Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-15
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Nominations Sent to the Senate for Con.
hrmatio1-Doings OF the United States
Supreme Court.

The President sent the following nomina-
tions to the Senate today:
appointment of foreign consuls-W endell
Anderson of Wisconsin is appointed consul
general at Montreal; Pierce NJ. B. Young of
Georgia, consul general at St. Petersburg
George B. Goodwin of Massachusetts, consul
at Annaberry; c. 7. Russell of Connecticut
consul at Liverpool.
Jno. Goode of Virginia, to be solicitor gen.
eral.
Robert A. Howard of Arkansas, to be assis-
tant attorney general.
Francis Wharton of Pennsylvania, to be
examiner of claims for the department OF
State.
VIM. NJ. Merrick of Maryland, to be as.
sociate justice of the supreme court of the
District of Columbia.
Bartlett Trip to be chief Justice of the
supreme court of Dakota.
VIM. B. Mcconnell to be associate Justice
of the supreme court of Dakota.
Ira c. Shields of Michigan, to be chief
justice of the supreme cort OF Arizona.
VIM. H. Barnes of Illinois, to be assistant
justice of the supreme court of Arizona.
Joseph B. Hayes of Wisconsin, to be chief
justice OF the supreme court of Idaho
Elisha Van Long of Indiana, to be chief
justice of the supreme court of New Mexico
VIM. b. Bimker of Missouri, to be asso-
ciate justice of the supreme court of New
Mexico.
VIM. Fl. Henderson of Arkansas, to be as
sociate justice of the supreme court of New
Mexico.
Chas. r. Pollard of Maryland, to be asso-
ciate justice of the supreme court of Montana.
VIM. G. Langtord to be associate justice of
the supreme court of Washington Territory.
To be United States attorneys-George 4.
Bird for the district of Maine; John S. ii.
Frink for the district of New Hampshire.
To be judge of the United States, Lafay e.te
Dawson of Missouri, for the district of
Alaska.
Col. John Gbbon of the seventh regiment
Of infantry, to be brigadier general.
Col. Absolom Baird. to be inspector gen.
eral with rank of brigder general.
Lieut. Col. Joseph C. Breckenride, inspect
or general to be inspector general with rank
of colonel
John F. Herrick to be postmaster at Range
ley. Me.
VIM. E. Smith of New York, to be assist
ant secretary of the treasury.
Conrad N. Jordan of New Jersey, to be
treasurer of the United States.
James w. Whelpley of New York, to be
second comptroller of the treasury.
Richard X. Mcmahon of West Virginia, to
be deputy second comptroller of the treas
ury.
John r. Garrison of Virginia, to be deputy
first comptroller of the treasury.
VIM. S. Rosecrans of California, to be
register of the treasury.
Roswell A. Fish of California, to be as
sistant register of the treasury.
VIM. A. Day of Illinois, to be second aud
itor Of the treasury.
John S. Williams of Indiana, to be third
auditor of the treasury.
VIM. II. Welsh of Maryland to be deputy
third auditor of the treasury.
Charles M. Shelley of Alabama, to be
fourth auditor of the treasury.
Anthony Eickhoff of New York, to be fifth
auditor of the treasury.
John S. McCalment of Pennsylvania, to be
commissioner of customs.
Daniel M. Fox of Pennsylvania, to be sup
erintendent of the United States mint at
Philadelphia.
To be collectors of customs-Richard T.
Rundlett at Wiscassett. Me-; Alpheus A.
Hanscom at Portsmouth, N. II.
Edward X. Pierce to be appraiser OF the
merchandise district of Portland and Fal-
mouth. Me.
B. F. Peach, Jr.. pension agent at Boston.
To be civil service commissoners-Alfred
NJ. Edgerton of Indiana, VIM. l.. Treghoma
of South Carolina and Dorman B. Eaton of
New York.
The supreme court of the United States,
Monday. affirmed the judgment of the su-
preme court of Utah, in the case of Angus M.
Cannon, plaintiff in error against the United
States. Cannon was indicted under the Ed
munds act, tor unlawful cohabitation with
more than one woman. The defendant OBJ
jected to the giving of any evidence on the
ground that the indictment did not allege he
was a male person, nor that the cohabitation
was with women as wives. The objection
was overruled and verdict of guilty was re-
turned, and the defendant sentenced to pay a
fine of 5000, and to be imprisoned in the peni-
tentiary for six months, and to be further
imprisoned until the payment of such fine.
The opinion says: "The court properly
charges the jury that the defendant was to be
found guilty if he lived in the same house
with two women, ate at their respective table 5
one-third of the time. or thereabouts, and held
them up to the world by his language or con-
duct or both as his wives, and that it was
not necessary it should be shown that he and
the two women, or either of them, occupied
the same bed or slept in the same bed, OF
that he had sexual intercourse with either of
them" The opinion then proceeds to show
by references to various sections of the act
that it refers wholly to the relations between
men and women founded on the existence OF
actual marriages, on the holding out of
their existence.
The opinion proceeds, at is this practice
of unlawful cohabtation with more than one
woman that is aimed at cohsbitation crossed
with polygsmy and having its outward SEM
blance. 1t is not on one hand meretricious
unmarital intercourse with more than one
" oman, the general legislation as to lewd
practices is left to the territorial government.
Nor on the other hand does the statute pry
into the intimaces of marriage relation, but
it seeks not only to punish bigamy or polyg-
amy when direct proof of the existence of
these relations can be made, but to prevent a
man Haunting in the face of the world the
ostentations and opportunities of a bigamous
household with all outward appearances OF
the continuance of the same relations which
existed before the act passed and without
reference to what may occur in the privacy
of that relation. Compacts for sexual inter
course are easily made and as easily broken
when prior marriage relations continue to
exist with the occupation of the same house
and table and keeping up the the same family
unity it is not a lawful substitute for a mon-
ogamous family which alone the statute toll
crates"
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