New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-28
4 FOREIGN MISSION FOR Mr. BLAIR.
TO ET MINISTER To CHIN\ All
M ATILN CO%NEIEMhn.

IMMED ATTLT Confirmed.
Washington. Feb. - Nucciai.-The President iaN'
Tho senate q surprise If = decidedly ati'rll"" rF'
This afternoon by sending IN the ro'ni'aton Of one oI
il. member. Mr.. Blair. Of %~e1-llsml>hiIe. - Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister ilo1ino;"n''1Iy o. iH'
Urited state. 90 Ciina. The mtr-egr WHICH ''h'H'H''
thi~ piece Of now> va~ delivered ia the sen''' "'"u.
= O'Clock while that body wa busiiy a. WORN "n Tee
legislative. ENceulvc and Judicial Appropriation bti.
and before the sheet of manifold" paper ca "Nr'h
the nomination Vs., written hld reached TIE Wee
Presidents table everybody in t1c chamber seemed
To have discovered what il announced. Nr Il!" was
auickIy surru undcd ly hi. nearest colleague. who shook
hand, wish him vigorously and cotHainlaid MN
most heartily on hi, new appointment. 40 general
was The rush to felicitltc him that The presiding oihccr
had TO suspend proceedings twi"c - obtain oin-r ana
allow bu>iucs, 10 be transacted. ii Wa n''i'ei"i'
thai the Democratic ~cnatsr~ wrrc p, cordial a'l
unaffected ia their congratulations a, the L pahl'in'.
and when the senate. directly alierwari. went into
executive session. no one had anything but good
thing, . say about Mr.. Blair. and nj, nomination
Wa confirmed without q dissenting votr.
Mr.. Blair, ia iact. has received numerous ar!
practical expressions If sympathy from hN 90!
leagues in the senate since hi, defeat fr reelection
in January, and there was a g"nrrl hope ina ma
would be compensated by some Federal appoint H ID.
Recently some friends. Mr.. Frye among other. ma.
a move toward Mr.. Blair, .clrtOn As q Iu.t4
states District Judge FOR Ne~v-Iamp,hir'. The ap
pOintmcnt 10 China Is. however. a iar m.r' dc-!ra'!"
one from almost any point Of lew. auI TIE Now
Hampshire senator's friends are more than satisfied
MIR. Blair viii not qualify a. Minister f. China
until after adjournment. and will not Ice Obliged. thrir
fore. u abandon his Senat0h al inncu"n- before h-
Term actually ends. lie Will succeed At PcAIn cen
eral Charles DENLY. who bas boon holding o|or from
the Cleveland Administration.
Among other nominations confirmed TO-DAY Wore
those Of TruNt9n Bcalc. Of California. - be Minister
70 Persia, ana Martin \. Knapp. Il NcW-I.ih, to be
Interstate Commerce Commissioner.
Henry William Blair, the vcw Master TO China.
has been a United state, senator from New Hampshire
for twelve years. He was born in Campton. y. H.. o1
December Is, 1881. His parcnt5 died before hc
had completed h, thirteenth year. and his iovhoc1
was spent in the family Of Richard Bartlett. O;
Campton. whore he worked on the farm and attended
school at intervals until he WAS seventeen YEAR old.
when he began 10 teach. hoping to earn enough 10 take
him through college. Ill health compelled him 10 give
I'D this plan. He then studied law and VT. ad
miitcd to the bar in Nay. 1759. In I.GO he VA,
appointed Prosecuting Attorney for Grafton Count,
When the Civil War began be enlisted In the 18th New.
Hampshire Regiment. He was chosen captain of DIS
company, soon became major and finally lieutenant.
colonel. He was twice severely wounded IT Port
Hudson. and hi, wound, and disease contracted I'm the
service prevented him from taking any active part
in the r~cnalndcr OF the war. He Wa a Republican
member OF The Ncw-Ilamp>hirc House Of Rcpr,,cn.
tatlvcs in 1866 and Of The senate IN 17G7'G lie
served in the NLIVth and XLNth Congresses from
1879 to 1870, and then declined q denomination. IN
1919 he was elected TO The United State, scnat" 10 suc
ceed Charles II. Eel, who had leen appointed tom
porarily Ly the Governor. lie took III, seat on
June 20, 1870, and when his term expired in Narcn
1883, he Va, appointed to fill the vacancy uulil th'
next session Of the legislature in juno
when he was elected for IN" remainder
Of the term. lis term as senator VIII expire Or
March 4.
senator Blair HIS given much attention 10 Soc1
questions and is an ardent temperance rcfo'm,r. II
is the author Of the " Blair Common school bill,
which he introduced in the NLNllth Congrc-. 4
passed Ly the senate in April. lo-4, the bill mp
prOpriatcd S77.O0O.0OO 10 be distributed among t'
States in proportion 10 their illieracy. In the Oriplna
hill the amount was SlOJ,OOO.OOl. In the NLlNtl
Congress the senate again passed the bill, man.nr tr
aupropriaHon $40, 900. 600. senator Blair has intro
duCcd prohibition and woman suffrage Amendment
10 the Federal Constitution, is IN" author 81 the Blal
scientific Temperance Educaton BIZ and thc Hlal
Pension bill. and has made several speeches OF
financial subjects.