The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-28
CONGRESS-.

THE session of the Senate while waiting for
nominations, OH the 18th inst, was devoted
to further discussing the wisdom of appoint-
ing committees OH trade relations with neigh
boring countries. Mr.. Gibson's resolutions
for the appointment OF committee on
trade relations With Mexico and Central
on Commerce. MI. CALI resolution for the.ap-
pontment of similar committee with regard
to Cuba and the other West India islands Was
still pending when the Senate adjourned Be-
fore adjournment the following nominations
were confirmed John A. Kasson, William WAL
ter Phelps, and George Fl. Bates, Commissioners
to the Samoan Conference at Berlin Cyrus
Bussey, Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Resolutions were also offered and referred to the
Committee Contingent Expenses authorizing
the Committee on Woman Suffrage and on Adj
ditional Accommodations for the Library to sit
during the recess.
THERE was long debate in the Senate on the
10Th inst over proposed amendment to the
rules requiring the reference to committees of
resolutions calling for information from
executive departments. The rules and
amendments were recommitted. The Presi-
dent withdrew from the Senate the nomina-
ton of Eugene Schuyler to be Assistant
Secretary of State. Senators Hiscock, Sherman
Hoar Voorhees, and Eustis have been appointed
select committee on the April centennial cele-
bration in New York. The Senate confirmed the
following nominations: William w. Thomas
Jr., of Maine, Minister to Norway and Sweden !;
Samuel r. Thayer, Minister to the Netherlands :
Smith A. Whitfield, of Ohio, Second Assistant
Pennsylvania, Third Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Rathbone Gardner, District Attorney
for Rhode Island. Elbert d. Weed
District Attorney .rf for Montane Brad
james G. Perry of North Carolina and Alex
ander G. Smith of New York. Assistant Sur
geons in the Marine Hospital Service. Post
masters-Wiliam Wallace Indianapolis, Ind. ::
William S. Chase StIlfgiS C11tla
Parker D. r.. James NJ. kellogg, Wicks, M. r.
Army pointments-Ordnance Department.
Lieut. Col. Adelbert r, Burlington, to be Colo
Colonel; Capt. Otho F.. Michaels, to be Major
Medical Department-Cap Julius II. Patzki, to
be Surgeon; with rank of Major, First Regiment
Artillery First Lieutenant Gilbert p. Cotton
to be Captain; Second Lieutenant Charles H.
Hunter to be First Lieutenant.
PRESIDENT HARRISON sent the following nomi-
nations to the Senate on the Goth inst, and they
were referred to appropriate committees Fred
erick D. Grant of New York to be Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the
United States to Austria Hungary; John c.
United States at London; Paul Fricke of
Texas to be United States Marshal
for the Western District OF Texas selignan
Bros, at London, England, to be special fiscal
agents Of the Navy Department at London.
Naval promotions-Passed Assistant Engineer
David Jones to be q Chief Engineer; Passed AS
slstant Engineer James III. ChaSeman to be O.
Chief Engineer; Assistant Engineer Reynold
l.. Hall to be Passed Assistant Engineer; AS
sistant Engineer Ira N. Hollis to be Passed AS
sistant Engineer; Lieut. Frank T. Fletcher,
junior grade, to be a Lieutenant; Alexander
Sharp, junior grade, to be g. Lieutenant Lieut..
Harry H. Hosley, Junior grade, to be a
Lieutenant; Ensign ?. J. Werlich, to be
o. Lieutenant, junior grade; Ensign Simon
Cook, to be Lieutenant, junior grade ;
Ensign John I'll. Fillmore to be a Lieutenant,
Junior grade Edward Rhodes stitt of South
Carolina to be an Assistant Surgeon. The Sem
ate confirmed the following nominations: John
w. Mason of West Virginia to be Commissioner
of Internal Revenue; William l.. Dunlap to be
Marshal of Indiana; John S. Burton to be Mar
shall of the Northern District of Mississippi; w.
Budd Deacon to be Marshal of New Jersey; J..
Granville Leach to be Appraiser of Merchandise
OF Philadelphia John 2. Ward to be Appraiser
of Merchandise at Willamette, Oregon; Charles
E. Mitchell of Connecticut to be Commissioner
OF Patents. Postmasters-Joseph G. Bartlett.
Lake City, MINI. Joseph V. Campbell Norman,
Mimi. kobt. S. Bowman, Barwick, Pa.
In the executive session of .theESenate on thu
21st inst a. number of Territorial and postal
nominations were confirmed comprising all that
had been reported from committee. The list is,
however, withheld the Senate having failed to
suspend the operation of the rule which keeps
combinations secret and delays notification to
the President until two additional executive
sessions shall have supervened without the
entry of q motion to reconsider.