The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-10
THE SENATE ADJOURNS.
Nominations and Combinations
During the Extra Session.
Most of the Plesident's Nominees
Confirmed,

The special session of the United States
Senate adjourned on the twenty-second day
of its sittings About a dozen of President
Cleveland's nominations were left uncon-
flrmed The nomination of Alexander r.
Lawton, of Georgia, to be minister to Rus
STA, was reported adversely by the COM
mittee on foreign affairs Pres
ident Cleveland requested that no
action be taken by the Senate in order that he
might have time to consider curious ques-
ton which has arisen regarding Mr. Lawton's
legal right to take the office The President
subsequently withdrew the nomination. 1t
appears that Mr.. Lawton, as an ex-Confede-
rate soldier, never had his political disabilities
removed under the terms of the constitutional
amendment applying to such cases, but be-
fore that amendment became a part of the
Constitution he received a pardon from the
President of the United States. Some one
has raised the point that the executive par
don is not sufficient, and that Mr.. Lawton's
political disabilities could not be removed in
any other way than that laid down in the
constitutional amendment.
The nominees to foreign missions con-
firmel during the session were: A. NJ
son, OF Wisconsin, to Denmark; Rufus Ma
gee, of Indiana, to Sweden and Norway; r.
b. Hubbard, OF Texas, to Japan; Isaac Bell,
Jr., of Rhode Island, to the Netherlands
George w. Merrill, to the Hawaiian Islands;
Edward Z. c. Lewis, of New Jersey, to Por-
tugal; William r. Roberts, of New York, to
Chilli; Il. j. Jarvis of North Carolina, to
Brazil, and c. w. Buck, of Kentucky, to
Peru.
The following consus- general were con-
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at London; Frederick Rains, of Maryland,
at Berlin, and Edmund Jussen, of Illinois, at
Vienna
Other nominees confirmed were: A. Leo
Knott, of Maryland, for second assistant post
master general; Norman j. Colman, of
Missouri, for commissioner of Agriculture;
General Joseph Il. Johnston, of Nir-
gina, for railroad commissioner; Alexander
McCue, of New York for solicitor of the
treasury; David Settle for United States
marshal for the Western district of North
Carolina; and William Caldwell for sur
veyor of the port of Cincinnati
The following nominees for collectors of
the internal revenue were confirmed: Glenn
ent Dowd for the Sixth North Carolina
district lsham G. Searcey, for the Third
Texas district; Nathan Gregg, for the Sec
ond Tennessee district, and Andrew j. Boyd
for the Fifth North Carolina district
Henry Il. Pearson was confirmed for post
master of New York Other postmasters
confirmed We're: Osbun Shannon at Law
renee, Kan Andrew ID. Morgan, at Lion, n.
V, Myron II. Peck, Jr., at Batavia, ~ Y;
Erastus F. Babcock, at Elmira, n. Y Macon
Bonner, at Washington, n. c.; Charles +.
Cook, at Mcpherson, Kan; Adelbert Shep-
herd, at Waverly, Iowa; b. $. Gray, at Port
land Ind; j. A. Showalter at Latrobe, Pa
j. r. Raynsford at Montrose, Pa Thomas
b. French at Alexandria, La.
The nominations left unconfrmed were:
Lewis McMullen, for appraiser of the port Of
New York: w. w. Lang, of Texas, for con-
sui at Hamburg; Charles 4. Russell, of Con-
necticut, for consul at Liverpool; A. H.
Gross, of Pennsylvania for consul at Athens;
f. 7. Howell, of Georgia, for consul at Man
chester; Henry p. Kernochan for naval Off
Ger at New Orleans; James o. Henderson, for
collector Of internal revenue for the Eleventh
district of Indiana; John T. McGraw,
the District of West Virginia; and
postmasters: Henry l.. Kenyon, at
Mortified, VT; Geo +. Gross, at Allentown,
Pa. James Corcoran, at Rome, n. Y, and
G. Marion Moore at Pleasanton, Kan. These
nominations fall with the adjournment of the
Senate As they were not rejected by that
body however, the President can at once APP
point them to the offices he desires them to
fill and send their names to the Senate at its
next session.
One nomination-that of G. Marion Moore
to he postmaster at Pleasanton, Kansas-was
rejected.
Thomas Waller, who receives the consul
generalshp at London, is the ex-governor of
Connecticut Fred Raines, of Maryland, who
is appointed onsul-general at Berlin, is the
editor of the Deutsche Correspondence one of
the leading German newspapers of Balti-
more. Edmund Jussen, of Chicago, who is
appointed consul general to Vienna, is an
other prominent German American He
is the brother-in-law of Carl SchurZ. T.
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lister to Brazil, is the Governor Jarvis who
was n candidate for a cabinet position.
Alexander X. Lawton, nominated for the mis-
sion to Russia, is prominent lawyer of Sa-
vannah
AN Kelley, who was nominated as minister
! TO Italy, is lawyer in successful practice at
! Richmond, Va He has been mayor OF that
| city, and was for several years chairman of
/ the Democratic flinders committee.
Edward Parke Gusts Lewis, the nominee
for the mission to Portugal, is a resident of
Hobo1en, n. j. He is said to be distantly re.
lated to Secretary Bayard, and has been a
member of the legislature, a presidential
elector and member of the State Demo
cratic committee.
Isaac Bell Jr., nominated to be minister to
the Netherlands, is a wealthy citizen of New
port, X. l., a prominent Democrat, and has
several times been the Democratic candidate
for governor. He is the brother in-law of
James Gordon Bennett He was the Demo
cratic candidate for the United States Sen
ate at the last senatorial election in his State
Rufus Magee, of Indiana, who was nominated
as minister to Sweden and Norway is a resi-
dent of Logansport a lawyer and State SEN
atOr. a man of local prominence as an active
politician, and an especial friend of ex-
Senator Mcdonald.
Rasmus b. Anderson, of Wisconsin, nomi-
mated to be minister resident and consul gem
eral to Denmark, is IA Scandinavian scholar,
and is the author of n number of books upon