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Show FOSTER SUCCEEDS BLAINE. THE SENATE CONFIRMS HIS APPOINTMENT AP-POINTMENT TODAY. The Honse Derlines to Concur in the Senate Sen-ate Amendment to the Agricultural Appropriation Dill. Washington-, June '-?0. The president has sent the name of John W. Foster of Indiana, In-diana, to the senate to be secretary of 6tate. COXFIKMEO f.V THE BKXATK. I The senate 111 executive tcslon confirmed the nominal) n of Foster as secretary of state. MEF.T3 WITH FAVOR. The president fcts signed the comrrission j of Foster as sc; eiary of state. Tne appoiut-! appoiut-! menl meets with general favor. The cc u-fiimat'.on u-fiimat'.on is without reference, to foreign affairs committee, which is an unusuai compliment. com-pliment. WHO FOSTER IS. John W. Foster was born in Pike county, Ind.. March 2, is;6, and graduat-d at the Indiana state uui?rsity in l&d. After a ; year at the Harvard law school, he was ad-; ad-; Bitted to the br.r aud began the practice of i law at Evans-iilc He entered the nstiouril j service in 1S01 as major of the Twenty fifth Indiana infantry and was later appoint'' I colonel of the One Hundred audThiify sith i Indiana. He w.ss sent as Lnued : States mini-tof to Mexico by I Grant in 1873, aud re-appointed j by Hayes in 1SS0. In March of that year he 1 was transferred to Russia, and held that I mission until November 1931, hen he re-i re-i signed. President Arthur appoined bfta miuister to Spain, where he served from February 1883 to March 1885, when he resigned re-signed and returned to the United States having negotiated a commercial treaty with Spain. Chairman Campbell of tie Nat'onal publican committee consulted with the president pres-ident this afternoon on the personal execu-tive execu-tive committee to hsve charge of the campaign. cam-paign. IN THE BOCS4L WashistotoJT, June :."J. The honse has declined t6 concur in Ihe senate amendment amend-ment to the agricultural appropriation bill and has insisted on its provision iu the army-appropriation army-appropriation bill (which wa struck out by the senate) prohibiting the use of money appropriated for the transportation of troops, and army supplies over any nonded lines J controlled or operated by the Union Pacific j 1 or Southern Pacific systems, ag:et J to by a I I vote of 107 to 3(5. The conference report on Ihe Indian ap- j propriation bill was submitted. It appro- i priates $7,027,000, or S-l'JO.ooS more than when it originally passed the house. McMillan Mc-Millan of Tennessee argued in favor of the rejection of the report, saying that demo-:rats demo-:rats must take a stand iu lavor of letreuch-n.e';t. letreuch-n.e';t. iNTKI.I.IGENT ASSOCIATED PRESS. Secretary Tracy says there is nothing in 1 the story that he is to be made secretary of state and ex-Governor Cheney of New Hampshire secretary of the navy. CON F I U M ATION S. The following confirmations were also made by the senate: Alonzo C. Dodge of Kansas, professor of mathematics iu the navy; James Lolan, collector of customs at Willamette, Oregon; A. F. Shaw, surveyor-general surveyor-general at Washington. |