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UNITED STATES. 



under the new Administration were the fol- 

 lowing : Minister to Great Britain, Edward J. 

 Phelps, of Vermont; Minister to Germany, 

 George H. Pendleton, of Ohio; Minister to 

 France, Robert M. McLane, of Maryland ; Min- 

 ister to Mexico, Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia ; 

 Minister to Turkey, Samuel S. Cox, of New 

 York ; Minister to Brazil, Thomas J. Jarvis, of 

 North Carolina ; Minister to the Argentine Re- 

 public, Bayliss W. Hanna, of Indiana ; Minister 

 to the Netherlands, Isaac Bell, Jr., of Rhode 

 Island ; Minister to Sweden and Norway, Ru- 

 fus Magee, of Indiana; Minister to the Ha- 

 waiian Islands, George W. Merrill, of Nevada; 

 Minister Resident and Consul-General to Portu- 

 gal, Edward P. 0. Lewis, of New Jersey ; Min- 

 ister Resident and Consul-General to Denmark, 

 Prof. Rasmus B. Anderson, of Wisconsin ; Min- 

 ister to Chili, William R. Roberts, of New 

 York ; Minister to Pern, Charles W. Buck, of 

 Kentucky ; Minister Resident and Consul-Gen- 

 eral to Hayti, John E. W. Thompson, of New 

 York; Minister Resident and Consul-General 

 to Switzerland, Boyd Winchester, of Ken- 

 tucky; Minister to Italy, John B. Stallo, of 

 Ohio ; Minister to Japan, Richard B. Hubbard, 

 of Texas ; Consul-General at London, ex-Gov- 

 ernor Thomas M. Waller, of Connecticut ; Con- 

 sul-General at Berlin, Frederick Raine, of 

 Maryland ; Consul-General at Vienna, Edmund 

 Jussen, of Illinois; Consul-General at Rome, 

 William L. Alden, of New York ; Consul-Gen- 

 eral at St. Petersburg, Pierce B. M. Young, of 

 Georgia ; Consul at Liverpool, Charles T. Rus- 

 sell, of Connecticut. 



Among the diplomatic appointments first 

 made were those of Alexander R. Lawton, of 

 Georgia, to be Minister to Russia, and An- 

 thony M. Keiley, of Virginia, to be Minister 

 to Italy. Objection was raised to the eligibility 

 of Mr. Lawton, on the ground that his political 

 disabilities for participation in the rebellion had 

 not been removed. Notwithstanding the offi- 

 cial opinion of the Attorney-General that the 

 executive pardon granted prior to the adoption 

 of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitu- 

 tion had operated to remove these disabilities, 

 Mr. Lawton declined the appointment, and 

 George V. N. Lothrop, of Michigan, was ap- 

 pointed to the Russian mission. The appoint- 

 ment of Mr. Keiley was objected to by the 

 Italian Government on account of his denun- 

 ciations of that Government in 1871 for the 

 occupation of Rome and the exclusion of the 

 Pope from the exercise of civil power. In 

 view of the threatened embarrassment, Mr. 

 Keiley resigned his commission without leav- 

 ing the United States, and Judge Stallo was 

 appointed. Subsequently the mission to Aus- 

 tria was offered to Mr. Keiley and accepted ; 

 but after his departure for Europe an intima- 

 tion was received that the appointment would 

 not be acceptable to the Austrian Government. 

 The first communication from Count Kalnoky 

 to Baron Schaeffer, the Austrian Minister at 

 Washington, contained this statement: "The 



position of a foreign envoy wedded to a Jew- 

 ess by civil marriage would be untenable and 

 even impossible in Vienna." In the subsequent 

 correspondence it was apparent that the fact 

 that Mr. Keiley had been objected to by the 

 Italian Government was one reason why he 

 was not acceptable to that of Austria. To 

 Minister John M. Francis, Count Kalnoky ex- 

 pressed his regret that the first intimation of 

 objection had not been sufficient, without mak- 

 ing the reasons a matter for discussion before 

 the world. As the United States Government 

 refused to withdraw Mr. Keiley's appointment 

 or ask him to resign it, the Austrian Govern- 

 ment declined to receive him. He returned to 

 the United States after some weeks spent in 

 Paris, and gave up his commission, and the post 

 at Vienna remains vacant. 



Civil Appointments. Among the important 

 civil appointments made soon after the new 

 Administration came in were the following: 

 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Charles 

 S. Fairchild, of New York ; Commissioner ot 

 Pensions, Gen. John C. Black, of Illinois; 

 Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Joseph S. 

 Miller, of West Virginia; Commissioner of 

 Patents, Martin V. Montgomery, of Michigan ; 

 First Assistant Postmaster-General, Malcolm 

 Hay, of Pennsylvania; First Comptroller of 

 the Treasury, Milton J. Durham, of Kentucky, 

 Commissioner of the General Land-Office; 

 William A. J. Sparks, of Illinois; Assistant 

 Secretary of the Interior, Henry L. Muldrow, 

 of Mississippi ; Solicitor of the Treasury, Alex- 

 ander McCue, of New York ; Commissioner 

 of Railroads, Joseph E. Johnston, of Virginia ; 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, Norman J. Cole- 

 man, of Missouri ; Second Assistant Postmas- 

 ter-General, A. Leo Knott, of Maryland. Later 

 in the year, First Assistant Postmaster Hay 

 resigned on account of ill health, and was suc- 

 ceeded by William E. Smith, of New York. 

 Considerable interest was attached to the ap- 

 pointment of Postmaster at New York on the 

 expiration of the term of Henry G. Pearson. 

 His reappointment was very generally demand- 

 ed, and was opposed only on party grounds. 

 After some delay and discussion, Mr. Pearson 

 was reappointed on the 31st of March, and 

 was confirmed on April 2, the last day of the 

 special session of the Senate. During the re- 

 cess of Congress several important appoint- 

 ments were made. 



During the summer the terms of the Col- 

 lector of Customs, and Naval Officer, and Sur- 

 veyor of the Port of New York expired, and 

 the Appraiser was suspended, the Assistant Ap- 

 praiser, Lewis McMullen, being promoted to the 

 place. Silas W. Burt, whom President Arthur 

 had failed to reappoint to the same office, and 

 who was afterward appointed Chief Examiner 

 under the Civil-Service Commission of New 

 York by Gov. Cleveland, was made Naval 

 Officer; Edward L. Hedden was appointed 

 Collector, and Hans S. Beattie, Surveyor, on 

 the 27th of June. The two last named were 



