The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-21
Member of a Well-Known Family of
Fighters who VIII Probably De
the Next Attorney General.
M'KlNLEY ALL RIGHT AGAIN
PRESIDENT-ELECTS HEALTH SAID
TO BE FULLY RESTORED,
But No Visitors, Except Those In
vited, to BE Permitted to See Him
Hanna to Succeed Sherman.
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Special to the Indiana polls Journal.
CANTON, o., Feb. 20.-To-days devel-
opments tend to substantiate the report
that Col. John ]. McCook. of New York
city. will represent the Empire State in ths
Mckinley Cabinet, and it is now believed
the Cabinet slate, as telegraphed by your
correspondent last night, will stand. 1t was
reported to-day that Colonel McCook had
been summoned to Canton by the Presi-
dent-elect, and that the New Yorker will
come early next week. 1t is thought Judge
McKenna, of San Francisco, will be pre-
vailed to accept the Interior Depart
ment PORTFOLIO thus leaving the Depart
ment of Justice for Colonel McCook, as the
postoffce portfolio is almost certain 10 go
TO James A Gary of Baltimore Ex-Gov-
ernor Long, of Massachusetts, is booked
for the Navy. With Sherman. Gage, Alger
and Wilson, respectively, in State, Treas
ury, War and Agricultural Department, the
Cabinet is complete.
'President-elect Mckinley has fully re-
covered his accustomed good health, said
DR.. T. II. Phillips this morning. land 1 be-
lieve is stronger than ever. That does not
mean, however. that he will resume his re-
ceiving visitors promiscuously, as / have
advised emphatically against that. What
business the President-elect will give his
attention to prior to his departure for
Washington will be what has been partially
arranged beforehand Special visitors. or
those who come by invitation from the ma
jor. will be given audience but not a great
deal of this will be transacted. The rest
and freedom from official cares obtained
the past week has been most beneficial to
him.
ITnita tal C4afa
of Marshall, n. c., reached here this morn
ing. He was accompanied by Charles
Prince, of Salisbury. N c., a prominent
attorney and counsel for the Southern Rail-
road Company. Senator Pritchard said his
visit had been delayed on account of his
own illness. Some weeks ago. said the
senator. Il forwarded papers and indorse-
ments from my State asking that Colonel
James L. Boyd be given portfolio in the
Cabinet, either that of attorney general or
secretary of the interior. Colonel Boyd is
an attorney of ability and would make an
efficient official. 1 see that Mr.. Gary, of
Maryland, has been chosen as a member
of the Cabinet. believe that Mr.. Gary will
be perfectly satisfactory to the South, and
as two men from that section of the coun-
| try is hardly expected for the Cabinet,
| suppose Colonel Boyd will not be in the
| official family. L am not here on any polit-
| ical mission other than to speak good
word If opportunity occurs
| Aside from Senator Pritchard's interview
with Major Mckinley no other visitors
gained an audience There were several
callers during the morning, but none was
| favored with an interview.
| Colonel John ]. McCook, who will prob
| ably be attorney general in the Mckinley
| in New York. He Is prominent not only as
| a great light of the law, but is honored for
| his intimate associations with charitable
| and religious institutions. He is one of the
| elders of the tifth-avenue Pres 5yterian
| Church and played a conspicuous part in
| the celebrated trial of DR.. Briggs. His
| knowledge of the doctrinal points involved
| and his great legal ability had no small!
| effect on the success of the prosecution.
| Colonel McCook won his title in the civil
| war. He belongs to the lighting Nc
| Cooks" Every one of that distinguished
! family fought for the country and some OF
/ them died. list of the McCook family
| would look like q register or army officers.
| The colonel is now in his fifty-second year.
| He was youth when the great crisis came,
| and true TO his martial instincts he at once
became part of IL. He fought in q score of
battles and came out OF the war a colonel.
| The young officer resumed his college stu
! dies, and, having been graduated read
! law and came to New York. AS a lawyer
ne has made an enviable success. He mar
ried a daughter OF the Alexander FANNY,
| ana is now q member OF the nIm or Alex
ander &, Greene One of his best known
services in the railway connection was his
work as receiver of the Atchinson Topeka
| d Santa Fe. He has never sought public
| honors. The colonel Is active trustee
| of Princeton. and has received degrees from
| Kenyon College from Princeton. from Har-
| ward, from Lafayette and from the Univer-
| sity of Kansas. He Is q member or q dozen
| New York clubs and in his personal ways
is most genial, pleasant ana genuine man.