Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-21
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
MORE OF THE CHOSEN.
Yesterdays List Of Fav-
cred Ones.
A BATTLE IN THE S0UDAN,
Desperate Fighting By
The Arabs.
ENGLAND GIVES IN TO RUSSIA.
Grants Cancer 10 BE Cut
Out.
THE FILLING OF THE OFFICES.

THE FILLING OF THE OFFICES.
Another Batch of Names Sent in
Yesterday-Prompt Work of Confr-
nation by the Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-The President
sent the following nominations to the Senate
to-day: John D. g. Atkins, Of Tennessee, to
be commissioner of Indian affairs; James D.
Porter, of Tennessee, to be assistant Secre-
tary OIL State. Army-Second Lieutenant
Samuel w. Miller, Fifth infantry, to be first
lieutenant; Second Lieutenant William Black
Twenty-fourth infantry, to be first lieu
tenant. Revenue Marine Service-Henry T.
Blake, of New York, to be captain; Samuel
E. Mcguire, of Louisiana, to be first lieu
tenant; Grin D. Myrick, of Massachusetts, to
be second lieutenant.
Mr.. Atkins has been long and honorably
known in public life. He is one of the
ablest men the South has sent to Congress
since the war. Under Speaker Randall he
was chairman of the Appropriations commit
tee The leading criticism of his career in
Congress was that he was too hot-headed and
irascible and that he lacked the tact and dis
erection requisite in parliamentary leader.
But he is a man of great directness, indefat-
igable industry, and of the highest sense of
honor, and if he at any time gave way to ir-
ritation in an hour he was certain to regret
1t more than the: person toward whom he
manifested his displeasure. It is to be said
in his favor that at that time he was
in ill-health. Since he retired from Congress
Mr.. Atkins has held public position. He
was an unsuccessful candidate for clerk of
the House of the Forty eighth Congress. He
is acquainted with the needs of the Indian
service, as for four years the details of the
Indian appropriation bill passed under his
observation, and he was thorough student
of all tho great questions which came before
the Appropriations committee. Mr.. Atkins
is shrewd and honest man, and no ring of
Indian contractors will be able to control his
bureau.
General Porter was Governor of Tennessee
from 1875 TO 1879, having served two terms.
He is probably sixty years of age, a courtly,
polished, dignifed gentleman of the old Ken
lucky school He has been practising law
yer all his life, save when he was in the Con-
federate army. In his administration of the
affairs of Tennessee he is said to have shown
marked executive ability, and to have held
an honored place in a list of rather notable
Governors. He possesses the qualities which
Mr. Bayard is understood to have sought
in a first assistant secretary, and is
a man who in the necessary occasional
absence of Mr.. Bayard from Washington
could safely be entrusted with the control of
the State department. He is very conserva-
tive in his views. In Tennessee politics he
is known as State credit man. The act of
his administration as Governor which ex-
cited the most criticism was his failure to
veto the bill which repealed the
provision of the law requiring that the
interest on the State debt should be paid be-
fore any other obligation was met from the
- |, - lo4I o,r,
began the reputation movement in Tennes
see, and although Governor Porter
lively identified with the anti-repudiation or
State credit party, had he vetoed the bill re-
ferred to reputation could hardly have be-
come an issue in Tennessee politics.
The Senate in executive session to-day
confirmed the following nominations: Joseph
R. Ryan, of Nevada, to be coiner of the mint
at Carson, Nevada; William Garratt, of
Nevada, to be superintendent of the mint at
Carson, Nevada; Milton.J. Durh am, of Ken
lucky to be first comptroller of the treasury;
Martin v Montgomery, of Michigan, to be
commissioner of patents; Malcolm Hay, of
Pa, to be first assistant postmaster general.
Other nominations confirmed were: John D.
G. Atkins, of Tennessee, to be commissioner
of Indian affairs; James D. Porter, of Ten
nessee, to be assistant Secretary of State
Samuel E. Mcguire, of Louisiana, to be first
lieutenant in the revenue service; Orrin D.
lieutenant in the revenue service; Henry T.
Blake, of New York, to be captain in the
revenue service.
The Secretary of the Treasury will appoint
a commission to day OF to morrow to inyesti-
gate and report upon tbs workings of every
bureau and Office of the Treasury department.
The commission will consist of Assistant Sec
retaries Fairchild and Coon and Assistant
Treasurer Graves. They will commence at
once and their iabors will continue for sever
al weeks or possibly months. The investi
cation is instituted on the superstition that
the treasury force is too large and that its
management is defective. The principal
idea is to simplify the general system of
keeping accounts and to avoid the dupliea-
ton and repetition of work by different bu
reaus.
Mr.. Miller, the new commissioner of inter
nal revenue, entered upon the discharge of
his duties to-day. He first called upon the
President and Secretary of the Treasury in
company with ex-Commissioner Evans and
upon returning presented to the en-
ployes of his bureau. Mr. Evans will re-
main in ashington until his wifes health per
mits their return to Kentucky, when he will