Show GEN LAWTON Appointed United States Minister to Austria Gen Alexander R Lawton of Georgia who on the 15th of April received from the president the appointment as minister to Austria will proceed to his post at once Austa after coming into office Mr Cleve minister to land appointed M Keiley as miter t asked but Bang Humberts ministers Italy Kg Hubrs mrs that the appointment might b withdrawn a Mr Keileys utterances ut-terances in regard to their controversy contro-versy with the pope had made him personally sonally unpopular with them So the president trans ferred M Keiley naming him for minister to Austria Aus-tria but her the religious question met him again Austria did not feel free to receive one whom Italy had ALEXANDER I LAWTON objected to S tho Austrian mission remained mained vacant till tho recent appointment Among the first acts of the president in the first part of his term was to appoint prt Lawton minister t P ia but a curious r n roSe a to whether he was eligible He had been educated at Wet Point and afterward served in the Confederate he within Cnfeernte army so came wihn the penalties prescribed by the Fourteenth amendment But on Feb 6 1807 before that amendment was adopted he received a free and unconditional pardon from President Andrew Johnson and the issue Adrew now e was as t whether that pardon merely relieved him from the possibility of punishment or whether it operated as a complete bar to any subsequent law disqualifying him from holding hold-ing office The judiciary committee of tao senate took the former view the snat tk foner vew president and Attorney General Garland the latter the president again Lawton aga appointed Gen Lwton but the latter lat declined the honor and applied ap-plied to congress for complete amnesty ap ae first act passed by the Fortyninth congress to be signed by President Cleveland on Dec G 1885 was an act removing the disabilities dis-abilities of Gen Lawton He was thereafter as eligible a any American and on the 15th inst was named minister to Austria vice Keiley retired The Austrian minister is received at Washington and diplomatic courtesies are renewed between the old empire pire and the young republic Alexander Lawton was born at Beaufort S C in ISIS but nearly all his active life has been spent in Georgia He entered West Point in 1S35 was graduated iu due course spent nearly two years in regular army service then resigned and settled in Savannah where he has since remained in the practice of law He served in both houses of the serye hou Georgia leg lature and as president of the Augusta and Savannah railroad When the war broke out he entered the service at once was soon made a brigadier and served through the entire en-tire war with distinction I 1875 he was a member of the legislature and a candidate for United States senator but was defeated by Joseph R Brown He has for some time been attorney for the Central Railroad of Georgia and was arguing a case before the supreme court of the United States when appointed |