The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-03-04
ARE TO RESUME OLD vooAT1oNs.
Plans of Prominent OmciaIs OF
CIeveIand'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 inaugura-
ton of the new president are closing up
the odds and ends of their work prepara
tory to leaving Washington. A large pro-
portion 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-
clined the place.
Secretary Lamont will take his family
on 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 relinquish-
ed during his occupancy of the office of
secretary of war.
Secretary Carlisle has not fully decided
whether he will open a law office In New
York city or Louisville, but his friends are
of the opinion that ultimately he will de-
eide in favor of New York.
Secretary Herbert has announced his in
tention of opening a law office in Wash
| ington.
| Attorney General Harmon will re-cnter
| his old law firm in Cincinnati
| Assistant Secretary of the Navy Nc
| Adoo will go back to New York and re-
sumo his legal practice.
| Assistant Secretary of War Joseph Doe
will go back to his home In Milwaukee,
and he also will take up his law practice.
| OF the three assistant secretaries In the
| department 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
1t 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
1 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 Il
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
side of Nebraska City, Neb. Secretar.
Morton says he has no intention of enter
ing politics and that his only participation
will be In the role of taxpayer.
In other Departments.
The three assistant secretaries of tn
treasury are lawyers and Will resum
practice-Mr. Curtis In New York, MI
Hamlin in Boston and Mr.. Wike in Pitts
, field, Ill. Bowler, the comptroller of tn
treasury, will resume practice of the LAY
in Cincinnati. Eckels, comptroller of tn
currency, will very likely retain his pres
ent position until his commission expires
in 1885, when he will be relieved by M
Dawes.
, Mr.. Stump, commissioner of agriculture
! will probably return to his home in Be
] laire. Md.
Mr.. Forman. commissioner of intern'