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54 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS unusually large number of people and with great military and civic display. Immediately afterward he sent to the senate the names of the following persons to constitute his cabinet, and they were promptly confirmed by that body: Secretary of state, John Sherman, of Ohio; secretary of the treasury, Lyman J. Gage, of Illinois ; secretary of war, Gen. Russell A. Alger, of Michigan; attorney- general, Joseph McKenna, of California ; postmas ter-general, James A. Gary, of Maryland; secre tary of the navy, John D. Long, of Massachu setts; secretary of the interior, Cornelius 1ST. Bliss, of New York; secretary of agriculture, James Wilson, of Iowa. Mr. Sherman was subsequently succeeded by William R. Day, of Ohio, and John Hay, of the District of Columbia; Elihu Root, of New York, was appointed secretary of war, to succeed Gen. Alger ; John W. Griggs, of New Jer sey, became the successor of Mr. McKenna in the office of att orney- general ; Charles Emory Smith, of Pennsylvania, followed Mr. Gary as postmaster- general; Ethan Allen Hitchcock, of Missouri, was appointed to take the place of Mr. Bliss. On March 6 the president issued a proclamation calling an extra session of congress for March 15. On that date both branches met and listened to a special presidential message on the subject of the tariff. The result was the drafting of the bill called "The Dingley bill," after Chairman Nelson