Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-30
LANDED TWO OF HIS MEN IN GOOD
POSITIONS YESTERDAY.
BITTINGER APPOINTED AT LAST.
w. p. sMYTH, OF ST. LOUIS. MADE
CONSUL AT HULL, ENGLAND.
Neither of These Appointments Was
ON the Pearce-JOy-BarthO
sIate-Many Consular Places
FILLED Yesterday-New
Postmasters.

Washington, July 29.-(SpeciaI) The Mis-
souri, congressional slate OF consular ap-
pointments was badly fractured to-day by
the announcement of two appointments not
on the list. One Is that of Major John l..
Rittinger, to be consul general at Montreal.
and the other that Of William P. Smyth 10
be consul at Hull. Eng. Both of these are
Kerens appointments. and neither Of them
adorned the Pearce-Joy- -Bartholdt list of
consular recommendations.
The appointment Of Major Bittinger has
been foreshadowed in these dispatches ever
since National Committeeman Kerens went
to the White House and told the president
that the Bittinger appointment was per-
sonaI matter with him. That was three
Gays ago. When the congressional tri-
umverate called on the president the next
time to find out how their prescription was
working. Mckinley told JOY: Gentlemen,
I shall appoint Major Bittinger and sign
his commission this evening or tomorrow
morning" 1t was signed according to an
nouncement but remained among the
White House papers yesterday. and the
appointment was not announced until to-
day.
Mr.. Smyth was selected under somewhat
similar circumstances, that Is, at Major
Kerens' personal request. Smyth was con-
sui to Huddersfeld. Eng. under Harrison.
and proved an excellent representative
abroad, his reports being among the best
received by the state department. He is
a st. Louis boy. and during the late cam
paign had charge of the press bureau of
the Republican national committee in Chi
cago. He was not on the congressional
slate
The president has made the following ap-
potntments in the consular service, other
than those already given: Church Howe,
Nebraska, consul at Palermo, Sicily; Luth-
er W. Osborn. Nebraska. consul general al
Apia and Mukualofa. Samoa; John n. Ruff
fin, Tennessee. counsel at Ascencion, Para
quay: A H Byington. Connecticut. consul
at Naples, Italy; Samuel NJ. Taylor. Ohio,
consul at Glasgow, Scotland. GuStave e.
f. Weber. Ohio, consul at Nuremberg, Ba-
varia: John Jenkins, Nebraska, consul at
San Salvador; William T. Touvelle. Ohio.
at Belfast, Ireland; Griffin W. Prees. Wis
consin. at Swansea. Wales; Urbain J. Le-
bur S. Glass, South Dakota. at Kehl, Ger
many; George H. Jackson, Connecticut at
Cognac, France; Hugh Pitcairn, Pennsyl-
vania, at Hamburg, Germany; Ira B. Mey-
ers. Indiana. at st. Johns, n. B.; BENJAMIN
Nusbaum. Pennsylvania, at Munich, Ba-
varia; John N. McCunn. Wisconsin. at
Dunfarmelin. Scotland: Michael ]. Burke,
Illinois, consul at Port Stanley and st.
Thomas, Canada: Edward d. Winslow.
illinois, consul at Stockholm, Sweden; HeZ-
anna Colombia: James H. Johnson, New
Jersey. at Sheffield. England
The president has appointed the foilow-
ing postmasters:
Kansas-H. F. HeisIer. st. Mary's.
Missouri-George A. Purdy, Peirce City;
George W. Smith, Sweet Springs.
Oklahoma-George A Beidler. Oklahoma.
A number of these are reappointmentS
occasioned by failure of confirmation Of
previous nominations sent to the senate.