Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1895 — MINISTER GRAY’S SUCCESSOR. [ARTICLE]

MINISTER GRAY’S SUCCESSOR.

senator Itnnaom, of North Carolina, Capture* the Covered Prize. President Cleveland, Saturday afternoon, sent to the Senate the nomination of Senator M. W. Ransom, of North Carolina. to be Minister to Mexico, to succeed the late Isaac P. Gray. Immediately after tho nomination was received Senator Blackburn moved an executive session, and the nomination was forthwith taken up and confirmed by tho unanimous vote of tho Senate. Senator Ransom has been a factor in every Democratic National campaign of recent years, being band in glove with Senator Gorman, and was one of the shrewdest old-line Southern Democratic politicians. Few nominations have been sent to the Senate which have been deceived with greater favor. Being an eld time member of the Senate and personally popular with all Its members, they, with two or three exceptions, and those exceptions because of relations with the executive, had joined in the recomendation of the appointment. Mr. Ransom has been a member of tho Senate continuously for the past twenty'three years, being first chosen in 1872. 'Che Japanese Minister of War, Count, Oyama Iwawo, has recalled to Japan all the Japanese officers who have been serving in the German army.