Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-04-07
WASHINGTON NEWS.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS.

WAsHINGToN, April THE presiden
has sent the following nominations t.
the senate.
James S. Ewing, of Illinois. to be en-
voy extraordinary and minister pleni
potentiary of the United States to Bel
GUM.
Thomas T. Crttenden, of Missouri, tc
be consul general of the United States a
the City of Mexico.
Louis q. Hughes, of Arizona, to be gov
ernor Of Arizona.
W. M. Maise, of Ohio, to be surveyor
of customs for the port of Columbus
Ohio.
Hannes Taylor, of Alabama, to be en-
voy extraordinary and minister plsnipo
tentiary of the United States to Spain.
William Lochren, of Minnesota, to be
commissioner of pensions.
ooNFIRMATIoNs.
The senate has confirmed the following
nominations: w. II. Seaman, of Wiscon.
sin, United States district Judge of the
eastern district of Wisconsin; james
Blackburn, of Kentucky, marshal of the
United States for the district of Ken
lucky; Ezra w. Miller, of South Dakota
attorney of the United States for the dis
trict of Sonth Dakota; Felix j. Reeve, ot
Tennessee, solicitor of the treasury; Her
man Stump, of Maryland, superinten.
dent of immigration; Mrs. Amelia H
Bates, postmistress at Sonoma, Cal.
James Porter, of Tennessee, minister
to Chill; James Mckenzie, of Kentucky
minister to Peru; Lewis Baker of Mime.
sofa minister to Nicaragua. Costa Rico and
Salvador; Pierce M. B. Young, Of Georgia
minister to Guatemala and Honduras
Edwin Dan, of Ohio, minister to Japan
Newton B. Eustes, of Louisiana, second
secretary of the legation at Paris; Claude
Meeker, of Ohio, consul to Bradford; L.
M. Shaffer, of West Virginia, consul to
Stratford, Ont; Morrison Williams, OF
Missouri, consul to Vera Cruz, and Theo.
dore M. Slipen, of Illinois, consul to An.
naberg.
TROUBLE IN PERU.
The United States consulate at one oil
the Peruvian ports has been sacked by
a mob with apparent sanction of the
police. Secretary Gresham last night
cabled U. S. Minister Hicks at Lima:
"Frotest against failure of authorities
to afford protection to consulate, and if
facts are we'll established, ask expression
of regret, prompt prosecution of the
guilty parties and reparation for in
jury to American property or person"
CAPITAL NOTES.
The treasury now has $6,0O0,00O in free
gold.
1t is reported here that martial law has
been declared in Chilli.
Michael Blenski, of Milwaukee, has
been appointed executive officer of the
weather bureau.
e. H. Nebeker, treasurer of the United
States, took charge of the sub-treasury
yesterday. The amount turned over to
the new official was $97,244,43O.
Secretary Morton has appointed Mar.
tin Argo, of Indiana, to be state statistican
agent of the agricultural department
in Indiana, vice John D. Connors re.
moved.
George G. Hazleton, attorney for the
District of Columbia, has been requested
by the district commissioners to resign
his Office and his assistant has been des-
ignated to perform the duties of his Of
fee.
In the senate yesterday resolutions were
agreed to electing William R. Cox, North
Carolina, secretary of the senate; Richard
J. Bright, Of Indiana, sergeant-at-arms,
and William H. Milburn, D. D., of
Illinois, popularly known as the "blind
preacher" chaplain. Their term of Office
begins on the first day of the next COM
gress.