The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-14
PRESIDENT MKINLEY WOULD
KEEP HIS PRESENT CABINET
FOUR YEARS MORE
THEY WILL PROBlBLI sgAlII
no DEFINITE ANNOUNCEMENT nv
ANY OF AN INTENTION
a TO RESIGN
GRIGGs MAY LEAVE OFFICE
The Attorney General. Whose Pri-
vate Business Demands His At
tentiOn, the Only Officer
Likely to Quit.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13-Presidert
mckinney today announced clearly and
forcefully to the members of his cabinet
his desire that they should all remain
with him during the four years of his
coming administration. His wishes were
Iiiede known in an extended speech at the
cabinet meeting in the White house to-
DAY. Responses were made by all of the
members present and While there were
4o deTinlte pledges from any of them that
they would accept the portfolios thus
rendered, afresh, there was on the other
kand no definite declipation.
TodaY's prOcet dings set forth tie wish
es of the president in the matter and re-
neNes the members of the cabinet Of the
customary obligation of rendering their
designations at the END of the term until
they have made an irreVocabIe decision
rhat it will be impossible for them to
continue In office. 1t also sets at rest ali
speculation and slate making of the coun,
trY's political prophets, for it is under
stood generally that there is blt one
doubtful factor in the homegenIty of the
present cabinet. That factor is ATTORNEY
General Griggs, rs he holds his present
position at a great financial sacrifice
StllI MT. Griggs replied in terms of warm
appreciation to the complimentary re
marks of the president and voiced 10 in
tenton Of retiring from his present nos;-
tion.
CONFIDENCE IN HIS ADVISERS.
This is not the first time that the pres,
ftent has expressed to the members of
the cabinet his pleasure at the supror+
they had given him. He SAID as much in
q general way at the last cabinet meet
Ing when the members, several of whom
had been scattered by the political cam
palgn, got together for the first time and
congratulated him upon the outcome of
lh
IDENTIFY had prepared for the occasion and
4 In his address reviewed the work of the
administration III the past four years,
four of the most important the country
has known IN three decades. 1t was
rather q surprise even, to the cabinet
members themselves TO note how ac>
curately the president had fixed in his
memory the sequence Of events and how
-S2lmIy he Telinquished the personal credit
Tor successful strokes of policy or
prudence and attributed the honor to the
members of his official family in whose
immediate department the matter in
question had arisen.
he said that if the result of the recent
election was an Endorsement of his adj
ministratiOn, it was no less an indOrse,
5nent of the men who had stood by him
IN the time of stress and adversity. The
credit for success, he said, lay with the
heads of his various departments ard he
should shrink from entering upon another
four years of Offlce unless he could be as
sured that he would have with him a
majority, at least of the men who form
his present official household. He said he
knew that in asking them to remain with
him there was scarcely one who could do
SO without some sacrifice, either ot
money, leisure OF personal inclination.
At the same time he said he should feel
happier if all OF them could crafty his
wishes.
WAS a LOVE FEAST.
Secretary Hay was the first to respo d.
He said that for his part he deeply ap-
preCiatei the complimentary references
made by his chief and that he thought
there was not a member of the cabinet
who would sever such pleasant official
relations without regret and even then
only in case of the most urgent reasons
for retirement.
Secretaries Gage, Long, Hitchcock,
Wilson, Attorney General Griggs and
Postmaster General Smith each spoke in
turn and in much the same vein. Sacre-
tary Root was the only absent member
from the meeting having left for Cuba
t. lock over military affairs there, ana
at the same time, to try to rccuperate
ii ON his long and serious ilress. The
list of responses therefore was all but
complete. 1t is known thar Secretary
Root is in much the same position Gs
Attorney General GTiggS, holding his
position at considerable sacrifice, but will
ing at the same time to sacrifice a good
deal to comply with the expected wish o.
the president.
The meeting which had developed into
q real love feast, then returned to the
more common place affairs of routine
business and the discussion of the salient
features Of the presidents coming mes
sage TO congress, after which the m5m-
bers left with renewed expression Of re
LN G-fst Of : 1aa
most remarkable cabinet sessions on
record