Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — CABINET RESUMES WORK. [ARTICLE]

CABINET RESUMES WORK.

McKinley and His Advisers Consider the Union Pacific Case. Interest attached to the cabinet meeting Tuesday, the first in a number of weeks. Every member of the cabinet, except Secretary Long, who is put of Washington, reached the white house promptly at 11 o’clock. The morning session was devoted almost entirely to the consideration of the Union Pacific question, presumably the advisability of taking an appeal from the decreee of the United States court at Omaha for the sale of the property under foreclosure proceedings. The cabinet also discussed the San Pedro (Cal.) harbor project, and Attorney General McKenna rendered an opinion to the effect that Secretary Alger should proceed under the law to carry out the projuct of building a breakwater and making other improvements at San Pedro. The civil service devision in the Wood case and its effect on the law was also Informally talked over.