The Lamar register., 1904-12-14
LATEST WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
Presidents Nominations.

Presidents Nominations.
A large batch of nominations were
sent to the Senate by the President on
the 9Th inst, many of them recess ap-
pointments, which included four Cabi-
net positions. as follows:
Attorney general. William H. Moody
of Massachusetts: postmaster general,
Robert ]. Wynne of Pennsylvania;
secretary of the navy, Paul Morton of
Illinois; secretary of commerce and Ia
Dor. Victor j. Metcalf of California.
Important postofice nominations
sent to the Senate include w. w. Will
cox at New York and John A. Merritt
of New York at Washington.
Other nominations were as follows:
Purchasing agent for the Postoffice
Department, William E. Cochran OF
Kansas.
Minister resident and consul general.
Thomas c. Dawson of Iowa to Santo
Domingo.
Second secretary of the embassy
Robert Woods Bliss of New York
at ST. Petersburg. Russia.
Third secretary Of the embassy
Francis C. Landon. New York, at Der
lin.
Secretary of legation and consul gen.
eral-Montgomery Schuyler, Jr., of
York, at Bangkok, Siam.
Secretary of legation-William Blu
menthal, New York. at Lisbon; Charles
Richardson, Massachusetts, at Rio de
Janeiro.
Consuls general-Frank Dyer, Ches-
ter, Massachusetts, at Budapest, Hun
gary; Hezekiah Gudger, North Caro-
lima, at Panama; Julius G. Lay, Dis
trict of Columbia, at Canton, China;
Henry B. Miller. Oregon, at New
Chwang, China; Daniel Meyer. West
II. Ridgeley Kentucky, Barcelona.
Spain; William f. Wright, Pennsyl
vania, Munich, Bavaria.
Postmasters Wyoming Frederick
f. Davis. Wheatland; South Dakota,
Alvah T. Bridgeman, Springfield.
To be Consuls-William Il. Alger,
Massachusetts. at Tegucigalpa, Hon
duras; Leo Bergholz. New York,
at Dawson City, Yukon Territory;
Frank s. Hannah, Illinois, Magdeburg,
Germany; George ii. Moulton, Colo
RADIO, at Georgetown, Demerara, Gull
nea; Oscar Malmreos, Minneapolis,
Colon, Panama.
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the Philippine lslands-Ad-
ans Carson. Virginia.
Royal A. Gunnison. New York. judge
of District Court, district of Alaska,
first division.
Superintendent of the Mint-Frank
NJ. Downer, at Denver.
Assayer at the Mint-Arthur II.
Hodgson, Denver.
Meter and Refiner of the Mint-Jo-
seph w. Nilsson, Denver.
To be Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court for the Territory OF New
Mexico-Edward A. Mann of New
Mexico.
To be Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the Territory of Hawaii
Walter F.. Frear of Hawaii; to be as.
sociate justices, Alfred S. Harwell and
Francis NJ Hatch of Hawaii.
To be Judges of the Circuit Court or
the Territory of Hawaii-John A.
| Matthewman of Hawaii. Third circuit;
Charles F. Parsons Of Hawaii. Fourth
circuit; John Hardy of Hawaii, Firth
circuit.
United States Attorneys-Henry M.
Hoyt, California, for the district OF
Alaska; division No. 2. Norman N.
Quick, Idaho, district of Idaho.
Marshals-Robert G. Rimmon, dis
trict of Nevada.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Francis E. Leupp, District of Columbia.
Governor of Alaka-John G. Brady,
Alaska.
Surveyor General of Alaska-Wil-
liam ID. Distin, Illinois.
Agents for the lndians-Samuel BEL
lew. Montana, Flathead agency, Mon
tana: Frank Frantz, Oklahoma, Usage
agency. Oklahoma.
! Receivers of Public Moneys-Sidney
r. belong, at Tucson, Arizona; julius
III. Weiss, at Del Norte, Colorado.
The nominations included a large
number of army promotions. among
which were the following: To be brig
adler generals, Col. Albert Mills, SUI
perintendent United States Military
Academy; Col. Henry c. c. Dun
woody, signal corps; Lieut.. Col. Peter
Leary, Jr., artillery corps; Lieut.. Col.
Samuel l.. Woodward, Seventh cav
airy; Lieut.. Col. John Nick. Hyde,
deputy quartermaster general COL
oscar F. Long. deputy quartermaster
general; Mai. Theodore A. Bingham,
corps Of engineers; Col. Constant Will
liams, Twenty sixth infantry:
In the naval promotions the foiiow
ing were nominated to be rear admi-
rails:
Capt. William F. Folger, Capt. Fran
els w. Dickins, Capt. George f. h
While. Capt. Charles II. Davis. Capt.
Charles ]. Train, Capt. George w. Pig
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