The times., 1898-04-26

has conducted the affairs of the State
Department for several months, is in
Canton, o.. where he is arranging to
close up his partnership with promi-
nent lawyer OF the city preparatory to
taking the premiership in Mr.. McKinley's
Cabinet. He would not make any state
ment when seen at Canton yesterday.
but he did not say anything which
would give the questioner reason to sup
pose that he would not accept the honor
Secretary Sherman was seen after the
Cabinet yesterday morning but he would
make no statement. He entered his car
riage and was driven rapidly away
1t is believed that the nomination of
Judge Day will be sent to the Senate to-
day
Distinguished Career.
John Sherman was born in Lancaster.
Ohio May TO- 1929. and in the early part
OF his life. until he was twelve years of
age. was at school at Mount Vernon in
that State. He soon began work civil
engineer after receiving a collegiate edu-
cation and was in the service of the
State for while, from which. however.
he was soon removed because of his Wing
politics. He then began the study of law
in the office of his brother Charles Sher-
man. and in 1874 was admitted to the bar.
He formed a partnership with his bro, her
and continued with him until his entrance
in Congress. In 1S4S he was sent as a
delegate to the Whig convention held in
Philadelphia that nominated Zachary
Taylor for the Presidency, and in 1907
he was a delegate to the Baltimore con-
vention that nominated Winfield Scott
His attitude as a conservative Whig in
the excitement that followed the attempt
TO repeal the Missouri compromise secured
his election to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress. and he took his seat on December
3. 1855, and began an immediate and active
participation in all the great events of
that and following periods. These included
the Dred Scott decision, the imDosi-
ton of slavery upon Kansas, the fugitive
slave law, the national finances and other
measures involving the existence of the
republic His appointment by the Speaker
Nathaniel Banks as a member of the
committee to inquire into and collect evil
dence in regard to the border-rutiian
troubles in Kansas was an important
event in his career. He acted with the
Republican party in supporting John c.
Fremont for the Presidency because THAI
party resisted the extension of slavery.
Mr.. Sherman was reelected to the
Thirty-sixth Congress, which began its
session amid the excitement caused by |
the John Brown raids. and was again !
elected in 1860 the Congress from which |
so many members seeded To establish |
the Southern Confederacy.
Mr.. Sherman was their Chairman of |
the Committee on Ways and Means and |
Immediately began measures for the |
financial support of the Government |
His first step was to secure the passage |
of a bill authorizing the issue of what is |
known as the Treasury notes of 1860.
On the resignation of Salmon =. Chase |
he was elected to his place in the Senate
and took his seat on March 4 1861. lie |
was reelected senator in 1861 and again
in 1913. During most of his senatorial
career he was Chairman of the Commit
tee on Finance and served also on the
Committees on Agriculture, the Pacific
Railroad, the judiciary and the Patent
Office.
During the early days of the war Mr..
Sherman recruited in Ohio two regi-
ments of infantry, a squadron of cav
airy anu Il battery Oh arIllery- IhlS
force served during the whole war and
was known as the Sherman brigade"
on the suspension of specie payments
in January. 1862 the issue of United
States notes become a necessity and the
question of making them legal tender
was quite unfavorably received but by
the efforts of Senator Sherman and Sec
retary Chase mainly this feature of the
bill authorizing their issue was carried
through Congress.
Mr.. Sherman actively supported Ruth
erford b. Hayes for the Presidency in
1876 and was a member of the committee
that visited Louisiana to witness the
counting of the returns of that State.
He was appOined Secretary OF the Treas
ury by Mr.. Hayes in March 1877. and
set about providing a re-
demption fund by means of loans
During his career in Congress before
the days when party rancor became so
bitter as to threaten long before il oc-
CURED the secession of the Southern I
States Mr. Sherman became estranged
With the Southern Wings. who besought
aim to declare that he was not hostile to
slavery, 1t seems that he had at this |
period subscribed to Hinton r. Helpers !
impending Crisis He did this without |
4 knowledge of the contents of the book.
This was III 1853, and he was the Repubu
AN candidate for the Speakershfp He !
refused TO satisfy the demands of his
,rrmer political friends from the South
ma as a consequence. after eight weeks
u ballotlng, in which he came within
hree woes of election, he yielded to VIII
lam Pennington, who was chosen
The incident in his senatorial career, the