The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-10

Washington. March 9.-President Nc
Kinley started work this morning with
a clean desk. He and his clerical as
sistants were up with the mail.
While at Canton Major Mckinley
took time by the forelock. Every let
ter relating to an official subject was
answered from there, with the result
that when he entered the White House
he did not have a mountain of CORE
spondence to clear away.
The first regular cabinet meeting of
the new administration was held this
| morning at IL o'clock. President Nc
Kinley intends to keep UP the practice
! of holding conferences with his Of
! fetal advisers twice a week-on Tues
days and Fridays-at the hour named.
| Whether rainy weather was or was
not the cause of it, there was a great
falling off in the forces of office-seek-
ers that came to the mansion this
morning. By II o'clock when the
! cabinet met they had all gone.
A CHRONIC OFFICEHOLDER.
Senator's Allison. Hawley, Elkins
and Cullom We're among the early
ones. Major Wood, the newly-ap-
pointed senator from Kentucky, who
has not been admitted to his seat, also
dropped in. Clark E. Carr of Galena,
ILL.,, who has held Office with a brief
intermission ever since the day of Lin
coin, and who wants to return to Den
mark as minister, and ]. D. Elliott,
candidate for district attorney of
South Dakota, saw the president
The Missouri congressional delega-
ton called in body to pay it's re-
spects Congressman Hit of Illinois
and Grosvenor of Ohio had little chats
with the president. General Powell
Clayton of Arkansas, who will prob
ably be minister to Mexico. had the
presidents ear for awhile. ExCon-
gresham Grove Johnson of California,
who made some sensational scenes in
the house of representatives during the
debate on the Pacific railroad refund
ing bill, made brief visit.
CANNON ALSO CALLS.
Three gentleman of prominence, who
knew they could expect no further ia
vors from the Republican party, wan
dered in merely to pay their respects.
They were Senators Teller of Colorado,
Pettigrew of South Dakota and Can
non of Utah, who bolted the st. Louis
convention after the adoption of the
monetary plank of the platform.
President Mckinley has signifed his
intention of receiving Liliuokalani,
the former queen of Hawaii, in re-
Spouse to her request for an audience,
just as soon as the rush of visitors is
over. Her reception by the president
will be purely informal.
Murat Halstead was one of the hun
dred applicants for a diplomatic posi-
ton who saw the president this morn
ing. Congre ssman Dalzell of Pennsyl-
vania, member of the ways and
means committee, had an interview
with Mr.. Mckinley after the cabinet
meeting, which lasted about one hour
MARK IS ON DECK.
Senator Mark A. Hanna was the
leading visitor to the White House af-
ter the luncheon recess. He saw the |
president for half an hour. Senator
Foraker also had the presidents ear
for awhile. The names of three Illi-
nois Republicans were presented by !
Senators Cullom and Mason during !
the brief duration of the conference /
with Mr.. Mckinley. They were lin |
addition to Clark E. CARR ex-Con- |
gresham Murphy, who would like to |
be an assistant postmaster general, /
and Thomas Needles, an applicant for !
the position of internal revenue col |
lector for the southern district of Hill
nois. One of today's callers was Dan
iel Hogan of Cairo, who is also after
the place Mr.. Needles wants. Con-
gressmen Dalzell and Huff of Penn
sylvania introduced DR.. Hugh Pit
cairn of Harrisburg. He is Endorsed
by Senators Quay and Penrose for the
Berlin consulate-generalship and is
said TO be a promising candidate. Ma
jor c. w. F. Dick of Ohio, who ran
the Republican bureau at Cleveland
in the campaign, came late in the
afternoon. Mr.. Hanna is very friend
~ to him and it is reported that Ma
jor Dick will be the next fourth as
sistant poStmaSter-gener the heads
man" of the administration.
THERE WE'RE OTHERS.
Other callers of prominence were:
Senators Hansbrough of North Da-
kota with party of friends, Congress-
man Cannon of Illinois and ex-Con-
gresham Farquhar of New York
The name of c. j. A. Erickson, a
state senator, of Boone, Ia, was pre-
scented to the president by Messrs.
Dolliver, Allison and Gear of the Iowa
delegation to congress for the mis-
sion to Norway and Sweden. They
also left with the president the petit
tions of a number of Swedish societies
in the west urging Mr.. Erickson's ap-
pointment.
Nearly 1000 persons shook hands
with the president at a public recep-
ton in the east room this afternoon.
Tonight several senators had uninter-
rupted conversation with Mr.. McKin-
ley on the subject of patronage.
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