The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-14
Nominations Received and Many Are
Confirmed

Washington, Dec. 13.-Today's session
of the senate consumed only few min
utes. Some routine business was trans,
acted but beyond the introduction o.
bills n0ta.ng of consequence was &C.
compIsehed
AT the beginning of the session Mr.
Gallinger az. HI, presented a bill fol
the oCdificatiOn Of the pension laws. II
is proposed that the commission shall
consist CT juristS and members of the
G. A. r.
A resolution offered by Mr. Mcmillan
(Mich). calling upon the secretary OF
war for inform alton as to how many
days the ST. Mary's canal was blocked
during the past season of navigation
and requiring his opinion as to the de-
STABILITY of constructing additional
/ canals. was adopted.
At 12:40 the senate went into exec
utive session
The seriate confirmed the following
nominations:
! p. c. Hanna of Iowa. consul general
at Monterey, Mex; William NJ. Hoey
of Indiana, collector of customs for the
district of Arizona; Edward c. Mad
; don OF Michigan, TO be third assistant
postmaster general.
Consuls-Adelbert S. Hay of New
Hampshire, at Pretoria; ]. G. Long of
Florida. at Cairo; S. Berliner of New
York, Teneriffe, c. l.; r. II. Bartelman
of Massachusetts,, at Malaga; II. w.
Brush of New York, at Niagara Falls,
Canada: j. Harmony of New York, at
Ccrunna, Spain; F. d. Hill of Mime
sofa. at Amsterdam: j. II. Carroll of
Maryland, at Cadz; H c. Morris of
Michigan, at Windsor, Ont: Jay White
of Minnesota, at Hanover, Germany.
Postmasters-Oreg W. NJ. Yates,
Hood River: New Mexico, L. o. Fullan,
Carlsbad; Wyoming. E. E. Waite. New
Caste: Idaho. F. F. Stevens, Black
foot; w. J. Turner, Mountain House;
Colorado F. E. Baker Fort Morgan;
C. A. Huxley, Gold Fields; F. McHarg.
Walsenburg; D. NJ. Sullivan, Cripple
Creek; J. c. Twomley, Denver; Calffor-
mia, S. s. Graham, Pleasanton; NJ. 7.
Thornburg, Santa Maria.
Army, General Officers-Colonels to
be brigadier generals: Edward r. KEEL
logg, Gilbert S. Carpenter. Edwin V.
Sumner, Thomas NJ. Anderson, Alex
Frank, L. H. Carpenter Samuel Over
shine, D. w Burke. William A. Kobbe,
]. A. Franklin Bell.
Colonel Fred E. Bates. assistant pay
master general, to be paymaster gen.
eral with rank of brigadier general;
Colonel A. r. Buffinton, ordnance de-
partment. to be chief of ordnance with
rank of brigadier general.
The following postmasters were NOM
mated today:
Colorado-C. T. Wade, Buena Vista;
]. H. Morgan, Colorado City; william
P. Harbottle, Salida.
California-H. B. Gardiner, Crockett:
A l. Paulson, Weaverville; II. E. My
ers, Yuba City.
.Arizona-F. II. Hudson, Clifton.
North Dakota-H. c. Dana, Bottin-
eau; w. Galehouse, Darlington; w. G.
Mitchell, Mimic; ]. A. Regain, Fessen-
den.
Montana-t. C. olmstead, Big Tim
Der.
Oregon-R. H. Robinson. Arlington.
Utah-C. NJ. Dougall, Springville; E.
r. Booth, Nephi.
Washington-Alex Watt, Cheney; O.
c. Truax, Tekoa-
The president also sent the following
to the senate:
reasury-William d. Bynum of In
diana to be general appraiser of mer-
chandise; William H. Hoey of Indiana
collector of customs for the district of /,
Interior-Major George w. H. |
Stouch of Colorado. agent for the In
dams of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe |
agency in Oklahoma.