Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-05-28
record, especially in tho campaigns OF isus
I'm Mississippi

In Mississippi.
Aug. IL, 1868, no was commissioned
brigadIor general and while commanding
the fourth division of General Blair's
corps before Atlanta no received u wound
which disabled him for year, ending bis
service. March l3, 1865, he was brcvctted
major general for gallantry In the Atlanta
campaign. Ho resumed law practice, this
time mt New Albany, Ind, and became a
Republican leader, but tho Democratic
majority I'm that region was too much for
him, and no was defeated In tho rlco for
congress. Again, In 1881, no was an un.
successful candidate for United States
senator. Meanwhile President Grant had
appointed him federal judge for tho dis
trict Of Indiana.
His Services mt Washington.
When Postmaster General Howe died,
In April, 1888, Gresham, then holding
court at Evansville, was tondered tho cab
met position by telegraph, and accepted.
Near the close of Arthur's term, on tho
death of Secretary Folgcr he was ap-
pointed secretary of the treasury, a posi-.
ton he held until October, 1884, when he
withdrew from the cabinet altogether.
During his cabinet service he was one Of
Arthur's most trusted advisers. In De-
cembcr 1884, Judge Drummond having
retired from the office of United States
circuit Judge President Arthur, who had
taken him from the bench, had the salts.
faction of restoring him to the bench at
the end Of his service.
In 1888 Judge Gresham was made q
prominent candidate for the Republican
nomination for the presidency at the Chi.
cago convention. Harrison ultimately
captured the Indiana delegation and was
nominated.
Previous to that, Gresham had displayed
strong inclination to dissent from the
extreme high tariff doctrine of the Repub
lican party. His views on the tariff
created against him the antagonism Of the
extreme protcctionists at Chicago. When
the Republicans assumed power and re-
viscd the tariff by tho passage of the Nc
Kinley law, Judge Gresham, with Other
Republicans, openly dissented, and in
1892, after the nomination of Cleveland
by the Democrats, he with other Rcpubli
cans, renounced their allegiance to the
Republican party and advocated Cleve-
lands election. After Cleveland was
elected in February, 1893, he rendered
Gresham the position of premier Of tho
cabinet he was forming. Gresham nc.
of state on March z, 1898
During his short term as postmaster gen
eral, Gresham accomplished much. From
the day he set foot in the Office he evinced
those qualities Of application and master
his public labors.
Called by Cleveland.
AS secretary of state in the present all.
ministration, Mr.. Gresham has had to deal
with problems more vexatious, intricate
and delicate, automatically, than has
fallen to the share Of most secretaries Of
state. His treatment of these measures
was marked by the strong individuality
which was part of tho man. To him it
made little difference how any line Of
action promised to affect his own country
he could and did disabuse his mind Of any
personal feeling in dealing with an inter
national question, and the first considera-
ton with him was always absolute fair
ness; II his own country occupied false
position in the matter, he thought 1t was
his duty to set it right, oven at a sacrifice
of material interests, as 1t might appear at
the time.
Secretary Gresham found much to dis.
satisfy him with the state of our foreign
relations when he assumed office this last
time, and in his characteristic fashion he
set to work to shape these to meet his own
ideas without delay. Such a course was
certain to subject him to bitter criticism,
and he fully realized this in advance, but
was in no respect deferred from doing
what he thought was right.
This brought him face to face with the
great question of the hour at that time
the annexation of Hawaii. He had dc.
cided views upon this matter even before
he came into tho cabinet, and the secretary
made his celebrated recommendation that
the queen be restored, inasmuch as she
had been deposed through the action of
the officers Of the United States. When
congress finally made known its wishes,
the secretary accepted them for his govern
ment, but it cannot be discovered from
any subsequent utteranco of his that he
ever changed his views as originally an
nounced to tbs justice Of the action he had
proposed.
While he was deep in the Hawaiian
negotiations, Gresham was Obliged sud
denly to give immediate attention to the
subject of the Behring sea fisheries. The
arbitration arranged by his predecessor
was in full swing. Here was another
matter with which
He Was Not In Harmony.
The British were unwilling to do the
first of many things, and it was only by an
exhibition Of strength through his charac
ter and purpose that he succeeded in hurry
ing through the British parliament an act
to give effect to the arbitration and then
securing the adoption of regulations to
keep off the poachers.
BY clause in the Wilson tariff act, con.
gress has swept away in a line all of the
carefully constructed reciprocity treaties
negotiated by the preceding administra
ton. This caused great anger among the
nations with which the United States had
such treaties, and the Storm fell upon SEQ
retary Gresham's head. 1t was Mr..
Gresham's task to placate the European
powers, and how skillfully he did so, the
printed correspondence tells.
Another legacy from his predecessor
which Mr.. Gresham found very little to
his liking, was the necessity for caring for