Judge Swayne’s appointment confirmed

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. – In Executive Session the Senate confirmed Judge Swayne as Judge of the Supreme Court, and P. H. Watson as Assistant Secretary of War.

The House Committee on Commerce has before them a question of a reciprocity treaty between the United States and Great Britain.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 4