The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
WeII-KnOwn st. Louis Manufacturer,
Friend of President Mckinley.
DISPUTE OVER THE TARIFF
IMPORTANT QUESTION INVOLVED In
CONSTRUCTION OF SEC. 30.
Change of the Word 'ImpOrted, to
Game From" May Result in Levy
ing Discriminating Duty.

WASHINGTON, Aug IA. a. Porter,
secretary to President Mckinley has sent
the following dispatch from Hotel Cham
plain n. Y, to the Associated Press:
Nathan A. Hitchcock, of st. Louis, has
been offered and has accepted the minister
ship to Russia, and will be appointed inn
mediately"
The appointment of Mr.. Hitchcock Great
ed no surprise here, for among Missourians
the selection had been for some time re-
garded as foregone conclusion. He sue
ceeds Clifton r. Breckenridge of Arkansas,
who had been a representative in Congress
when he was sent to the St. Petersburg
post. Mr.. Hitchcock is a warm personal
friend of President Mckinley, and is said
not to have been a candidate. AS q manu-
facturer he is well known in business cir
cles throughout the country. He has had
occasion to come to Washington frequently
in connection with tarif matters On one
of the earlier of these visits he is said to
have first met Mr.. Mckinley, then men,
Der of Congress, and the acquaintance then
formed has since developed into the closest
friendship.
a dispatch from st. Louis says: Hon.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, prominent citi-
zen of St Louis, whom President Mckinley
Russia.
has accepted the position. A telegram to
this effect was received tonight by Mr.
George Hitchcock from his father who is
spending his vacation at Monadnock, n. IL.
Mr.. Hitchcock said tonight that he did nor
know exactly what his fathers plans We're
but that he did not think he would return
to st. Louis before the middle of Septem-
ber. He would then probably make ar
rangements to go to the Russian capital
and assume the embassadorship.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock is a great-grand-
son of Col Ethan Allen, who captured
Fort Ticonderoga lin the name of the Great
Jehovah and the Continental Congress-
His grandfather married the second daugh-
ter of Ethan Allen and took a prominent.
part in the early history OF Vermont and
was made United States circuit Judge for
the Second circuit by President John
Adams. Mr.. Hitchcock's father, Henry
Hitchcock, was born in Burlington. Vt.
from IRON whlch place he went to Alabama to
practice law, in which he was eminently
successful, being at the time of his DEATH
IN 1859, the chief justice of the Supreme
court OF that State. Ethan Allen Hitch-
COCK was born in Mobile, September 1895
where he remained until 1870 when he
moved with his family to Tennessee. After
taxing an academic course in New Haven
Conn.,, ne went to st. Louis in lS51 and en-
gagged in business up to 1860 when at the
urgent request of relatives in China he
leIc Tor that country TO accept emplOyment
IN the old-established firm of Oliphant ts
Co Mr.. Hitchcock remained in China for
twelve years. Returning to St Louis in
1914, ne has since been actively engaged ia
business as president of several large man
uIacturing and railway corporations
which positions he has resigned in order 10
accept this appointment abroad