Show FOR CABINET Salt Lake Banker May lay Succeed Retiring Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- Hitchcock I W. W S. S McCornick of ot this city is being urged for a pl place e in President Roosevelt's Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior to succeed Secretary who It is said Is certain to resign Mr McCornick knew nothing of the effort In his beh behalf lf being made by his friends until yesterday when one of them informed him He received received re received re- re he said a vague telegram from Senator Kearns telling him that a letter was on the way and not to decide upon the prop proposition contained until after Cler careful consideration Mr McCornick McCoy McCoy- nick thought at the time that It referred to some business s proposition When asked if h he would accept the portfolio port port- folio of the Interior It if tendered he laughIngly laughingly laugh laugh- replied that It would be very bad bad manners for him to acce accept t or decline something that had never been offered It Is supposed to be President Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's Intention to appoint some far Western West West- estan est em ern an man to tc fill the next vacancy In Jn the Cabinet and ind nd the thc very lest best timber In the Western States Is being picked out for forthe forthe forthe the place A number Of names of men from California Montana 1 and the Pacific Northwest have bave been submitted Mr 1 McCornick's Mc- Mc Cornicks Cornick's prominence In the party coun coun councils ells In the Vest West and his fitness for the position will It Is believed secure him recognition I All that I have heard of this mattea matter matter mat mat- ter tea has been In a letter received from Senator Miller 1 of Nebraska who Is an anold anold anold old friend of ot mip I do not know how the re t t got Into print and I regard It as very pr premature mature As to whether I would be a receptive cand candidate date I must decline to say The whole matter mat matter matter mat mat- ter Is in an embryo state It is far from certain that Mr Hitchcock is goIng go- go o 0 Ing to resign to say nothing of ot the portfolio being tendered to me |