The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-06
william III. Elliott, Also of Indiana,
Nominated for Comm issiOner of
the Interior for Porto Rico.
WHEELER IN REGULAR ARMY
APPOINTED BRIGADIER GENERAL BY
PRESIDENT MKINLEY.
All of Yesterdays Nominations Con-
hrmed-Status This Morning of
Measures Before Congress.

| Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-The Senate went
into executive session shortly after 3
| o'clock this afternoon and disposed of the
| Bynum case. There was no way to prevent
| vote. although the action of the Senate
yesterday in refusing. by two majority. to
recommit his nomination to the committee
| on finance foreshadowed adverse action
| whenever a direct vote on the case was
taken. 1t stood at the head of the execu-
| tive calendar, and until 1t was disposed of
none of the nominations to other offices
could be disposed of without unanimous
consent, and that could not be obtained
| Senator Fairbanks was compelled to permit
| the vote he had prevented yesterday by
| talking from 4 to o'clock. The vote to-
| day was tie-33 to 33-the effect of which
| is negative, in this case meaning failure
| to confirm. that Bynums nomination to
| the office of general appraiser, the salary
of which is $500 annually, failed. The
| failure to confirm was engineered by Mr..
| Jones, of Arkansas, chairman of the Dem
| ocratic national committee, who lined up
/ the Bryan senators against Bynum, and
Mr.. Chandler. of New Hampshire, NOM
/ inally a Republican, but the only silver
senator from a Northern State. He ral-
| lied enough New England senators to the
i Bryan silver standard to make the vote on
4 the motion to confirm tie thus scoring a
negative defeat for Bynum as gold DEM
ocrat.
The only question of present interest re-
manning is whether the President will ap-
point him during the recess. 1t has not
4 Ixao 10 fnf 6r tno a
recess an appointee who failed of confirma-
| ton by the Senate on direct vote. but as
| Bynums defeat was negative, and not pos
tive in character. the vote being tie. the
| President is left free to act as he may
think best. No one has any inkling to-
night of the Presidents intentions toward
/ Mr.. Bynum.
The nomination of Capt. William II. FL
| lott of New Castle to be commissioner of
the interior for Porto Rico was sent to the
Senate this afternoon. So also was the
nomination of Walter X. Lands to be post
master at San Juan. Porto Rico. Tho other
nominations to-day were: John A. Rus
sell, of Illinois, to be attorney general of
| Porto Rico; Samuel c. Boutwell,, of Porto
Rico. to be marshel of the Supreme Court
of Porto Rico; w. F. Frear, of Hawaii, to
! be chief justice of the Supreme Court of
Hawaii; Clinton A. Galbraith and Antonio
| Perry, of Hawaii, to be associate justices
| of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. Judges
Circuit Courts of Hawaii-Abram s. Hum
phrey, of Hawaii, first judge, first circuit:
r. B. Silliman, of Hawaii, second judge,
first circuit; John w. Kaluau. of Hawaii.
second circuit w. s. Eddings, of Hawaii.
third circuit: Gilbert F. Little. of Hawaii,
fourth circuit: j. Hardy, of Hawaii. fifth
circait. William Haywood. of Honolulu,
to be collector of internal revenue. district
of Hawaii.
The Senate confirmed the following nomi-
nations: Frank NJ. Chandler, marshal for
the Northern district of Ohio; Brig. Gen.
E Otis, u. S. A, to be major general.
Tonight the Senate confirmed all the
nominations sent in to-day, except that of
one Pennsylvania postmaster. The nomi-
nation of General Wheeler to be brigadier
general was confirmed.
Admiral Dewey left here tonight at 9
O'Clock by the B. & o. on his trip to CO.
lumbus, Detroit and Grand Rapids. On
the center window of each of the cars of
the train was miniature admiral's flag,
with its four stars on the field of blue, the
only decorative feature apparent on the
train. A crowd of enthusiastic people saw
the admiral off. The trip is purely pleas
ure one and has no political significance.
|
Late this afternoon the President nomi.
mated Brigadier General Joseph Wheeler
U. S. ", to be brigadier general, U. S. A.
Librarian Putnam, of the Congressional
Library. will sail for Europe tomorrow. He
goes on business connected with the great
institution over which he presides and will
visit the principal literary centers of the
old world to select and purchase material
for what is really the national library OF
the United States. He will be present a,
the festival at Mainz. on the five hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Gutenberg. the
inventor of movable types. to which he is
the delegate from the United States. He
will also attend several congresses relating
to library or photographic matters. two OF
which will be held at Paris.
XXX
Among the members OF the graduating
class at Annapolis next Friday, June 8
is George W. Steele jr.. son OF Representa-.
tive Steele. Cadet Steele is adjutant of the
corps and stands accidentally in the first
division of his class He has been ordered
to report to the commanding officer of the
naval forces at Manila and will go there
after a short stay at home, to which point
he will accompany his parents after the
graduating exercises.
At the Cabinet meeting to-day Secretary
Hay read cablegram from Minister Con-
ger at Peking to the effect that the sit
uation in China was very unsatisfactory,