The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-06
M'KINLEY & CO.
The Ne W Prosperity Whole
salers Taking Stock
and Organizing
for Business.
hIX-UP OVER CABINET sWBARs
The President Still Besieged New
Heads of Departments
Taking Charge.
niX-Up OVER CABINET sWEARs

! dent Mckinley was at his desk at nine
| O'Clock this morning and hard at work.
| The correspondence is accommodating rap
| Idly and is being handled by Mr.. James
| Boyle, who was Major McKinley's private
| secretary at Canton, and Colonel Cooper,
| the PRESIDENTS stenographer. Among the
| callers today were Senators Allison and
| Gear of Iowa, General Powell Clayton,
who is to be Minister to Mexico; Con-
gresham Cannon of Illinois; Congress
men Murphy and Reeves of Illinois, ex-
| Congressman Charles F. Taft of Cincin-
natl H. H. Scott, the West Virginia
membea of the National Committee, who
| is a candidate for the position of Com
missioner of Internal Revenue; R. c.
Kerens of St. Louis, who is 1.-THE orig
| inal Mckinley man. of Missouri Then
Senators Quay of Pennsylvania and Davis
| of Minnesota called and had an interview
with the President. The Fifteenth Ward
| Club of Philadelphia was received in the
East Room this morning by the President
as was also a delegation of the Missouri
| friends of Mr.. Kerens.
| President Mckinley received hundreds
of congratulatory kilograms this morn
ing. among them the following
/ II. II. Kohlsaat telegraphed as follows
from Chicago:-"We salute you Mrs
Kohlsaat joins in heartiest congratula-
tions to Mrs. Mckinley and yourself.
May God bless and protect you.'
| The President of the Republic of Brazil
| cabled:-'I congratulate your Excellency
on having assumed charge of the high
| office of President of the United States
republic, wherein L am confident you
i will do all that lies in your
powerr to maintain and draw still closer
| the relations of amity which happily exist
| between the two countries. :.
| A. E. Orr, President of the Chamber of
commerce of New York, wired:-'HThe
| Chamber of Commerce of the State of
| New York tenders it's cordial greeting
| upon the suspicious occasion and in the
fullness of its confidence and hope. wishes
| you God speed"
| The Baltimore Conference of the NJ E.
| church, assembled in its 18th annual
| session at Baltimore:-ssWe send greet
| ings, with the assurance that the Con-
ference prays that the blessings of AL
| mighty God may rest upon you, upon
your administration and upon our glori-
Gus country After the rising vote was
taken authorizing the above the Confer
ence sang with great fervor, My Coun-
try, 'Iis of Thee Signed, w. T. MALTA
| lieu, President
lean Merchant Marine Association said -
Your ringing endorsement of and de-
mand for protection to our ships in the
| foreign trade inspires the friends of
American shipping with renewed hope.''
Others who sent telegrame were Jesse
| Watson, President of the Columbia Uni
'versity Chapter of the Sigma Alpha Ep-
| silon fraternity; Bishop McCabe, Presi-
| dent of the Kansas Conference; Rufus
! Bullock of Atlanta Ca; w. L. Strong,
| Mayor of New York, wired:-.T CON
| Cabinet May a kind Providence shower
| the choicest blessings on you and your
| administration.
From Rome, Italy, Bourke Cockrah
| istration will be an enduring monument
of democratic government"
| Congratulations were sent by the Assem-
bly, of California through it's Clerk. w
| G. Hawkett; the members of the House
| of Representatives of Minnesota, and In
diana sent similar messages; also the Ger
man-Americdn Club of San Francisco,
through its President, Robert Weinicke
The American citizens on board the steam
| er Fuerst Bismarck cabled congratula-
tons from BeyroUt, Byria.
| President Errazuris of Chile cabled ear
nest congrat ulations from Santiago.
The Philadelphia Branch National Re
| publican League of Business Men, tele-
graphed their greetings, which were trans
mitted by. Howard H. French. President
Thomas Them o9 9Nebbougs tbo 9f Cncnnati and OLD
| hearty congratulations. Both branches
| of the Michigan Legislature wired a con-
| gratuatory resolution
| James A. Mcguire of California. who
was tallfed of for a Cabinet portfolio,
telegraphed from Sacramento: Il con- con-
grafaiate era fio yan Upon your successful inaug-
may, be continuously successfui.a : e'''o' :
All the members of the new Cabinet,
room adjoining the Presidents Office at
half past ten o'clock, where, according
to arrangements, the Chief Justice was
expected to administer the oath of office.
Mr.. Gage had not understood this pro-
gramme, nor apparently had Chief JUS
| tice Fuller, who had made an appoint
ment to. swear in the new Secretary of
at HIS o'clock, and Mr. Gage had issued
number of invitations to IlIinoisans to
witness the ceremony. The entire Su-
preme Court also had an engagement to
call on the President in a body at eleven
O'Clock to pay their respects, and this
| was the only part of the days programme
that occurred strictly according to sched-
| ule time. The confusion at the White
House was extraordinary all morning.
due to the crowds of persons who had
IN IN some way secured cards of introduce
| VINO appeared with constituents who
wished to see all the apartments and who
In many instances succeeded.
Secretary Porter,s office was overrun
with senators and Representatives but
he denied himself to them and remained
with the PRESIDENT in the Cabinet room
While the meeting of the President and
effort being. made to reach Chief Justice
Fuller to administer the oath, the Su-
Preme faw ,o Gnar@ srt was S suddenly announced q
President hurried downstairs into the
Blue Parlor to greet them
ception when the Chief Justice learned
| that the Cabinet had been waiting fol.
him. he suggested for convenience that
once in the presence of the court. and 11t this
| was promptly acted upon
me oath was administered to the Sec
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