Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-09
Wednesday Morning, March g, 1881.
NEW ENGLAND IN THE CABINET.


 The geographical distribution of President Garfeld's Cabinet appointments is attracting some attention. New England formerly held dominant influence in Cabinet arrange ments, but now the great West has control. Three of the seven Cabinet officers have been selected from the latter section-the Secre- tary of the Interior, Samuel J. Kirkwood of Iowa the Secretary of the Treasury Will liam Windom of Minnesota and the Secre- With the President, four western men sit around the Cabinet council-board. The Mid dle States have two representatives Postmaster General, Thomas l.. James of New York, and the Attorney General, Wayne MacVeagh of Pennsylvania. The South has one-the Secretary of the Navy, William H. Hunt of Louisiana, and New England has one-the Secretary of State, James G. Blaine of Maine.
 Massachusetts has been left out of the Cabinet this time, and this fact has moved the Boston Post to look up the record of Cabinet appointments from New England. This record shows that this section of the country, and Massachusetts especially, has been well represented in former Cabinets.
 From Maine the following gentlemen have held seats in the Cabinet: Nathan Clifford, Attorney General under President Polk Ho- ratio King, Postmaster General under Presi- dent Buchanan. The following have been at the head of the Treasury department under Republican administrations William Pitt Fessenden and Lot M. Merrill.
 New Hampshire has furnished but one for this class of honors, Levi Woodbury, who was Secretary of the Navy under President Jackson, and of the Treasury under Presi- dents Jackson and Van Buren.
 The only Cabinet officer selected from Vermont was Jacob Collamer, Postmaster General under President Fillmore.
 Massachusetts presents very remarkable record. The list is as follows: Secretary of State, Timothy Pickering under Washington and the elder Adams, John Quincy Adams under Monroe, Daniel Webster under Harri- son, and for brief period under Tyler and Fillmore. being succeeded by Edward Everett under the latter. Secretary of the Treasury, Samuel Dexter under John Adams, George s. Boutwell, and William Richardson under Grant. Secretary of War, Henry Knox under Washington, Samuel Dexter under John Adams, Henry Dearborn under Jeffer- son, William Eustis under Madison Secre- tary of the Navy, Timothy Pickering under Washington, George Cabot under John Adams, Jacob Crowninshield under Jeffer- son, Benjamin ". Crowninshield under Madison and Monroe, David Henshaw under Tyler, George Bancroft under Polk Attor- ney General, Levi Lincoln under Jefferson, Caleb Gushing under Pierce, Ebenezer R. Hoar under Grant, Charles Devens under Hayes. No Massachusetts man has occupied the position of Postmaster General or Secre- tary of the Interior
 Rhode Island has never been honored with a Cabinet appointment, and Connecticut has only been represented as follows: Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury under Washington and John Adams Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy under Buchanan, and Gideon Wells under Lincoln and Johnson.
 It is of course mortifying to the people of Massachusetts that their influence at Wash ington has so greatly weakened of late. But with MT. Blaine in the Cabinet New England is still well represented.