The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-01-28
GENERAL aARrIELD's CABINET.
Go.ssr ns 10 who Will Got the Several
Portfolios.
SENATOR BLAINE UNDOUBTEDLY 40 De SEC
RETARY OF sTATE-sEw YoRKs PLACE IN
Tng CABISET-TuE SECRETARY OF THE
TRFAGIRy.
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the United States. There are IN reality but
very few persons who have the privilege
of knowing, even remotely, how Gene
raj Garfield proposes to conduct hts
administration. Those few persons. nj
least three Of whom are now in wash
lington, have from time to time re-
Gently been much amused, as has also Gen
eral Garfield himself, by the extraordinary
predictions regarding his Cabinet made IN
various Journals and by persons assuming
to speak for the President-elect. In word,
IL nav be said that none Of those prediction
have been worthy OF the slightest credit.
IL is not true that the coming President
has completed his Cabinet. |; i equally
untrue that he has not determined upon q
considerable portion OF its mske-up. When
his election became a fixed fact his iirsl
care was TO take advice a. 10 the fitness
OF certain gentlemen for the seven
Cabinet places in his gift. To thi'
work he brought large and Intimate
knowledge Of the public men Of the nation
and il can now be stated that when the
Cabinet is finally announced II Will be dis
covered that General Gan field at least be-
Iieyes that every member Of 1t is equipped
TO perform the public business which vii
be committed TO his care. To secure such
result appears to be the Presdent-eiect
chief aim, and the whole question OF Sc
lection will be decided by him more upon
the business qullitic iti0nS ana peculiar
fitness of the men who are to act rs Ms
councillors than upon any other grouno. NJ
the same time, however, due consideration
will undoubtedly be given to the geo
graphical demands OF the country. VI
THE SEVEN MEN
who are TO be made Cabinet officers, only
one has as yet been absolutely chosen. TWO
others are almost settled upon, and the en-
tire list will be chosen from twelve men
who are being considered. On the III Of
january it would not have been out OF the
way TO have announced that the Cabinet,
were il rcasSary then TO select 1t, would
have been made up very much as follows
Secretary OF Slate-James G.. Blaine. OF
Maine.
Secretary OF the Trcasury-JImes +. Will
son, OF Iowa.
Secretary Of War;. Donald Cameron, Of
Pennsylvania.
Secretary Of the Nayy-WiIliams c. Wick
ham, OF Virginia.
.GcncIal-rhOmas L. james,
OF New York.
Neutrality-suspicious. \. S'orrs, OF
Illinois.
Secretary Of the Intcror-D. o. Mills, OF
California.
Within the past three weeks this list has
been constantly considered and reconsider
cd, aud while It Is probable that number
OF the gentlemen named will eventually be
appointed, it j. undoubted that several i'm
pcrtlut changes will be made. senator
Blaine will be Secretary OF st,te. That
much /, certain. He has been quietly ten
dered the place. and, though he i ssll adj
yising with biz friends Is TO the dcsirabiIily
OF accepting il, it can hardly be questioned
that he has fully concluded to assume IT.
duties. A. is at present decided, the
SECRETARY OF The TREASURY
will be either james +. Wilson or William
b. Allison, both OF Iowa. The latter has
been for years warm friend OF General
Garfield and was long his congressional
associate. He went to Mentor to urge The
selection OF Mr.. Wilson, and while there
was tacitly given to understand that his
same, with that OF Mr.. Wilson, was being
considered for the finance portfolio.
For Secretary OF War there have up 10 this
time been fewer prominent candidate
than for any Of the other place..
Senator Cameron must still enjoy the
distinction OF being the principal OF thcnr.
| If he gets the place-aRd there Is hardly a
question that he will accept ii il It is offered
to him-the programme OF the >traiSht-Out
Republicans of Peunsy lvania- men who do
the work at elections, bring about Republl-
can victories, and never ShiIk political
duty-is to send his father. Simon Cameron,
| TO the seat in the Senate which would be
made vacant by lis appointment to place
| in the Cabinet.
The filling Of the positions OF
SECRETARY or THE NAVY AND POSTMASTER
GENERAL
Give more trouble TO the President elect
than the selection OF any other Cabinet Off
Ger save that OF the Secretary OF the Trel-
surv. 1t is now definitely and absolutely
| fixed that the latter officer will not be Sc
| Iected from New York. General Garfield
| believes that the finance minister OF the ma
! ton should, above all things, be free from
even the suspicion Of any possible cOnnec-
| ton with the brokers. spectators, and
moncy-changers Of Wall street. Holding
this view, 1t is to be stated positively
that he will take his secretary OF the
| Treasury from Il state as far from New
York and its influences as is compatible
with the qualifications necessary in the man
chosen. still, it is his great desire TO fully
recognize the Republican powers in New
| York and to cOncede 10 those powers every
thing which they can legtimately demand.
Some weeks ago Governor AonZO Il. Cor
nell, OF New York. together with United
States Marshal Payn and Congressman
Richard Crowley, OF the same state,
visited Mentor Q>tensiby for the pur-
pose OF paving their respects TO and con-
graduating the Prcsidcnt-elect. Whether
or not this was actually their motive in 90
ing 20 far need not now be discussed, but It
is certain that while they were there they
had much to say regarding the makeup OF
the coming Administration. They received
no definite statement from the Pre- ident
elect a. 10 what he would do regarding hi.
Cabinet. They were tacitly given TO I'M
derstand that h. would not select his Secrc-
tary OF State from New York. They were
more directly told that il the Republicans OF
THE EMPIRE STATE
represented by such men Is Roscoe Conk'
ling, State Senator Robertson, John II. sta
rim, state Senator Sessions, Chester y. Ar
thur, and the peculiar New York city intlu'
euces which are still indirectly controlled by
Tburow Weed, could be united, New
York might receive TWO OF the minor Cab
net places. This concession, Is 1t viii be
noted, was a most diplomatic one, for nc
one who knows anything about the polite,
Of the Safe OF New York can for moment
believe that the influences mentioned can
ever be recOncied. Falling such recOncllia
ltion, General Garfield Unlimited to Governor
Cornell and MessrS. Crowley and Payn thai
he would give one Cabinet place to New
York at the request OF what may be called The
stalwsrt wing OF the party, headed by thu
men in New York, who, with General Grant
made Republican victory possible. In short
| what tho presidenf-plpct has determined