Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-07-29

The Potomac Improvement Item.
THE SENATE WILL STAND BY IT TO THE BIT
TER END.
In the Senate there is q determination to
stand by the Potomac flats appropriation in
the river and harbOr bill. Senator Ransom
SAID to STAR reporter to-day, "The appropria-
tion will be there il the bill passes. There is
not the remotest idea of surrenderng it," SEN
ator Ingalls, is also an earnest friend of the i'm
provement and will in>isr upon its being pro
vided tor. Senators Mcpherson, Conger Cor
man and others are equally determined that
the same feeling obtains generally in the Sen
ate. The pretense set up in the House that the
improvement inn , does no, properly come under
the head OF riyers and harbprs, is regarded in
the Senate as puerile and ev4,sive. That ques.
ton was raised when the first apprOpria ton
was made and then decided by both houses
against the faction that raised it. And now
after large sum has been expended and inn
portant re, uits have been accomplished, the
doned or to suffer from delay unless the river
and harbor bill shall fail. If it fails then the
flats must suffer along with other public works.
Important Nominations.
The President sent the following nominations
to the Senate yesterday: Alvey A. Adee, of the
District of Columbia, now third assistant secre-
tary OF state to be second assistant secretary of
state, vice William Hunter deceased. John B.
Moore, of Delaware to be tn .rd assistant secre-
ldfy OI St;tte r. spencer fratt, Oh Alabama, to
be minister resident and consul general of the
United States to Persia. John B. Redmap To
be collector of internal revenue for the district
of Maine. Thomas j. Arnold, to be collector OF
customs for the district OF San Diego, Cal. Geo,
f. Lorentz; to be postmaster at Toledo, o. Ell
tba naps OF of Iowa. to be agent
Arizona. Meimoth c. Williams, Of North
Carolina, D,,, to be agent Tor the Indians
Thomas c. Bach, to be associate justice of the
supreme court OF the territory of Montana
Lieut.: Col. David L. Magrader, to be surgeon,
ander, TO be surgeon, with the rank Of lieuten.
| ant colonel; Capt Henry Nj. CrOnkhite to be
surgeon: with the rank of major; Second Lieut.
Henry A. Greene, to be first lieutenant Goth
| infantry; Second Lieut.. Thomas j. Lewis to be
| first lieutenant I'd cavalry; Freeman V.Waiker
of Georgia, to be assistant surgeon, with the
| rank OF first lieutenant; Assistant Paymaster
Eustice b. Rogers, to be passed assistant pay.
master in the navy.
| The vacancy in the office OF Second Assistant
Secretary of State caused by the death of Mr.
Hunter, has been filled by the promotion of Mr.
Adec, the Third Assistant Secretary. Mr.. Adee
vice, AS charge q affalres in Spain, head OF
the diplomatic bureau and As Third Assistant
Secretary. Though originally appointed under
a REPUBLICAN administration, he has never taken
an active part In politics.
Mr.. Moore, who succeeds MIN, is about 80
years of age, and IL bachelor. He is a native OF
FELTON,. Kent county, Del; was educated at the
University Of Virginia, and was practicing law
| at Wilmington. Dei when, about eight months
uSo, 'oCCiCtuiS LAY uIIIl III Tie Ser
vice oi the State depar tment and gave him the
clerkship from which he Is Now promoted to be
Third Assistant Secretary of State.
Mr.. Pratt, nominated 10 be minister resident
and consul general to Persia, is a native OF
Alabama, now in his thirty-f1fth year.
He was taken to Europe when not quite
four years old, and there educated in the most
| liberal manner, principally in France. He is a
scientist, and holds the degree of doctor in
medicine and surgery He is student OF
Oren ntalism, and thoroughly conversant with
eastern affairs.