The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-16
Garhetd's Cabinet Selections Confirm

Garfetds Cabinet Selections Confirm
cd
/ WASHINGTON, Mar. 6.-The whole
cabinet was unanimously confirmed
yesterday afternoon. Ii is stated
that the question OF referring the
names to committees was discussed
at some length in executive session,
but met with so little support that
there was not even a single objection
which would have carried the mat
| ter over for day and the subject
was dropped without vote, where
upon each nomination was in turn
unanimously confirmed. The eabi-
net is, therefore, as follows:
Secretary of State-Jas. G. Blaine,
Maine.
Secretary of the Treasury-Wm.
Window, Minnesota.
Secretary of the Intcrior-Sam1. /.
j. Kirkwood, Iowa.
Secretary of Wer-Robert I. Lin
coin, Illinois.
Secretary of the Nayy-Wm. III.
Hunt, Louisiana.
Postmaster General-Thomas l..
James, New York.
Attorney General-Wayne Mae
Neagh, Pennsylvania.
H0N.sJAMEs g. BLAINE
Mr.. Blain's career as a statesman
is familiar to our people. Mr.. Blaine
is a native of this state, and was
born in Washington county, on the
3ist OF January, 1880. He gradua-
ted at Washington college, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1S47. After two or three
years spent in teaching, he adopted
the editorial profession and remov-
ed to Maine in 1852, where he sue
cessfully edited the Kennebec Jour
nal and the Portland Adrertiser, the
two leading Republican papers in
the state at that time. In 1858 Mr..
Blaine was elected to the state legis-
lature from the city of Augusta. He
served four consecutive years in
that body, the last two as speaker of
the house of Representatives. In
1862 Mr.. Blaine was elected to the
Thirty-eighth congress from the
Third congressional district of Maine,
and was six times reelected by very
large maiorities.
On July 10, 1876, he was elected
by the Maine legislature to the Uni
ted States senate to fiji the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation Of
Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill,, who had been
appointed secretary of the treasury
by President Grant, and when the
term expired he was reelected for
the ensuing term, which expires
March 3, 1888. Mr.. Blaine has fig
ured prominently as an aspirant for
the nomination of the presidential
eandidat OF the republican party,
and at tue conventions of 1876 and
1880 nelrly won the prize. He had
q very strong following in both con-
yentions, receiving in 1880 as high
as 2SJ votes
HON. WAYNE MACVEAGH.
Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, the new
attorney general, was born in Ches-
ter county Pennsylvania, April ~,
1893. lie graduated at Yale Col
lege, III the class of 1858, and, adopt
ing the profession oflaw, was admit
ted TO the bar, April 26, 1856. Hav-
ing entered upon the active practice
of his profession, he became district
attorney of Chester county, and re-
mained so for three years. During
the civil war he served as captain of
militia cavalry in 1862, and as a
major on the staff of Major General
Couch during 1869. During that
year he was also chairman of the
republican state central committee
of Pennsylvania. Under the first adj
ministration of President Grant he
was appointed United States minis
ter to Constantinople. IN 1872 he
was elected as republican delegate
representing the Twelfth senatorial
district. composed of the counties of
Dauphin and Lebanon, to the con-
stitutional convention.
At the beginning of 1876, Mr.. Mac
Veagh removed his law office from
Harrisburg to Philadelphia, and he
has since made that city the chief
scene of his professional labors. He
still has a residence, however in
Lower Merton township, Montgom-
cry county, where he recently pur-
chased q fine farm which is situated
a mile or two from ConshohokeE.
HON. WILLIAM WINDOW.
Hon. William Window, of Min
nesola, who has been selectedas sec
rotary of the treasury, was born in
Belmont county, Ohio, May IS, 1925.
His parents were both from Virginia
His fathers people came from North
Carolina and his mother from fam
lily of Pennsylvania Quakers. Living
beyong the Alleghenies, Mr.. Win
dom had but few opportunities in
his boyhood to obtain an education,
and it was not until he was twenty
three years old before he left the
academy in Knox county, Ohio. He
then studied for the bar, and upon
being admitted began practice III the
town of Mount Vernon. In 1852 his
proliticallife commenced by his cleo
lion, as a whig, to the office of pub
lie prosecutor. In 1855 he married
and removed to Winona. Minnesota,
where he has since lived. In 1859
he ran on the whig ticket for the
Thirty-sixth congress and was elect
ed. He was subsequently,, four
times consecutiyely, unanimously
renominated, and this is a district
where a republican nomination was
equivalent to an election. He de-
clined a denomination at the end of
his fifth term, but the governor sent
him to the senate to I'LL the unexpir-
ed term of Senator Morton, and
since that time has been twice re-
turned to the senate by the unani-
nous vote of his party. At the be-
ginning of his political career Mr..
Window was q devoted follower OF
Henry Clay, and was an ardent pro-
tectionist. He was also actively
identified with the homestead law