The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21

THE Senate, III executive session on the 18th
inst, confirmed the following nominations
Thomas W. Palmer, Of Michigan, to be Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiarv tc
Spain; John W. Swift of California, to be Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary te
Japan; John D. Washburne, of Massachu.
sets, to be Minister Resident and Consul
General to Switzerland George G. Tichenor. OF
Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary OF the Treas.
ury, vice Isaac H. MaynarGs resigned. The Sen
as ~follows: Observation-Disclosures, Claims, Dis
trict of Columbia. Washburne-Civil Service
Commerce, Education, Mississippi River
trict of Columbia Manufactures, Post.
offices. Wolcott-C1aims Indian Affairs,
Private Land Claims, Railroads. Woman
partments, Interstate Commerce, Pensions.
Marston-Epidemic Diseases, Mississippi River
Improvement, Naval Affairs, Pensions, Rail
roads. A long list of special committees was
also adopted, after long debate on g. motion by
Mr. Payne TO strike from the list the select com.
mittee on relations with Canada, which he re.
garded as usurpatory of the functions of the
executive and an interference with the duties OF
the Foreign Relations Committee. After ergu.
ments to show the necessity of tho committee
in view of the annexation movement in Canada
by Messrs. Hoar, Cullo,n, Sherman and Others
Mr.. Payne withdrew his motion and the list was
adopted The committee consists of Messrs
Hoar, Allison, Hale, Dolph, Pugh. Butler and
Voorhees,.
THE Senate confirmed the following nominal
tions on the 18th inst: A. G. Mellette, to be
Governor of Dakota; L. B. Richardson, to be
Secretary of Dakota; Cornelius H. Hanford of
Washington Territory, to be Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington !;
George w. Irwin, of Montana, to be Marshal OF
the United States for the Territory Of Montana !;
Smiley n. Chambers, of Indiana, TO be United
States Attorney for the District of Indiana !:
George S. Bachelor, of New York, to be Assist.
ant Secretary Of the Treasury, vice Hugh s.
Thompson, resigned; Albert 6. Porter, of H.
diana, to be Envoy Extraordinary aud Minister
Plenipotentiary of the United States to Italy :;
John A. Enander of Illinois. to be Minister Resi-
dent and Consul General nf the United States to
Denmark; Walker Blaine, OF Maine, to be Ex
amiuer of Claims in tho State Department.
Richard Root, to be Postmaster at Keokuk, Iowa
Aresolution authorizing the Committee on Coast
Defenses to sit during the recess and
to employ clerk was introduced and referred to
the Committee on Contingent Expenses. A like
resolution as to the Committee on Privileges
and Elections WIS agreed to. Resolutions offered
by Mr.. Stewart for the purchase OF "a 900 01l
worth of silver bullion per month for coinage
aud by Senators Gibson and Call for special
committees on the commercial relations OF the
United States with Mexico, Cuba, and the West
India islands We're laid on the table for Tie
present.
The Senate sat with closed doors nearly oil
day on the 14th inst, and debated Mr.. Gibson's
resolution for the appointment of q select COM
mittee the relations of the United States with
Mexico and Central America. Mr.. Gibson con-
tended that the grounds for the appointment
OF such committee were as strong
With regard to Mexico as in the case of Canada.
He quoted figures to show the trade development
of Mexico, and that while Canada had only
1000 600 population Mexico had 100000. The
friendship of Mexico was needed in order to up
hold and maintain across the Isthmus of Pana-
and in respect to Central America) the Mon
roe doctrine, and it was quite as important to
the autonomy and freedom of Mexico that that
doctrine should be maintained by the United
States i'll the face of the hostile aggression OF
Germany, France, Great Britain. The NOM
ination of j. S. Clarkson of Iowa, to be First AS
sistant Postmaster General, vice A. f. Steven
son, resigned, was confirmed.