The San Francisco call., 1898-05-29
MAIOR-GENERAL OF VOLUNTEERS Ex-SenatOr Butler Is
 Confirmed. MORE BRIGADIERS NOMINATED H. G. OTIS NOT AMONG THOSE
 APPROVED. Additional Members of the Regimen tai, Brigade, Division and
 Corps staffs Are
 Selected.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, May 28.

Call O1flce, hlSSS I1oOSe,
 Washington, May 28.
 The President to-day sent these nom- nations to the Senate:
 To be major general of volunteers, Matthew c. Butler of South Carolina.
 To be brigadier generals of volun- teers-James R. " atson of Texas. Nel- son Cole of Missouri, William Coats or Alabama.
 To be assistant quartermasters, with rank of captain-First Lieutenant Charles D. Palmer, Sixth Artillery; First Lieutenant George M. William son, Eighth Cavalry; Thomas D. Wee be of Nebraska, Robert L. Brown or West Virginia, Frank s. Polk Of New York. Major W. Kimball tc New York, Moses Walton Jr. of Ohio. Charles J. Golf of West Virginia, J. A. Patten or Iowa, Richard J. Tanning of Ohio.
 To be commissary of subslstence, with rank of major, Edmund Beach or Montana.
 To be chief of commissaries Of sub sistence, with rank of maJor-Flrst Lieutenant Sydney A. Cloman, FIT. teenth Infantry; Philip Mothersill of New Mexico.
 To be commissaries of subsistence, with rank of captain-Warner Harri- son of Ohio, Charles E. Cabell Of V1r- ginia, John Dubarry Jr. of Pennsylva- mia, Winslow $. Lincoln of Massachu- settS.
 To be chief surgeon. with rank Of major-Frank s. BournS of Georgia
 To be assistant adjutant-general, with rank of captain-Theodore s. Bot kins of Kansas, Frederick J. Kountze of Ohio, First Lieutenant William $. Scott, First Cavalry.
 To be additional paymasters-Fred T. Jones of Ohio, George E. Pickett of Virginia, Brewster c. Kenyon of Cali fornia, George H. Ray of North Da- kota, Edward s. Fowler of New ,.I York, James s. Harvey of Florida, William H. Rift of Ohio, George D. sherman of Illinois, John P. Townsend of Missouri D. W. White of New Hampshire, John M Sears of Tennessee, Winfield NJ Clark of Pennsylvania, James w. Dawes of Nebraska, James Canby ot Colorado, Otto Gecker of Georgia, Louis Knapp of New York. Samuel M. C. Hays of Colorado, John w. Fogler o1 Washington.
 The Senate confirmed the nomination of ex-Senator Butler as major genera without reference to committee.
 The Senate also confirmed these nom. nations:
 To be brigadier- generals: Colonel R H. Hall, Fourth Infantry; Colonel E. e Sumner, Seventh Cavalry; Colonel P c. Haines, Corps of Engineers, U. s. A. Colonel L. P. Miller, Third Artillery Colonel J. E. Keene. Twenty first In fantry; Lieutenant Colonel E. H. Ern est, Corps of Engineers; Lieutenant Colonel L. Wheaton, Twentieth 1nfan try; Lieutenant Colonel A. McArthur assistant adjutant- general, U. s. A. Lieutenant-C Colonel Charles H. Brooke Fourth Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel J c. Gilmore, assistant adjutant-general Lieutenant-Colone w. F. Randolph Third Artillery; Major J. F. Sanger inspector general; Charles King O. Wisconsin; Colonel M. V. Sheridan, as sistant adjutant- general, U. $. A.
 To be first lieutenant-T. R. Sullivan of Colorado.
 The nomination of Harrison Gray Otis, which was presented yesterday with the foregoing, was not confirmed