Evening star., 1897-01-14
LATE NEWS BY WIRE
Mr.. Bliss Admits That He Will Not
Enter the Cabinet.
DECISION ANCRIBED 10 FAMILY AFFAIRS
Senator Lodge Conferring With the
Pres:dent-EIect.
TEN As HAS a CANDIDATE

NEW YORK January I4-Cornelius n.
Bliss today confirmed the rumor that he
is not to be a member of the next cabinet.
He at his worth street Office by
an Associated Press representative, to
whom he said:
Il am not to be a member of Major Nc
Kinley's cabinet"
Further than this Mr.. Bliss would not
go. He declined TO admit that he had
been offered place in the cabinet. Neither
would he give his reasons for making this
statement today.
From other sources IL was learned that
Mr.. Bliss finds that he cannot accept
portfolio in President elect Mckiniey's
cabinet without making very serious sac
rifces. To cua of his closest friends he
Is quoted as having said:
1T Is very serious matter for a man al
my time of life TO pull up stakes ard en-
gage for Il term of four years in pursuits
concerning which he Knows little or moth
ing | am very doubtful to the ad-
Nisabillty OF such ali undertaking.
Senator Lodge at Canton.
CANTON. Ohio. January 1i.-Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts ar
rived in Canton this morning on the 1923
Fort Wayne train from Washington and
Was driven direct from the station to .he
Mckinley residence. There he was in con-
ference with the President-elect for some
time. Senator Lodge lunched with Mai.
Mckinley and left for the east AT ,~f5
O'Clock.
Texas Has Candidate.
DALLAS. Texas. January 14-This morn
ing at O'Clock a party of Texas reoubli-
cans departed for Canton to pay their re-
spects to President-eIect Mckinley and to
formally present the name of National
Committeeman John Grant as a suitable
fC.- 10 "a nall
a memorial asking that he be thus honored
In addition. an Endorsement. signed by H.
'p Texans, Will be presented 10 the Prcsi-
ueEt-eiect- There are eight bound volume
or this, and the memorial IS printed on
parchment, with velvet binding ard is a
handsome specimen of the printers art
The party will arrive in Canton Saturday
afternoon and leave there that night
Attributed to Family Affairs.
Special Dispatch 10 The Evening Star.
CLEVELAND. Ohio. January 14.-Briefy
stated. the result of yesterdays cabinet
building in Canton is that Senator Sher-
man will enter the cabinet of the next a6-
n.inistratior and that Cornelius N Bliss
viii go out Both of these statements
have received authentic verification. The
statement that Mr.. Bliss had reconsidered
lis promise to enter the cabinet could not
be confirmed by President-elect Mckinley
himself at Canton up to noon today
1t Is thought that certain family affairs
have developed since Mr.. Bliss returned to
New \ ork which make reversal of the de-
ciSion he gave Major Mckinley necessary
The announcement that Senator Sher-
man VIII be the reXt premier is a notice
10 Governor Bushnell that the incoming
administration relies upon him to app pint
MI Hanna to he senator of the United
states for the unexpired term of the senior
senator. This belief is based solely on the
conviction of the friends of the administra-
tion that Governor Bushnell, expecting re-
nomination and reelection, will see the
htHess of Mr.. Hanna for the seat
The withdrawal OF Mr.. Bliss means the
reopentHg Of the entire New York situa-
tion and a general scramble for Mr. Platt's
Endorsement.
The treasury portfolio is still open Nc
kinney would prefer Aldrich. but Aldrich
is fighting shy New England has ex-Gov-
"rnOr Long and several promising men,
but they do not fill the Mckinley ideal
The bcoms of CulloIn and Charles Emory
Smith are slowly dying. and there remains
less than six weeks before the cabinet of
the President-elect must be completed.
What is Thought at Columbus.
Special Dispatch TO The Evening Star
COLUMBUS. Ohio, January 14.-CIose po-
Htlcal friends OF Major Mckinley and Sen
ator Sherman here think that Governor
Bushnell will be bound by considera tions
for his candidacy for governor. which he
has already announced. TO avoid open fac
tional lighting In his party to appoint
Hanna to succeed Sherman in the Senate
instead of c. L. Kurtz. TO whom he would
he more fayorably inclined on personal
grounds.