Show CABINET IS FIXED A FORECAST MADE BY WALTER I WELLJilAN Major McKinley Likely to Offer Portfolios to Messrs Sherman Dingley Merriam Bliss Goff Payne and Waymire I II I I Washington Dec 24It is now possible pos-sible to give some important news concerning con-cerning the progress which President elect McKinley has made in the task of making up his cabinet slate I would be incorrect to say that Major McKinley has fully and finally determined I deter-mined whom he will ask to be his I ministers So far only two direct of fers of places in the cabinet have been made one of these to Mr Hanna who I is not likely to be in the cabinet at all and the other to Governor Dingley But i i the presidentelect has practically determined de-termined the composition of his cabinet cabi-net except as to one or perhaps two places I I Unless he changes his mind the following fol-lowing will be the McKinley cabinet when I is finally announced I Secretary of state John Sherman of Ohio Secretary of the treasury Nelson Dingley of Maine Secretary of warExGovernor Will iam R Merriam of Minnesota Secretary of the navy Cornelius N Bliss of New York Attorney General Nathan Goff of West Virginia Postmaster General Henry C Payne of Wisconsin Secretary of agriculture Judge Way mire of California 000 There is today ample confirmation of the report which whs wired to the TimesHerald some time ago that Senator I Sen-ator Thurston expects to be secretary of state The senator said a day or two ago that he now thought he should take the post At first he was reluctant reluc-tant to do so but it having been represented rep-resented to him that there was likely to be trouble about his reelection to the senate and it having also been pointed out to him that he might have the help of a firstclass assistant secretary sec-retary who could take from his shoul ders much of the routine work of the department he had decided to accept I could give all my time to the direction di-rection of our foreign affairs said the senator to his friend without being bothered by the details of the depart Ifcjnt work I would be a fitting I Sending out of my public career added the senator if I were to con elude with four years in the state department de-partment I have made a careful study of our foreign affairs since I became a member of the foreign relations committee com-mittee of the senate and I am much interested in them 000 I is now known that during his visit here a few weeks ago Mr Hanna at the request of Major McKinley had a long talk with Senator Sherman concerning con-cerning the secretaryship of state Mr Hanna found the senator somewhat unwilling to take the place but before he left town he had a distinct understanding under-standing with Mr Sherman that if Major McKinley wished f and if it were to clear up matters in Ohio and avert another factional fight in the Republican ranks there a post in the cabinet would be reluctantly accepted Mr Hanna also went away with a firm conviction that Senator Sherman is in health and strength fully able to cope with the important duties of the state department The presidentelect now knows therefore there-fore that he can have Mr Sherman for his secretary of state if he wants him The matter is in such condition that Major McKinley may invite Senator Sen-ator Sherman into the cabinet or not as he pleases The presidentelect hes itates between Senators Sherman and Allison and if it were known that the later would accept it is possible that the choice would fall upon him with Senator Shermans cheerful consent But there is a great probability that the Iowa senator would not consent to leave congress and on the other hand Major McKinley would be very glad to serve his friend Hanna by clearing the way for the latters entree to the senate I is no secret that Mr Hanna is much disinclined to go into the cabinet and more than willing togo to-go into the senate Senator Sherman has not yet been formally asked to be secretary of state but all the chances are hat he soon will be 000 Governor Dingleys selection for the treasury was made some time ago as already reported in thesedispatches Cornelius Bliss was several weeks ago decided on also though not absolutely abso-lutely fixed in the navy department I was settled that he should be in the ministry the Dost to be decided later Now there is little if any doubt that he will be Mr Herberts successor suc-cessor Messrs Merriam and Payne are not as yet quite so definitely fixed and it is possible one or both may not be invited though the chances are much in their favor Judge Goff for attorneygeneral was one of the first selections which the presidentelect had in his mind Judge Waymire according to the latest reports is to be secretary of agriculture notwithstanding the advocacy ad-vocacy of Horace Davis by the Cali fornia delegation in congress The secretaryship of the interior is still open The understanding here is that the presidentelect will not send out any formal invitations to the men upon whom he has decided for places in his cabinet till after the 1st of January and that then five or six such letters will be sent together In the absence of unexpected changes of mind on Major Ma-jor McKinleys part the men named in the foregoing are all likely to receive these pleasant notices of future honors in waiting for themselves 000 What will Speaker Reeds attitude be toward the next administration is a question frequently asked in Washington Washing-ton these days I is known that one of Mr Hannas objects in coming to Washington a short time ago was to offer the olive branch to the speaker of the house and make him under I stand that the presidentelect was prepared pre-pared to extend to him his most distinguished dis-tinguished consideration and look upon him as one ot his very great and good i friends How well Mr Hanna succeeded j I suc-ceeded as a diplomat is known only to a very limited circle Concerning i the speaker and his probable attitude toward President McKinley I have i i some interesting information I I Mr Reed will not go out of his I way to advance Mr McKinleys cause j i and on the other hand he will throw i I no obstacles in the path of its easy and smooth progress So said one of the speakers few confidential friends tome to-me today Mr Reed hopes to seethe see-the next administration a success and I the country enjoying a high measure of prosperity not for the sake of the head ot the administration but because be-cause he is a Republican continued this friend of Reeds In congress and after the next president pres-ident retired from congressional life the relations between the two men were always pleasant but they were never intimate or of the cordial character char-acter which marked the relations between be-tween Reed and Hitt or Lodge or between McKinley and Dingley I is a fact that Mr Reed feels sore not I because he was defeated and McKinley McKin-ley was the successful man but because be-cause of the methods which the friends of the latter employed to bring about his success Mr Reed might have employed em-ployed some of these methods himself but he steadfastly refused 000 I During the campaign preceding the nomination Mr Reed was in a curious state of mind his close friend went on to say There were times when the thought of being the successful j I candidate and receiving the nomination nomina-tion was absolutely distasteful to him I was not that he feared the responsibility respon-sibility which that involved but because be-cause he dreaded whether if elected his administration would give the country the peace and prosperity which it so ardently craved He knew the difficulties which the new administration administra-tion will have to meet After St Louis he was strongly tempted to abandon public life His personal desire was to go to New York and make money for his very charming daughter and Mrs Reed added the weight of her influence to his own inclination in-clination But his close friends dissuaded dis-suaded him They pointed out that if he retired then it would be said by his enemies that hecould not meet defeat gracefully and that charge would cloud his reputation I was also feared by his warm friends in Maine that his retirement re-tirement would send a Democrat to congress in his place These things had their weight with I Mr Reed He accepted a renomina tion and took an active part in the campaign I took some persuasion to induce him to go upon the stump When he did he spoke for the Republican Republic-an party not for Mr McKinley i I 0 Mr Reed and National Chairman Hanna met a couple of weeks ago but there was no conversation between them save in the presence of others Mr Hanna called on Mr Reed and Mr Reed did not call on Mr Hanna If the administration wants him they will have to come to him he will not go to them That expresses in a sentence sen-tence the attitude which Mr Reed will maintain toward the new administration tion Mr Reed is speaker of the house He ha no favors to ask but he has bounties to bestow The president I presi-dent will need him more than he needs the president Some of Mr Reeds friends believe that if it were possible I White House encouragement would be given to his opponents to prevent his reelection to the speakership Such a I thing however is not possible and Mr J I Reed knows he will be speaker of the next house In that position his power is so great that he feels he can dictate dic-tate and need have no fear of being dictated cago TimesHerald toWalter Wellman in Chi |