The new North-west., 1897-03-05
ARE TO RESUME OLD voCATIONs.

plans of Prominent officials OF
Clevelnnd's Administrations.
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
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 advsement for a long time an
offer from Harvard university of the chair
of international law, but has finally de-
clned 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 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-enter
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
| 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 to
various commercial institutions Of St.
Louis, many of which he sacrificed to be-
come secretary of the interior.
Secretary Morton will go back to his
splendid home, "Arbor Lodge" just out
side of Nebraska City, Neb. Secretary
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 the
treasury are lawyers and will resume
p1actice-Mr. Curtis in New York, Mr..
Hamlin in Boston and Mr.. Wike in Pitts
field, Ill. Bowler, the comptroller of the
treasury, will resume practice of the law
in Cincinnati. Eckels comptroller of the
currency, will very likely retain his pres
ent position until his commission expires
in 1898, when he will be relieved by Mr.
Dawes.
Mr.. Stump commissioner of agriculture
will probably return to his home in Bel
laire, Md.
Mr. Forman. commissioner of internal
revenue, will be relieved and will return
to Illinois.
Mr. Morgan. United States treasurer
will return to his home in Bridgeport
Conn.,, and Mr.. Tillman, register of the
treasury, is expected to engage in busi-
ness in Washington.
Assistant Attorney General Dickinson
will become general counsel for the Lou
isville & Nashville Railroad Company for
the state of Tennessee.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Frank Jennings will return to Chicago to
resume his law practice.
Assistant Attorney General John Loom
is will probably hold his position for the
present.
First Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Sims will stay in Washington until
next June and then may go back to his
estate in Mississippi.