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Show HAMMOND SEEKS CABINET PLACE Mining Engineer Would Head Com- Hfl merce and Labor Department. flBl Washington. Friends of John Hays jf Hammond, the millionaire mining en- flBJ glncor and publicist of MaaBachu- Hfl setts, will ask Mr. Toft to make him (flfli a member ot his cabinet Mr. Ham- 'HJ 9 -moflrrB-"mTrereTicrTsnnrirafatgsato SB be tho department of commerce and IB labor, He has ideas on tho subject of lUtl making thlt department a real help JSi to the commercial Interests of tha . jMH country, particularly tho manufactur- laM Ing Industry, and many ot bis friends wH would like to see him have an oppor- tunlty to carry his plant Into effect. Ujm Mr, Hammond wat active in the ro- iHbB cent campaign. Ho took hold ot tha Jllfl work ot making useful the National mm League of Republican Clubs, and it Is .JsM generally understood that he boro tha 'Mrltf oxpenses of this work out ot his own WSm private fortune. He la now planning f4 to mnlntaln permanent headquarters jR ot tho National league and to Increase foM itt membership and Influence during arm (be next four years, ' , |