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the smoking room and had about An
inished our cigars. Mr.. Allison said:
Now. Mr.. President. Senator Cullom
is anxious to get away this afternoon.
He told me that he only wanted a few
moments with you. and IL you don't
object ! will go into the other room
and finish my cigar. and you can have
your conversation here This was as
scented to by President Harrison, and
Allison went into another room.
We'll" continued Senator Cullom.
after we were alone and had gone
owe the general topic of the occasion.
| directed the conversation to the cabi-
net and then said Gen. Harrison,
during our trip ont here Senator ALI
son took me into his confidence. He
told me you had offered him the secre-
taryship of the treasury, and he also
told me that he had decided he could
not accept IL. lie asked me to say this
to you during our interview and to tell
you that he thought he could serve you
and your administration better in the
senate than in the cabinet AS | said
this President Harrison pushed his
head to the front and asked me II that
was true. I could see that he was
much disturbed. He said but little
further. however. The conversation
changed. He soon recovered himself
and talked on as though nothing had
happened. | know that Allison did
refuse the place then. but l have not
had a word with him o Harrison
about II from that day to this"
The state department and the treas
ury promise to be among the hard
working positions of the next admin
istration. Most secretaries OF the
treasury have complained about the
work. Folger and Manning and Win
dom are popularity supposed to rave
I called the other day at the state de-
partment to see Secretary Olney, and
| ask him about the work of his Office.
He would not talk. but could see that
he thought he had plenty to do.
Whether overwork in the state depart
ment caused Gresham's death Is a ques-
ton. l am told that he did not like
lIt Vi puo1lt dtltttos NV ~ -
related that when he was postmaster
general he grew sick of the position
and wanted to get out of 1t. One day,
it Is said, he entered the house of a
friend In Washington, and, throwing
himself upon the sofa, exclaimed: 81
would not be a cabinet officer again for
a salary of 81, ZOO, 900 a year." Still II
yyn aftay thtc h. nnnnntnl Tho MORT
folio of the treasury and later On con.
scented to be Cleveland's secretary OF
state.
I visited, the other afternoon, the
room in the White House in which
are to be held the secret councils OF
Maj. McKinley's administration. The
cabinet room Is on the secnd floor OF
the White House, just at the head oil
the stairs between the library, which
will probably form Mrs. McKinley's
sitting room. and the large ovel
the east room and the green room
which will be the presidents office
and in which President Cleveland IL
spending the last days of his admin.
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secretary's. room, the whole suite on
the cas- side Of the second floor con.
stituting the business portions OF the
executive mansion. The cabinet room
is plainly furnished. There are eight
STRAIGHTFORWARD chairs with leather
cushions for the cabinet ministers and
a swinging chair of wicker and wood
for the president. President McKin.
ley v.ll sit at the head OF the table
with his different ministers at the right
and left. according to their order Of
precedence. During the meetings o.
the cabinet no n Is admitted to this
room. Sergt. Loefier, the presidents
private messenger, sits at the dool
and there is no chance for cabinet se.
crets to leak out except through the
ministers themselves. Frank G.. Car
penter in Detroit Free Press.