Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-12
Sixteenth Days Nominations.

Robert j. Fisher, of Chicago H.. to be AS
sistant Commissioner Of Patents, vice Robert
K. Vance, signed.
Commander Bartlett J. Cromwell to be a
Captain Lieutenant Commander George R.
Durand to be Commander Lieutenant
Uriel Sebree to be Lieutenant Commander,
Lieutenant Moses J.. Wood (junor grade) to
e Lieutenant, ensign James II. Glennon
10 be u Lieutenant Junior grade, Com1nan-
der John w. Phillip tC be Captain, Lieu
tenant Commander Francis NJ. Barber to be
q Commander, Lieutenant Albert r. Conden
to a Lieutenant Commander, Lieutenant
David Daniels, (junior grade} to be a Lieu
tenant; Ensign Harry S. Knapp to be a
Lieutenant Junior grade); Passed Assistant
Paymaster Jo,iah r. Stanton to be Pay
master, Assistant Paymaster Thomas j.
Cowie to be a Passed Assistant Paymaster
Second Lieutenant Harry X Waite, Marine
Corps, to be a First Lie ltenant.
The Senate confirmed the following nomi-
nations:
George h. Shields, Of Missouri, to be AS
sistant Attorney General; Drury J. Burshett
to be Marshal of Kentucky; Robert J. Fisher
of Illinois, to be Assistant Commissioner OF
'atents Captain George B. White, to be
Chief of the Bureau Of Yards and Docks; L.
bradford Prince, TO be Governor of New
Mexico: William i. Wharton, of Massachu-
setts, to be Assistant Secretary OF State;
Sion A. DarnelI, Attorney for the Northern
District Of Georgia
John j. Henderson, Of Missouri; Cornelius
n Bliss, of New York: William Pinckney
Whyte, of Maryland; Clement Studebaker,
of Indiana; T. jefferson Coolidge, of Mas
sachusetts; William II. Prescott, OF South
Carolina; Andrew Carnegie, of Pennsylvania
John r. q. Pitkin, of Louisiana; Morris NJ.
Estec, OF California and J. F. Hanson, Of
Georgia. delegates to the Congress of Amers
can Nations to be held in Washington Noven.
Der, 1889
The Naval promotions sent in by the Pres-
dent were also confirmed
Near the close of business Vice President
Morton said: ''As the present occupant of
the chair is about to vacate the chair for the
remainder OF the session, he desires to avail
himself of this opportunity to express his
grateful appreciation Of the courtesy and con-
sideratiOn which he has received from every
member of this body. He desires also to
express the hope that he shall find at the next
session of the Senate every Senator in his
seat in good health and that he shall then
have an opportunity to resume and continue
the agreeable relations already established
Mr.. Edmunds then offered a resolution
that i'll the absence of the Vice President Mr..
ingalls, be chosen President of the Senate pro
tenn.
The resolution was put by the Secretary
and agreed to without division and then Mr..
ingalls,. escorted by Mr.. Edmunds, had the
oath of Office administered to him by the
Secretary and took the chair, expressing at
the same time his grateful Acknowledgements
to the Senate for the renewed expression Of
its confidence.
The Senate then adjOurned sine die by
strange coincidence on the same date on
which it ad ourned four years ago leaving
unconfirmed less than dozen nominations
and among these only two of any import
ance-that of William Whiteman to be Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Territory Of New Mexico, and that of Ed
ward Kursheed, to be United States Marshal
of the Eastern District of louisiana.