The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-04

Cleveland, Jan. 3.-Major Mckinley
expects to set to work on his inaugural
address tomorrow morning and to fin
ish it by the end of the week, if the
officeseekers give him an opportunity.
He feels that the time between the
present and Inauguration is very short
and said today there would be SO
much to do that the few weeks re-
manning TO him would slip by swiftly.
Major Mckinley wants to get the prin-
cipal portfolios in his cabinet assigned
within a fortnight or three weeks, but
the cabinet, as whole, Will not be
completed till the 1st of March. Dur
ing Major McKinley's present visit TO
Cleveland, it is probable that Mr..
Hanna will come to some decision
about his relation TO the next admins
tration, though his movements will to
a considerable degree be regulated by
Senator Shermans final determination
in respect TO the cabinet The i'm
preston 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 S. NJ. Cullom, of Illinois,
was here today and spent two hours
with Major Mckinley this morning.
He said the opinion prevailed among
senators that Mr.. Sherman, while per-
haps not quite willing TO so into the
cabinet, seemed to regard the PROPOSE
ton with less disfavor than formerly.
Senator Cullom said he had no desire
at this time 10 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 senatorial contest
with Major Mckinley and said 10 the
president-elect that so much confusion
existed it was impossible to forecast
the result. Senator Cullom expressed
the opinion tina in the event of a pro-
longed and bitter contest the prize
might fall to the lot of Governor Tan
ner himself. Senator Cullom said the
impression exists among his col
leagues in the United States senate
that Mr.. Allison would not be inclined
to give up mis- present career to accept
a cabinet portfolio, but remarked that
he hoped the Iowa senator could be
prevailed upon to become secretary of
the treasury.
If neither Mr.. Allison nor Mr. Ding
ley should be in Major McKinley's
cabinet, a new man for secretary of
the treasury will have to be found,
and the chances are that the president
elect will treat the country to some
thing OF a surprise.
a good deal of speculation about the
New England member for the cabinet
had been heard in the last day or two,
both here and in Canton. If Mr.. Ding
ley remains at the head of the COM
mittee on ways and means, another
man from his section of the country
will be invited TO accept a cabinet posi-
ton. The names of Senators Proctor,
of Vermont. and Lodge, of Massachu-
sets, are discussed not a little. and
the selection of either of them by Major
Mckinley should occasion no surprise.
If a secretary of state is not chosen
from New York. it 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.. Bliss is concerned. nor is
there likely, to be, save in the con-
tingency Just mentioned