Meeting Of The Cabinet

Washington, Sept. 14.- Great interest was attaehed to the cabinet meeting Tuesday on account of the various important questions which are impending and the fact that it was the flrst meeting in soms weeks. Every member of the cabinet, except Secretary Long, who is out of the city, reached the White House promptly at 11 o'clock and each had with him an unusually Jarge number of papers and documents relating to matters pending in his department. Owing to the volume of business to be considered it was decided at 1:30, af ter the session had lasted two and a half hours, to take a recess for lunch and continue the session at 2 o'clock. The session was devoted almost entirely to the consideration of the Union Pacific question, presumably the advisability of taking an appeal from the decree of the United States court at Omaha for the sale of the property under foreclosure proceedings. The members of the cabinet were very reticent, an injunction having been placed on them not to talk of the matter at this time, but it was stated that an announcement relative to the course the government would pursue might be expected in the course of ten days. The cabinet also discussed the San Pedro, Cal., harbor project and Attorney General McKenna rendered an opinión which will be formally promulgated which is to the effect that Secretary Alger should proceed under the law to carry out the project of building a breakwater and making other improvements at San Pedro. The civil service decisión in the Wood case and its effect on the law was also informally talked over. Neither the decisión on discriminating section 22 of the tariff act nor the Cuban or Hawaiian questions were mentioned at the meeting.