| Show Death of Clark Nominations WASHINGTON March 23E D Clark of Vicksburg Miss the newlyappointed Assistant Secretary of the Interior who has been suffering from an attack of pneumonia for about ten days and was considered out of danger last evening had a sudden relapse about midnight and died at an early hour this morning Nominations To be Envoys Extraordinary Extraordi-nary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States Edwin J Phelps Vermont Ver-mont to Great Britain Robert M Mc Lain Maryland to France George H Pendleton Ohio to Germany Henry R Jackson Georgia to Mexico Macenas E Benton Missouri United States attorney for the Western District of Missouri The Senate immediately confirmed the nomination of Senator Pendleton After reading the journal the Senate went into executive session Edwin J Phelps nominated today Minister to England is a prominent lawyer law-yer of Burlington Vermont He is about sixty years of age and the possessor of a moderate fortune He is expresiaent of the American Bar Association has practiced prac-ticed before the Supreme Court in Washington Wash-ington and is highly esteemed as a lawyer law-yer and a man of culture He has several sev-eral times been Democratic candidate for Governor of Vermont but so far as known here he has never had public office For two years past he has delivered lectures on law to the graduating class of Yale college Mr Phelps is a son of ex Senator Phelps of Vermont Senator Edmunds was his legal preceptor The messengers and doorkeepers of the Senate have been instructed not to talk to outsiders An additional doorkeeper has been stationed at the gallery door of the Senate opening upon the press room The purpose is to make sure that the publication of the executive secrets which Senators think has grown to be an evil of great magnitude shall no longer continue At this writing the Senate in secret session is discussing the Weiland I Laabra treaty and Senators Morgan and Voorhees have spoken in its support Robert M McLane nominated as Minister to France is the present Governor Gover-nor of Maryland Henry Roates Jackson Jack-son nominated as Minister to Mexico is a native of Georgia and 64 years of age He graduated at Yale College in 39 and shortly afterwards admitted to bar He was afterwards colonel of a Georgia regiment regi-ment in the Mexican war and for four succeeding years was a judge of the eastern circuit of Georgia In J53 he was sent to represent the United States at Vienna Austria where he remained five years |
