The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-06-13
NOTES OF INTEREST ABOUT MEN
AND THINGS.
TO PREVENT FILIBUsTEkING Elk
PEDTTIONs TO CUBA.
OiVh service Examiners busy--The
Condition OF National Banks--
Changes In Army RegnIatioRs--Other
Matters.



The right OF the State of Mississippi
TO select lands within the limits of the
abandoned naval reservations within
her borders in satisfaction Of grant to
the State for the benefit OF the Univer-
sity of Mississippi has been considered
in a decision just rendered by Secretary
Hoke Smith. BY act of Congress, ap-
proved June 20, 1894, the State was
granted %, 040 acres to be selected ont
of the ''unoccupied and uninhabited
lands of the United States within the
State. {" BY another act, approved May
2, 1890, the naval reservation in Missis-
sippi was restored to the public domain
with provision that 50 much of the res
ervatiOn as was situated on Back Bay,
near Biloxi, had been under the town
site law and not as agricultural lands
Secretary Smith holds that the State
may select any of the land of the aban-
doned reservations now unoccupied and
uninhabited except that named in the
proviso. This latter he considers has
not really been fully restored to the
public domain being reserved especially
for the town site purchases. He argues
that if the grant passed this land it
would also pass mineral lands, although
il has been repeatedly held that a land
grant can never pass mineral lands.
THE NEW CABINET OFFICERS.
The president, late Friday afternoon
announced the following cabinet APP
pointments: For Secretary of State,
Richard j. Olney, Of Massachusetts,:
for Attorney General, Judson Harmon,
of Cincinnati, 0.
The announcement of the transfer Of
Attorney General Olney to the head Of
the the state department, created no
surprise here, as ii has been well un-
derstood for several days that Mr.. Oh
new would succeed to the first place In
the cabinet made vacant by the death
az Secretary Gresham. IL is probable
that Mr.. Olney will tomorrow take
the oath AZ the head of the State de-
partment. The president at one time
contemplated other changes in his cab
met. and a Encouragement OF several
norffolios. and in this connection con-
s,deration was given to the transfer OF
Secretary Smith to the department OF
Justice. but this and other transfers
we're finally abandoned, and the presl-
dent concluded that the simplest plan
would be merely to fill the vacancy
caused by Mr.. Olneys promotion.
The appointment Of Judge Judsor
Harmon. of Cincinnati, as attorney
General. came in the nature OF sur
Driae His name had not even beer
canvassed as among the proba6liltieSs
There n the best OF authority for tn'
statement that the president had sev
a~aI men under consideration, tnd tn'
nortfolio OF Justice might have 6eel
hod Inv Mr. James Garter, OF Ne'
~ W Who was counsel for the govern
ment in the Behring sea tribunal an
tLa income cases, and by Mr.. Frederi
p roudert. Of New York, had the
l,aor disposed to accept it. Secretar.
Corl;aIe knew Harmon personally, an
: t.otb admired and respected his aDlnty
n was he, probably, who hrst PreSgn' ~
, "A bis name to Mr.. Cleveland ~
! c. ~ camnbell, Of Ohio, close frlen
4 % Irdge Harmon, also warmly SUI
- ~ him and the president secure
a r. r. from ex-Gov. Hoadley, OF Onl'
"a % Who Il now living in New YORK AZ y
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= earorabIe reports as to his apin'y nn ~
: nanud;no After canyassing the sleu' sl
i s;"n thoroughly the president one[s tI
J .lon s-tfolio srYt NJ Justice to Judge ma
q mon by wire this afternoo'i isavorab "1s i
q rned;ately upon receiving . a iasot"O
4 nns,Ir announced the appointment
4 reP'J yrrT,ow FEVER AT VERA CRUZ. !,
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