The record-union., 1897-02-02
EX-COngreSSman Wilson Accepts the Ten
der Of Place by Major Mckinley.
Announces That He is to be Secretary
of Agriculture.
Charles G. Dawes OF Illinois Accepts
the Appointment of Comptroller OF
the Currency, His Commission to
Begin at the Expiration of Eckels'
Term i'm 1898.

Term i'm 1898.
DES MONIES Qa), Feb. 1.-EX- Con
gresham James Wilson of Iowa an
nounced tonight his acceptance of the
Cabinet portfolio recently rendered him
by President-elect Mckinley. To a
representative of the Associated Press,
MIR. Wilson said:
1t is true that | have been invited
into President McKinleys Cabinet. 1
have accepted. That is all there is To
say about the matter"
1t is generally known that Mr. VIII
son will be Secretary of Agriculture,
he having wired to Senator Allison to-
day that that portfolio had been offered
and accepted.
James Wilson was born August IL.
1880, at Ayrshire Scotland, his parents
belonging to the farming class. His
parents emigrated to Connecticut in
1852, and began farming in the vicinity
Of Norwich They came TO Iowa in the
fall Of 1896. buying Government land
in Tama County. James is the oldest
of family Of fourteen children, seven
boys and seven girls. James was sent
to the Twelfth Iowa General Assembly
to get stock Acts enacted, changing the
custom Of permitting stock to run at
large. He was reelected to the Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth General Assem-
blies, being Speaker of the House IN
the last Assembly in which he served
The Code of 1873 was enacted while he
presided
He was elected to the Forty-third
Congress during his last term in the
House, and was reelected to the Forty
fourth Congress. He retired at the end
of his second term to his farm, when he
was appointed by Governor Sherman
as a member Of the Railroad Commits
sion. After serving one year he re-
signed to take his seat in the Forty
eighth Congress. At the end OF this
Congress he again retired 20 his farm.
when several editors Of country papers
arranged with him to write weekly let
ters for their papers, which he has
continued to do until the present time.
in 1871 he was elected director Of The
Iowa Station and professor of agricul-
ture of the Iowa Agricultural Colleges.
position he has held up to the present
time.
ECKELS' SUCCESSOR
CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-Charles G. Dawes
said: The Associated Press report that
/ have been rendered and accepted the
appointment of Comptroller of the Cur
rency is true.
Il have much regretted the early
publicity which has unavoidably at
tached to the matter for it seems to
have given rise to the inference that I
had some desire or expectation Of sue
ceeding Mr.. Eckels prior to the expire
tiOn Of his commission in 1898
7 can say for myself, and I think
speak for all concerned. that I sincerely
hope Mr.. Eckels may see his way clear
to a retention Of his position until the
expiration Of his commission. His dis
tinguished services as Comptroller of the
Currency, rendered amid 50 many EN-
barrassments and complications, have
earned him the gratitude Of the nation. >"
Charles G. Dawes was born in Mari
eta. O.. August Il. 1865 and graduated
from the Marietta College in 1884. and
from the Cincinnati law school in 1886.
During his college days he acquired the
profession n Of civil engineering. and spent
his vacations at that work, becoming
the chief engineer at the age Of ~ years
Of the Marietta, Columbia and Northern
road. now a part of the Toledo and Ohio
Central system. In 1881 he left Ohio
for Lincoln Neb. where he became a
prominent lawyer and business man. He
was a leader in the discussions of the
freight schedules of Nebraska at about
the time of and after the passage of the
Interstate Commerce law. He was also
:: student Of financial questions. and in
1894 published a book entitled The
Banking System of the United States
and It's Relations to the Money and
business Of the Country" He has been
for many years a national bank di-
rector.
In 1893 he became resident Of
Evanston III. having become Interested
in the Northwestern Gaslight and Coke
Company of that place. He was leader
I'm the Mckinney movement in Illinois,
which ended in instructions for Mckin-
lev at the Springfield convention. He
was then appointed by NJ. A. Hanna as
Tho member from Illinois Of the Execu-
tive Committee Of the National Republi-
can Committee.
Mr. Dawes is President Of the gas
conuanies Of Akron, O., Lacrosse. Wis,
ard Evanston Ill. and is Nice-President
of the Lincoln Packing Company In
1850 he married Miss caro- ID. Blymer
of Cincinnati O.. and has two children.
He is the son Of General II. X. Dawes OF
Marietta. O.. who was one of the com
1nanders Of the iron brigade Of Niscon-
sin in the late war. and is a great grand
son of Mannazh Cutler, one OF the foun-