The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-02
THE NPES SOLDIER.
I'm J. Coppinger Confirmed
Is rigadier-General.
.foL6HT AGAINST GARIBALDI.
swlb Was Biaine's Daughter A. II.
= Without Influence In senate
Guiro and Wilson Vote No.

Hmhinrtou City. Feb. I--After sew
n1bours' contest III executive session to-
~ THE senate confirmed the nomination
Eken. john J. coppinger, colonel N the
pasy. 70 he brigsaisF genera, oy me de-
d5ve sote OF ~ 20 II. The nomination was
,Srst n the senate very soon after the
4sryensrs OF congress. but had scarcely
14en made public when protests against
fnpfirrraatfon bean 20 pour IN from the
IA = A societies In all parts of the coun-
Efr. After a delay Of about six weeks the
senate committee on military affairs made
= unanimously faYora bic report 20 the SEN
s.e the opposition 20 the confirmation was
Id today by Senator's Burrows Gear
Perkins. Teller. Pettigrew, Squire and
wilson. al CT whom made speeches during
me course Of the days session. Senators
uawley. Bate and Palmer all members Of
the committee. champi0neG the generals
e2uss detailing the results OF iIvesiiga-
ION or the COMMITTEES. which, they said.
wers entirely favorable to Gen. Copplnger
The opponents OF confirmation based their
courxe OF action almost entirely upon the
fact that Gen. Coppinger had been pro-
NOTED over the heads OF thirteen colonels
nho were his seniors In rank. which was
dwslt upon as an unjust proceeding When
they were met with the statement that
roppinger WAS selected because of mis- SUI
seri0r military record. they asserted that
there were others Of equally meritorious
record. They also fasde the point that in
ease 81 war the probabilities werealtogether
favorable 10 younger men coming TO the
front.
The opposition did not fan TO point cut
that Cea. cOpplnger had served in the
American army for almost thirty years
before be took out naturalization papers,
and one senator at least said he would not
vote for any man who had fought. az IL
was admitted coppinger had. against Ital-
- Iii I-1s.
ponents were tainted with being infig-
enced hy the A. r. A. and with making war
on Gen. copplnger because he was a Cath
ole IN religion. but they resented this inn
mutation 10 q man. Some OF those who
voted for confirmation declared that they
d;a so Ia resentment Of the Interference OF
the a. T. A. ard declared that otherwise
they would have opposed the nomination.
TIE debate was most animated one from
start to finish.
II developed that Cen CoppInger had
como 20 America at the beginning of the
war az the instance OF Archbishop Hughes.
and 1t was asserted thar the nomination
had been made largely at the instance OF
Mrs Blaine, whose daughter was Gen.
coaplnger's wife. There we're also ailu-
sons 10 certain personal affairs of the gen.
tIeman The vote favorable 10 confirma-
ton included all the members of the com
rnlftee on military affairs. supported by
the more conservative senators, VINO gen.
orally follow committee recommendations.
II vas also noticed that all the ex-Confed-
crate soldiers in the senate voted for con-
frmat.ou. as did all but one or two of the
Union soldiers.
After the Copp.nger case was disposed OF
there was an effort made 10 take up the
nominations of ]. G. Keenan,. Of Indiana, 10
be Indian agent at Neah bay, Wash. and
George H. Newman, of Tennessee. 20 be
agent at the colville agency. Wash. VINO
we're opposed by the Northwestern sena-
tors on the ground that their nominations
are violation of the home rule principle.
A call OF the senate at this juncture de-
veloped the absence OF quorum. and the
senate then proceeded with the confirma-
ton Of nominations 10 which there was no
objection.
The senate confirmed the following NOM
nations: Lieut. Col. +. J. Kent, 10 be
colonel: Lieut.. Col. Ovenshine, TO be col
onel: Lieut.. Col. ]. ~. Page. to be colonel:
Lieut. Col J. NJ. Andrews, TO be colonel;
Mai c. NJ Bailey. TO be lieutenant colonel;
Mai j j. Powell. jr, TO be lieutenant coli
onei; Mai Boyd Wheaton. 10 be lieutenant
colonel. Mai. ]. ]. French. To be lieutenant
colonel, Nal A. s. Daggett. TO be heuten-
ant colonel also a large number of nomi-
nations I'm the army.