Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-03-08

TALLY.
The Cabinet.
President Harrison sent to the Senate on
Tuesday the names of the following gentle
men to be members of his cabinet
Secretary of State, JAMES G.. BLAINE of
Maine.
Secretary of the Treasury, WILLIAM
WINDOW of Minnesota
Secretary of War, REDFIELD PRoCTuR
of Vermont
Secretary of the Navy, BENJAMIN f.
Tracy of New York
Secretary of the Interior, john w. No
BILE of Missouri.
Postmaster General, john WANAMAKER
Of Pennsylvania
Attorney General, WILLIAM II. II. Mil.
LER of Indiana.
Secretary of Agriculture, JEREMIAH NJ.
RUsK of Wisconsin.
The list is the same as it had been sup
posed for several days that it would be, and
the nominations were promptly confirmed
in an executive session lasting only ten
minutes.
The public services of both Mr. Blaine
and Mr.. Window are too well known to re-
luire extended notice After long and
brilliant term of service in Congress, Mr.
Blaine was made Secretary of State by
Gen. Garfield when he came to the presi-
dency in 1881, and held that position for a
year. Mr. Window, after serving four
terms in the House and two in the Senate
from Minnesota, was called by Gen. Gar
field to be Secretary Of the Treasury, but
resigned the place on Gen Arthur's acces-
sion to the presidency.
Redfeld Proctor, who is honored with the
third place in the cabinet, is native of
Vermont, having been born in Proctors-
vile in 1881. He graduated at Dartmouth
college and the Albany law school In 1861
he enlisted and went to the front as lieu
tenant of the Third Vermont. In 1869 he
became colonel Of the Fifteenth Vermont.
After leaving the army he was for some
years engaged in law practice with Colonel
nov Judge Veazey. Since 1869 he has
been engaged in the marble business, and
since 1890 has been at the head of the Yer
mont Marble company, the largest concern
of the kind in the country. He was elect
ed lieutenant governor in 1876 and govern
or in 1873 He was delegate at large to
the Republican national convention in 1884
and was elected president of the Republican
state league upon its organization in Febru
AIRY, 1883. At the state convention held in
March Gov. Proctor was chosen chairman
of the Vermont delegation to the Chicago
convention, and cast the eight votes of the
state solidly for Gen. Harrison on every
ballot from the beginning to the end of the
contest which resulted in his triumphant
nomination.
Gov. Proctor is a man of great executive
ability, of sturdy New England common
sense, and good fighter. He was the main
factor in securing the division of the town
of Rutland by the legislature of 1886, and
last year he was the representative from
the new town of Proctor and chairman OF
the committee on WAYS and means. On the
last day of the legislative session resolu
ton passed both houses unanimously en-
dorsing the ex governor for cabinet posi-
ton.
Gen. Tracy, the Secretary of the Navy
is native of New York and a lawyer by
profession He served in the army from
1862 to the end of the war, and then re
sumed his law practice. He was conspicu
Gus in the Beecher trial as counsel for tn,
defence, and was for seven years United
Oft 70 ba listri.t ,i
New York. He ranks as one of the mos
successful lawyers in the country He il
not identified with either of the Republican
factions in New York, and was undoubted
ly chosen as the cabinet representative il
that state because the selection was approx
ed by the friends of both Mr.. Plat and Mr.
Miller.
Gen. Noble, the Secretary of the Interior
is native of Ohio, and a lawyer by pro
fession He made himself brilliant army
record in the Third Iowa regiment, begin
ming as a private and rising to be colonel o
his regiment, and receiving brevet a
brigadier general at the close of the war
Since that time he has followed the practic,
of his profession in St. Louis, and is recog
nized as one of the leading members of tn,
bar in that city. His appointment to tn,
cabinet is regarded by men of both politi
cal parties in Missouri with the utmost sat
isfaction.
John Wanamaker, the Postmaster Gen
eral, is typical "self-made' man. He
was born in Philadelphia in 1887. Hi
father was a bricklaver, and the lad him
self learned something of that trade H,
has been in the clothing trade since 1861
and his retail store in Philadelphia is nov
the largest in the United States, employing
some 1000 persons. Besides this, he con
ducts "a wholesale dry goods business, which
is one of the most extensive in the country
He is also interested in banking railroads
and many other enterprises, and Demo
cratic merchant, writing recently in Har
per's Weekly, said of him that che is and
has been for years more intimately asso
ciated with great public movements il
Philadelphia, whether of an industrial
philanthropic, or educational character
than any other man who could be named
In the late campaign, as is well known, h,
was the chairman of the advisory commit
tee of the Republican national committee
and was instrumental in raising a larg,
sum of money from American bushes,
men in behalf of the Republican cause.
William Henry Harrison Miller, the At
torney General, is Gen. Harrison's Law
partner and his intimate personal friend
His father, great admirer of the hero of
Tppecanoe, named his son after the elder
Harrison. He holds a leading place at tn,
Indiana bar, and is young man, being
not yet AZ years old,
Elk Gov, jeremiah McLain Rusk the Sec
rotary of Agriculture, was born in Ohio il
1880. His early life was spent as a farmer
and he removed to Wisconsin in 1853 lie
went to the front in 1862 and served witt
distinction till the close of the war II,
was elected to Congress in 1870 and served
three terms. In 1889 he was elected gov
ernor of Wisconsin, and was twice reflect
ed. Gov Rusks frmness in dealing with
the Milwaukee anarchists -quelling by the
efficient aid of the citizen soldiery what
threatened to be a bloody outbreak of alien
conspirators gave him a national reputa
ton as "a firm, wise and patriotic American
His selection for a cabinet place gives great
satisfaction to the people of the Northwest
The first meeting Of the new Cabinet was