Evening star., 1897-01-09
The Latest Rumor as to the Treasury
Department.
EI- GOVERNOR MERRIAM OF MINNESOTA
Senator Sherman May Yet Be
Secretary Of State.
T HE SOUTHERN MEMBER

Friends of ex-Gov. Merriam of Minnesota
make the positive statement that he is to
be Secretary of the Treasury. Senator AL
drich refuses to talk about the tender of
this place to him, but there appears 20 be
general understanding that he will not
accept. Maj. Mckinley is represented as
being greatly troubled by the declinations
OF this position, and 1t is certain that he
wants to settle the matter as speedily as
possible. Whether or not he has settled
upon ex-Gov. Merriam cannot be verified
beyond the fact that the source of the
declaration is such as to warrant the be-
lief that Gov. Merriam is the original au-
thority for it. Friends of Maj Mckinley
still persist in the belief that Senator Sher-
man will be Secretary of State. Greater
pressure than has before been used is now
being brought to bear on the senator, and
II Is known that he has declared to mis-
Iriends that he would be governed by the
Wlsnes OF his friends in Ohio He has said
that he decidedly does not want to go into
the cabinet, but that he would do so If his
outy and the desires Of Mai. Mckinley de-
nanded it of him.
One Thing Might Let Him Ont.
uhere Is said to be now but one thing
that might let him out This is that if the
difficulty in filling the treasury secretary.
ship should finally force Major Mckinley
to put an Ohio man in that place. If this
should come about the reasons urged for
Mr.. Sherman to accept would not he as
strong. and the counter argument that
there should not be too much Ohio in the
administration would afford him an easy
escape.
1t is said that Mr.. Mckinley is not going
TO permit the treasury portfolio to go beg
giDg much longer, and that if he cannot
matter tn iSfo
ton without the embarrassment of further
decinations, he will insist upon Mr.. Han
ma accepting the position. Mr. Hanna
does not want to go into the treasury hut
lie Will do SO, it is said, If necessary to
save Major Mckinley from further en-
barrrassment. 1t Is hoped that this neces-
sfty may be avoided, but until the secre-
taryship of the treasury is finally settled.
Mr.. Hanna's selection will stand as possi-
bility. II the information as to ex-Gov-
ernor Merriam is reliable, it disposes of
this problem, and Sherman may still be
counted on as Secretary of State. v.
The Pacific Const.
1t is said that McKenna of California
has been given the chance to go into the
cabinet, and the fact that the Mckinley
people now speak of Horace Davis of Cal
ifornia as the Pacific coast member of the
cabinet, suggests the knowledge that Nc
kenna will not give up his judgeship for
fers, the judgeship being for life
If Sherman Accepts.
The selection of sherman for Secretary
of State, even though he should finally de-
cline, is regarded as indicating a conserva-
tive policy for Major Mckinley's admins
tration n, and is likely to be discouraging to
the Cuban symrathizers. Mr. Sherman is
known to be in sympathy with the attitude
of the present administration as to Cuba
Another important consideration is that
Mr.. Sherman is understood to regard in
ternational bimetallism as a humDug
The Southern Member.
A Star reporter met Representative w
c. Anderson of the first Tennessee dis
trict last evening. and in reply to an in
terrogatory the latter said:
H. Clay Evans will be the southern rep
resentative in the cabinet, Notwithstanding
the favorable mention now going through
the papers as to Judge Goff and Mr.. Gary
Evans undoubtedly has the inside track
lie towers up high as the leading republi-
can OF the south, and as the south is ac-
corded one of the President-elect's ad-
visers by common consent, it would hardly
be fair to go to a border state for the
southern representative, and Maryland and
West Virginia are certainly border states
IN the strict sense. States may be made and
broken many times between now and
March 4, but when the names are an
nounced Evans will be found on the list