Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-03-17
The ComnIete Cabinet.

For the first time since the begin
ming of cabinet speculation, popular
rumor has been verified by the actual
nominations for cabinet positions.
Yesterday afternoon the President
sent to the Senate the name of George
S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, as
Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton
Fish of New York as Secretary of
State, and John A. Rawlins as Secre-
tary of War. The fact that these
gentlemen are all present at Wash
ington makes probable the SUPPOSE
ton that they have been consulted as
to their willingness TO accept the posi-
tions offered, so that we may assume
the actual cabinet of President Grant
to be now definitely made up.
GEORGE S. BOUTWELL,
is a native of Brookline, Massaehu-
sets, where he was born in January,
1915. As a boy he worked on his
native farm, and afterward spent
twenty years in m~erchaDtile business
at first as a salesman and finally as
proprietor. Entering the legal pro-
fession late in life, he o aspired to
public honors aud was elected to the
lGAl ol1LuLG Vi Observation-Disclosures III lCf-
wnere he served until 1850. He was
q member of the constitutional con-
vention of 1858 and of the Peace Con-
gress in 1861. He was governor of
Massachusetts, in 1S5l-2, and COM
missioner of internal revenue from
July, 1862, to March 1868. His con-
gressional career dates from 1862, his
place in the Thirty-eigth Congress
being on the judiciary committee.
His record in thatand the succeed
ing Congress was that of n bold, fear
less republican, and a careful, on
scientiOus Representative. In finan-
cial theory he is a contractionist, and
will give all his influence toward
maintaining the strictest honesty in
meeting the national obligations. In
tariff matters he is a protectionist of
the New England school.
HAMILTON FISH,
who has been suddenly lifted to the
chair of state, is one of the leading
members of the New York bar, be-
longing to the school that reached its
growth a quarter of a century ago.
He is now in his siXtieth year, having
been born in 1909. He is a graduate
of Columbia College and was admitted
to the bar in 1880. He entered Con-
gress as q Representative in 1913,
where he served a single term, and
became Governor of New York in
1919. In 1851, we again find him Mt
Washington, this time as a Senator,
and after a term of able service he
disappears almost wholly from pnblic
1ffo NATL Zn1la1 70 fat-a Z, Nho rnarff0-
lilo of Mr.. Seward. Most of his later
years have been spent in Europe,
where, among the best society of
Paris, Berlin and st. Petersburgh, he
has acquired a familiarity with for
eign customs and ideas that will
peculiarly fit him for his new posi-
ton. He is q ripe scholar, a eourte-
gentleman, and will be a worthy
successor to the chair of Madison,
Webster and Seward.
JOHN A. RAwLINS,
of Illinois, is q man whose history
begins with the hour when the
chances Of war threw him in the
path of General Grant. With that
wondrous power of insight into
character which is his only claim to
genius, Grant saw in the swarthy
Illinois lawyer the man whose quiet,
unerring judgement and strength of
purpose were TO be his abiding sup
port in every trying situation that
the hazards of war might impose.
From Cairo to AppomattOx, General
Rawlips has been the right arm of
his chief, the one man of the staffto
whom every plan WIS unfOfded and
discussed and to whose judgment each
movement was submitted before put
into execution. His pen has written
the great historical papers of the war,
the orders that sent armies to victory,
or that made and unmade regulations,
1t recorded the parole of Pemberton
and Buckner and the capitulation of
Lee. His appointment to the War
office is another example of the pur-
pose Of the President to put his
power into hands that he knows and
can trust. There are IN the army
more brilliant regulations, but the
fame of RaYlips is absorbed in thatof
the General at whose side he fought,
and in whose glory he was content tQ.
remain obscure. From General
RawliRs the country can look for q
careful, firm and economical adniinis-
tration of the War office, q strict adj
hesiol to the system that his chief
has ALREADY estsAIsbed.-ClereIqqd
leader.
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