New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-23
TO BE MINISTER TO BOLIVIA.
FREDERICK ]. GRANT. OF SEATTLE. AP-
POINTED.
coysr1 NICHOLAS SMITH TRANSFERRED TO
urGE- COLONEL HAWKINS TO BIZ COM
NIsSAEY GENERAL.


MIssAEy GENERAL.
Washington. Dee. o2.-The President sent 10 '"'
.cust. today TIE fol wing nomlha'i""' ...
Frederick j. Grant, Of Washington % NC i.',v
Extraordinary and Mh1't'r ric"'f'0'
nlied States 10 roliy1. ....,.
,rcb,nd G. Coolidge 81 Massachusetts, secretary
o. the Legation OF the Unlted states al vienna
Creighton Webb Of Ncw>ort, Secretary Oh t'' i%sn'
lion Of the United states at ST. PETERSBURG 'o9oP
Herod. OF Indiana Second secretary o. inc Aes""'
Of the United stntes 10 Japan.
To be Consul5 Of the United states NicholaA 'h'''
Of New-yorl. 70 IIere; Ferdinand C. Go'tschah' o'
california # S,nttgar: Charles W. Dow, Of MaS'l.
chusntts NJ Zanzibar: Thomas llcnaA, cuZch vi
Colombia st Mclcllin
Colonel John p Hawkins. Assistant CommisSary
Genernl 10 b. Commissary General OF subsistence
with th' rank Of brieadier general.
The Senate in executive session today confirmed
the nominations OF Mr.. Smith and Colonel liawhihS.
Chicago Dec. CA dispatch was received thiS
afternoon from Washington, at General Mless mead
Quarters, announcing the appointment OF Colonel J0hn
& Hawkins to tie position Of commsaary general Oh
general succeeding General Dubarry, retired. In
receiving his appointment. Colonel Hawkins steps
over General VI. Il. Morgan, recently on du'y III
Chicago who was next IT. line OF promotion.
Frederick j. Grant Is comparatively young man
for 50 Important past IN the diplomatic service being
about thirty years old He is &he Managing Editor OF
The Seattle PostInellicencer,S one Of the most I'M
portant newSpapers on the northern Pacific slope As
Republican, he has been prominent figure IN 'he
politics Of the State. and much OF tue credit lo
tie large Republican majority piled zip ut the dsl
election has been accorded 10 MI Grant ana ms
paper. it is said That he was largely Instrumental
in reversing the ordinarily large Democratic majority
~ rircs Comfy wherein Seattle Is situated. Mr.
Grant was an asprant the Swiss mission and would
doubtless have received The appointment, had II not
been previously promised 10 Ex-Governor Cheney' OF
New-IIampshire. Mr. Grant is a native OF Ohio, has
been resident 0, Washington for ten years, and was
a member OF the Legislature.
The nomination today of Nicholas Smith, OF New
York. to be United states Consul at Liege, Belgium. is
undoubtedly the result OF the bitter attack made upon
that gentleman by the Canadian press and people
Mr.. smith IS Consul at Three Rivers, in Canada, and
DARN. the cholera scare last fall acting under In
srucilon ~ the State Department, made tiorousa
Which Is an outlet for part Of tie immigration which
flows into the United States rom Canada ms IN.
statement OF the wretched condition OF the town got
cane angry and proceeded to make ts lie miser
a They stoned his seds 2se ana Soi
with this the Canadian Government ioTinahy f.'
p"ed Of as hT Smith G and wss able
travel he came to Washington. and the Department.
officials expressed their regret that the report which
was INTENDED for confidential dispatch had mad,
vertenty got Into print: 1t was not deemed e tx
treatment accorded Mr. smith. at Three lavers,
ircc@t Is rhoHn by inc promotion 10 the Lege Con-
suiate IL pays the same salary Of 81 800 year
G. CIoshto9 Webb j. one OF the sons o. "ene i1i
;notscr was Miss Grain. He is a half-brother OF
General Alexander 5 Webb. President OF the College
OF The CITY Of New-Yorl and full brother OF w.
seward Welb II. Walter Webb, J. Louis webb and
Frapk Egerton Webb. lie was graduated from Yale
college In 1876. having been previously at schNa
in France and late. at s.. Panl's school, Concord.
y IT. Mr. Webb Is about forty years old and a
member OF the University Club