The record-union., 1897-01-04
After That He Will Work While at
Cabinet Making.
Hanna is Waiting on Sherman's De-
CisiOn in Respect to the Portfolio of
State-Fe Would Like to Go to the
Senate HimseIf-GovernOr Tanner
May Get the illinois Senatorship-
Cornelius N. Bliss Possibility for
the Cabinet.

CLEVELAND (O), Jan. 3.-Major
Mckinley expects to set to work on
his inaugural address tomorrow morn
ing and to finish it by the end of the
week, If the office seekers give him an
opportunity. He feels that tlime be-
tween the present and the inauguration
is very short and said this evening
there would be so much to do that the
few weeks remaining to him would
slip by very swiftly. Major Mckinley
wants to get the principal portfolios in
his Cabinet assigned within a fortnight
or three weeks, but the Cabinet as a
Whole will not be completed until the
first of March. During Major McKin-
ley's present visit to Cleveland it is
probable that Mr.. Hanna viii come to
some decision about his relation to the
next Administration, though his move
ments will to a considerable degree be
regulated by Senator Sherman's final
determination in respect to the Cabinet
The impression grows that Senator
Sherman's friends in many parts of the
country are urging him to accept the
portfolio of State if it is offered him.
Mr.. Hanna apparently wants to go to
the Senate, but if Senator Sherman
does not go into the Cabinet the way is,
firmly closed against him.
Senator Cullom of Illinois was here
to-day and spent two hours With Major
Mckinley this morning. He said the
opinion prevailed among Senators that
Mr. Sherman, while perhaps not quite
willing to go into the Cabinet, seemed
to regard the proposition with less dis
favor than formerly. Senator Cullom
said he had no desire a this time to
leave the Senate and that he was not
to be considered a Cabinet possibility
1t is his belief that Illinois may not be
represented in the Cabinet at ALL
He discussed the Senatorfal contest
with Major Mckinley, and said to the
President elect that SO much confusion
exists in Illinois that it is impossible to
forecast the result. Senator Cullom
expressed the opinion that after a long
and bitter fight the prize might fall to
the lot Of Governor Tanner himself
Senator Cullom said the impression ex-
listed among his colleagues in the
United States Senate that Mr.. Allison
would not be inclined to give up his
present career to accept a Cabinet
portfolio, but he remarked that he
iipptd Ilhc lOAd toS1HdlOI GOlfu De pre-
vailed upon to become Secretary Of the
Treasury.
If neither Mr.. Allison nor Mr. Dingley
should be in Major McKinley's Cabinet
new quantity for Secretary of the
Treasury will have to be found and the
chances are that the Presid dent-elect
will treat the country to something of a
surprise.
A good deal of speculation about the
New England member of the Cabinet
has been heard in the last day or two,
both here and in Canton. If Mr. Ding
ley remains at the head of the Commit
tee on Ways and Means another man
from his section of the country will be
invited to accept a Cabinet position
The names Of Senator'S Proctor of Ver-
mont and Lodge of Massachusetts are
discussed not a little and the selection
Of either of them by Major Mckinley
should occasion no surprise If Sec
retary Of State is not chosen from New
York 1T may be set down as certain
that Cornelius n. Bliss will be in Major
McKinley's Cabinet There has been
no change in the situation so far as
Mr.. BIss is concerned, nor is there
likely to be, save in the contingency
just mentioned