The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-03-04
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List Of Men Said to Have Been Sc
lected for Foreign Missions.

List of Men Said to Have Been Sc.
lected for Foreign Missions.
New York, March IA Washington
dispatch to the New York Herald saws
that President-elect McKinley's an
nounced purpose of delaying the ques-
ton of patronage until the tariff bill is
well under way will not apply to i'm
portant foreign missions. Within a
very short time after his cabinet has
been nominated batch of foreign ap-
pointments will be sent to the senate.
Here are some of the appointments
Maj. Mckinley is expected to make very
soon after he becomes president:
8ellamy storer, of Ohio. first assistant
| secretary of state.
John Hay, Of Ohio, ambassador to Great
Britain.
William F. Draper, of Massachusetts, or.
Horace Porter. Of New York, ambassador
to France.
Powell Clayton. Of Arkansas. minister to-
Mexico
John A. Roche, Of Illinois, minister to
Persia.
John Russell Young. OF Pennsylvania.
minister to China.
William Mckinley Osborne. consul gen.
eral to London.
Gowdy. of Indiana. consul general to Paris.
The first nomination after the cabinet
has been confirmed will be Bellamy
Storer to be first assistant secretary of
state, so that Mr.. Storer may be on duty
promptly to relieve Senator Sherman
from much of the detail work of the de-
partment. It is regarded here as
definitely settled that the names of
John Hay, to be ambassador to Eng
land; Powell Clayton, to be minister to
Mexico, and William Mckinley Osborne,
to be consul general to London, will be
sent to the senate very soon after
March 4.
There is no doubt that Gen. Porter
| has been slated for the French mis-
sion, but there is serious talk here about
his becoming a member of the cabinet,
to take the place which Col. McCook
will not accept. It is known that sew
eral important messages have gone to
Canton from here in his interest.
There has been considerable talk
about Senator Cameron for one of the
foreign missions, and the court of St.
Petersburg has been mentioned in this
connection. Russia is in the class of
| countries to which ENJOYS extraordi-
nary and ministers plenipoteptiary are
accredited, but it is very probable this
mission will soon be raised to the rank
of an embassy. Senator Cameron's IA
tier represented the United States in
st. Petersburg after leaving the cabi-
net of President Lincoln. and it is be-
lieved the senator is DESTROYS of follow
ing his father in that line.
John Russell Young, another prom
inent Pennsylvania, is also being seri-
ously discussed for diplomatic mis-
s;on-minjster to China. When Ii
Hung Chang was here he publicly ex-
pressed the hope that the next admin
istration would send Mr.. Young back
to China.
E. T. Mason, of New York, senior
member of the importing house of E.
r. Mason & Co., and son of William
Mason, of Fond du Lac, Wis, is said to
have assurances of his selection by Maj.
Mckinley as minister to Japan. News
to that effect has been received by Mr..
| Mason's relatives in Fond du Lac, and
| they have authorized the announcement
| to be made.
The recent visit of Chairman Gowdy,
| of the Indiana republican committee,
was one of interest to all candidates
for the consul-generalship in Paris. He
spent the day in Canton and had an ex-
tended talk with the president-elect.
Mr.. Gowdy said Indiana would be mod
est in her demands upon the president
elect and confessed that he would like
to be appointed consul-general to Paris.