Evening star., 1896-08-01

cabinet is not considered a stepping stone
10 anything. and. insfsct. it has been called
members Of the Harrison cabinet now?
Secretary Blaine Is dead. Secretary Fos-
ter, after goingc through bankruptcy, Is
an insignihcant figure in the business and
pohtical world nfd Ohio, where he was
once q power iM Gboth spheres. Secre-
tary Tracy Is achieving some additional
reputation as lawyer in New York. AMI
ne has been Inadvertently member Of
the greater New,sHprk commission. Even
tnese nitd honors are unusual to retired
cao.net OFFICER. Secretary Proctor took
Tune by the foreleck and resigned from
the cabinet to take a seat in the Senate,
which Is a more stable as we'll as a more
Independent position. Secretary John w.
roster mas gained isome fame the ad-
Japan for peace. But he is out of public
ne me now. Secretary Noble is practicing
raw IN St Louis i'm partnership with Gen
eIai George Shields, who was his legal
neither Of them is conspicuous in politics
today Secretary Rusk is dead. Mr.
w anamaker has practically disappeared
rom IRON. pubic view. Altogether the Har-
rlson cahlfet members have retired into
a sreater obscurity than they knew before
tne president called them to Washington
The Harrison Cabinet.
Ihe Harrison cabinet kept pretty well
tosether. The resignati ton of Mr. Proc
tor ana the death OF Mr.. Window made
the only changes In it until the sensa-
tional resignation Of Mr.. Blaine just be-
rcre the meeting of the republican ma
tionai convention. Yet every member of
tnat canlf ct except one told MIR. Harrison
III advance OF the election that he would
decline to serve another term. Each of
tnem found the strain on his nerves and
his pocket too great
Iyier cabinet planned to resign in a
Dody, and SO embarrass the President. but
I'anlei Webster, his Secretary of State
refused 10 enter into the agreement and
SO the plot failed. The other members
OF the cabinet resigned September H. Con-
gress was to adjourn September 13. The
i.esiuent sent In new names on the morn
ing OF september 13 and the Senate con-
nrmed them Hugh Lesare. who succeeded
NSpster IN the State Department. died at
a banquet in Boston Abel Upshur. his
successor, was killed by the bursting of
car non on the u. S. S. Princeton on the
o,omaeoan tbn ma "a n accident which nearly ended
tary Gilmer of the navy was killed with
nr. W opshur, and many were injured in
the accident.
ofHcfal Harmony.
Inc late George Bancroft said of Polk's
cabinet that it was harmonious because
the President insisted on being the center
OF the administration and "in overruling
ana guiding all his secretaries to act SO
as TO produce unity and harmony" This
IS What Mr.. Cleveland has done, so far as
he could. with both his cabinets Ha made
three members. of the present cabinet go
pack on their records on the currency aues-
tloil. 1aylor's cabinet was chosen with a
view TO guiding the President instead of
being controlled by him, for Taylor WAS a
soldier by profession and not statesman
flilmore, Wnen he succeeded Taylor ap-
pointed a new cabinet throughout Daniel
Webster was his Secretary of State and he
held the Office until he died.
flerceS cabinet broke a record II re-
NAMED intact through four years. Several
members of Buchanan's cabinet resig ,ed
because they disapproved the Presidents
ideaS on secession. There were few changes
IN the Lincoin-JohnSon cabinet, though Mr.
Lincoins advisers We're often out of har-
mony with him. Grant had four Secre-
tar!es or the Treasury and five Secretaries
OF War. 1t was Grant who appointed A. T
stewart Secretary of the Treasury. The
Senate refused to confirm the nomination
because an old law said the Secretary of
the Treasury should not be interested in
importations. and though Stewart offered
to put his business in the hands of trus-
tour years, he was shut out.
Late Administrations.
The scandals connected with Grants od-
m!nistration were responsible for many
changes in his cabinet. The Hayes cabinet
stuck together pretty well. Two of it's
members went OIL sthe federal bench and
one into business: Folger. Arthur's Secre-
tary of the Treasury. died in office. He
was Killed by disappointment over his de-
Feat by Mr. Cleveland for governor of New
York. Secretary Gresham was promoted
from the Post Office Department to su.-
ceed him and he went. thence 10 the fed
eral bench. In Mr. Cleveland's first cab
met Mr.. Manning was forced by ill-health
TO resign. Mr.. Lamar went to the Supreme
bench Otherwise the cabinet remained in
tact. GEORGE GRANTHAM BAN.
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