El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-05
WHAT THE EXES WILL DO.

I WASHINGTON, March 4.-Those
high officials in the departments of the
government will retire from ofnce as
| fast as their successors are appointed
Most all of the cabinet officers and
their chiefs have made all their future
arrangements and will be distrl buted
around the country as follows:
| Secretary Lamont will take an actual
rest for time after he turns over his
Office to Gen. Alger. He has packed
up his household effects, and Will take
his family, all the children Included,
on six weeks tour in the south, stop
ping mostly in Florida. He will return
north from this trip to New Y ork and
take active charge of the various bust
ness interests which he has never al
| together relinquished during his occu-
pancy of the office of secretary of war.
Secretary Herbert has already an
nounced his intention of opening law
| office in Washington, and taking up
the active practice of the profession
which he surrendered some years ago
to enter congress.
Attorney General Harmon will re-
enter his old law firm in Cincinnati.
| Assistant Secretary of the Navy
McAdoo will go back to New York and
take up his legal practice where he
laid it down to enter the navy depart
ment.
Assistant Secretary Joseph Doe was
also a lawyer when he was induced to
join in administering the affairs of the
| war department.. He Will go back to
his home in Milwaukee, and seek to
make up the time he has lost in the
practice of the law during his official
| life.
Postmaster General Wilson settled
his plans for the future several weeks
ago by accepting the post of president
of w Washington and Lee University at
| Lexington, Va. 1t is an office to which
| he is especially adapted, and both his
own inclinatiOns aud those of his fami-
ly have always been strongly toward
an educational career. The office pays
a salary of $4,000 year and the pre-
| sdential residence. Mr.. Wilson will
| be in Washington practically all the
time between now and July, taking
perhaps an occasional trip to his old
probably making brief trip to Lex
ington to aequaint himself with his new
duties.
Secretary Francis, will, in all proba-
bility, return to St. Louis within
fortnight of the change of administra-
ton. He will imm ediately resume the
direct conduct of the brokerage bust
ness of the D. r. Francis commission
house, and also reunite his ties with
| the various commercial institutions of
St. Louis, many of which he sacrificed
to become Hcke Smiths successor as
secretary of the interior.
| Secretary Morton will go back to his
| splendid home, "ArbOr Lodge" Just
outside of Nebraska City, Neb. He
had planned to leave here with his sis-
ter on the Monday following the 4th,
| but Miss Morton is now seriously Ill
with pneumonia. and unless her condl-
ton is greatly improved the departure
will have to be deferred. The secreta-
RVS plans contemplates going to Chi
cagO for a few days visit, and from
there on to his home. Mr.. Morton has
spent all his life since year or two af-
ter obtaining his majority there. Mr..
| Morton says he has no intention OF en-
| Lerlng politics, and that his only partl-
clpation will be in the role of tax pay
err.
| In the department of Justice Assis-
tant Attorney Dickinson will leave
| Washing ton on March ,, to become
general counsel for the Louisville and
| Nashville railroad company in the
| state of Tennessee.
First Assistant Postmaster General
| Frank II. Jones will return to Chicago
to resume his law practic. Assistant
Attorney General for the Post Office
| Department John L. Thomas will
PROBABLY hold his present position for
the present.
| Assistant Attorney General Isaac
H. Lion berger, for the interior depart
ment, is now in Missouri, but will re-
| turn in week. He has already re-
signed, and will return to ST. Louis
and resume his law practice immedl-
aLeIy upon the appointment of his sue
| cessOr.