UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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', and in 1868 was Secretary and Acting 

 aor. In 18GO he was declared eleeted t<> <'on- 



\ It miijoriu, lint l.-t tlir seat in a eonteM in 



tin- lloiiM-. In L880 he was nominated for (>\ vnior 



rasku, luit was <lftVatc<l. Hi- was also all un- 



-i'ul eandidate tor I'nited States Senator. He 



.'n'mated I or tiovenior in l^'_',un>l rerehed 



; aiul airiiin in 1884, when In- ive.-ive.l 



.'.T.iMiti \otes, I. ut stillnot enough to elect. Mr. Mor- 



ton ha> In 1 11 iietivi-ly iiilereMed in agriculture and 



hortieiiltmv. and has i.een I'lVMilent of the State 



hoard. Hi- also claims to be the originator of Arbor 



Day. His wife died in ISbl, leaving him with four 



sous. 



The Judiciary. Associate-Justice L. Q. C. 

 Lunar, of the Supreme Court, died in Macon, 

 Oa., Jan. 23, and on Feb. 2 President Harrison 

 appointed tin- lion. Howell E. Jackson, of Ten- 

 nessee, to the vacant judgeship, the appoint re- 

 ceiving the sanction of the Senate. 



EPMTNDS JACKSON was born in Paris, 

 Teun., April 8, ItWJ, and is a son of Dr. Alexander 

 .liii'kson. Hi' graduated at the West Tennessee Col- 

 IfL'i 1 in 1 s K and suliseinR-ntly spent two years at the 

 University of Virginia. He afterward graduated from 

 the law school of Cumberland University, and in 1856 

 began practice in Jackson,Tenn., but removed to Mem- 

 phis in 1859, where he formed a copartnership with 

 David M. Currin. Soon after the breaking out of the 

 War of the Rebellion he was appointed to a civil posi- 

 tion under the Confederate Government, and on the 

 collapse of the Confederacy resumed his law practice 

 in Memphis, where he entered into partnership with 

 l\. M. Estes. Later he formed a copartnership with 

 Mr. Ellet, under the style of Jackson & Ellet, and 

 became well known as an able lawyer. He removed 

 to Jackson in 1876. He had served on two occasions 

 us a judge of the State Supreme Court by appoint- 

 ment, and in 1878 was a prominent candidate for 

 nomination on the Democratic ticket for election to 

 the same position. In 1880 he was elected to the 

 State Legislature from Madison County, and was 

 always an advocate of honest dealings with the cred- 

 itors of the State. In January, 1881, while a mem- 

 ber of the Legislature, he was elected to the United 

 States Senate. In April, 1886, he was appointed by 

 1'roident Cleveland to succeed the late Judge John 

 Baxter as Judge of the Sixth United States Judicial 

 District, which includes Tennessee, Kentucky, -Ohio, 

 and Michigan, and was serving in that capacity when 

 called by President Harrison to the Supreme Court 

 bench. 



Associate-Justice Samuel Blatchford, of the 

 Supreme Court, died at his home in Newport, 

 R. I., in July ; and on Sept. 19 the President 

 nominated William B. Hornblower, of New York, 

 as his successor ; but there was much opposition 

 in the Senate to the nomination, and it was not 

 confirmed. Subsequently he nominated Wheeler 

 II. Peckham, of New York, but this nomination 

 also was rejected by the Senate. Then he nomi- 

 nated Senator Edward D. White, of Louisiana, 

 who was conliniit'il. 



Foreign Relations. The following diplo- 

 matic and consular appointments were made by 

 President Cleveland nna confirmed by the Senate : 

 Ambassador to Great Britain, Thomas F. Bay- 

 ard. Delaware; to France, James l;. Knstis, 

 Louisiana; to Germany, Theodore Runyon ; to 

 Italy, J. J. Van Alen, Rhode Island. Min- 

 ister Plenipotentiary to Austria- 1 1 unwary. Bart- 

 lett Trip, South Dakota ; to Belgium, James S. 

 Ewing, Illinois; to Brazil, Thomas L.Thomp- 

 son. California; to Chili, James D. Porter, Ten- 

 nessee; to Colombia, Luther F. McKinney, New 

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Hampshire; to Costa Rica, also accredited t 

 Salvador and Nicaragua, Lewis Baker, Minne- 

 sota;!" Denmark, John K. Kisley, New Yi/ik: 

 in (in-.-cc. and also accredited to Koumaiiiu and 

 Servia, Eben Alexander, North Carolina: in 

 (iuiiti'iiiala also accredited to Honduras, P. M. 

 B. Young, Georgia: to Hawaii, Albert S. Willis, 

 Kentucky ; to Japan, Edwin Dun, Ohio ; to 

 Mexico. Isaac P. Gray, Indiana; to Netherlands, 

 William E. Quimby, Michigan ; to Peru, James 

 A. McKenzie, Kentucky; to Portugal, George 

 W. Caruth, Arkansas; to Switzerland, James O. 

 Broadhead, Missouri ; to Turkey, Alexander W. 

 Terrell, Texas; to Venezuela, Frank E. Par- 

 tridge. Minister Resident and Consul-General 

 to Hayti, Henry M. Smythe ; to Persia, Alexander 

 McDonald ; Agent and Consul-General to Egypt, 

 Frederic C. Penfield. Consul-General at Vienna, 

 Max Judd ; at Tangier, I. I. Barclay ; at Rio de 

 Janeiro, William T. Townes ; at Shanghai, Alfred 

 D. Jones: at Panama, Victor Vifquain ; at Guay- 

 aquil, George G. Ballard ; at Paris, Samuel E. 

 Morss ; at Dresden, William S. Carroll : at Frank- 

 fort, Frank H. Mason ; at Liverpool, Patrick A. 

 Collins; at Manchester, Daniel W. Maratta; at 

 Moncton, Wendell A. Anderson ; at Guelnh, 

 Charles N. Daley ; at Calcutta, Van Leer Polk ; 

 at Singapore, E. Spencer Pratt ; at Guatemala, 

 Henry C. Stuart; at Honolulu. Ellis Mills; at 

 Rome, Wallace S. Jones ; at Kanagawa. N. W. 

 Mclver : at Mexico, Thomas T. Crittenden ; at 

 Nuevo Laredo, Joseph G. Donnelly ; at St. Gall, 

 Irving B. Rishman. The President nominated 

 James J. Van Alen, of Rhode Island, as am- 

 bassador to Italy, on Sept. 19, and the appoint- 

 ment was confirmed by the Senate on Oct. 20; 

 but it having been freely charged in the public 

 press that the appointment was made solely to 

 reward Mr. Van Alen for his generous contribu- 

 tion to the Democratic campaign fund in 1892, 

 Mr. Van Alen tendered his resignation to the 

 President on Nov. 20. The letter of resignation 

 was made public on Dec 3, and soon afterward 

 Wayne McVeagh, of Pennsylvania, was nomi- 

 nated, and his appointment was confirmed by 

 the Senate. 



His predecessor having accepted the office of 

 arbitrator between the Argentine Republic and 

 Brazil in the missions boundary dispute, Presi- 

 dent Cleveland received the special envoys ap- 

 pointed by those nations, who laid before him 

 the evidence and argued the case in behalf of 

 their respective governments. The revolution- 

 ary outbreak in Brazil led to the massing of a 

 strong United States naval force in the harbor 

 of Rio de Janeiro for the protection of Ameri- 

 can interests. On Oct. 25 Acting-Rear-Admiral 

 Stanton, the commander of the fleet, having 

 saluted the flagship of Admiral Mello, the leader 

 of the revolt against the Brazilian Government, 

 the President disavowed the act in behalf of the 

 United States and removed the offending com- 

 mander. Admiral Stanton was, however, re- 

 stored on Dec. 21, and assigned to command the 

 North Atlantic squadron. The fleet at Rio 

 united with the naval forces of other nations in 

 staying the bombardment of the Brazilian capi- 

 tal by the insurgents, and on Dec. 90 the warslupi 

 New" York, Miantonomah. and Bonnington were 

 ordered to Rio. In the organization of the 

 claims commission provided for by the conven- 



