Show SECRETARY OF HAY WILL NOT RESIGN repeated humors to that effect positively denied t desires him to fernalo in view of the repeated publications of late to the general rumor that bee detary hay is about to ret re from the cabinet a statement is given with full authority touch ng tl is subject substantially ly to the effect that secretary does not now contemplate ret re ment fro u the cab net ith s statement applies not only to the present moment but to tl at indefinite i er bd fixed by the conclusion of the degoti actions to the construction of an esth m an canal also it is stated with equal and authority that president roosevelt had in the strong est beims expressed to secretary hay his earnest desire that he shall remain in the cabinet of which he forms one of the principal props I 1 hue accord tag to the statement the secretary a inclinations and the pi es dent s desires run together and there is no dounda tion for the reports to the effect that secretary hay is to leave his oost |