Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-05-06
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WASHINGTON MATTERS.
NEW APPOINTMENTS.

/ WAsHlNGroN, May G.--Tho president
has made the following appointments:
! 10 be United States attorneys. Samuel
/ VI. Hawkins. Of Tennessee, for the west
ern district of Tennessee John Ruhm, ol
Tennessee, Tor the lst district of Tonnes
see De Alva $. Alexander, of New York
for the northern district OF New York.
70 be United States marshals: Joshua
Hill, OF North Carolina, for the eastern
district of North Carolina Carter b. Har-
rson, Of Tennessee, for the middle dis
trict of Tennessee; James ". Brown, OF
Tennessee, for the western district of
Tennessee.
s. W. Hawkins, the newly appointed
attorney for the western district OF Ten
nessee, was the Republican candidate for
governor 1T the last election. He is a
resident Of Huntington, aud is said to be
an excellent lawyer.
J. w. Brown, who has been appointed
United States marshal for the same dis
trict, lives at Brownsville, and has held
the office of clerk OF the court of Hay
wood county since 1856. He is young
man of high repute.
John Ruhm, who was appointed dis
trict attorney for the middle district Of
Tennessee, is native OF Germany. He
came to this country in 1861, joined the
union army and served throughout the
war, most of the time on Gen. Thomas
staff AT the close of the war he settled
at Nashville, and has lived there ever
since. lie is said to be one OF the best
lawyers in the state.
G.. B. Harrison, the new marshal for
the same district, served in the union
army during the war, and rose to the
rank of major. lie is a resident Of Muir
ireesboro.
J. B. Hill, Of Raleigh, who was appoint
ed marshal for the eastern district Of
North Carolina, held the same Office un-
Ter previous Republican administrations.
There was practically no opposition to his
appointment.
u. S. Alexander, who has been appoint
I'D district attorney for the northern dis
trict of New York, is native of Maine,
out has for number OF years beon a
citizen Of Ohio and Indiana. From the
latter state he was appointed first auditor
Of the treasury, but was removed from that
position upon the advent of the Cleveland
administration. He then settled in Buffa
10, n. Y, and engaged in the practice OF
Iaw. During the recent campaign he as
listed in attending to the correspondence
O; Mr.. Harrison, and was frequently
9 oxen of in connection with the Office OF
p ivate secretary to the president.
A. Bogardus, of Rochester, n. Y, has
been appointed superintendent of mails at
Rochester, vice NJ. f. Toomey, resigned.
J. l.. Woodbridge, of Connecticut,
superintendent of the division OF supplies
in the postoffice department, has resigned.
William j. Pollock, of Kansas, has been
appointed chief clerk to the second assis-
;ant postmaster general, vice James T.
Briscoe, resigned.
W H. Clayton, the new district attorney
ior the western district of Arkansas, is a
brother of the Clayton who ran against
Breckenridge for congress in the last
election and whose subsequent murder
created sensation. He came from Penn
5ylvania originally and during the war
served in the union army. He lived at
Fort Smith and was displaced by Presi-
dent Cleveland from the place to which
he was to-day appointed.
THE LYDECKER FINDING.
Tho sentence of the general court
martial in the case OF Major Lydecker,
corps of engineers, who was tried on
charges arising out OF the acqueduct tun-
mel frauds, was made public this after
noon and is as follows:
"To forfeit to the United States 800
per month of his pay for nine months
and to be reprimanded in orders. The
court is thus lenient in view of evidence
before it, that in spaces SO confined as
those above the arch in the tunnel it was
almost impossible to secure thoroughly
good work under the contract system i'm
posed by law"
A TOUR OF INSPECTION
Sec. Proctor yesterday started on Il trip
to the west accompanied by Gen. Drum
and Col. Burr. The military school at
Leavenworth, Kas., will be inspected and
the party will proceedto Denver, Cheyenne,
Omaha, st. Paul and Chicago en- route
west. Gen. Schotield will join the party
at Chicago.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Tie president has sent telegram to
Chicago asking Frank Palmer if he would
accept the Office of public printer.
The president has issued proclamation
reciting that the Fort Sisseton, Oak :,
military reservation is no longer needed
for military purposes and placing it under
the control OF the secretary Of the interior
for disposition under the law.
Experiments in growing and manufac.
turing sorgl um will be continued in the
west this year under the auspices of the
agricultural department
A number of enlisted men in the army
have pettioned the war department to
authorize the use of what is known as the
Merriam knapsack, which differs from
the ordinary knapsack, in throwing the
weight of burden on the hips instead o
the shoulders. The device was invented
by an American army officer, Col
Merriam, and has been adopted by all tn,
governments of Europe. The petitioner
state that they will purchase the knap
sacks out Of their own pockets if their us
was authorized.
Secretary Tracy to-day awarded to tn
Union iron works, of San Francisco, tn
contract for constructing great armore,
coast defense vessel at a cost of 81 ,62S
900.
Militia Maneuvers,
WASHINGTON, May 6.-Capt. Tavlor
who was directed by the secretarv of va