The morning times., 1897-01-23
JUDGE GOFF SEES M'K|NLEY
The West Yirginian Believed to
Be a Cabinet Certainty.
MAGEE NAMED A CANDIDATE
He Suggested L. c. Knox, of Pitts
burg, for Attorney General Gage
Has Not Been Offered the Treas
ury PortfoliO-He Is Considering
the Matter.

Canton, Ohio, Jan. 22.-Judge Nathan
Goff, OF West Virginia, who is one Of
Major McKinley's most valued personal
friends, left for his home this evening.
MY visit has been charming and
satisfactory one said Mr.. Goff. Il
had not seen Major Mckinley for several
years, and we had a good many things
beside politics to talk about In politi
cal way, our discussion was pretty eX-
haustive concerning the Southern situa-
! tion. Major Mckinley is looking remark
ably well and is in the best OF spirits. :"
''Are you in the Cabinet?" was asked.
Il cannot say that l am" aswered
Judge Golf.
The understanding here is that Judge
Goff viii be rendered PORTFOLIO and that
lie will accept. At present his status in
respect to the Mckinley administration
is not unlike that OF ex-Gov. Long, of
Massachusetts, and Judge Joseph Nc
Kenna, OF California Judge Goff will,
doubtless, be either Attorney General or
Postmaster General.
Ex-iiov. Cheney, Of New Hampshire, and
Messrs s. IL Weld and Charles IL bolton,
of Boston, talked with Major Mckinley
today about T. jefferson Coolidge, of Bos-
ton, for the Cabinet, but there is no reason
for supposins that the New England mem
| ber OF the Cabinet will not be exGoy.
Long, Of Massachusetts
4 new Cabinet possibility was suggested
| today by c. l.. Magee, who stated that
the friends of Z. g. Knox, of Pittsburg
! would sug gest to Major Mckinley the eX-
| pediency of making hm Attorney General.
| Mr.. Knox is Il successful lawyer of large
| means, who is eminent in his profession.
| Mr.. Magee said lie did not come to Canton
| to discuss the Cabinet, and remarked that
while he was personally friendly to Charles
Emory Smith, he would have to support
| Mr.. Knox, the local Cabinet possibility.
There has been much speculation here to-
| day regarding the New York member OF
| Major MCKinley's Cabinet, and the sug-
| geStion las been made that the President
| elect may decline 10 appoint anyone from
| that State if the factional pressure is too
fierce. Congressman F. II. Wilson, Of
| Brooklyn, was today suggested for the
position OF Secretary of the Navy
Lyman j. Gage. the Chicago banker, has
| not been offered the Treasury portfolio
| Aside from the fact that he is one of many
who are being considered by the President
| elect, there is as yet no sufficient reason
| to think he will be.
Miss Helen Mckinley, sister of the Pres
| ident-elect, fell on a slippery sidewalk this
! afternoon and broke her arm.
Mr.. Gage Has Not Accepted.
| Chicago, Jan. 22.-Lyman J. Gage, pres
| ident Of the First National Bank, today
| spoke n a different strain regarding
Major McKinley's consideration Of him
| for Secretary OF the Treasury. He said:
Il have been called on by some one from
| President elect Mckinley and the offer
| was made to me informally. In no sense
| can the offer be regarded as formal When
| l was visited it was to find out how L
| would consider the offer should it be made,
| and the inference was given me that Mr.
| Mckinley wished to know what my DO
| sition would be. / am now debating in
my mind the question should / accept the
| portfolio if it is formally rendered Have
| | public duty to consider, and are my
| personal obligations Of greater Importance
| than public duty? / have been in the
banking business for thirty years and
| have become rooted to it, When the cues.
| ton Of separation presents itself to me it
| is much like child parting from its
| mother"