The herald., 1897-03-01
OUT OF OFFICE
Plans Of People Whose Official Terms Have
Expired

Expired
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-The high
officials of the several executive depart
ments holding positions to which new
appointments usually are made soon
after the Inauguration of a new pres
ident are engaged in bringing up the
odds and ends of their work preparatory
to leaving Washington. A large proper
tion will return to their homes which
they left four years ago, and resume
their professions then interrupted.
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 declined the place
Secretary Lamont will take his family
on q six weeks tour of the south. On his
return to New York he will take active
charge Of the various business interests
which he has never altogether relin-
quished during his occupancy of the Sec
retaryship.
Secretary Carlisle has not fully de-
cided whether he will open a law office
in New York or Louisville. Friends are
of the opinion he will ultimately decide
in favor of New York.
Secretary Herbert has announced his
intention of opening a law Office In Wash
ington.
Attorney General Harmon will re-en-
ter 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 Doe will
go back to his home In milwaukee, and
also take up his law practice.
OF the three assistant secretaries in
the department of state there are indi
cations that not more than one will be
disturbed for months to come. That
change will be in the office of the third
assistant secretary, w. w. Baldwin, who
will head the firm of Baldwin G. Boston,
attorneys in New York.
Postmaster-General Wilson has ac-
cepted post at Washington and Lee
university at Lexington, Va. 1t is an
office to which he is specially adapted
and pays salary of $4,000 a year. He
will take hold of his new Office on July
1st next. and till then will be in WASH
ington practically all the time.
Secretary Francis will in all proba-
bility return to st. Louis Immediately
and resume the direct conduct of the bus
mess of the d. r. Francis commission
house, and also reunite his ties to vari-
Gus commercial institutions of st. Louis,
many of which he sacrificed to become
secretary of the interior.
Secretary Morton will go back to his
splendid home, Arbor Lodge, just out
side of Nebraska City, Neb. He had
planned to leave here with his sister on
Monday following the 4th. but Miss Nor
ton is now seriously III with pneumonia,
and unless her condition is greatly i'm
proved the departure will have to be de-
ferred. The secretary's plans contem-
plate going direct to Chicago for a few
days visit and then to his old home.
There Mr.. Morton has spent all of his
life since a year or two after attaining
his majority. Secretary Morton says
he has no intention of going into politics,
and that his only participation will be
in the role of taxpayer. The three as
istant secretaries of the treasury are
lawyers. and they will resume practice.
Mr.. Curtis in New York, Mr.. Ha.milton
in Boston and Mr.. Wike in Pittsfield,
Ills.
Mr. Bowler. comptroller of the treas
ury, will resume the practice of law in
Cincinnati.
Eckles, comptroller of the currency,
will very likely retain his present posi-
ton until his presXyt commission ex-
pires in 1898, when he will be relieved by
Dawes.
Stump, the commissioner of immigra-
tion, probably will return to his home in
Bellaire, Md.
FOREMAN, the commissioner or inter-
nal revenue, when relieved will 10
doubt return to Illinois
Morgan, United States treasurer. will
return to his home in Bridgeport, Conn,
and Tillman, register of the treasury,
expects to engage in business in Wash
ington.
Assistant Attorney Dickin-
son will become general counsel for the
and Nashville Railroad COM
pany for the state of Tennessee.
What changes will take place in the
office of solicitors general and the as
sistant attorney generals is not now
known, but 1t Is not probable, in view of
pending business before the courts, that
appointments to these positions will be
made for several months.
First Assistant Postmaster-General
Frank Jones will return to Chicago to
resume his law practice.
The assistant attorney general for the
postoffice department, John l.. Thomas.
probably will hold his position for the
present.
Assistant Attorney-General Isaac II.
for the interior department,
will return to st. Louis and resume his
law practice