The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-17
METHODS At WHITE HOUSE
CHANGED so As TO RAPIDLY DIS
POSE OF PUBLIC BUSINESS.
President Mc<inIey'~ Visitors Yesier-
Coming Changes in the Navy.

WAsHINGTON. March l6.-Presdent Me-
KinIey to-day began filling the important
foreign posts by sending the following
nominations TO the Senate.
JOHN HAY of the District OF Columbia.
10 be ambassador extraordinary and pieni-
potentiary 4 the United States to Great
HORACE PORTER. of New York. to be
ambassador extraordinary and p!enlp0ten-
HENRY WHITE. of Rhode Island. to be
secretary of the United States embassy at
London.
John Hay is a native OF Indiana. nifty
nine years of age. He graduated at Brown
University in 1858 apd began the practice of
law in Illinois in 1861. President Lincoln
appointed him assistant secretary and kept
him in that capacity through his admins
tration. He also acted as Lincoln's adj
jutant and aid-de-camp and was brevetted
lieutenant colonel and colonel. Entering
the diplomatic service in the sixties he was
at various times charge at Vienna, first
secretary at Paris and secretary of the le-
cation at Madrid. In 1870 Mr.. Hay con-
nected himself with the press. and for
nearly six years devoted himself 10 editorial
work on the New York Tribune. In 1870
he entered politics. taking an active part in
the presidential campaigns of 1876. 1880 and
1884,. being then resident of Cleveland. o.
President Hayes appointed him first as
sistant secretary OF state. which post he
filled for nearly three years. Since his re-
tirement from office Colonel Hay has
sided chiefly in Washington. where he &C.
cupied palatial home on Lafayette Park.
and has devoted himself to literature with
great success some of his best-known
works being pike County Ballads Gas
titan Days and a history of Lincoln writ
ten in collaboration with John Nicolay.
Colonel Hay has also been "A frequent con-
tributOr 10 the highest class of periodicals,
and to him has been ascribed the author
ship of the anonymous novel, The Bread
Winners" which caused such agitation in
labor circles.
General Horace Porter comes of revolu-
tionary stock. his grandfather. Andrew
Porter. being one of Washingtons most
valued officers. General Porters father was
David Rittenhouse Porter. at one time the
Governor of Pennsylvania. and prosper
Gus manufacturer. Horace Porter was
born Just sixty years ago in Huntingdon,
Pa tie was well educated in his own
State at Harvard, and finally at West
Point. Soon after his graduation from the
military academy he was assigned TO duty
in the South. then in secession. he was an
ordnance expert so most of his service was
on the stats of Mcclellan Rosecrans and
Grant. where he earned a reputation as a
gallant. fearless fighter, as shown by his
brevets He served I'm the Chickamauga
and Wilderness campaigns ana the nrst as
ed. General Grant was greatly attached 10
General Porter, and made him assistant
secretary of war, while he himself hlled
the secretaryship. He surrendered his army
commission In 1873. and plunged at once into
the West Shore Railroad vice presi-
dent OF the Pullman Car Company and as
sociating himself with other great corpora
known i'm the field OF literature, being an
author OF repute and a much-sought-after
The appointment of Mr.. Henry White
TO be secretary OF the American embassy
ment as Mr.. White had held this office for
eight years previous to the beginning of
Mr. Cleveland's last administration. He
has been in London most OF the time since
his displacement; and the fact brought
out after his nominate was sent to the
Senate to-day that he rendered Mr.. Olney
important service in the recent Venezuelan
negotiations. The present secretary, Mr..
Roosevelt. resigned some time ago.
Besides the diplomatic nominations given
above the President sent the following to
the Senate:
To be Assistant Surgeons in the Marine
Hospital seTyicfTHn Hastings Of ksn
Taliaferro Clark. of the District of Column
bia.
TO be lieutenant colonel: First Lieutenant
l. p. Brant. First Infantry TO be captain
n Po%e s Sc 6e fTst
W. Slanden. Fourteenth Infantry; r. H.
Bandholtz Sixth Infantry; H. T Ferguson.
Nineteenth Infantry; NJ. w. Rowell. Tenth
Cavalry
CorporaIs TO be Second Lieutenants-P
Brown, Fifth Artillery; w. D.. Conrad.
Fifth Cavalry; L. III. Gross. Fifth Infantry
g: III. Steel Fifth Infantry, and Sergeant
Thomas Franklin. Eighteenth Infantry.
Navy-Passed Assistant Engineer Il. r.
Freeman to be- chief engineer; Assistant
Engineer L. T. Holmes TO be passed assis-
tant engineer EnsignS to be lieutenant.
junior grade: G. +. Cooper. e. L. Wither-
spoon and Benton &. Decker. Commander
g V. Gridley to be captain.
All the nominations sent to the Senate
to-day were referred by the Senate I'm ex-
1t is expected that the foreign relations
committee at its meeting tomorrow will
agree to report the nomina tons for embas-
sadors and they probably will be confirmed
Thursday. -
Applications for office continue to flood
the various departments. Charles Hedges
who Is We'll known 10 the newspaper people
of Indianapolis is after "A good place
Among the latest applications for position
under the Treasury Department are the fol-
lowing:
Charles Hedges. OF Washington d. C.; j
III. Franklin, OF Toluca. ILL.,: c. A Aiken Of
Benton, ILL.,; G. W. Myers. of Loftvie
n. H.. and John DevOr of CireenvilIe o.
For Commissioners of immigration al New
Work-M- A. Myerdorff of New York:
Henry Henry Z; Parke Of New York, and John
For Commissioner General of Immigra.
tion-C n Rfchsy of Summervlle o. ana
John RIhm. of Nashville, Tenn
For CoIIscto-s q Cnsteals-James Kip OF