The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-06
THE CABINET.

morning that his only objection was
to leaving the Senate. -
Senator Blaine said, to-day, that
strange as it might seem. the great
difficulty in the formation of the
cabinet was in finding men adapted
to the positions who would &C
cept, and that there had been a
number of destinations. Blaine and
Window are fixed as secretary of
state and the treasury, Lincoln for
the war department, MeVeagh fol
attorney general; Hunt, Kirkwood
and James are booked also fol
tn nav, interior and postmaster
General, but a senator from the
White House said these positions
night be shifted among them in a
lifferent order. 1t was to arrange
these places as to the men best
suited that the President post
pOned the hour for making the
nominations.
New York, 5.-The Post, in a
financial article, says: Senator
Window is regarded here as, to put
it mildly, an expansionist, and the
theory on which Wall street is act
ing is that he will turn adrift a good
part of the coin in the treasury, by
means of bond purchases. 1t may
be that his views, when he has the
responsibilities Of office upon him
will be more conservative than his
record on the currency question
leads spectators to expect.
The Commercial says: If the APP
pointment of Window to the treas
ury is confirmed by later news, ii
may be taken for granted that the
western policy on currency, gold
and silver coin and debt paying to
the latest available dollar in the
treasury, will be the rule in the new
cabinet. Blaine, who is to be pre-
mier, is as much in favor of this
policy as Window himself; nor is
the President any other than gold
and silver man, and will soon prove
to be a debt-paying in place of
debt-refunding executive.
Mr.. Blaine, this afternoon, mailed
to Governor Plaisted, his resigna-
nation as United States senator, to
take effect this day. He also
mailed his resignation to the
Speaker of the Maine house of rep
resentatiYeS. Both communications
should be received next Monday
which will enable the legislature to
elect his successor on the second
Tuesday following.
Senator Window will delay sign
ing his resignation until Monday
next.
Chicago, 4.-The Tib1tne to-mor.
row, viii say of Garfeld's cabinet
The composition of the cabinet will
afford general satisfaction. 1t meets
all the requirements of the locality
1t has high average of ability, un-
questioned integrity, and in its col
,ectiYe capacity has very unusual
experience of public affairs anC
knowledge of the duties pertaining
10 The several offices. Mr.. Blaine
is in one sense, a national char
acter. He is an eastern mai
with western temperament
Mr.. Window, in point Of
ability, ranks high as a sound anC
clear headed thinker. The appoint
ment of Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Window
may be accepted as committing the
new administration thoroughly tt
the support of the double standard
and actively employing the influence
of the republic to extend it over
Europe and America. Mr.. Lincoln
possesses all the qualifications for Z
good executive officer and is better
fitted for the war Office than most
of those who have held it. 1t was q
graceful thing for Gen. Garfield Il
honor the son Of.the great lllinOisan
The people OF Illinois will thank
him for it. Mr.. James will bring
to the postoffice department the
highest order of fitness. He will
not delegate his duties to assist
ants. He will rip open the rotten
foul and extravaganza Star service
and repair the mischief that Key,
through gross negligence, permitted
TO be done. On the whole, the cabi-
net should be regarded as fairc M
promise between all the various ele-
ments of the party.
Times tomorrow, on the new
cabinet, will say =: In the geographical
distribution of the cabinet General
Garfield has been generous to the
northwest. Illinois has been recOg-
niZed by the appointment of Mr.
Robert Lincoln. Mr.. Window, of
Minnesota, is secretary of the
treasury, in some respects the most
important Office in the government.
Mr.. WINDOWS chief recommends
ton for the place seems to have
been found in the fact that the dele
cation of his state voted for him
in the Chicago convention. Some.
of those familiar with his history
are inclined to doubt the sufliciency
of this reason for the assignment TO
him of so important a department.
Mr.. KirkwoOd, of Iowa, was chosen,
it is said, because Mr.. Allison OF the
same state declined this office. That
does not seem to be conclusive, but
there is no better reason. The
Times admits the fitness of Mr..
Blaine and Mr.. James for the posi-
lions to which they have been ap-
pointed, and says: Mr.. McVeagh
gets the attorney geneFalship. 1t is
probable he was not appointed be-
cause his brother-in-law, as Don
Cameron, detests him. Judge Hunt
Of Louisiana, is chosen to represent
the south in the new cabinet. No
seem to have been made
10 him. The stock of available re-
publican cabinet material in that
section is not large, and the President
mas doubtless made the best selec-
ion he could from the stock on
hand.
Springfield, Mass, 5.-The Repub-
lean says: Garfield's cabinet is not
Is good as his inaugural. 1t is
spOtty and full of holes.
Blaine is an unfit man. To nOmi-
late Senator Window forl
secretary of the treasury is a shock |
% the business interests of the coun-
ry. He has been wrong on all !
financial questions. Under Garfield |
re will do, perhaps. Lincoln is a |
passenger, not an oar, James, post |
is the first happy
stroke and best appointment. Nc
Veagh, for Encouragement, is
Utmost equally good. KirkwoOd,
or the interior, is also a good app
continent, but the cabinet, as a
whole. does not compare with
Hayes.
Times says that Blaines' presence
N tbe cabinet will give lively salts