. Wyman, Assistant Treasurer; Franz
| Gilbert United States Assistant Treasurer at
Chicago; John p. Hoyt of Michigan, to be Gov.
| error OF Arizona in place of Stafford, resigned
John Casper of Nebraska Secretary of Arizona;
Henry H. Bates of New York, Examiner-inE
Chief of the Patent office, also several post.
| masters in the Western States.
MIR. Frye's Geneva Award Bill.
Mr.. Frye's bill for the distribution of the bal.
ance of the Geneva award represents ths anti
| insurance side of the controversy, and has in
substance already twice passed the House. The
additional feature is the provision allowing two
| per cent. interest on judgments already award
ed. This will procure for the bill the support
of those who have already obtained Judgment.
The following is the substance of this measure:
Itrevives the Court of Commissioners of Alabama
Claims; gives that Court jurisdiction to hear
Cases entitled to have been heard under the act
of June, 1874, but which by mistake, accident
or otherwise, were not filed and disposed of
also, all claims resulting from damage done on
the high seas by any Confederate cruiser what
soeyer during the late rebellion; also, cl aims
for war premiums paid after the sailing of any
Confederate cruiser; also, gives the Court
authority to allow on all judgments heretofore
recovered and all to be recovered under this act
two per cent. interest additional to that allowed
by the former act, such interest to be computed
in each case from the time from which interest
was allowed in the original judgments to the
time of entering up judgments for such addi-
tional interest