Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-06-05
CABINET HONORS.
And. the Men Who Are Likely
To Be Their Possessors.
OLNEY TO BE SECRETARY OF STATE,

One Thing That Appears To BE Settled
Generai-Senator Gray has "a Interview
with the PrcsIdent-Talk OF Don ~.
Dickinson Also. Who Deciises to Discuss
the Matter-sketch Of Olncy.
WASHINGTON. June 5-A cabinet Off
Ger said after the cabinet meeting that nc
appointment had yet been made to fill the
vacancy in the cabinet. He also remarked
that he did not think that the president
had considered the selection OF secretary
of state. Senator Gray, of Delaware
came over from Wilmington and went
directly to tho White House to see the
president. 1t was thought the visit Of
the Delaware senator was significant and
had q connection with the vacant cabinet
offic.
He was the most earnest champion Of
the administration in tho senate, and as @
member of the committee on foreign rela.
tions has become very familiar with the
duties which would fall upon q secretary
OF state. Gray was talked of in connec
ton with the position Of secretary Of state
when the cabinet was first formed.
OIney Nearly q Certainty.
But il Gray was offered cabinet posi-
ton it was that Of attorney general, ksr
Olney Is undoubtedly slated for the sccrs.
tary Of state portfolio. Senator Gray S
visit to the White House was undoubted.
ly in response to q telegram from the
president, who it is learned would NOT
hesitate to offer Gray n plaza in his cab-
net were it not for the fact that his re-
tirenent from the senate would almost
certainly result in the c!es;ion of Re-.
lt l. be
that up to this time the president has not
definitely decided upon Olney's sue,
cessor. A long list of names is being dis.
cussed, but everything IL that conncc.
ton is purely speculative. Ex-Postmas.
ter General Don NJ. Dickinson, it is said,
would be very likely Of appointment il he
would accept. A possibility is Holmes
Conrad. of Virginia the present solicitor
general.
Dickinson In tho lishtninl's Track.
Indeed there is report current here
that the Office of attorney general will be
rendered to Don NJ Dickinson IL is not
known whether Dickinson, who at the
beginning of the present administration
declined an Office. will accept. The pro-
posed tender of the attorney gener;.lship
came from an excellent source; did not
state absolutely that it had been tcndered,
but said that it was altogether probable
that it would BE-.
Oiney Has Made Himscif q Name.
Richard Oincy, who is now in all prob
ability I'd be advanced 10 the first place in
President Clevcland's cabinet, has won
this distinction by the able service he has
thus far rendered the president on all the
more important questions that have en-.
gagged public attention since the present
administration began. During the great
strike at Chicago Olney's services. were
particularly notable. He developed each
step that the government authorities
took, and Presidens Cleveland was %
fully convinc OF the wisdom Of the pro.
posed policy that he gave it thorough sup
port and execution. la this question
Oincy was inpellei by desire to sup
press disorder. His gra:uitous protest
against the action of the Reading railway
in attempting to make it u condition OF
working on that road that the employe
should not belong to a labor urion shows
his position on another question.
Comes Of Good Old stock.
Tie new secretary OF state comes from
sturdy Puritan stock. His ancestor
Thomas Olney, came from England and
settled ut Salem, Mass, in 1875 The
father of Richard Olney owned and man.
aged the cotton mills as Oxford, and also
engaged in banking. His mother was a
SigourEcy, descended from French
Eusuenots, who flsl from Franco 70 tAis
country. The new secretary was gradu.
ated from Brown university in 1886. and
from the Harvard law school in 1888 He
married Agnes, dau >h;er OF Judge Ben
jamin I. Thomas. with whom he stndiei
law. They have lived Of late years at
Boston, with summer homes near Euz.
gard Bay and Gray Gables, tho summer
residence Of the president