The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-19
FEDERAL NoMINAMIoNs.
To Which Is Added List of Con
firmations

Washington, Dec. 1S.-The president
today sent the following nominations
to the senate:
Treasury-W. B. Williams, to be as
sistant treasurer at Chicago; William
Penn Nixon, to be collector of Gus
toms for the district of Chicago; Ar
chibald B. Young, to be surveyor Of
customs for the port of Indianapolis,
and Henry B. Groner, collector of in
ternal revenue for the first district of
Missouri; John II. Walkenhurst, ap
praiser of merchandise at the port of
st. Louis; John l.. Hodges, assayer in
| charge of the mint of the United States
at Denver: Joseph H. Spear, jr., sur
veyor of customs in the district of San
Francisco.
Justice-John G. Ames, marshal of
the United States for the northern dis
! trict of Illinois; Frank W. Parker and
John r. McFfe, associate justices of
the supreme court of the territory of
N Nv Mexico; James T. Martin, attor
ney for the United States district of
| Vermont; Isaac w. Dyer, of Maine, to
be attorney for the district of Maine.
State-George L. Dart, of Illinois, to
| be consul at Martinique, West Indies
The senate confirmed these nomina-
lions:
| Ethan A. Hitchcock, Missouri, to be
minister to Russia; Archibald ]. Samp-
son, Arizona, minister to Ecuador; w
L. Finch, Wisconsin, minister to Para
quay and Uruguay; Laurian S. Sween-
son, Maine, minister to Denmark;
| George H. Bridgeman, New Jersey,
minister. to Bolivia; w. Godfrey Hunt
er, Kentucky, minister to Guatemala
and Honduras; w. A. w. Thomas, jr.,
Maine, minister to Sweden and Nor
way.
To Be Consuls-Luther w. Osborn,
Nebraska, at Apia and NukuualOfa,
Tonga; John L. Bittinger, Missouri, at
Montreal; Eugene Soger, Illinois. at
Rio Janeiro, Brazil James T. Dubois,
Pennsylvania, at st. Gall, Switzerland;
William r. Holloway, Indiana, at St
Petersburg, Russia; Frank c. Part
ridge, Vermont, at Tangier, Morocco.
Nathan B. Scott West Virginia,
commissioner of-internal revenue; Viii
liam Penn Nixon, collector of customs,
district of Chicago; William P. Will
liams, district attorney at Chicago:
John Q. AmeS, marshal of the United
States, northern district of Illinois; ].
S. Spear, jr., surveyor of customs at
San Francisco.
John II. Walkenhorst, appraiser of
merchandise port of st. Louis.
To be consuls:
Frank NJ. Brundage of Pennsylvania
at La ChaDelle, Germany; Irwin Shaw
of Pennsylvania, at BarranquilIa, Co
lombia; Daniel Mayer of West Virginia
at BuenoS Ayres; Chester W. Martin of
Michigan, at Temherstburg, Ont; Chas
Monteith OF Idaho at Chatham. Ont;
William w. Mills of Texas, at Chihua-
hua, Mexico; c. p. Snyder of West Vir-
| g1nia, at Cfudad Porfirio Diaz, Mexico:
John a. Barnes of Illinois, at Cologne,
Germany; j. c. Ingersoll of Illinois, at
Copenhagen; Julian Phelps of Iowa, at
! Crefeld, Germany; Edward c. Cramer
| of Wisconsin, at Florence, Italy; H. S.
| Culver of Ohio, at London, Ont; ]. L
Britain Of Ohio, at Nantes, France;
Charles B. Harris of Indiana, at Maya
saki, Japan; j. F. Darnell of Indiana.
at Nogales, Mexico; ]. E. Kent of Ohio
at Stettin. Germany; Augustus G. Sey-
fert of Pennsylvania, at Stratford
Ont; Mif1in W. Gibbs of Arkansas. at
| Tamatave, Madagascar; A. B. Jones of
Alabama, at TuXDan, Mexico Alvin
Smith of Ohio, at Trinidad, West IN
dies: J. T. Hoke of West Virginia. at
| Windsor, n. s.; r. P. Skinner of Ohio
| at Marseilles. France; Frank W. Ma
hin of Iowa, at Reichenberg: Richard
lie Bert, surveyor general of Colorado.
To be Indian agents:
Harlan c. Baird of Nebraska, at San
tee agency; W. H. Smead of Montana.
at Flathead Indian agency: Thomas P.
Fuller of Montana. at Blackfoot Indian
agency: j. c. Clifford of Montana, at
Tongue River.
Sam Gordon, register of the land Of
fee ct Miles City, Mont
Joseph NJ. Rhoades, receiver public
moneys at Miles City, Mont.
Also some prominent nominations in
the navy.