The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11

| Cleveland, o.. Jan. 1O.-Major Nc
Kinley attended church this morning.
and later enjoyed long drive. He
will leave for Canton in the morning at
| II O'Clock. and expects to remain there
| till the first day of March
! Major Mckinley said to a friend to-
| day that this week would be an i'm
portant one in the process of organ
izing his cabinet and administration.
! The formation of the cabinet hinges
upon the salient and pivotal positions
of secretary of state and secretary of
/ the treasury. 1t is quite probable that
! both of these important cabinet port
/ folios viii be rendered and accepted
! by the end of the week.
| Senator Sherman has had some COM
municatiOn with Major Mckinley, and
! he Will go to Canton whenever the
/ president-elect desires him TO do so,
and mis- visit Will. according to pres
! ent arrangements here. be made about
/ the middle of the Week 1t is now
pretty well established that Major Nc
/ Klnley wants Senator Sherman to be
! secretary of state, but it is by no
means certain that MI. Sherman has
made up his mind to accept cabinet
I appointments His inclination Is TO re-
| main in the senate. where the work IS
/ systematized and familiar and where
he can regulate the amount and quality
/ of it to a very considerable extent.
AN EXACTING OFFICE.
He feels no strong desire. said one
of his friends of long standing today,
to undertake the severe and exacting
/ task of the most important and diff
| cult governmental department, but, on
| the other hand, he has had long eXpe-
rience as chairman of the committee
/ on foreign relations and many of his
most valued friends are earnestly urS-
I ing him to close his notable public ca
reer by a brilliant administration of
! the department of state.
The natural and timely desire of
Mark Hanna to go to the senate may
have much to do with Mr.. Shermans
/ appointment TO the cabinet, II he ac-
cepts a portfolio. Mr.. Hanna has been
one of Mr.. Shermans most valuable
| friends. He has done a great deal for
| him in a political way, and Mr. Sher-
man. doubtless. feels that he owes his
! last election to the senate in part to
/ the zeal and support of Mr.. Hanna
/ Their relations have been friendly and
close for years. If Mr.. Sherman does
I not accept the offer of cabinet pO-
sition.. the way to the senate Will re-
main closed to Mr.. Hanna for he would
not contest the seat with his personal
and political friend of long standing
/ elect Joseph +. Foraker of Cincinnati,
will be invited to visit Canton while
| Mr.. Sherman is there. Upon the action
of Mr.. Foraker and his friends the
/ senatorial aspirations of Chairman Nj
A. Hanna depend. Governor Bushnell
/ Will appoint Mr.. Sherman's successor
/ for the uneXpired term of two years, If
/ he goes into the cabinet He is de-
voted friend and ally of SenatOr-elect
/ Foraker's and it may he that it is
( feared that he would not appoint Mr..
Hanna to the vacancy. for the reason
that they belong to opposite factions
of the party, and have been at odds
in political way for several years
IN \ MAZE.
The impression prevails among
many of the politicians that while
, Messrs. Foraker and Bushnell are
thoroughly friendly to Major Nc
Kinley and desire to support him
Loyalty and efficiently, they do not
wish to build no Mr.. Hanna's personal
prestige and power in the Ohio pOliti-
cal field. No promise or intimation of
the course he Will pursue has been
obtained from Governor Bushnell. who
is i'll with the grip at his home in
! Springfield. The belief is current in
Ohio that unless Governor Bushnell
Will consent to appoint Mr.. Hanna to
the senate the latter viii himself ac-
!
/ conferences at Canton this week in
volve the probable disposition of two
cabinet portfolios. a seat in the United
States senate and the future status of
Mark Hanna in national politics.
One week ago today. Senator CullOm
! of Illinois came to Cleveland to call
on the Dresident-elect. He said to
the correspondent of the United Asso-
/ ciated Presses in the course of a long
conversation: 7 am not cabinet
possibility. 1t seems TO me that it is
my duty to remain in the senate
CONDITIONS ARE CHANGING.
Events have marched with celerity
during the last week and political
I conditions are changing daily. Not
wthstanding the fact that one week
ago Senator CullOm sincerely believed
ne could not accept cabinet portfolio
if it were offered him, he is today a
potent possibility. The gossip about
Ex-Governor John D. Long of MasSa-
chusetts and the cabinet seems to
have a pretty strong basis for it's ex-
istence. Major Mckinley knows Gov
ernor Long well. and has always had
high opinion of his character and
abilit-.
The availability of Judge Nathan
Golf for a cabinet position daily be-
comes more manifest, and If secre-
I tary of state is chosen this week and
a secretary of the treasury the week
following, Judge GOff is likely to be
the next possibility who will become ,
reality. If he is a member of the cabi-
net he will doubtless be attOrney-gen-
eraI or secretary Of war. He has been
a cabinet officer and is on the United
States bench. Should Senator Sher-
man decide TO remain in the senate,
three eastern men viii be considered
in reference to their availability for
appointment as secretary of state
They are Stewarf WOOdfOrd and
Andrew D. White of New York. and
Ex-Governor John D. Long OF Mas
sachusetts. OF the New York men.
General Woodford is thought by those
who are specializing upon the cabinet
to have the better chance, but this is
a matter of surmise.