XXXVII. PRESIDENT MCKINLEY'S ADMINISTRATION. Formation of the New Cabinet-Two Matters of Grave Domestic President McKinley named the following members as his first Cabinet: Secretary of State-John Sherman, of Ohio. Secretary of the Treasury-Lyman J. Gage, of Illinois. Secretary of War-Russell A. Alger, of Michigan. Secretary of the Navy-John D. Long, of Massachusetts. Attorney General-John W. Griggs, of New Jersey. Secretary of the Interior-Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York. This Cabinet, however, was not lasting, for before the Fifty-sixth Congress met in December, 1899, a number of changes had occurred: John Hay, of the District of Columbia, had succeeded John Sherman as Secretary of State; Elihu Root, of New York, was Secretary of War; Charles Emory Smith, of Pennsylvania, was Postmaster General, and Ethan Allen Hitchcock, of Missouri, was Secretary of the Interior. Vice-President Hobart, who had proved an able and impartial presiding officer and who stood high in public esteem, died November 21, 1899, and was succeeded as President of the Senate by William P. Frye, of Maine. Two matters of grave domestic importance confronted the new Administration when it first came into power, and our relations |