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Show NOMINATIONS THAT FAILED. B.atty at Idaho and U.aroarl of N.w OrU.nli Com pint. th. Lift. Washington, March 6. -The follow-in:; follow-in:; nominations failed to receive the CfJnfirmation tf the senate: ' ' James H. Iteatty, United States district dis-trict judge of Idaho. Louis Desmaris. commissioner of the mint at New Orleans. In the case of Realty the nomination was resisted by the Idaho senators on the ground that he was an active partisan parti-san of the Claggett faction, which sought to invalidate the election of Senator-elpct DuBois and finally Senator Sen-ator Farwell, a warm friend of Dulioise, caused the failure of the nomination by a demand that it lie over for a day, which carried it over till March 4lb. Waahlnittnn Note. The Utah apportionment has become a law. Among the bills that died with the Fifty-first congress were the Salt Lake federal building bill and the street railroad rail-road bill. Tho international railway commission commis-sion met yesterday and arranged preliminaries pre-liminaries for making a survey of the proposed railroad. William F. Shank of Pittsburg, formerly connected with the Pennsylvania railroad, was selected as "organizing engineer," and he will have general charge of the surveying work. |