The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-04-02
TWO NEW AMBASSADORS
Andrew D. White for Germany and
William Draper for Italy.
FRED GRANT MAY HAVE OFFICE.
The Son of the Great General Has Been
Offered tho Position of Assistant Sec
retary ofw War, but May Decline-Two
Treasury Assistants Named.

The Son of the Great General Has Been
Offered tho Position of Assistant Sec
retary of War, but May Decline-Two
Treasury Assistants Named.
Washington, April 2.-The president
yesterday sent to the senate the fol-
lowing nominations: Andrew D. White
of New York, ambassador to Germany;
William Draper Of Massachusetts, am
b0ssador to Italy; Chandler Hale of
Maine, secretary Of embassy at Rome;
Samuel L. Garcey of Massachusetts,
consul at Fuchau, China; Anson b.
Johnson of Colorado, consul at Annoy,
China. Benjamin Butterworth of Ohio,
commissioner of patents; oliver l..
Spaulding of Michigan, assistant Sec
retary of the treasury; William B.
Howell Of New Jersey, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury.
Colonel Fred Grant, of New York,
the eldest son of President Grant. was
yesterday rendered the position Of as
slstant secretary of war by President
Mckinley, and has the question of his
acceptance under advisement. Colonel
Grant was summoned to Washington
by Mr.. Mckinley for the express pur-
pose of allowing the president in person
to make the tender. 1t was entirely
unsolicited by Colonel Grant, and came
in the nature of surprise to him.
Colonel Grant at first was disposed to
decline the honor, explaining that he
was comfortably situated in New York
as police commissioner, and he was in
clned to think that transfer of his
l,n, Il 49,. II,
At the request of both the president
and Secretary Alger he decided to
withhold his final decision for day or
two, and then left to visit his mother,
who resides in this city.
The congressional contingent at the
White House yesterday was unusually
large One of the things developed by
the visit of a delegation was that Pres
ident Mckinley has practically decided
to appoint DR.. w. w. Thomas, of
Maine, minister to Norway and Sweden.
DR.. Thomas was minister to the Swed
ish court under the administration of
President Harrison. Ex-Congressman
John NJ Farquhar, of Buffalo, after
seeing the president, announced conf
IDENTIFY that he would be the next COM
missioner of navigation.
Andrew D. White was born in New
York in 1892, and was educated at Yale
college and the University of Berlin,
Germany. He was professor of his
tory and English literature at the Uni
Versiiy of Michigan from 1857 to 1852.
He was once a member of the state
senate in New York, and in 1871 was
one of the commissioners to San Do
mingo. He has been minister to Rus
sia and Germany, and was one of the
members of the Venezuelan arbitration
commission. The appointment of Mr..
White Is known to be most satisfactory
to Germany as he made an exceedingly
f1attering impression when he was for
merly minister at that court. He is
one of the scholarly men of public life.
General Draper has had a successful
career as a soldier, statesman and man
of business. He is a native of the old
bay state, and as a beardless youth OF
19 entered the army and served
throughout the war of the Union, being
promoted Excessively from the rank
OF second lieutenant to that of brlgadier
general. After the war he engaged in
the manufacture of cotton machinery,
and amassed fortune. He took much
interest in politics as early as 1875,
when he was a delegate to the Cincin-
natl convention. Although a candidate
for the Eubernatorial nomination in
1883, he never held public office until
elected to the Flfty-third congress. His
work in both that and the subsequent
congress has been valuable.
Oliver l.. Spaulding had an excellent
record as q soldier during the civil
war. After the war he served two
terms as secretary of the state of Mich
iGan, one term as representative in
congress and several years as special
agent of the treasury department, and
later was a member of the commission
which Investigated the sugar trade
with the Sandwich Islands. In 1890
General Spauldng was appointed as
sistant secretary of the treasury. He
is about Ga years of age
William Barberie Howell was born in
New Jersey in 1865 In 1882 Mr. Howell
was appointed by Secretary Foger to
a messengers position in the treasury
department, and was subsequently ap-
pointed to a $500 clerkship in the in
ternal revenue bureau. He was pro-
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the departmental service, and in Octo-
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his service in the department he at
tended the Columbian law school of
Washington, and was admitted 10 the
bar in 1891. He has been for ten years
the confidential assistant to the assist
ant secretaries in charge of customs.
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