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MILES & STIFF, 20 Marietta Street, ATLANTA, GA. Hill Grade Pianos and FULL LINE SHEET MUSIC. Terms and Prices Right, jy Send for CtKalitgu**. IN CONGRESSIONAL HALLS. Daily Routine ol Botb Hows of Ike Rfty-SMi Conress. Measures Discussed and Bills Tassed By Our National Law-Makers. THE SENATE. Saturday the senate bill to authorize the Montgomery Bridge Company to con¬ struct a bridge across the Alabama river near Montgomery, Ala., was reported ffom the committee on commerce and Mr. Vest making a speciul re¬ quest to that effect in order to oblige Representative Herbert, who has been calted to the cabinet. Notices were given that the senate would be asked to suspend business in order that a fitting tribute might be paid at 4.30 o’clock p. m. to the memory of the late Rep¬ resentative, F. P. Spinola, of New York, and on Wednesday, at 3 o’clock p. m., to the memory of the late Sen¬ ator Gibson, of Louisiana. The leg¬ islative appropriation bill was taken up and an amendment agreed to ap propriating $75,000 for the purchase of George Bancroft’s library for historical manuscripts and printed books and pam phlets. After the adoption of two minor amendments, the bill was passed. A motion by Mr. Sherman to go into exec utive session was voted down, and after considering, without final action, a local bill relating to the District of Columbia, business was suspended in order that a fitting tribute might Representative be paid to Spi- the memory of the late nola. After eulogies by Messrs. Hill and Hiscock, the senate, at 5:30 o’clock, as a further mark of respect to the deceased, adjourned till Monday at 11 o’clock a. m. In the senate Monday, Mr. Call intro duced a joint resolution to suspend the list of swamp and overflowed public lands in Florida until further action of congress, and asked for its passage, After considerable discussion it went over without action and the senate took. up the pension appropriation appropriation bill passed bill. with The pension discussion and without amend but little ment. The agricultural placed appropriation cal .bill was reported and on the endar. The conference report on the military academy bill was agreed to. A conference was ordered on the sundry civil appropriation bill and Messrs. Alii son, Hale and Gorman the were appointed bill, conferees on part of senate. A local to the District of Columbia, was under discussion when, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, on motion of Sir. Faulk¬ ner, business was suspended, in paid order that fitting tributes might Le to the memory of his late colleague, sen¬ ator John E. Kenna, who died in Wash¬ ington last January, Mr. Faulkner offered the usual resolution of sor¬ row and condolence, and went on to deliver a eulogy on the dead senator. Mr. Faulkner was followed by Slessrs. Frye, Gorman, Blackburn, Cullom, Gray. Vest, Stewart, Daniel, Hawley, and by Kenua’s successor in the senate—Mr. Camden. The- resolutions were unani mnnsiy adopted and the senate at (i adjourned ‘ till 11 o’clock Tues <j ay> In the senate, Tuesdav, the naval ap propriation bill was taken up with amendments and reported from the com mittee on appropriations, being first act ed upon. The amendment appropriat ing $300,000 for a naval review was agreed to after a somewhat caustic criti cism of the Yillard petition for money to entertain foreign dignitaries in New York. The Hudson river bridge bill was then taken up, but it was displaced by the agricultural appropriation bill which passed with a few unimportant amend ments. Sir. Teller gave notice that he would move to take up the McGarrahan bill Wednesday morning, and Sir. Hill gave a like notice as to the Hudson river bridge bill. Tbe senate then, at 6 o’clock p. m., adjourned. meeting, the Wed¬ Soon after senate, nesday, on motion of 3Ir.[Sherman, went into the ;xecutive session without oppo tion from the democrats. The doors were closed for about half an hour, and when they were reopened the routine morning business was proceeded hour wl _th. Sir. At the close of tbe morning Hill, iu pursuance of notice given Tues day evening, moved to proceed to the consideration of the Hudson river bridge, Ignoring the request of Mr. Teller to with draw the motion until the McGarra Se !empTrarily en in (no order P t losing to have the rieht of way) bill coosid the in ' siofficc appropriation that ered. The first amendment pro. voked discussion was the one striking out of the bill the items of $190,000 for special facilities on trunk lines. Sir. Call opposed the amendment, but moved to strike out of the paragraph words specifying the route as being “from Springfield, Slass., via New York and Washington, to Atlanta and New Or leans,” and also to strike out the proviso that no part of the appropriation shall be expended shall unless deem such the postmaster general in order expenditure necessary to promote the interest of the postal service. He argued in favor of sending a fast mail by the Tampa line. Sir. Call’s proposition was antagonized by Messrs. (JordoD, Hinton and Daniel, who argued in favoi of retaining the paragraph as it came from the house. A conference was or* dered on the naval appropriation bill. Discussion on the postofnee appropriation bill was continued by Messrs. White, Cul lom, Gorman, Butler, Vilas, Pasco and Call and was again inteiruptea iu order to have the conference report on the sundry upon. This civil action “PF°R deprived r, »j!®“ the Hudson BULLOCH TIMES. VOL. I. river bill of its right of way. ordered Pending discussion, a conference was on the agricultural appropriation bill, and Messrs. Allison, Cuilora and Call were appointed conferees on parted the the District senate, and the conference report on of Columbia appropriation bill was agreed to. the house. In the house, Saturday, Mr. Holman renewed the request made by him Friday that the senate amendments to the suu dry ci.il appropriation bill, with one ex¬ ception, be formally non-concurred in and Hatch a said conference agreed upon. objection, Sir. he would make no provided a similar course should be taken with the anti-option bill and that it should be sent to conference. But ob¬ jection was made to this request, where¬ upon Mr. Hatch emphatically objected to Mr. Holman’s proposition. Mr. Holman moved that the house go in¬ to committee of the whole for the con¬ sideration of the general appropriation Hatch’s bills. Notwithstanding Mr. opposition, Mr. Holman's motion was agreed to—yeas 137, nays 103. The first Ijjll on the calendar was the Indian ap¬ propriation bill. This bill Mr. Holman requested should be passed over for the present. Mr. Hatch objected and the committee was compelled to rise in order fo submit the question to the house, which decided that the bill should he passed over. The commit having resumed its _ ses sion, the sundry civil bill was taken up. A fter some discus-ion the bill went over without action. The body rose, and pub He business having been suspended, the house proceeded to pay a tribute of re¬ spect to the memory of the late senator John 8. Barbour, of Virginia. After Meridith, eu logistic remarks by Messrs, and Wise, Milliken, Kendall, Tucker Jones, the house, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased,at 5 o’clock, adjourned, Monday, in the house, the demand foi the “regular order” made by Mr. Simp son blasted the hopes of a number of gentlemen congregated in the area in front of the speaker’s desk, each waving a bill which he desired to have passed On during the closing hours of Indian congress. motion of Mr. Peel, the appro priation bill was passed under the sus pension of the rules. The sundry civil appropriation bill was sent into confer ence under a suspension of the rules, An understanding was reached that all the amendments shall be formally non concurred in, and that unless the senate recedes on the Sherman bond amend meat the house conferees shall insist on their disagreement and report the amendment to the house for its approval or disapproval. Sir. Wise moved to sus¬ pend the rules and concur in the senate amendment to the car coupler bill. The bill was parsed. After agreeing to the conference re port on the diplomatic and consular ap¬ propriation bill, the house, Tuesday morning, proceeded to the consideration of the Alabama contested election case of SIcDuffie vs. Turpin, the majority sit¬ re¬ port being in favor of Turpin, the ting democratic member. The anti-option bill was finanlly de¬ feated Wednesday by a vote of 172 to 124. General Hatch took his last desperate chance of its passage by moving the to sus pend amendments. the rules The and agree motion to required senate a two-thirds vote. The opponents of the bill were determined. Under a motion to suspend the rules no leeway, bow¬ ever, is given for filbustering and the most they could do was to marshal their forces for a vote. Tom Johnson, of Ohio, assumed the leadership of the sides op¬ position. The speeches of both were exceedingly caustic. The vote re suited 172 to 124, thirty-seven less than the necessary two-thirds. The vote in dicates the strong drift of sentiment against the measure since last June, when it had twenty-five to spare on ad- a two-thirds vote. Before announcing journmeDt, the speaker made the follow¬ ing appointments: Visitors to the naval academy, Slessrs. Cummings, Blount, and Robinson. Visitors to the military academy, Slessrs. Wheeler, Gorman and Binsham. _ CAPITAL GOSSIP. The course of events in the house and 8ena t e Monday indicate that congress w jq have finished ail its legitimate bus jnees when the hammer fails Saturday noon. £ ^ Georgia, made his ap ce 8enate chamber Monday first time this session, ^ and he was heq[ atteDtion on the part of his fellow senators Monday The president without returned his approval, to the the house bill prescribing the number of district attor neysand marshasm the jud.cialdistric the first of the state of Alabama. This is veto of the present session. The appointment of Hon. Patrick Walsh, of Augusta, as commissioner at large to tbe world’s Columbian exposition, the is received with much gratification by Georgia members of congress. No better man could have been selected, Recent events in the west indicate that democrats will have enough members in the next senate to reorganize that body without outside aid. Still, if that aid should become neccessary it is pretty well settled that the populist Sir. senators Peffer will vote with the democrats. has given utterance to such a statement. The controversy in congress over the ap p ropr jation of $300,000 for the Colum bus Daya i display in the Hampton roads an( j j n jj ew York harbor next regarding April and conge q U ent uncertainty a jj a j r has caused several of the great naya j powers of the world to delay the accep tance of the invitation to take the t extended them by this country. The president' Beal; of Wednesday Ca i ifornl nominated a, envoy ex- STATESBORO, GA , THURSDAY, MARCH 9,1898. traordinary and minister plenipotentiary and consul general of the United States, to Roumanis, Servia and Greece. Gene¬ ral 31. Lsmberston. of Nebraska, arbitra¬ tor on the part of the United States un der the treaty for the claims commission, concluded between the United States and Chili. There will be no action on the part of congress this session regarding the Ha¬ waiian matter. Senator Allison said in executive session of the senate Friday that it was more important to get through with the appropriation bills than, to transact any other business, and that the discussion and final action in regard could to the annexation of these islands well go over to the next session of con¬ gress. Whisky Must be Cheaper. The house judiciary committee Tues¬ day adopted the report of the sub-com¬ mittee which investigated the whisky trust. The report recommends the duty on imported liquors to be reduced from $2.50 to $1 per gallon and the tariff on all goods be reduced whenever found that they are influenced by a trust or is combination. The recommendation also made that rectifying establishments be made subject to governmental super¬ vision, and that all rectified or com¬ pounded goods be stamped so as to show their components. Naval Appropriation Bill. The naval appropriation bill was re¬ ported to the senate Saturday with au increase of $531,800 to the house bill. As the bill passed the house it carried an appropriation of $21,550,331, and as re¬ ported to the senate $22,082,131. The appropriation for the current year was $23,543,385, and estimates upon which the appropriations made in this bill were based, amouuted to $24,471,408. Among the items of increase were one for a sub¬ marine torpedo boat and experiments therewith, $200,000; for international naval rendezvous and review, $300,000; for any expense on account of this re¬ view, $6,800. The appropriation for the naval review is to be immediately availa¬ ble. The number of persons who may at one time be enlisted into the navy, in¬ cluding 1,500 apprentices and boys au¬ thorized to be enlisted annually, shall not, under the provisions of this bill, exceed 9,000. BIMETALIC LEAGUE. lb First Annual Convention in Wart ington City. The first annual convention of the American Bimetaiic L„e«e died ,0 order in Washington Wednesday mom ing by its president, General A. J. War ner. About fifty delegates from western were among «*. Seneml Weaver, candidate for president Oc the people’s party, accompanied the by aim Mrs. of Mary the Lease. Mr. Warner stated league to be the securing of legisla tion for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Three sessions were held. Among the speakers were Mr. Warner, General Weaver, Sirs. Lease, Senator Stevmrt, rv>I Col. A. A f C, ^Vilnn Shinn, of ot Kansas- Kans , Mr. Bland of Slissouri; i Representative elect Sibley, of Pennsylvania, a free coin age democrat; Mr. Hatch, of Slissouri; and T W Hiieton rhipf iiistion of Idaho. Marion Butler, of oouth Caro lina, in a prepared paper sustained spoke gen- the erallv of the losses by cotton interests of the south since 1873 b,tte demonetization of diver. The free coinage question was a burning one in the South which had been first to feel the effects of its demonetization. He expressed the belief that the time had come when the people of the ,e„t and south should unite and stand upon one common platform and strike a blow for industrial freedom. INAUGURAL PREPARATIONS Being „ . Made in Washington . on a Grand Scale—A Crowd Expected. A Washington special, of Wednesday, says: The city is beginning to white put and on her inauguration attire. Red, everywhere, «be f re„. and hotels are swarming with people ana every incoming train is heavier than its predecessor. The prospects are for an unprecedentedly large crowd. The preparations for the inauguration are on a vast scale. Th streets are to be roped to give th military and civil organiz S itions full play for maneuv eriDg . The re.».ge, S hav, be»« ing Pennsylvania avenue, and they find it will accommodate 175,000 people from to.pe.Vo7roc,. the treasury to the .Ld. peace monument, not a„d w tod OWA There Will be 40,000 men in line with over a hundred bands and druoi corps. Extra policemen are beiog engaged by platoons. Railroad men talk of the passenger traffc in six figures. The ho tels and boarding houses are putting in thousands of extra cots. The men in charge of the inauguration ball say they will have 5,000 spinning waltzers on the floor at one time. The display of fire¬ works is to be unparalleled. Even the thieves and pickpockets are expected in large numbers and a proportionate effort is being- made to meet them. A BRITISH GROWL Elicited by the Recent Flag Raising In New York Harbor, A London cablegram states that in the house of commons Slonday William G Cavendish Bentinick, asked whether the attention of the admiralty had been called to the recent celebration at New York at which President Harrison was present, when the flag of a steamship that had been built and suhdized as a queen’s cruiser had been changed and the flag of the United States hoisted in its stead. Mr. Bentioick also wanted to know whether the admiiaKy would henceforth prevent such a proceeding. CLEVELAND’S CABINET. His Official Family Announced Before the Inauguration. Biographical Sketches of the Pres¬ idential Advisers. In defiance of numerous precedents in the case Mr. Cleveland removed the ban of secrecy which usually makes the composi¬ tion of the Presidential cabinet a mystery until the inauguration, and as fast as he had chosen his advisers and their acceptances of the positions were received official an¬ nouncement of the fact was made from the “Little White House” at Lakewood, N. J. The list of appointments as thus given out, supplemented each cabinet by a biographical sketch of minister, is as follows: of Secretary Illinois. of State—Walter Q, Gresham, Secretary Kentucky. of the Treasury—John G. Car¬ lisle, of Postmaster-General—Wilson S. Bissell, of New York. New Secretary York. of War—Daniel S. La-nont, of * Secretary of the Navy—Hilary A. Her¬ bert, of Alabama. Attorney-General—Richard Olney, of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Interior—Hoke Smith, of Georgia. Secretary Morton, Nebraska. of Agriculture—J. Sterling of Secretary of State. >).' m. v 7 A WA WkWM : m m W.a/L-, WALTER Q. GRESHAM. Judge Walter in Quiutin Cleveland Gresham, Cabinet who will occupy a seat the as Secretary of State, was born on March 17, 1832, in a queer old farmhouse near Lanes ville, Harrison County, Ind. His father, William Gresham, was Sheriff of a back- 7^“ o™Si. ing to arrest an outlaw by the name of «P ie *- Judge Gresham was then ST*sE, next to the managed by hard work to keep the family together, and, as a boy, Walter followed the plow ami studied by night. When sixteen JK? Va^oE,* earned defrayed his 2W IE at m 0ne y expenses school and at Corydon Bloomington studied University. law Returning to J tar^oA he waf in JjgJ ^ent^o f agfte’ g £ ad ^ b ir> politics be was a Whig, and joined organized. the Republi- His can Party when it was partner was a delegate to the convention which nominated John C. Fremont in 1856, ftncl young Greshan stumped the State for tba pathfinder. In 1869 Gresham was eiect ed on the Republican ticket to the L9gisla ture. When the war broke out his constitu ®nts wished him to return to the Legis.ature enlisted but Gresham wouldn’t have it. and as a private in the Thirty-eighth made Regiment, its Lieu Almost immediately he Leggett’s was Hill, before tenant Colonel. At Atlanta, he was shot in the knee, and he has rarrend .r ot Viotabure (irant and Snermui recommended that he be made a Brigadier General, and shortly after he received his commission. In tSOo he was brevetted a JJSST!; i n d. Two positions were offered him !AlbmJ. under General Grant as President and he refused defeated 5°^- ,5 by Michael or ,9? C. n tL Kerr. reS .? tK i In ce “.^1, 186J he was appointed United Utates District Judge for Indiana and accepted. He was Post master-General under President Arthur. At the close of President Arthur s term he was made Secretary of the Treas ury, but only held the position for a short time. Subsequently he became United States Judge for the Seventh Judicial Court. In I860 he made some remarkable deeisons in the celebrated W abash cases. He was . SSlSSSSflS“S"& the last . compaign needed and announced from his his party intention m of voting for Grover Cleveland._ secretary ot the Treasury. /tyfik JBb&* Mf \ \ \ jygm, mLkjjpy JL f>/ J&gW vl VV I J| | i \ ^ J s ; k .■* £ I ' IB 1, m. m m > 1 w ‘ sfr JOHN G. CARLISLE. seaton the S*ate to or Jerto accept is the po sition of Secretary of the Treasury, County, a na tive of Campbell (now Kenton) September Kentucky, where he was born on 5 ’835. He received his schooling from the common schools of the county and subse quently became a school teacher at Coving ton. He began the study of law. and in 1858, al the age of twenty-three, he was admitted to the bar. He began practice at Covington and met with almost immediate success, When the war opened he was a member ol tbe Kentucky Legislature. After the war he served in the State Senate and as Lieu tenant-Governor. In 1876 hs was elected to represent the Covington District in Con- XO. 41. gross and was re-elected biennially thereaf¬ ter up to 1890, when, the on of May li, B.Beok, he wai chosen to complete term James deceased, in the United States Senate. As » member of Congress he ranked high as an authority on fiscal and of economic the Forty-eighth, subjects. He served as Speaker Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses. He was a recognised leader in the Senate, where in debate he was ready and sometimes ag¬ gressive. When speaking he was deliberate and undemonstrative. He was a careful student and a hard worker, Postmaster-General, i £8 l I WILSON S. BISSELL. Wilson Shannon Bissell, who succeeds Mr. (Wanamaker as Postmaster-General, isa Buf¬ falo lawyer. He was born in New London, N. Y., December 31,1847, and when he was six years old his parents removed to Buffalo. lie studied in the schools of that city, and then entered Yale At the age of twenty-two he had graduated and was studying law with A. P. Lansing, who subsequently formed a partnership with Mr. Cleveland and Oscar Folsom. In 1872 Mr. Bissell formed a part¬ nership with Lyman K. Bass, and a year later the firm became Bass, Cleveland & Bissell. The firm dissolved on the removal of Mr. Bass to Colorado and the election of Mr. Cleveland as Governor. Mr. Bissell re¬ organized the firm with new partners and built up a large practice. He He has is regarded been Presi¬ as an able railroad lawyer. dent of two or three small railroads in the western part of New York State and Penn¬ sylvania. He is also a director in a number of corporations. He is a man of strong con¬ victions, but is uniformly good natnrea. He is President of the Buffalo Club, and Mr. Cleveland is very fond of him. When Mr. Cleveland was married Mr. Bissell acted at best man. Secretary ot War. Si fj 03 * m Vi V danirl SCOTT lamont. St ofd. He was' boru’ at (j or tiandville Cortland County, N. Y. For tbjpty-five years, up to a short time ago, his father was a storekeeper in a Cortland “K S'^SSed^ time he at father’s school’. clerk, and at the same in tended He entered Union College 1873, and even before his graduation When be was Komet hing of a politician. Clerk in Assem- was ninete en he was Deputy the w and st twenty, which was in 1871, he de w a te to the Democratic State Con ven ti 0 n at Rochester. When Lamont was twenty<me he was nominated by the Demo crats for county Clerk of Cortland County, but j ost< In 1874 he ran for Assembly and 1^ bv a few votes only. He then became Deputy cierk of the Assembly at Mr. Til den’s request. Subsequently he was ap £«* ‘ ^7^“^ the rty ln tbe ytate he called upon young In j janl on t> among others, for assistance. 3875 during the State campaign, he was acU^Ingag^ln W “ up the tide he went to Washington as Grover Cleveland’s Private Secretary. When Cleveland was Governor, Mr. Lamont ac cepted the post of Military Secretary of the wS.'’Su.Tfc Lamont land retired to private life Mr. ac cepted an offer from William C. Whitney and Oliver H. Payne and became associated ffiSaSSUES?’SJ lJSSE’!* aquiet disposition. He is slow when talking Miss and of modest demeanor. He married J alia Kenney of Cortland in 1874, and they h<W 0 three child ren. Secretary ot the Navy, I % 4 W .-✓l lyn JJk i /M 1 Jim \\N * W M'/MV fjft S I A. X / J I V $ / / if I / 1 / # / V. / f / / f , / ' / HILARY A. HERBERT. Hilary A. Herbert was born at Lauren** & q > on March 12,1884 He removed li Piano manufactured p in the only u>» <> mth. Buy it and keep y<»ur money at. none ic. Made and sold by MILES & STIFF ATLANTA. GA. to Greenville, Ala., in 1846. an t was eduea-, ted at the University of Alabama and the University of Virginia, He is a lawyer by profession, having been admitted to the bar just before the war. He has served sixteen years in Congress. During much of his Con¬ gressional career he has been a member ot the Committee Chairman on Naval of that Affairs, Committee haying been made Cleveland's about the beginning of Mr. former teem. During this time he has worked zealously for the interest of title the of Navy^-i th*> which has earned for him the Congressional Secretary of the Navy. At thei time the Civil War broke out Mr. Herbert, entered the Confederate service as a captain, of and was soon promoted to the Colonency the Eighth Alabama Volunteers- He was disabled at the battle of the Wilderness, resumed' ini 1864. At the close of the war he his law practice, and in 1872 removed to* Montgomery, which has since been, his home. In 1876 he was elected to Congress and re¬ elected in 1878, 1880, 1883, 1384, 1886, 1883 and 1890. He is a widower, with three chil- . dren—a married is daughter, in Washington a younger, daughter who popular so- f oiety circles, and a son at school. His left, arm is shorter than his right, the result of • injuries received in the battle of the Wilder-’, ness. In Washington Mr. Herbert lives at the Metropolitan Hotel. Secretary ot Interior. I A ,i ! ii J HOKE SMITH. Hoke Smith, of Georgia, named as Sacra tary of the Interior, North is thirty-eight Carolinu. years His old and was born in father was H. H. Smith, and the new comer was named Hoke after his mother, who was a Miss Hoke. The Hokes are an eminent Southern family, and are represented in North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. He began to practice iaw in Atlanta in 1876, and he stands well in the profession. Mr Smith is over six feet tall and weighs about 250 pounds. He has regular features and a deathly paie complexion, which is not an in¬ dication of bad health for he scarcely knows what it is to be ill. In some ways he bears a forcible resemblance to Mr. Cleveland. His fame has been won as a politician and not as a lawyMr. - He is the owner of the At lauta JournaK ill an artprnoon newsoaper. but does not cla to bean editor. The ipoome from his lawfbusiness 815,000 is•Ujnaj&jLt&sij' He is f30,000 throughout to (Georgia a and year. in Alabama anti-corporation lawyer, and the big suits against railroad companies which he has won for his clients are numbered in the hun¬ dreds. Mr. Smith married in 1883 the daugh¬ ter of Howell Cobb, ex-Governor of Georgia, a Confederate General, who was Secretary pf the Treasury under President Pierce. He has three children Attorney-General. Richard Olney was born in Oxford, Mass., September 15. 1835, and is a member of the Massachusetts bar. He was gradu¬ ated from Brown University in the class ot ’56. He studied law at the Harvard Law .School, and entered the law oflicas of Judge Benjamin F. Thomas, in Bostou, in 1859. He advanced rapidly counsel in his profession for ana Eastern. was for many years the Railroad Company, and after the consoli¬ dation was retained as counsel for the Bos¬ ton & Maine, a position which he now holds He is also counsel for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroads, ln Boston Mr. Olney he is known as an old line Democrat, politics. althougn He was never actively engaged in has on several occasions refused to accept public preference to confine himself to his. law practice. He has at least twice rafu-ef to accept a place on the bench of the Su preme Court of his State, Governor Russell having been desirous to appoint him when the last vacancy occurred. Mr. Olney served one term in the lower branch of the Massa¬ chusetts Legislature in 1874, and once ac septedthe Democratic nomination for At¬ torney-General of the State, alttaouzh it was only an honorary nomination. When the vacancy occurred in the office of Chief. Justice of the United States, Mr. Cleveland, Olney’s name was presented to President but the appointment went to Melville M, Fuller. _ Secretary ot Agriculture. r\ M % mm a /> fP vv V\ J. STERLING MORTON, J. Sterling Morton was born in Adams, Jefferson County, N. Y., April 2 j, 18J2. While yet a boy his parents removed to Michigan, where he attended the scnoolat Albion and subsequenOy at the State Ui»i versitv at Ann Arbor. He went later to Union College, New York, where he gradu¬ ated in 1854. At the age of twenty-two n» married Miss Caroline Jay Franco, and sterted almost immediately with his bride for the West. He located first at Bellevue, but shortly afterward removed to Nebraska: City, where he became the editor ot the brasta City News, which position he hem for a number of years.