The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-03-25
Something About the Nominees.

rOuttnlrS ABOUT the FOmlDees.
WAsHNeTcN, March 2s.-The Associated
Press gives the following account of Edward
]. Phelps, nominated to day for Minister to
England: BE is a prominent lawyer OF
Burlington, Vt. he is shout sixty years OF
sge and the possessor of moderate fortune
BE is ex-Prssident OF the American Bar
Association. has practiced I sfore the Sa-
prsme Court IN Washing gtc1sssnd is highly
esteemed as lawyer and a man of culture.
He has several times been the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Vermont, bat SO
fa- as known here he has never had public
cffice. For two years past ne has delivered
lectures onlaw to the graduating class OF
Yale College.
Mr. Phelps is the son of ex Senator Phelps,
OF Vermont. Senator Edmunds was his
lsgel pIt tceptor. Phelps is persons, friend
of Justice Field, of The Supreme Court, who
spt ais 10 the highest terms of his learning
and sbil ty.
Robert NJ MeLsDe, nominated as Minister
to France, is the present Governor of Mary
Lar d.
Henry Rootes Jackson, nominated as Min
lister to Mexico, is native of Georgia, and is
sixty-foU years of age. he graduated at
Yale College in 1889, and shortly after ward
wss admitted TO the bar. He was Colonel OF
a Georgia regiment in the Mexican war, and
for four succeeding years wss Judge in the
Eastern Circuit OF Eastern Georgia. In 1853
he was sent to represent the United States at
Vienna, Austria, where he remaioed five
years. During the rebellion he was South
ern Brieadier General, and had q command on
the upper Potomsc. Since the war Jackson
has practiced law in Georgia. He has of late
yeals he'd no public Office. He is q man of
independent fortune, anG is highly Endorsed
hxy fnor 1f 49,. saka T..
son is an suthlr of several poems, ''Tal-
lullah" being among them.
The New Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue-Copfirmations-M Minister
Morton, Etc.
WASHINGTON. March 20.-Mr. Miller, the
newly appointed Com missioner OF Internal
Revenue. entered upon the dicharge of his
duties this morning. He was the recipient
OF many congratulations from callers and
by mail, and during the day received all the
principal officers of the Bureeu.
The Vice President to-day laid before the
Senate memorial from the Montana Lesis.
lature, stating that nearly all the public do
main in Montana is desert land. aud pro
testing against the reps al OF the desert land
act
Opi ufIudtlOuS-MdTtlQ v. mOQt10UeTy, OF
MichigsD. Commissioner of Patents; Milton
j. uIham, CT Kentucky, First COMPTROLLER
of the Treasury; Macom Hay, of Pennsyl-
vaDis. First Assistant P0stmaster General;
Joseph R. RYAN, of Nevada, Commissioners
OF the Mint at Carson; William Garren. OF
Nerads, Superintendent OF the Mint at Car.
son City.
There is no foundation for the statement
that President Cleveland has requested Min
ister Morton to remain at Paris.
The Senate, in executive session, ratified
en- additional article to the Mexican treaty,
extending until Msy 20. 1886, the time for
the approval of the laws necessary to carry
into operation the commercial convention
between the two governments, concluded at
Washington. January %, 1883.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap-
pointed Assistant Secretaries Fairchild and
Coon, and Assistant Treasurer Graves, a
c. c-mmission, with instructions to make an
examination OF the Treasury Department,
with special reference to the simpli6cation
and improvement of the methods of doing
business, and TO the reduction and resrrange.
ment of the official and clerical force.
The President has accepted the invitation
OF the veterans of the First and other corps
to visit the battlefield OF Gettysburg, when
they make their historical visit there on the
4th and 9th OF May, unless prevented by
some uraent necessity OF the public service.
The President is anxious to be on the field
when the leading Generals of both armies are
there to explain their movements.
1t is understood that at an informal con. |
ference of Senators OF both parties to day, it |
was agreed the Senate should adjourn Rext |
MOI day or Tuesday, unlese the President