The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-23
GRANT.
His Views Oh the Choice of Cabinet
AHtceps.

His Views Oh the Choice of Cabinet
Officers.
Says the Boston AdUertise,'S Washington COR
respondent, on Sunday last:-
1t is becoming more clear with each passing
day that General Grant will not submit to the
dlctation of ybody in the matter of choosing
a Cabinet. He is going back to the policy OF the
early days of the republic in this respect. He
says that the duty OF a Cabinet is to aid the Pre-
sident, and therefore the President should be
allowed to select his own counselors, subject, of
course to the approval of the Senate. He does
not think it either wise or proper to call in the
members of the Senate and the House, ind
yidually, to ask their advice, but will at the
proper time after his Inauguration, and in the
way marked out by the Constitution, ask the
advice and consent OF the Senate by submitting
the names OF those whom he has selected He
said yesterday that he had given due heed to
all sugg estiops, and that he had endeavored to
properly weigh what had been said to him in
favor or opposition to individuals who had been
named in connection with the Cabinet He
should choose his advisers with sincere pur-
pose to serve, the country to the best of his
acceptable TO the party by which he had been
elected President. He had taken council with
some OF his friends, and was entirely willing
TO hear, what anybody had to say on
good-natured smile, that it seemed,
however, as if some callers were more
anxious to learn his views than to communicate
their own; more ready to hear what he thought
"
they thought. The country would hold him
responsible for the manner in which he executed
bis duties as President, and, though he would
willingly consider the opinions of prominent
men within the party, he must, after ALL rely
finally upon his own Judgment in making these
Cabinet selections. He takes this course for no
other on than that he believes it the wIsest
and most advisable, and he thinks it will result
III the Administration acting as @ unit in carry
ing out the will of the people as expressed
through the law-makiug branch Of the Govern
ment. 1t may be said that so far as is known
every public man who calls upon the General
is pleas ed with his way of putting things.
Senators Chandler Schurz, and Came
ION are among the radical Republicans
who have recently talked with him at length,
and they declare themselves satisfied with the
views he expressed IN conversation. He gives
no indication as to the construction of his
Cabinet but occasionally speaks of persons in
such way as TO warrant the inference on the
part of his hearers that they will not be invited
10 seats therein. 1t was mentioned the other
day that Senators Wade, Wilson, and Sumner
might be counted out OF the possible selections,
and there is now pretty good reason for in
eluding in the same list Messrs. Motley, Adams,
Hawley, Conness, Defrees, Creswen, Curtin, aud
! Forney. Some shreWd observers think Mr..
! Boutwell, may also be counted out but am not
! SO clear about that myself, although Mr.. Hooper
| il Just now in taVor among the Eastern men for
! the Treasury Department.