Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1889 — CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESS.

The session of the Senate, while waiting for nominations, on the 18th inst., was devoted to further discussing the wisdom of appointing committees on trade relations with neighboring countries. Mr. Gibson's resolutien for the appointment of a committee on trade relations with Mexico and Central America was referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Call’s resolution for thefappointment of a similar committee with regard to Cuba and the other West India islands was still pending when the Senate adjourned. Before adjournment the following nominations were confirmed: John A. Kasson, William Walter Phelps, and George H. Bates, Commissioners to the Samoan Conference at Berlin; Cyrus Bussey, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Resolutions were also offered and referred to the Committee on Contingent Expenses authorizing the Committee on Woman Suffrage and on Additional Accommodations for the Library to sit during the recess. There was a long debate in the Senate on the 19th inst., over a proposed amendment to the rules requiring the reference to committees of resolutions calling for information from executive departments. The rules and amendments were recommitted. The President withdrew from the Senate the nomination of Eugene Schuyler to be Assistant Secretary of State. Senators Hiscock, Sherman, Hoar, Voorhees and Eustis have been appointed a select committee on the Ai>ril centennial celebration in New York. The Senate confirmed the following nominations: William W. Thomas, Jr., of Maine, Minister to Norway and Sweden; Samuel K. Thayer, Minister to the Netherlands ; Smith A. Whitfield, of Ohio, Second Assistant Postmaster General; Abraham D. Hazen, of Pennsylvania, Third Assistant Postmaster General ; " Rathbone Gardner, District Attorney for - Rhode Island; Elbert D. Weed, District Attorney for Montana; Brad D. Slaughter, Marshal for Nebraska; James C. Perry of North Carolina and Alexander C. Smith of New York, Assistant Surgeons in the Marine Hospital Service. Postmasters—William Wallace, Indianapolis, Ind.; Williams. Chase, Sturgis, 1). T.; John Cutler, Parker, D. T.; James M. Kellogg, Wicks, M. T. Army appointments—Ordnance Department: Lieut. Col. Adalbert R. Buffington, to be Colonel ; Maj. Joseph P. Farley to be Lieutenant Colonel; Capt. Otho E. Michaelis, to be Major. Medical Department—Capt. Julius H. Patzki, to be Surgeon, with rank of Major, First Regiment Artillery; First Lieutenant Gilbert P. Colton, to be Captain; Second Lieutenant Charles H. Hunter to be First Lieutenant. President Harrison sent the following nominations to the Senate on the 20th inst., and they were referred to appropriate committees : Frederick D. Grant of Now York to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Austria-Hungary; John C. New of Indiana to be Consul General of the United States at London; Paul Fricke of Texas to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Texas; Seligman Bros., at London, England, to be special fiscal agents of the Navy Department at London. Naval promotions—Passed Assistant Engineer David Jones to be a Chief Engineer; Passed Assistant Engineer James H. Chaseman to be a Chief Engineer; Assistant Engineer Reynold L. Hall to be Passed Assistant Engineer; Assistant Engineer Ira N. Hollis to be Passed Assistant Engineer; Lieut. Frank F. Fletcher, junior grade, to be a Lieutenant; Alexander Sharp, junior grade, to be a Lieutenant.; Lieut. Harry H. Hosley, junior grade, to be a Lieutenant; Ensign P. J. Werlich, to be a Lieutenant, junior grade; Ensign Simon Cook, to be a Lieutenant, junior grade; Ensign John H. Fillmore to be a Lieutenant, junior grade; Edward Rhodes Stitt of South Carolina to be an Assistant Surgeon. The Senate confirmed the following nominations : John W. Mason of West Virginia to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue; William L. Dunlap to be Marshal of Indiana; John S. Burton to be Marshal of the Northern District of Mississippi; W. Budd Deacon to be Marshal of New .Jersey; J. Granville Leach to be Appraiser of Merchandise at Philadelphia; John P. Ward to be Appraiser of Merchandise at Willamette, Oregon; Charles E. Mitchell of Connecticut to be Commissioner of Patents. Postmasters—Joseph C. Bartlett, Lake City, Minn.: Joseph V. Campbell, Norman, Minn.; liobt. S. Bowman, Barwick, Pa. In tho executive session of the on the 21st inst. a number of Territorial and postal nominations were confirmed, comprising all that had been reported from committee. The list is, however, withheld, the Senate having failed to suspend the operation of the rule which keeps confirmations secret and delays notification to the President until two additional executive sessions shall have supervened without the entry of a motion to reconsider.