Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-28
SECRETARY FOLGER.
THE NOMINATIONS WHICH PRESIDENT
ARTHUR MADE YESTERDAY.
FoIgsr, Secretary of the Treasury, James,
Postmaster General, Haltonr First
Assistant Postmaster General
The Attorney General
ship-Hows leftin
the lurcE.
ATTORNEY GENERAL EMORY SToRRs
TIE ATTORNEY GENERALsRIP.

How Is This, President Arthur
WASHINGTON, October N.-It Is now
learned upon very good authority that
the President has reconsidsred his con-
clusion To appoint Howe, although the
Wisconsin Congressman fully believed
last evening that he would he appoint
ed. The Presidents purpose is to APP
point Solicitor-General Phillips to act as
Attorney. general until next winter il
MacVeagh refuses TO continue. Some
OF the Presidents friends advised against
the appointment of Howe on account oil
his age and partial infirmity. They said
to the President that he ought TO make
u vigorous, active administration and
that was expected OF him by the
country, but if he surrounded himself
with Cabinet advisers who belonged to
a past aye they would hamper him. This
had much to do, it is said, with the
Presidents change Of mind.
There is no reason to suppose that
MacYeagh can be induced to change his
mind, as he said to a Western Associa.
ted Press reporter the night before he
left for Philadelphia in the most EN-
phatic terms, that under no CirCum-
stances would he consent to remain in
the Cabinet. There is no doubt that
the President feels some embarrassment
over MacYesgh's arbitrary retirement
because of the Star Route cases. Should
these cases fail, the President wants the
responsibility to rest where it properly
belOngs-upon the prosecution, and
therefore he was and is desuOus that
those who began the prosecution should
continue il TO the end.
The Attorney Generalship Hitch
WASHINGTON, October 27.-The hitch
about Attorney General was first caused
by Howe's unw:llingness to take it with
the Star Route prosecutions devolVlng
upon the office. The Wisconsin Sena-
tors and other prominent hackers OF
Howe concluded that if he accepted the
office now the Star Route cases would
specially embarrass him by reason Of
the fact that his son.in-law Totten is
counsel for the defense; that il the
prosecutions Jailed, with Howe as At
torney General, il might be said the
failure was due 10 the influence OF his
son-in-law. Therefore, it was decided
best that Howe should not accept the
office at present. Howe's friends say
the President is entirely willing to
appoint him, but agree with their
views that the Star Route cases ought
to be concluded before he enters that
Office. One of the Wisconsin Senators
said this afternoon that he had no doubt
OF HOwe's ultimate appointment, and he
believed that MacYeagh would consent
to remain to conclude the Star Route
cases; that should MacVeagh refuse, an
ud interim appointment will be made.
The President has informed the Sena-
tors that he has only few more nomi-
nations, and they can adjourn tomorrow.
Rausdell has been nominated for Reg
lister of Wills. Ii was supposed that
Webster, whom Ramsdell supplanted,
would get the nomination as he was
backed by General Grant. H
Reported Appointment Of Emory 5torrs
NEW YoRE, October 27.-The Coamer-
ciGPs Washington dispatch says: Elm
ory Storrs, oil Chicago, has been tend
erad and has accepted the appointment
| of Attorney General with the under
standing that the appointment is made
solely with reference to the Star Route
prosecutions and is to terminate on the
first Of December.