The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-22
SURVIVORS OF PAST CABINETS.
None Left from Lincoln's-one from
 Johnson's.
Washington Correspondence of New York
 EVaninR Pnsf-


 Evening Post.
 If President Roosevelt instead oA ten- dering to each member Of the Mchiniey cabinet a reappointment. had tried 10 go to a further extreme of conservatism and make up a cabinet of the oldest experi- enced material he could find, whom would he have put into 1t? This was the thought of many who looked at the throng of President Mckinley today.
 Such cabinet of Hast survivors" would have as It's Secretary of State John W. Foster of Indiana. who occupied that of- flee no longer ago than the latter months of the Harrison administration, and IS now but, 65l years old. Its Secretary of the Treasury would be George s. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, who is in his s4th year Its Secretary of War would be John M. Schofield, who held that office under An drew Johnson. It's Secretary of the 1n- terlor would be Carl Schurz. who served under Hayes. Its Secretary of the Navy, also dating from the same administra- ton, would be Nathan Golf, Jr., of West Virginia. Its Postmaster General would be James N. Tyner of Indiana, who held office for the last few months of the Grant administration. Its Attorney General would be George H. Williams of Oregon, also of the Grant administration, and Its Secretary of Agriculture. Norman J: Col cupant of that office in the latter months of the Cleveland administration. We have. theerfore, among ranking survivors one man WHO kO0b DaCk IO JOuIlSOhs IhI Ce who date from Grant, two from Hayes, one from the first Cleveland administra- ton, and one from Harrison.
 We have no survivor of the Lincoln administration now living, although of the contempt raneous Confederate Caoi- net one member, John H. Reagan or 1eXas, who was bern in the same year as ex-Governor Boutwell,. is still living. Reagan is now a Railroad Commissioner of the State of Texas. and has been in public life most of his days In fact, his biog >aphy relates rather pathetically that he was retired from office for nine wears sftel the civil war, because of his la nous Fort Warren letter" written from that stronghold to the people Of Texas, advising them to accept the amendments to the Constitution. With the exception of nine years punis hment for this Lit of advice. he has been honored almost con tinuously with official positions, serving Texas as an Independent republic ana as a State in the American Union, then serV, ing the Confederate Government, anu finally the State and the Nation when Texas was restored to the Union.
 John M. Schetteld who is our only sur vlvor of the Johnson Cabinet, owed ms nosition to the fact that he was youns man of a good military record, or Dem ocratic affiliations, and vet conserVatiVe troublous days of the Johnson admins tration, after Stantons retirement; ne served only few months under Johnson but remained until March 12 under Tres 
 General. Schotleld, just before his retlre- ment was made Lieutenant-G General, being the last of his line, who nad con, m manded an independent army durIns Ia .,l .Ile civil war He fought the battle or franh- lin. Tenn. with Hood, who was tnSti gu moving in the rear of ShermanS arTly 1tyds III an attempt to reach the ono rHt, rtSSL, Thomas was at Nashville, and Schonelo was bringing up troops to his aid when he was furiously attacked at Frankn5n by the Confederates, whomT he AepniseI,i;
 President Grant appointed BoutWes Secretary of the Treasury after ne hap failed to secure the conhrmatton or Al exander T. Stewart of New Hork TOT that office, because he was a mercranI lL. law from administering the affairs or tne Treasury Department President Srat Srant sent to the Senate a recommenoallon that the law be repealed; MT. stewart t trustees and to devote its pronts TOT his term of office to charitable purposes, but Congress refused to yield. Goverhor I,o S,ontwell had been appointed rSsr GSnnt IiS- coin and elected to Congress from Mas sachusetts in 1862. In point of years ,,il ne is the ranking ex-Cabinet othcer. ,i,r', ne long list of Secretaries of the Treasury since his day who have gone oyer to tne great majority Is very impressive: Down to Charles s. Fairchild no one IS nov living; and the roster includes LoT Tvi,. m. MerrLll John sherman, William na Mn- dom Charles J. Folger. Walter Q; Gres- Sa ham, Hugh McCulloch, and Daniel Man ming.
 An associate of Boutwell, in the Grant administration was George H: Wllhams Of Oregon, Attorney General. lie Was the first Pacific Coast man ever appolnt- ed to the cabinet. and Joseph Nc kenna' who served under Mckinley. also as AL torney General. was the second. .,,,,,o,. third Grant administration SUI eiHo5 siISI is James NJ. Tyner of Indiana, who nliea out the last few months of Grant s term fIi as Postmaster General. He had beeR TOT many years a member of Congress from Indiana. Before that he had been con con, nected with the postal service m VdrtoeS .,eI, capacities. and was remarkapy ,s. equipped for the position. But ms ms poIis, 1oas, ical activities are destined to ne IhoI@ remembered than his depsr tiSse Hat,.,a,, the Cincinnati Convention or sio a., nUrtoh ,1raSl was the Indiana candidate for the d pres sS ldd my, the man whom the ddfelt irseI9s ,,es es MT Blaine. and when Morton's follow CTS saw that he could not get tne nom, 4ta,, natlon they began to figure on "'l~| ''''S