Evening star., 1901-03-04
No Change in the Personnel Of Presi-
Dental Advisers
At TIE OPENING OF TIE new TERM
In About a Month Attorney Gen.
eraI Griggs Will Retire.
PERS SONAL ATTACHMENT

President Mckinley begins his second ad-
ministration with the same cabinet he had
when his first ended-a fact of unusual IN
terest. Tomorrow he will send to the Sen
ate the names of the men who composed his
cabinet when his first term of office ended
a few hours ago. These men Will be con-
| firmed, and the administration will go right
on doing business with the same force as
before the great event of today took place.
| The train crew of this big government will
not be changed for nearly n month, by
which time Attorney General Griggs will
have retired, and a new factor in affairs
will have taken his place. This one change
will. in all probability, be the only one Tor
a long time to come.
The President announced his satisfaction
| with the men who have been with MIN SO
| long right after the election in November
demonstrated that the people of the coun-
try cid not want change. The President
said then that the credit for the victory pc
lorged as much to the members or MS
faithful cabinet as to him or any one else.
They had helped make his administration
one that the country had indorsed. They
had worked as hard as he during the days
of the Spanish war, and on every occasion
since when serious thought and attention
were needed in passing upon matters OF
great moment. The future might be just as
| full of important questions, but he knew
| that not a member would falter for That
reason. Therefore he hoped that every one
| Of his advisers would remain with him
| through another term. Mr. Griggs was the
| only man who said that he would be unable
| to continue with the President. He frankly
admitted that politics had made him poor,
| and declared that now was the time to re-
| plensh his income by reSuming the prac-
| tice of his profession. Up to few days
ago the President continued to urge Mr..
| Griggs to remain In the official family, but
| Mr.. Griggs has reluctantly remained firm
| in the conviction that continued residence
| In Washington would mean great financial
| loss to him at time when his age bids him
| to make harvest while the sun shines. Mr..
GriggS is still comparatively young, and
practice worth many thousands of dollars
| is understood to be waiting for him.
Three Secretaries of State.
There has been much talk Of Secretary
Hay leaving the cabinet, but his inclina
items are not that way now. But for his
sensitive disposition, Mr.. Hay could prob
ably be put down for the full term of four
years with the President. He is, however,
sensitive to the newspaper attacks that are
occasionally made on him. He is so consci-
entious in the discharge Of his duties that
he feels keenly the efforts to attribute
wrong motives to him. The cabinet is not
as alluring to Mr.. Hay to many other
men, His wealth and social position are
commensurate with each other, and the cab
met adds no social pleasures or status to
the Hay family that they could not enjoy
if in private life.
Mr.. Hay has been In the cabinet since De-
cember 7, 1898, having succeeded Judge
William r. Day of Ohio There have been
more changes in this portfolio during the
administration than in any of the others.
The late John Sherman was made Secretary
of State when Mr.. Mckinley first entered
upon his administration. Mr.. Sherman be-
gan to decline rapidly in health. and served
less than fourteen months in the State De-
partment. The war with Spain had prac
tically begun when Mr.. Sherman relinquish-
ed public life forever, and was succeeded
by Judge Day, who was then assistant sec
retary of state. Judge Day had conducted
the greater part of the correspondence with
SPAN for several months before Mr.. Sher-
maa resigned. Judge Day entered upon his
duties April 26, 1885, and was the Presi-
dents closest adviser during the Spanish
war period. Judge Day had never wanted
to go into the cabinet and did 50 only at the
Presidents earnest desire.
For the Spanish War.
He enlisted, to use the term of a soldier
for the Spanish war only, and the war had
hardly ended before it generally known
that Judge Day would leave politics for the
circuit bench, which he greatly preferred
Because of his familiarity with the whole
matter Judge Day went to Paris as a mem
ber of the peace commission and remained
there until the terms of peace had been
arranged Shortly after returning to this
country he resigned Secretary of State
and was succeeded by Mr.. Hay, who was
called here from London, where he had
been sent in the beginning Of the admins
tration as ambassador from the United
States Mr.. Hay had done splendid diplo-
matte work at the time the European ma
tions were scheming to find opportunity
to interfere in the war with Spain. They
were never furnished opportunity, and their
schemes were quickly met and defeated by
Mr.. Hay.
There have been changes in the cabinet
from the War Department, Post Office De-
partment and Interior Department. but