Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1889 — THE SENATE ADJOURNS. [ARTICLE]

THE SENATE ADJOURNS.

Final Disposition of a Number of President Harrison’s Nominations. When tho Senate met at 1 p. m. on tho Ist inst. Mr. Teller offered the following resolution: “Resolved, That’ hereafter all Executive nominations shall bo considered in open session of the Senate.” Tho resolution was referred to the Committee on Rules. The Senate confirmed the following nominations: Louis Wolfley, to be Governor of Arizona; Charles A. Ashley, to be Agent at the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, Indian Territory William W. Junkin of lowa, to be Indian Inspector; James E. Kelly, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Bloomington, Neb.; Louis A. Walker, to be Secretary of Montana; Charles R. A. Scobey, to be Indian Agent at Fort Peck, Montana; Janies N. Huston of Indiana, to be Treasurer of the United States; Ellis H. Roberts of New York, to be Assistant Treasurer at New York City; Edwin H. Terrell of Texas, to be Minister to Belgium ; John T. Abbott, to be Minister to the United States of Colombia. Among the nominations sent to the Senate by President Harrison were these: William F. Wharton, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary of State; George H. Shields, of Missouri, to ba Assistant Attorney General; L. Bradford Prince, of Santa Fe, to be Governor of New Mexico. The Senate adjourned sine die on the 2d inst. The proceedings were mainly devoted to a discussion of Mr. Sherman’s resolution expressing the profound sorrow of the Senate at the death of Mr. John Bright. Mr. Sherman suggested that the resolution should be referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, as its adoption might establish a precedent that would return to plague the Senate. Mr. Hoar eulogized Mr. Bright as a friend of the United States and induced Mr. Sherman to withdraw the motion, but Mr. Reagan iminedi. ately renewed it, at the same time calling attention to the false step taken by the House some years ago in passing a resolution complimentary to a member of the German Reichstag and having it returned bv Prince Bismarck. The motion was carried. Vice President Morton retired and Mr. Ingalls was elected and sworn in as Vice President pro tempore. The following nominations were confirmed: George H. Shields, of Missouri, to be Assistant Attorney General; Drury J. Burshett, to be Marshal of Kentucky; Robert J. Fisher, of Illinois, to be Assistant Commissioner of Patents; Captain George B. White, to be Chief of the Bureau of Yards aud Docks: L. Bradford Prince, to be Governor of New Mexico; William F. Wharton, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary of State; Major Charles C. Byrne, to be Surgeon in tho army, with tho rank of Lieutenant Colonel; Captain Curtain Munn, to be Surgeon in the army, with the rank of Major; Second Lieutenant Charles B. Vogdes, to be First Lieutenant First Infantry; 8. A. Darnell, Attorney for tho Northern District of Georgia; John B. Henderson, of Missouri; Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York ; William Pinckney Whyte, of Maryland; Clement Studebaker, of Indiana; T. Jefferson Coolidge, of Massachusetts; William H. Troscott, of South Carolina; Andrew Carnegie, of Pennsylvania; John R. G. Pitkin, of Louisiana; Morris M. Estee, of California; and J. F. Hansom, of Georgia—delgates to the Congress of American Nations to be held in Washington, November, 1889. The naval promotions sent to tho Senate by the President were also confirmed. In the course of tho session efforts were made to remove tho injunction of secrecy from the votes on the motions to confirm the nominations of Whitelaw Reid to be Minister to France, and of Murat Halstead to bo Minister to Germany, but they were unsuccessful. The further consideration of the extradition treaty with Russia was postponed until next session of Congress. The calendar of nominations was almost entirely cleared. The nominations of Edwin I. Kinshead to ba United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and of William H. Whiteman to be an Associate Justice of the United States Court in New Mexico were the most prominent of those that failed of confirmation.