Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-06-12
NEW ATTORNEY GEN'L
Mr.. Harmon, Of Ohio, Takes The Pre-
SCribed Oath Of ONCE.
MAKES 4 FINE IMPRESSION.
lie IL Interviewed and Expresses
Himself Freely on the Currency
and Other Qucstions-Hc Is for
sound Noncy.

! WASHINGTON, ID. c., June 1l.-Judge
/ Harmon the new Attorney General, ar
! rived in the city early this morning, ana
/ drove to the Arlington Hotel. He after
( wards proceeded to the State Department,
where he took the oath OF Office as head
( OF the Department Of Justice before JUS
/ tice Harlan, Of the Supreme Court. shortly
! before II A. NJ. Thence, accompanied by
I Mr.. Olney, he walked over TO the White
/ House to the Cabinet meeting, where he
/ was formally introduced to his associates
in the Cabinet by secretary-of-State OIL
ney, his predecessor
Attorney General Harmon's welcome
was a cordial one on all hands, but espe-
cially from Secretary Carlisle. who was
/ the only member Of the Cabingt previous
| ly acquainted with him.
MAKES A FINE IMPRESSION.
| WASHINGTON. June 11-After the
| Cabinet meeting to-day Mr. Judson Haf-
mon. the new Attorney-General. accom-
| panied by Secretary Olney. drove to the
! Department Of Justice, where Mr.. Oiney
introduced Mr.. Harmon to Solicitor-Gene-
raj Conrad and the other chief officials
| OF the department.
Mr.. Harmon spent the afternoon re-
| ceiving the officials and newspaper men
| who called. lie made a most favorable
| impression on all he met
PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
Acknowledgement Harmon Is a tall, ath-
! letlc man Of handsome appearance. lie Is
/ smooth shaver, save a medium-siZed
| brown moustache slightly tinged with
| gray. He is reported TO b. sincere
! civil-serVice refOrmer, and 1t is under
| stood that he will make no changes IN
| the personnel of his assistants in the de-
partment His family will spend the sum
| mer at White Sulphur Springs. and VIII
| probably not visit Washington until the
| fall.
| when seen I'm his rooms at the hotel
| shortly before 9 o'clock this morning he
| vAs tired and dusty but cordial.
| you must excuse my appearance he
| said but / have just arrived short
| time ago, and have not got the dust OF
! travel of me as yet. 7 am. however, glad
| 10 see newspaper man; they have been
so good 10 me that ] wonder where the
! bad newspaper-men are you hear about
| Now, what can / DO for youY
MR.. HARMON'S VIEWS.
''How do you think you Will like your
new Officer" he was asked.
III / succeed in di charging the duties
/
! tainly like it, II / do not I Certainly
| shall not / do not consider II any good
| fortune for a man 10 be appointed 10 an
| office il he does not fill IL satisfactorily.
| | do not think there IS any lawyer IN the
| United States that would not be Wiling
! to try il. though. The most that l know
| about the duties OF the Office Is through
! my friend, Judge William II. Taft or
| Cincinnati, VINO succeeded me on the
| bench Of the Superior Court there. ana
! whom | am following to the Department
| # Justice here. The office Of Attorney
! General Is one which any lawyer "ouid De
| glad 10 have.
CURRENCY QUESTION.
"Uhat are your views on the currency
| question:
81 have a negative b<ief, rather than
/ a positive one he replied. 81 want the
! American dollar TO be just as good as
! ANYBODY eise's dollar, and with that
! qualification / do not care what II Is made
| Of But in the present situation IL Sc ms
! To me mere folly TO talk about the Iree
| coinage Of silver The only way we noat
| the silver we now have is by attaching
an applied greenbach TO every silver dol
lar; or in other words, by the govern
rnent promising to redeem 10 with gold
| dollar. If necessary to keep the two
| equal. OF course. there Is a very narrow
| limit 10 the governments ability TO 90
that. besides, / know of no reason why
| IL should do IL.
IF there was free and unlimited coin
| age of silver the government could not
! Keep the two metals on a parity Nry
| long. and the result would be, by the
| law of money that has been settled from
| the time that man has had money, the
| gold would all disappear and there would
| be only a silver basis.
SITUATION MIGHT CHANGE.
If the situation should change II
| might be that silver and gold would be
| of equal steadiness in value; 30 that Doth
might. in a measure, at least, be used as
money. Ii would b. possible, as has been
| the case in the history of the world, that
! silver might at some time have more OF
| the necessary qualities Of money IMAM
gold; but that nobody can say. But II has
| not now, and, therefore, 1t cannot be
! used as money without a limit and side
| BY side with gold. How soon the situation
! may change. nobody can tell
do you believe in having an interna-
| tio@al conference in regard 10 the mat
| teri"
YES. But we cannot tell exactly how
| an international agreement might Affect
IL. 1t would to a certain extent, but until
! governments can control the laws OF
| trade. there is a limit to the effect which
| international agreements could have over
mon. j."