Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-12-21
BACON'S NAME MAY
MEET OPPOSITION
NO OBJECTIONS FROM SENATE
EXPECTED ON ANY BUT PARIS
IAN APPOINTMENT; OLD sNuBs
HELD TO BE CAUSE.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 20
Judge Horace H. Lurton was to-
day confirmed as associate justice
of the supreme court.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 20.-Presi-
dent Taft today sent to the senate
several nominations Of diplomats. The
ambassadors include Robert Bacon of
New York to be ambassador to
France.
Richard E. Kerens of Missouri to
be ambassador to Austria Hungary.
Henry Lane Wilson of Washington
as ambassador to Mexico.
Ministers include:
Charles Page Bryan Of Illinois to
Belgium.
William James Calhoun Of Illinois
TO China.
R. S. Reynolds Hit of Illinois to
Panama.
Fenton R. McCreery of Michigan to
Honduras.
L. S. swenson Of Minnesota to
Switzerland.
Nominations for district attorneys
include:
William q. Trautman, eastern dis
trict Of Illinois.
William A. Northcott, southern dis
. trict of Illinois.
N Arbas van Valltenburgh, northwest
'rn district of Missouri.
Eor marshal:
morh iiieon' es'seein ois'iice u
rtaaour to Retire in Two Years.
so announced that for the present
Ia,gst Whitelaw Reid Of New York
~ loe retained as the ambassador to
It Britain. David Jayne Hill of
" York win continue as the am.
has,ador to Germany and Thomas J.
OBhen of Michigan as the ambassa.
dor 30 Japan. Under this administra.
tionEOscar S. Straus of New York has
been appointed ambassador to Tur-
key, John G.. A. Leishman ambassador
to Ihly and William w. Rockhill
STOOD that within two years at the lat
est aeid, HILL Straus and Rockhil
will tetire, placing four more ambas
sadoral appointments at the disposal
OF thu president
Senate Hostile to Bacon.
SECRETARY of State Knox has asked
Senate Cullom, chairman of the for
eign r.lations committee of the sen
ate to secure immediate confirmation
Of the nominations. This action is de
sired because of the necessity of con
ductfns negotiations In reference I,
the tariff questions with all of tht
countries to receive new agents Of the
United States.
Thefe is every reason to believe
chat the secretary's wishes will be oh
served in all except one case, that o
Mr.. Bacon. The latter, while servins
as assistant secretary and subsequent
ly as secretary Of state, caued a grea
deal Of irritation in congress by hi
manner of receiving members of th,
senate and house. For several reasons
they were willing to confirm last win
ter his nomination as secretary 0
state, but these reasons now fail t,
operate, and they propose, if what the,
Intimate to their friends be true, t.
hold up for time at least, his nomi
nation.
Senator Root, who was associate,
with Mr. Bacon in the state depart
ment, has been energetically endeay
oring to dissipate the opposition, bll
he seems up to this time to have bee
unsuccessful
The state department is concerne
about this matter because of it's dc
sire to press at once the tariff negc
tiations with France. The objectio
against Mr.. Bacon is heightened b
the fact that his appointment wi
save four ambassadors to New Yorl
and the senators think these position
should be more generally distribute
around the country.
With respect to Mr.. Calhoun a DO
of the senate shows that his appoin
lent to China is regarded as peculiar
iy appropriate, and he Will be cor
firmed without delay. The same a,
tion will be taken with respect to th
nomination oftMr. Bryan.
Roosevelt Man Turned Down.
The nomination of Charles P. Hitc
of Paris, ILL.,, to succeed himself a
Il United States marshal in the easter
district of Illinois caused surpris'
a IS it was understood Roosevelt b,
fore retiring had decided on Jane
Sloan of Danville, H., the we'll know
secret service man, for the plac,
q Speaker Cannon and Senator Cullol
favored Hitch.