The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

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WARRINGTON NOTES AND SPECULATION
President Arthur having issued aproclama
ton converting the senate on the 10th Of DC.
tober, the papers and politicians are already
full of surmlse and speculation as to what is
iR the wind"
The first subject to attract attention will be
the organization Of the senate. BY the resig'
nation Of Conkllng and Plat. and the death OF
Gen. Burnside the democrats are left with o
majority of three IN the senate, tor although
the successors OF the senators named have been
elected, they cannot be sworn in and take their
seats until the senate is duly organized by the
election Of q president and secretary, as the
new members must be sworn in by the pres
ident of the senate and their credentials hand
ed to the secretary.
Because after such admission of the new
members, the senate, counting Malone as a
republican, will be equally divided and the
administration and the house are republican,
some of the republican organs insist that the
democrats ought to allow the republicans to
have the president of the senate the officers
and committees. 1t Is safe to ay, however,
there is no democratic senator who can see
the propriety Of any such extraordinary stretch
of magnanimlty. Undoubtedly the first steps
taken on the meeting OF the senate will be the
election OF a democrat as preside pro tenn
and of democratic secretary and sergeantat
arms. The general impression Is that Senator
Bayard, of Delaware, will be chosen president
though Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, has
started movement In favor OF Senator David
Davis, choice which, on the ground OF his
non. partisanship, he thinks wbuld be sing
ularly appropriate as inauguratNe of an era
of good feeling. Leading republican organs
have even gone so far as to STATE that no re-
publican opposition would be offered to the
election of Senator David Davis, while to
Bayard, or any other equally pronounced
democrat, such opposition may ,e lnterposed
to the extent of refusing to vote Ind thus leav.
ling the senate without quorum. There is,
however, little fear of that
| The next subject that engages attention is
the cabinet While the intense feeling of the
country in regard to the death pf President
Garfield would no doubt lead il to applaud
President Arthur If he should ontinue the
present cabinet unbroken and essay IN all
things to follow "in the footsteps Of his illus
trious predecessor" II Is evident that the con-
tinuance of the present cabinet intact Is I'M
possible. Attorney General MeVeagh has
forestalled all speculation on that point by al
ready announcing his firm purpose at once to
retire 1t is said he is impeled 10 this deter
mnatlon by voluminous affidavit gotten up
by the Star Route Gang and presented to
President Arthur, IN which it Is charged that
soon after the shooting of President Garfield,
McVeagh had certain parties interview Gui
teau with view to duplicating the vicepres-
ldent in the plot to assassinate the President
The charge IS no doubt malicious and false,
but 1t may have had something to do with
McVeagh's decision.
Blame, it is stated upon authority Of init
mate friends has also positively determined
to leave the cabinet though from other quar-
tiers It is maintained that he Is almost abjectly
fawning on Arthur to be retained No doubt,
however, he will be among the fist whose
rendered resignation will be accepted, and it
is now strongly limited that Gen. Grant will
be his successor.
Window 1t Is said has insured his fall in
this way For several years John Sherman
made war upon Arthur tor the later's mis-
management of the New York custom house.
Now, a good way to accomplish reform, and
at the same time turn the tables upon John
Sherman, would be to reopen the investigation
of the treasury ring, which Secretary Window
smothered, through the influence, t is well
known Of John Sherman. Arthur IS fully de-
cided that that investigation shtll be re-
opened, and to that end Window must be got
out of the way. Boutwell,, of Mass, Grants
old secretary of the treasury and staunch
stalwart has been IN consultation with Arthur
and IS named as the most probable successor
of Window.
Postmaster James must go because under
Section 1888 of the Revised Statutes the Post
master General can hold his office only for 30
days after the incumbency of the President by
whom he was appointed. James, however, is
understood to be on friendly terms with Ar
thur and Conkling, and may be asked to be
his own successor.
That reorganization of the cabinet is fully
determined upon Is indicated by numerous
other circumstances not limited at above The
New York Commercial, peculiarly the home
organ of Arthur and the stalwarts says pos
ltively that there will be general re-organ-
izatlon of the cabinet in October, "All par
ties concede that President Arthur is entitled
to his own chosen advisers. 1t can not be rea-