The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-03-21
PRIZE WINNERS,
Col. Fred Grant TO Be Min
lister 10 Austria.
>. c. NEW. CONSUL AT IospeS
Fierce Arizsna Opposition TO Cen
firaaa:ien OF woafiey--Aiiea,s
Advice Guides Harrison.

WASHINGTON, March ao.-in tae senate.
after All hours w&is without sransactiar
any business. q paper was handed senator
Cullona, and on his motion the senate went
tafo executive session. while the senate
was sitting with closed doors Butler offered
series 81 resolutions. which went over tn
TO morrow, declaring that tenure of osiee
OF the president pro texapore does no, ex.
pire vita the meeting OF congress. that.the
vice president having appeared TO take the
chair. the presence of the ysce. president
does 10. have the effect 70 yecase the Office
OF presiden, pro temporc. and that the Of
Rcc Ot president pro telnpoFe shall be held
AZ the pleasure OF the st.nate
was ertferes that the daily hour Of
meeting be iosclock.
SoXINATfoSs.
The president sent the following uomi-
nations 10 the senate: Frederick D. Grant
OF New York minister to Austria .Hunra-vs
John c. New OF Indians, consuI.gene-sl 10
London: seiigman Brothers, special fiscal
agents of the navy department at London.
fasl Assistant Engineer David Jones' to BE-
ehiet engineer; Assistant Engineer James
H. ChaSnan. chief engineer: Assistant En-
giaesr heynosd = Hall. past assistant en-
glneeFs liza \. Hollis. past assistant en-
gsiaeer; Lienf- Frank r. Fletcher. junior
grade, TO be lieutenant: Lieut. Alexander
sharp. junior grade, lieutenant; I.ieutenarf
Harry Al. HosIey. junior grade, lieutenant:
Ensign I. J. Werlich, 10 be lieutenant,
junior grade: Ensign simon Cook. lioutep.
ant. junior grade. Ensign John III. Fill-
more, lieutenant, junior grade Edward
Asoues r9itt, assistant SURGEON in the MAvY.
sewsll, recently consul TO Jamaica. will
accom- rauy the samoan commissioners ID,
Berlin as dis5arsing officer.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
Ia executive session this afternoon the
senate confirmed the following nomina.
iens. john w. Mason OF West Virginia.
commissioner of internal revenue; John
H. Ward. appraiser of merchandise OF the
QislTfct OF willamette. Oregon. Charles f.
Mitchell, commissioner OF patents.
Tue nominations made to-day were re-
ierred IN executive session to appropriate
committees.
THE NoArSEgs.
Frederick D. Graut, who was to-day
nominated TO be minister TO Austria Hun
gary. is 3e years of age, and the Oldest sou
OF ten. Grant He accompanied his father
during the war, and was in Eve battles be-
fore he was Is years old. He was iieuten-
ant Of the Fourth cavalry when he re-
signed fgem the army In 1876, having seen
much active service in Indian campaigns.
W bile IN the service, he married Miss Ida
Honorc, daughter OF an old citizen of Chi |
cago, and has two children. one boy aud
one girl. since Gen. Grants death. Col. |
Grant mas resided With his mother and
cared tor the estate.
John &. New, of Indiana, who was nom
ia ated TO be consul-general at London, is
90 years OF age, Is native Hoosier, and |
graduate OF Bethany college. He served |
uaring the war AZ quartermaster.genera |
for the state of Indiana, and before that
time had been clerk of Marion county. |
since the resignation of the Office of treas |
urer of the United States in 1854, he has !
been actively engaged in politics, being a
member OF the Republican national com |
mittee and ex-chairman of the Republican
came proprietor OF the Indianapolis Joar. !
nal, and has conducted that newspaper mp
TO the present time.