New-York tribune., 1882-04-07
THE COMPLETED CdBTNET

If it was necessary to displace General Car
fields Secretary of the Navy, an excellent
man is put in his place. William b. Chandler
is one of the most capable executive officers, as
well as one of the shrewdest politicians
in the Republican party. The Treasury De-
partment has never had a better Assistant
Secretary and his service there was in the
great DAYS of that Department. The Republi-
can party has never had q better organ
izer. There is no man in the Admin
istration, from the President throughout
the Cabinet, who has sustained as intimate,
continuous and important relations with public
affairs lie has not escaped calumny, and
like all men whose friendship is worth having
he has enjoyed his full share of virulent enc
mics, in and out of his own party; but we
know of no case in which a charge affecting
his personal or political integrity was found
TO have any substance. His rejection Ivy the
Senate, last year, for the first place under the
Att0rney-General, was due TO the bitter hos
tility among the Democrats aroused by his
political action in the campaign OF 1876,
and to the personal prejudice of two or
three Republicans. In the present nomination
to q higher place he has, doubtless all the re-
venge he seeks. Mr.. Chandler has favored
system Of subsidies for the revival OF our mer-
camille marine; and he is believed TO be anx-
ious for the efficient reconstruction of our Navy.
With anything like fair chance, we predict for
him a successful and an honorable career III the
Navy Department. We know no reason why
Judge Hunt, the present Secretary, should be
retired; but he is well fitted for diplomatic
service, and his appointment to the Russian
mission insures us highly creditabe repre-
sentative at st. Petersburg.
Why Samuel j. Kirkwood should be dis
missed from the Interior Department is
equally unknown. He is a man of the
highest character. AS the War Governor of Iowa.
and as a Senator of the United States in two
different periods of service-separated by an
interval of several ycars-he has established
reputation for ability, solid sense, and integrity.
When President Garfield came to select Sec
retary of the Interior, he wanted sound law
yer, a man of experience in affairs, OF executive
training, and OF such known uprightness as
would defy all attempts at scandal. He found
him in Governor Kirkwood. The selection has
been approved by full years administration
of that great Department.
The President has now displaced Governor
Kirkwood and installed Mr. Teller in his place.
We do not desire TO say a word against Mr..
Teller, but surely no one who knows him and
who knows Governor KiTkwood will be
able to give good reason for exchanging the
one for the other Governor KirkwOOd was in
deed devoted friend Of Garfield, and was Op
posed to Grants having third term. Mr.. Teller
was in favor of nominating Grant, and he was
as hostile to Garfield as WAS Mr.. COnkling, whose
devoted follower Mr.. Teller has always been.
Mr.. Teller Is an advocate of unlimited silver
He has not ranked above the average in the
Senate, and it is not supposed that hecould bere-
elected to it. As he has 10 known political
skill it is difficult to see what sort OF strength
he is expected to bring to the Cabinet, or
why the representative of the banner Repub-
lican State of the Union should be put out to
make room for him.
The completed Cabinet suggests some rcAec-
tions. 1t is clearly not organized on the
theory Of comprising the strongest men Of
the party. If it was the Presidents inten-
ton to exclude all rivals for the nomi-
nation in 1854 he has probably made a COM
plete success. Locality is little needed. The
President and the most important member of
the Cabinet are from New-York; the head
of it is from Newark, nine miles away, and
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is no apparent effort, as in Gagfcld's
Cabinet, to harmonic and unite the different
wings of the party. Garfield came as near as
he could to balancing the representations
respectively of the majority and minority as
shown at Chicago, thus
MAJORITY MIvORITY
JAMES q. BLAGNE, WILLIAM WINDOW,
secretary Cf StIte NccrefHy ~ ne ITcnSiDy
WILLIAM H. Hunt. lSObkkf l. LINCoLN,
SecrctgTv Of Me NdrU SfcrctdTgof Var
WAYNE MACNEAGH THOMAS L. JAMES
Au1rHey Geaerat Postmaster GeneTM
SAMUEL j. kIKKWOOD,
Setredry Of tie JI.ieriOr.
Arthur makes effort at balance. This
is the way his Cabinet stands:
MAJORITY MINORITY
WILLIAM r. CHANDLER, L. I. FEILiAGHCNSLS,
SeoretG5y o. ne AdrG hecrcmrg y sue.
CHARLES j. ..'OLCEK,
SecretIry Of The treasury
RoBERT L. LINCOLN,
secretary ~ Var.
Henry VI. TELLER,
hecrotirg Of he interior.
TIMOTHY -. HOWE,
Postmaster General
BENJAMIN ii. BREWsTLR
AHOfTey General
u-la ,oDrasentafi.rc here of the maiority thaf