Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-03-05
e TO RESUME OLD VIOLATIONS.
ans of Prominent officials OF
CIeVeland's Administration.

Washington, Feb. 2S.-The high officials
Of the several executive departments hold
ing positions to which new appointments
usually are made soon after the Inaugural
sion of the new president are closing UP
the odds and ends of their work prepara-
tory to leaving Washington. A large pro-
PARTON will return to their homes and re-
sumo professions interrupted when they
assumed office.
Secretary Olney will go back to Boston
and resume the practice of law. He has
had under advisement for a long time an
offer from Harvard university of the chair
OF International law, but has finally de-
diced the place.
>tary Lamont will take his family
onsA six weeks tour in the south. On ms
return to New York he will take active
charge of various business interests,
which he has never altogether relinqufsh-
ed during his occupancy of the office of
secretary Of war.
Hecretary Carlisle has not fully decided
whether he will open a law office in New
York city or Louisville, but his friends are
Or the opinion that ultimately he will de-
eide in favor of New York.
Eecretary Herbert has announced his in
te1ltion of opening a law office in Wash
inston.
Attorney General Harmon will re-enter
his old law firm in Cincinnati.
assistant Secretary of the Navy Nc
4foo will go back to New York and re-
euTne his legal practice.
Assistant Secretary Of War Joseph Doe
VIII go back to his home In Milwaukee,
and he also will take up his law practice.
OF the three assistant secretaries in the
Impairment of state, there are indications
that not more than one will be disturbed
for months to come. That change will be
IN the office of Third Assistant Secretary
w. w. Baldwin, who will resume the head
OF the firm of Baldwin & Boston, attor-
neys, of New York.
Postmaster General Wilson has accept
ed the post of president of the Washing
ton and Lee university at Lexington, Va
II is an office to which he is especially
adapted and pays salary of $4,000 year
He will take hold of his new Office on July
next and till then will be In Washington
practically all the time.
Secretary Francis will in all probability
return to st. Louis Immediately and re
sumo direct conduct of the brokerage bus
mess of the d. r. Francis Company, com
mission house, and also reunite his ties t,
various commercial institutions of st
Louis, many of which he sacrificed to be
come secretary of the interior.
Secretary Morton will go back to hi
splendid home, "Arbor Lodge" just out
eide of Nebraska City, Neb. Secretar
Norton says he has no intention of enter
ing politics and that his only participates
will be in the role of taxpayer.
In other Departments.
@- The three assistant aaoreta rieQ 0f fh
treasury are lawyers and will resum
practice-Mr. Curtis in New York, Nj
Iamlin in Boston and Mr.. wike in Pitt:
Held, Ill. Bowler. the comptroller of tn
treasury, will resume practice of the La
"a Cincinnati. Eckels, comptroller of tn
currency, will very likely retain his pre-.
mt position until his commission expire
1898. when he will be relieved by M
dawes.
Mr.. Stump. commissioner of agricultur
Rill probably return to his home in Be
<eire, Md.
Mr.. Forman. commissioner of intern