The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-25
Mr.. BIXBY IS SORRY
THAT MINNESOTA SHOULD HAVE
SACRIFICED HER CHANCES
FOR THE CABINET.
WHILE THERE'S A SHOW YET
TAMS THINKS MR. MERRIAM'S
CHANCES NOT SO GOOD AS
FORMERLY.
RuMoRs OF \ PLACE FOR BIxBY
At the National Capital Are DemOl-
ished by the Denial of the
Governors Secretary.


have come up to prevent Minnesota
from being represented in the Mckinley
cabinet L don't mean to create the i'm
preston that there is not still some
chance for one Of Minnesota's favorite
sons to get a place in the cabinet, but
the outlook is not as encouraging as
it was some time ago"
This was the statement made by
Tams BiXby to a G 0 b e reporter last
evening. Mr.. Bixby has the reputa-
ton, and more particularly so in Wash
ington and the East, of being a pretty
shrewd politician. Not so much Of a
newspaper politician as others in the
North Star state, but one who keeps
close to the machinery, and conSe-
quently hears and knows whereof he
speaks, providing he speaks at all.
For the past two weeks Mr.. Bixby
has been in Washington. The trip, he
said, was not of any political signifi-
canoe, and was taken for the purpose
Of recreation and pleasure, to get a
mUch-needed rest. Mrs. BiXby accom-
panied him and the outing had been
a very enjoyable one. They had, of
course, MIR. Bixby said, stopped off at
the political Mecca and spent a couple
of days at Canton. President-elect
Mckinley had been called on, but in
order to even up things both he and
Mrs. Bixby had also visited President
Cleveland while in Washington.
1t was to be deplored, Mr. Bixby said,
that by reason of any passive position
or succession of circumstances, Mime
sofa should be overlooked in the make
up Of the cabinet. The action of the
Minnesota oil dnIaoro in
forwarding to Canton series Of reso-
lutiOnS, signed by all of the congress-
men, stating that the selection of Sena-
tor Davis would not disrupt the party
in Minnesota and that he was a good
man. Mr.. -BiXby thought a very unWise
thing. The communication amounted
to nothing more than a clean bill Of
health for the senator, and if it had
any effect at all, simply carried out the
impression and rumOr that the appoint
ment of Senator Davis would cause a
split in the Republican party of the
state. This idea was far from the
truth, and so far as he could judge,
without any foundation at all, in fact.
Minnesota, he thought, stood a chance
at one time of either furnishing the
timber for secretary Of state or secre-
tary Of the treasury. There was a pos
.sibility that the state might yet have
a chance for cabinet representation,
but the probability was not as encour-
aging now as it had been.
From what he had been able to learn
the selection of cabinet officers had not
been settled on by any means. Sher-
mans selection as secretary of state
had met with the approval Of all the
Republican leaders he had seen, and the
politicians as well. Gage of Illinois,
who was mentioned for the treasury
portfolio, has been brought out pronli-
eli y cEoit
but the Illinois politicians he had seen
III Chicago on his way home had spoken
most highly of Mr.. Cages ability and
qualifications for the place. Illinois
was a big state, and its voice. in the
lest election, as well as it's vote, hal
been factor in the result. The gold
Democrats, toward which party he I'M
derstood Mr.. Gage had a leaning, were,
IN his opinion, entitled to recognition.
In Minnesota this party had, by it's &C
ton and vote, secured the election of
governor and two congressman, who
could not have been secured without il
There was, Mr.. Bixby said, consider
able tariff talk in Washington. Con-
gresham Tawney, of tie committee OH
ways and means, who was chairman Of
the subcommittee on the agricultural
phase of the tariff, was hard at work on
this question. The impression seemed
to be that there would be a moderate
tariff bill with a rather stiff raise on
barley, eggs and other agricultural
products, and also on lumber. 1t was
POSSIBLE at the coming session, Mr.. Blk
by thought, that there would be some
legislation as to the bankruptcy law
This, in his opinion, was what was
needed for the Northwest in particular,
and would be of great benefit. The
trouble had been in the past regarding
this class of legislation that those who
would q h0Y7nfiTn6 Ixyi bod
force the thing along. Others who
were in position to help took no &C
ton for fear that it might be imagined
they had some motive Of their own TO
advance. Mr.. Bixby was Of the opir-
len that such legislation, if it could be
secured, would be of incalcuIable bene-
fit. He knew Of instances where men.
and bright business men at that, were
kept down owing to the fact that they
could make no arrangements whereby
they could get another start
Mr.. Bixby secuted the idea that his
visit had anything to do with a ru-
mored fiat thing which he intended
to pick up after the Inauguration in
March, and which would result in his
moving from Minnesota to washington.
Frankly speaking, Mr.. Bixby said there
were very few good things that
could be secured in Washington The
cost Of living was such that whether
the salary was $4,000 or $1,000 it was all
spent, and the positions at the latter
salary were few and far between There
was not the least foundation in the
story that he had been offered the posi-
ton OF private secretary to President
elect Mckinley. Perry S. Heath. who
had been connected with the campaign
press bureau, and bright and able
man, was slated for the place, and so
far as he knew. Mr.. Heath had no op-
position.
AS to the Day-Dunn contest Mr.
BfXby took the same view as the ma
jority of the senators did Saturday
save that he was. a trifle more out
SPOKEN, and intimated that he had very
! little use for a renegade Republican.
He had heard that Charles A. Pills
bury, of Minneapolis, had visited Mr.
Mckinley at Canton, and while there
had announced that Minnesota did not
want anything in the cabinet line He
couldn't quite understand why Mr..
Pillsbury should make any such state
ment. If he had made this assertion,
Mr.. Bixby was Of the opinion that It
should be construed SC as to read Min
neapolis rather than Minnesota With
out saying so in exact words, Mr. Blk
by intimated that the McCleary cabinet
boom was hardly as robust as the
Washington kilograms had indicated
and was simply a pleasing compliment
tary mention.
FUNERAL OF MRS. GRIGGS