The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-08-25
The ReeOnstrnctsd Cabinet.

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Since the resignation Of Postmaster Gen.
efal Denniscn, Attorney General Speed, and
Secretary -of-the- Interior Harlan, and the ap-
Ipointment of their successors, President
Johnson's Cabinet is composed as follows:
Secretary of State, William H. Seward, of
New York: Secretary of War, Edwin NJ
Stanton, of Pennsylvania Secretary of the
Navy, Gideon WelIes, of Connecticut; Sec
retarY Of the. Treasury; Hugh Mccullough,
of Indiana Secretary of the Interior, o. Ii.
Browning, of Illinois Postmaster General
Alexander w. Randall, of Wisconsin Attor-
ney- General, Henry Stansbury, OF Ohio
There remain of the original members Of
I.incoln's Cabinet only Seward Il Welles,
though Stanton aud Mccullough were APP
pointed by Lincoln at a later day. Pour Of
the present Cabinet making majority, are
citizens of the West, which portion of the
Union begins already to assert the claim
which it will one day establish TO a predom-
inant voice in the ceaneils of the nation.
OF the new appointees, Randall is known to-
the country for the prominent part he has
taken in the organization of the Administra-
ton party movement at Washington. He
was Governor of Wisconsin number of
years ago, under the Democratic regime and
had latterly been First-A ssistant Postmaster
General. He is Jealous partisan and man
of fair ability. O.. Fl. Browning is one of
the ablest lawyers of State which has pro-
duced many. He was one of the most pop
ular Wings in Illinois during the days when
Whiggery itself meant POLITICAL defeat in that
State. He has been a member of Congress,
and was Senator of the United States during
the war; having been elected by the Republic
cans. During his term as Senator be dis
tingnished himself by a very able speech on
the Con6scation Bill, which be sought to
have modified in accordance with the same
of constitutional law which
was insisted upon by Mr.. Lincoln. Mr.
Stanbury is acknowledged to be one of the |
ablest technical lawyers in the Union, and 1
would have been nominated to seat on the
the Supreme Bench of the United States had
Congress been disposed to make place for |
him. His tall, thin figure, precise deport-
melt, and Jelly correct language, conform 10
the lack of enthusiasm in his nature, whlchl
has made him unpopular with his constitu-
ents and prevented bis political advancement.
For keen analytical argument on strictly le-
gal questions be has probably no superior in
this country. His argument before the Su-
prement Court at Washington, in the cele-
brated Indiana Conspiracy case, was model
of close, sharp reasoning, expressed in the
clearest and tersest language, and was lis.
tened to with more attention by full
bench than any other plea delivered
during thes six days devoted to the heaIing of
the case. The substitution of Stanbury for
Speed, apart from political considerations, is
clearly an improvement for the latter gentle
man did not hold a high place in legal esti-
nation. Mr.otanburry was fossil Wing in
politics; until he drifted into the Republican
ranks through mere pressure of circumstan.
ces. He will not distinguish himself out of
his profession. The Presidents Cabinet is
now unit in political sentiment, unless it
should transpire that Mr.. Stanton, as is con-
ectured by some, is disposed to recalcitrate
a view of the Presidents opposition to the
Constitutional Amendment.-ES F. Bulletin