Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-04-02
WHITE, AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY
Draper, Ambassadors to Itniy-b"f-
tervortb. Comm'r of Patents.


Ambassador to Germany.
William f. Draper. Of Massachusetts,
to be Ambassador to Italy.
Chandler Hale. Of Maine. to be~Secre-
tary of Embassy at Rome.
Samuel l.. Gracey. of Massachusetts,
to be Consul at Fuchau, China.
Anson Burlingame Johnson, OF Colo
rado, to be Consul at Annoy, China.
Benjamin Butterworth, of Ohio, to be
Commissioner of Patents.
Oliver l.. Spalding, OF Michigan, and
William b. Howell. of New Jersey. to be
Assistant Secretaries Of the Treasury.
Captain Robert Craig, of the Signal
Corps, to be major
Withdrawn: Anson Buringame John
son, Consul at Fuchau.
Ambassador White is one of the
scholarly men i'm public life. He was
president of Cornell University for near
iy twenty years He has been Minister
to Russia and Germany, and was one of
the members Of the Venezuelan Arbitra-
tion Commission. The appointment OF
Mr.. White is known to be most satis-
factory to Germany as he made an ex-
ceedingly hattering Impression when he
was formerly minister at that court
Mr.. White was born in New York IN
1892. and was educated at Yale College
and the University of Berlin, Germany.
He was Professor of History and Eng
lish Literature at the University of
Michigan from 1857 to 1862, and was made
president of the Cornell University i'm
1856. He was once a member of the
State Senate i'm New York, and in 1871
was one of the commissioners TO San
Domingo. 1t was during a portion of
President Hayess administration that he
was Minister to Germany. Among his
literary works are Lectures on Mediae-
val and Modern History" and "The
Warfare of Science"
The new Commissioner of Patents. Mr..
Benjamin Butterworth, has been a IA
miliar figure in official, legal, and social
circles in Washington for many years.
His first appearance here was as a rep
resentatNe In the House from the First
District Of Ohio in the Forty-sixth Con-
gress. He served I'm this position during
the Forty-seventh Forty-ninth, Fiftieth.
and Fifty-hrst congresses. After his re-
tirement from public life he located in
Washington, and soon built up a large
practice as an attorney at law, devot-
ing his attention particularly to patent
law. Mr.. Butterworth is a property
holder i'm the city. and while his ap-
State. he has been long regarded as a
citizen of the District.
General Draper has had a successful
career as a soldier statesman, and man
of business He is a native of the Bay
state, and as beardless youth of 19 en-
tered the Federal army and served
throughout the war, being promoted sue
cessiyely from the rank of second lieuten-
ant to that of brigadier- general. After
the war he engaged i'm the manufacture
of cotton machinery, and, with his bro
theirs, who were associated with him,
amassed "A fortune. He took much in
terest in politics as early as 1876, when
he was a delegate TO the Cincinnati con-
vention. He was president of the famous
Home Market Club, of Boston, in 1880.
Although candidate for the gubernato-
rial nomination in 1888. he never held pub
lie office until elected 10 the Fitty-thrd
Congress, where he was chairman of the
Committee on Patents and a member or
the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In
the former position he pressed success
fully through Congress the bill TO revise
the patent laws and the bill to protect
the copyright Of theatrical and operate
productions. As a member of the Foreign
Affairs Committee his course was dis
tinctiyely conservative. While stalwart
in his Amercanism, he opposed hasty ac-
tiOn which might emt oil this country in
foreign complications. For this reason
he opposed the resolution to recognize
the belligerency of the Cuban insurgents
during the first session of this Congress,
and made a speech against il on the floor.
Mr. Draper is a gentleman Of command
ing presence, genial, yet digniisd in man
ner. a polished scholar, and pleasing
and forceful speaker.
His wife has been during the past four
years one of the conspicuous figures In
the social life of Washington, and the
home Of the couple on X street has been
the scene of many notable, lavish, and
fashionable entertainments.
Messrs. Spaulding and Howell have been
in the government service for many years.
They have had long experience with the
administration of the customs laws, and
are both regarded as tariff experts.
General Spaulding was born in st.
Johns Mich. and made a fine record as
a volunteer soldier during the war. Since
the war he has served two terms as Sec
reta~y of State Of Michigan, one term as
q NJ .rnber of Congress from that State,
and I'm 1873 he entered the service or the
government as a special agent OF the
Treasury Department. He rendered Kalu-
able service in the prevention and detec-
tiOn OF frauds upon the revenue, ana
among his many special missions he was
a member of the commission which in
vestigated the sugar trade with the Sand
wich Islands.
William Barberie Howell was born in
Freehold, Monmouth county y. j., July
5. 1866 His father, William IL. Howell,
was at that time the cashier or the FIRST
National Bank of Freehold, but in Few
wears he was called to Hightstown, in
Mercer county, and established the First
National Bank of that place
Mr. Howell received a common-school
education and also took a business course
at the Spencerian Business College IN TINS
city. graduating from that college in 1852
In June 1882, he was appointed by Secre-
tary Folger TO a messengers position In
the Treasury Department, on the recon-
mendation OF j. Hart Brewer. the repre-
sentative i'm Congress from his district.
In October. 1883 Mr. Howell entered the
first competitive examination held under
the civil-service law OF 1888. and, having
received a high rating, he was appointed
in January, 1854, TO a $500 clerkship In the
Internal Revenue Bureau of the Treasury
Department. He was promoted through
the several grades in the departmental
service. and in October, 1871, was ap-
pointed a special employee in the customs
service. During his service in the de-
partment he attended the Columbian Law
School. Of Washington, and graduated
from that institution in 1891. and was ad-
mitted TO the bar of the District Of Co.
lumbia IN that year.
He has been FOR ten years the conf
Dental assistant to the assistant seere-
taries in charge of customs, including
General Spaulding and Mr.. Hamlin, and
the experience he has had in that posi-
ton has thoroughly equipped him Tor the