Show SHAW IS SILENT Has No Information to Give Out on the Subject Des Molnes In Dec 23Gcw L SL Shaw who a Now York telegram stales has been selected as the successor to Secretary of tho Treasury Gage stated when caled upon this afternoon that iC was the first Intimation of the matter ho had received and that ho had no infonvnt lon to give out on tho subject whatever Coy Shaw left for Iho East toniGht Seen n the train pulled out ho said Iliac I-liac seen the newspaper dispatches which staled that I have been seleclcd by President Roosevelt to succeed Secretary rotary Gaga as Secretary of tho Treasury In the Presidents Cabinet I have no Other information on Iho subject Man ifestly I cannot discuss It I have not Hcelved any Information on tho subject from Washington oilhcr from President Roosevelt or from any Iowa friends there Tho Governor declined to state his purposes pur-poses In leaving tho city for the East and ho said ho had not been called to Washington It la generally understood that Gov Shaw has been determined upon for the treasury portfolio but a rumor prevails that he will probably not accept ac-cept the appointment WII > < ho Is well todo he has not IL large fortune and It is possible that ho would think himself unable In a financial souse to accept tho place At any xato ho could not determine deter-mine tho matter before consultation wllh some of his friends who ore high in the I councils of tile party In Iowa and tho Nation |