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CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

Mr.. James @. Wright, OF Wisconsin, has
been appointed First Assistant Doorkeeper
OF the House of Representatives, vice Dono-
van, resigned. Wright is an ex-Union SOL
dier.
The Senate, by vote Of II to 81, rejected
the nomination Of Justin 4. Colburn as
Consul to Mexico. Colburn is the New
York Times's Washington correspondent,
and the reason Of his rejection is said 10 be
that he has not treated certain Senators at
all times with as much consideration as they
considered TO be their due.
A significant publication appears in the
New York World, being an apparently au-
thoritative report of several recent inter-
views with Senator Conkling regarding the
Presidents policy. The Senator openly ex-
presses his opinion that the Presidents
course is the result OF a secret bargain
made between him and Governor Nichols,
growing out Of the Presidential compli-
cation, and thinks the facts will all come
out sooner or later, when, he says, "the
whole country will be appalled, by the dis
honor OF the Administration" The report
makes six columns in the World, and is as
severe in its censure Of the President as it
well can be.
Senator COnkling, while not denying that
the alleged "interview" with him published
by the New York World fairly gives the
substance of much that he may have said at
various times, says that he has not had an
interview with any newspaper correspond
ent in several months, and that the person
who furnished it 10 the press abused his
hospitality by working up into a sensational
newspaper article fragments OF confidential
conversation held in the privacy OF the home
circle. He further claims that in some cases
a very different meaning is conveyed by the
language as quoted from the sense in which
ii was uttered.
The nomination Of Gen. John Mcneil, OF
st. Louis, to be Indian Inspector, was con-
flrmed by the Senate after a somewhat acri-
mOnious debate, by a vote OF 81 to 20. The
Democrats generally opposed him, on the
ground OF his alleged inhumanity during the
war, in hanging ten guerrillas at Palmyra,
Mo-, in retaliation, as was claimed, for the
killing Of some OF his own men. Senator
Armstrong was the only Democratic Sena-
tor who voted for his confirmation. Several
Republican Senators opposed him, as is I'M
derstood, for the reason of their dislike
TO a certain Cabinet officer who was strongly
pressing Gen. Mcneil for the position.
A meeting of the Republican Congress
sional Committee was held on the 18th,
nearly all the members being present. Rep
resentative Hale was chosen temporary
Chairman, and Representative Phillips Sec
rotary. 1t was resolved that vacancies from
States not represented in Congress by any
Republicans be not filled at present. Those
States are Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware,
Texas and Georgia. An executive commit
tee was appointed, consisting Of Representa-
tive Hale, Senator Allison, Representatives
Joyce, Hiscock, Page, Foster, Campbell,
Hubbell, Senator Dorsey and Senator Bruce
The Department of State has received in
formation from Minister Foster that he has
officially recognized the Diaz Government,
according to the discretionary powers given
him previous to his departure from Wash
ingtOn. A private letter says the recogni-
tion was received with delight by the citi-
Zens of Mexico.