Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Presidents Fixed Hours
for Receiving.
A NUMBER OF NEW NOMINATIONS.
Debate in the Senate on the Rela-
tiOns of the United states to
it's NeighbOrs.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HnnA11

dent denied himself to all except a ia
vored few, in order to attend to officia
business. He consulted with the Secre
tary of the Interior, the Postmaster Gen
eral and the Attorney General in regarC
to the nominations made to-day. Nor
row, of California, also called on him.
WHEN THE PRESIDENT WILL RECEIVE.
The President has issued new set o
rules for routine executive business. Th,
Cabinet will meet Tuesdays and Friday
at II 80 P. NJ, Senators and Representa-
tives will be received every day from II
until II. Persons, not members of Con
gress, having business with the Presi
dent, will be received from II until
every day except Mondays and Cabinet
days. Those who have no business, but
call merely to pay their respects will bt
received by the President in the cas-
room at P. NJ. Mondays, Wednesday,
and Saturdays.
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS RECEIVED.
At noon the President formally re-
ceived the members of the diplomatic
corps. They first assembled at the
State Department in resplendent court
costumes and were presented to Blaine,
who escorted them to the White House
and presented them to the President in
the blue parlor. The reception was in
formal and lasted half an hour.
NEW NOMINATIONS.
The President sent the following nomi.
nations to the Senate to-day: J. S.
Clarkson, of Iowa, to be First Postmaster
Gornro1. WAlGou All
to be Governor of Arizona. Postmasters,
William Wallace, Indianapolis; Jas. NJ.
Kellogg, Wicks, Mont. jeremiah Sulli-
the District of Montana and Idaho; John
A. Kasson, Iowa, William Walter Phelps,
New Jersey, and George II. Bates, Della
ware, to be Commissioners to represent
the United States at the conference to be
held at Berlin concerning affairs in the
Samoan Islands; Albert D. Weed, Mon
tana, to be United States Attorney for
Montana.
SOME OF THE NOMINEES.
George II. Bates, who was to-day
nominated to be one of the commissioners
to negotiate with Germany respecting
Samoa, is the son of the Ex- Chancellor Of
Delaware and lawyer of high standing
in that State. Bates was appointed by
Secretary Bayard as special commits
5ioner to investigate our Samoa relations
and made long and exhaustive report
to the Department on December 10th,
1885, William Walter Phelps and John
A. Kasson, who were also nominated to
be commissioners. have had long and
distinguished Congressional careers, and
have acquired an intimate knowledge of
Diplomacy through service as United
States Ministers to Europe.
Louis WolHey, who was to-day nomi-
mated to be Governor of Arizona, was
born in Ohio about forty-eight years ago.
He is cousin of General Thomas Ew-
ing and was educated with him. He
entered the Union army from Kentucky
and served as Lieutenant Colonel of
cavalry under General Murray. At the
close of the war General Sherman urged
him to remain in the regular army and
promised him commission. He was
the personal friend of President Garfield,
who contemplated appointing him to
territorial Office, but his papers had not
been made out at the time of the Presi-
dents assassination. He was appointed
United States Supervisor of Internal
Revenues by President Grant, and after
wards resided in Colorado and other
Western Territories. He has lived con-
tinuously in Arizona for seven or eight
years and has been engaged in various
business enterprises there.
THE SENATE IN SESSION.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-For some
minutes after the reading of yesterdays
journal, the Senate sat without any
business being brought before it. A
motion was made by Edmunds, and
agreed to, that, when adjournment takes
place to-day, it be till Monday. That
arrangement having been made, the
Senate proceeded to the consideration of
executive business. At l O'Clock the
Senate was still in executive session, and
took recess until o'clock. In the in
terval the Republican Senators were in
caucus, it is supposed upon the question
of considering the legislation at this
session.
RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBoRs.
While the Senate was sitting with
closed doors, Gibson's resolution for the
appointment of committee on the rela-
tions of the United States with Mexizo
any Central America was taken up. Mr..
Hale said that if there were any just
grounds for the formation of like COM
mittee for our relations with Canada,
the grounds were surely as strong and
imperative in regard to Mexico. It was
of the utmost importance that the people
of Mexico should cease to cherish a
jealousy of the people of the United
States, or the resentments which grew
out of the Mexican war. The friendship
of Mexico was needed in order to up
hold the Monroe doctrine, and it was i'm
portant to cultivate friendly relations in
order to develop American trade. AT
present, France alone sent into Mexico
double the value of goods the United
States did.
Morrill, hoped if the matter was to be
considered at all, it would be by the
Committee on Commerce or Finance.
Platt, while recognizing fully the i'm
portance of cultivating friendly relations
of commercial character with Mexico
on the South American states, agreed
with Morrill,.
Call favored the adoption of the reso-
luton, and opposed the motion of refer
ence. He also advocated, indirectly, his
own resolution proposing a like select
committee for Cuba and the West Indies
He had recently had various letters
showing that public attention was being
generally directed to the subject of the
annexation or acquisition of the island o.
Cuba. If it was important to ascertain
the commercial relations between Canada