Evening star., 1895-06-11
JUDGE H A R M O N
The New Attorney General Sworn
Into Office.
[E ATTENDS TIE CABINET MEETING
Mr.. OIney Accompanies Him to
the Department of Justice.
BRIEF TALK WITH HIM

| stalled in Office Attorney General today.
He arrived here from Cincinnati early this
| morning and registered at the Arlington
| About 10 o'clock Secretary Olney, who had
| been apprised Of the arrival of his success
| sor in the Department of Justice, called
| upon him at the hotel a'qd the two walked
| over to the White Hose and spent about
| half an hour with the President. He and
Judge Harmon old friends and did not
require an introduction to each other.
Sworn in by Justice Harlan.
| 1t had been decided that the new cabinet
minister should be sworn in at the State
| Department, and he went over there about
| 1890 o'clock. still in company with Secre-
| tery Olney. Mr.. Justice Harlan of the Su-
preme Court awaited them and when every
| thing was in readiness administered the
| simple oath OF office to the new Attorney
| General in the presence of Secretary Olney,
Assistant Secretary Uhl and Private Sec
| retaries Lands and Blandford.
| few minutes were spent in conversa-
| tfon, and the hour for the meeting of the
| cabinet having arrived, the new Secretary
OF state and the new Attorney General
| walked back to the White House and Joined
the President and his advisers in their
| semi-weekly discussion of affairs Of state
At the Cabinet Meeting.
| Secretary Olney was assigned to the post
| of honor at the Presidents right, formerly
| held by Secretary Gresham, and more
| recently occupied by Acting Secretary Uhl.
| Attorney General Harmon was assigned to
| the seat farther down on the opposite side
| OF the long council table. formerly occupied
by Mr. Olney. The chairs of Secretary
Herbert and Postmaster General Wilson
were vacant. They are both out of the
| city.
After the adjournment of the meeting,
Secretary Olney and Attorney General Har-
| mon took luncheon together, and then went
to the Department Of Justice. where the
new head of that department was made ac-
Qua1nted with all his official associates.
The New Attorney General.
Attorney General Harmon is a tall, ath-
letic man of handsome appearance. He is
smooth shaven, save medium sized brown
| mustache slightly tinged with gray He is
| reported to be a sincere civil service re-
former, and it is understood that he will
make no changes In the personnel of his
assistants in the department. His family
will spend the summer at White SULPHUR
Springs, and will probably not visit Wash
ington until the fall.
He Talks on Several Subjects,
When seen IT. his rooms at the hotel
shortly before this morning he was tired
and dusty, but cordial.
You must excuse my appearance" he
said, but have just arrived a short time
ago. and have not got the dust of travel
(
a newspaper man; they have been SO good
to me that I wonder where the bad news
paper men are you hear about. Now. what
can I do for you?"
How do you think you Will like your
new Officer" he was asked.
IF succeed in discharging the duties of
like it. If do not. certainly shall not
I do not consider it any good fortune for
man to be appointed to an office If he
does not fill it satisfactorily. 1 do not
n fpk fC loy ~, $IN ;t..l
States that would not be willing to try,
though. The most that 1 know about the
duties of the office is through my friend,
Judge William H. Taft Of Cincinnati who
succeeded me on the bench of the superior
court there, and whom I am following to
the Department of Justice here. The Office
of Attorney General is one which any law
yer would be glad to have"
Views on the Currency Question.
what are your views on the currency
question:"
II have a negative belief, rather than a
positive one" he replied. Il want the
American dollar to be just as good as any
body else's dollar and with that qualifca
tion do not care what it is made of. But
in the present situation 1t seems to me mere
folly to talk about the free coinage Of sill
yer. The only way we float the silver We
now have is by attaching an applied green
back to every silver dollar; or in other
words, by the government promising to
to keep the two equal. OF course there is
a very narrow limit to the governments
ability to do that, besides, l know of no
reason why it should do it.
'If there was free and unlimited coinage
Of silver, the government could not keep
the two metals a parity very 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 sill
yer basis.
'If the situation should change, it might
be that silver and gold would be Of equal
steadiness in value; that both might
in measure at least be used as money.
1t would be possible, has been the case
in the history of the world, that silver
might at some time have more of the
necessary qualities of money than gold:
Of that nobody say. But it has not
now, and, therefore, it cannot be used
as money without limit and side by side
with gold. How soon the situation may
change, nobody can tell
DO you believe in having an information
al conference in regard to the matter?"
''Yes. But we cannot tell exactly how
an International agreement might affect
it. 1t would to a certain extent, but until
governments can control the laws of trade,
there is limit to the effect which inter-
national agreements could have over
money