St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-25
He Is Helping the President
Elect in Making His
Cabinet.
The Delaware Statesman Will
Have the State Portfolio
Again.
Carlisle and Lamont the Only
Other Secretaries Yet
Selected.
Much Speculation in Wash
ington Concerning La
mars Successor.

LAKEWOOD, N. j., Jan. 24.-Presi-
dent-elect Cleveland and ex-Secretary
of State Thomas f. Bayard spent sew
eral hours this morning i'll cabinet
making at the Cleveland cottage.
after which they joined Mrs. Cleve-
land and Mrs. Bayard in a two
hours sleigh ride. 1t was expected
that eX-Secretary Whitney would join
the party this afternoon, but he did not
arrive. Several members OF his family,
however, ca me down on the afternoon
train, and from one of them it was
learned that Mr.. Whitney would be here
Wednesday. Mr.. Cleveland and Mr..
Bayard were closeted this afternoon in
Mr.. Cleveland's private study and de-
MED themselves to reporters. 1t is said
that Mr.. Bayard is. to have the state
portfolio again and Senator Carlisle
will he secretary of the treasury. The
only other member thus far known to
have been selected for Mr.. Cleveland's
cabinet is Mr.. Lamont, who is booked
for secretary of the navy. From
a most reliable source comes the
information that National Chairman
William Harrity, of Pennsylvania, has
been telegraphed for, and that he is to
be rendered the postmaster generalship.
Mr.. Carlisle, who was expected here to-
night to assist Mr.. Cleveland, did not
arrive. Mr.. Cleveland has not deter
mined what steps to take in regard to
Mr. Lamar's funeral.
Tonight a number of politicians who
claim to be in touch with Mr.. Cleveland
arranged this slate: Secretary of
state, T. f. Bayard. of Delaware;
treasury, j. &. Carlisle, of Kentucky;
war, p. A. Collins, of Massachusetts;
navy, Daniel S. Lamont, New York;
interior, E. G. Wall. Wisconsin,; post
master general, William f. Harrity,
Pennsylvania; attorney general, John
Randolph Tucker, of Virginia; agri-
culture, Hugh Wallace, of Washington.
Must Have Tried Men.
New YORK. Jan. 24.-The Press this
morning, in speaking Of the visit of
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard to the presi-
dent-elect at Lakewood, says: Some of
Mr.. Cleveland'S friends were surprised
to hear that he had summoned his
former secretary of state, Thomas f.
Bayard, of Delaware, to Lakewood
yesterday. and that Mr.. Bayard
was likely to be the secretary
of state in the next cabinet.
The Press has high authority for the
statement that Mr.. Cleveland practi-
cally decided to make this appointment
before inviting Mr.. Bayard to Lake
A Iac ifrh
ardent adherent of the presldent-elect.
one who has held confidential relations
with him. whether Mr. Bayard had
sought the office. Mr. Cleveland's
friend said:
mo, not any more than he did in
1885. But there are excellent reasons
why he should be made secretary of
state. 1t must be remembered" con-
tinued the preSident-elect'S friend,
that the president-elect looks upon the
reformation of the tariff system as the
most important work entrusted to him.
If the preSident-elect is to have
time and opportunity to carry out
this difficult work, he and his friends
both recognize that tried men must
relieve him of the details and especially
of those foreign complications that
arise to trouble most every ad-
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put forward in favor of Mr. Bayard'S
reappointment to his old post is that the
questions now important in foreign af-
fairs are almost identical with those that
came to the front during Mr.. Cleveland's
former administration. Mr.. Bayard
would be prepared to enter upon his
work without any necessity for the de-
lay inseparable from the choice of a
new secretary"