Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-10-30

! The fact that the House appropriation COM
miitee will to morrow report a bin 10 sup
| pert the army, and will bold the iDor until
| II rs di> p Scl, indicates tnat a. j quite pos
! Slble Congress can g"t through the hl-tneSS
| for which IL was callad together sai adjourn
/ next week.
SENATOR BLAINE left here at - O'Clock
| to-day by the New York train, over the Bal
iimore and Potomac railroad, for his nome
| at Augusta. Maine. He was accompanied
| hy Mr. Thomas Sherman. mis- private sec
! rttaTy, snd special car was assigned him
which viii 20 through TO Augusta.
The SENATE COMMITTEE on foreign rela-
/ uons met this morning. The nominal ions Of
! Edwin W. S,oughton, OF New York 10 be
! minister 10 Russia, an the other state de
/ pATtinvnt nomi nations reported 10 The senate
/ or cc'ntmatlon. were passed upol. Tn
! records OF each OF the appCiuteeS we're rad
snd passed favorshl y upon with little debate
! Ire Cmlraticn Cf MI Hiilsrd as mii lister
10 Brazil was cor SO eT, Il. and certain charges
made against him were referred to Senator
/ McCreery FOR invest CATION.
THE PRESIDENTS DEPARTURE FOR
/ RICHMOND The President, with Mrs
! Hayes, Webb c. Hayes, Burchard Hayes.
! Miss Plat, Secretary EvartS aud his two
/ daughters, Secretary and Mrs sherman
Secretary Thompson. Attorney General
! Devens, Hr. Crook and others. LETT the Bait
! more and Potomac railroad depot a. tea
O'CLOCK this morning, in a special train, for
| Richmond, Va, where they VIII visit the
| state f8ir. The train consisted Of a baggage
, car, pass ger coach and Pullman car
"
| THE SPoFFoRD KELLOGG CONTEST.
| The Senate committee on privileges and
| elections met thls morning, aud each MEM
Der was furnished with copy of the argu.
ments and points made by the contestants
pertaining TO the Kellogg poffOTd contest.
| Senator Mitchell, chairman of the commit
| tee, submitted half a dozen propositions in
! tended To shape the scope of investigation OF
the committee. These propositions were
only submitted inf ormally, and they i'll he
formally considered at the next meeting of
| the committee, Thursday morning.
SENATOR MoRToN's Co,DIrIoN-Many
Inquiries were made :-.s morning at the
| room of the Senate comm ttre on privileges
| and elections concerning Senator Mor;on's
condition. Senator Mite Iell received a teie-
| gram from Indianapolis yesterday after
boon, saying that The dyirg Senator could
| hold no food upon his stomach, and that his
| deal was only question OF a very few days
| at the most. To-day at DOon Coz. Edward
! Bangs, Sixth AUDITORS off ,e, received the
| following from indianapolis: "Senator Nor
| ton rested well last night, but seems much
weaker this morning.
JOHN A. BURBANK
First Assistant p. NJ. q. Tyner received
| the following i>patch this morning: -"Taere
| is slight Improvement In Senator MortOn's
| CONDITION this morning. We are not without
! hope" NJ. X. HOLLOWAY.
COSFIRMATIoNs.-The Senate in execu-
tive session o-day cor firmed the following
! appointments: Edwin w. SIOughton, Of New
/ York. minister to Russia; VIM. Hayden Ell
/ wards, OF District o: Columbia, secretary Of
| legation. Brazil; Nicholas Fish, of New
| York, charge IL affaires To the Swiss cDnfed-
GRAFTON; Edward f.. Moves, OF OHIO. minister
10 France; James NJ. Comley, Of OHIO min
| lister 10 TIE Hawaiian Islands; Thomas A.
Osborn, OF Kansas, minister 90 Chilli Ehr!-
Tan =. y adsi, second secretary OF legation Ia
! London; Henry Sidney Everett Oh Mas, see
| rotary 81 legation to Germany. JO.n y ksS
| So. oi Iowa, minister To Austria; Dance
| tail. naval officer. Boston, Mass AlonZO
| RhuD, L. :. district judge, western di>tcicG
of " lsCOnsin; j. =. Boremap, associate Is
ice supreme court OF Utah; Benz. r. F.feld,
| L. >. attorney, Vermont; Daniel 7. BoynJpn,
| FeDslon agent, Knoxville, Tenn; Samuel
| PoSt, pension agent Detroit, Mich: Clark
lrict OF OHIO; &. Cartwright, ditto, Ore son:
| WIN. L. Prescott aSsaye r Of Carson mint,
| Nevada; Thomas Silver, ditto. Denver ca,
| Ilanlel ). Pickering, postmaster, Elmira. y
Y; l.. ID. Davis, postmaster, WeIlsvilie. =.
| J.; W IN }. Kline, postmaster, Amsterdam.
| -. 1'; Charles Z. Miller, postmaster, Penn
| an, n. L., and a number oi minor poslmas-
| ters.
JOHN WELSH NOMINATED FOR MINIS
TER TO GREAT BRITAIN.-The agony is
| over. The English mission question was
settled to-day by the President sending to
| the Senate the name OF John Welsh, of Phil
adel pnla, for the position. Since the diff
Guilty between the State department and The
| republican delegation in Congress from
! pennsylvania, growing out of the nomina-
| ton OF ex-S Senator Cameron by the latter for
| lie English mission, Mr.. Welsh name has
| been under consideration by the President
| and his advisers, and the nomination was
made principally because il was believed
! mat the appointment would conciiia.s the
| dissatisfied republicans of The state.
Mr.. Welsh L. a popular and much respected
! merchant OF Philadelphia. He is about a.
| years OF age, and he has made large for
! tuLe In the sugar importing business in ms
Latlve city. He has never held an OFF re of
| any prominence outside OF local PhiIadeI-
| phIa politics, and he il better known TO the
| public as President OF he Board OF Finar C.
| OF tie late Centennial Exhibition. aud one of
| TIE most active promoters oil the success of
| The exhibition. In politics Mr.. Welsh mas
always been thorough going repl bllcau
! supporting ali OF the state aud national mea-
| sures OF that party. AT The same time he has
| never been identified with the Cameron IT.
/ vision IN lie management OF state affairs
/ That Mr. Welsh was 10 have the English
| MISSION was known 10 few Senators YES
| tefday, and loI conference took place be-
| tween Senator'S CUnkling a..d Don Cameron
On Inc tJec,. The appointment was re-
| 1erfed To the committee on foreign relations
THE House CoMMITTEEs.-There is
| great deal of grumblipg by dissatisfied MEM
| bers over the makeup Of the House COM
| mlttaes by Speaker Randall Some OF the
Old members were badly showed under but
Cox, OF New York, seems To have Jared the
worst. He is relieved from the banking ami
currency committee and from the committee
on rules, and placed second on the foreign
affairs committee, and given the miuor
committee on the library; Messrs. Hunton
of Virginia, T.. John Ellis, of louisiana aud
Gov: Walker, OF Virginia, have been, they
think, badly treated.
The banking AID currency com ni.tee IS a
ialr one. Tie majority Gifts members favor
the characterization of silver, are opposed TO
resumption by contraction, bat are n OF v.o.
lently opposed TO the national banks.
Inc ways AM means COMMITTEES can be
placed as follows: Wood favGrs revision of
t te, tarin; Tucker low tariff; Sayler aud
RoCbins are revenue reformers. Harris of
Georgia, is anti-,arif, except on rice, which
Is grown largely In his DISTRICT Gibson, OF
LOUISIANA, favCrs free trade except SO far a.
sugar and rice are c1ncernei. Phelps of
Connecticut, Is about half and half Kelly
is violent nrotSctiOnist. Burchard is a |
revenue reformer and Incidental pro,ec
ZIONIST. Banks is III favor o. a revision OF
The u riff, but lears toward pro ection. Gar
field is n straight out revenue reforrner
The Pacific railroad com I'M ttee is pretty
wei balanced IN its makeup. The Texas |
Pacific people don't like il, bat the general |
impression is that the project wjl, ha siyap a !