Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-07

IelAer HOr tne interior anu Nnanoier
for the Nayy-Hunt TO be Russian
Minister.
Special Dispatch 10 the Register.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The long agony
is over. After debating the matter for
weeks and arriving at sundry and diverse
conclusions. the President has finally
screwed up his courage to the point and
this afternoon sent to the Senate the name
OF II. N. Teller, OF Colorado, to be Secretary
of the Interior, vice Kirkwood, and w. Z.
Chandler, of New Hampshire, to be
Secretary OF :he Navy, vice Hunt, and ex-
Secretary Hunt to be Minister to Russia.
All of these were, in one sense. expected,
vet their announcement created consider
able Of a sensation. Teller had talked so
much of his ConGng appointment, and it
had been put OIL on so many trivial grounds
from time to time, that at last grave doubts
were expressed whether il was not another
Sargent case However, he was promptly
confirmed by n unanimous vote, and so far
as he is concerned the matter is settled.
With Hunt and Chandler, the matter is
quite different Hunt has did little else,
since he first came to the surface, than
marry new wife occasionally and hold
Office continually. In the latter respect,
he is equalled by few andexcelled bynone,
unless it be Father Hamlin, the time OF
whose first attack on the public crib is lost
in the dim obscurity OF the long forgotten
past With him, rs with Hunt, the dis
ease has become chronic, and neither OF
these alleged statesmen have done ANYTHING
else Tor the last quarter of n century. If
length of service constitutes claim to con-
sideration, Hunt will be confirmed; and
whether it does or not, as everybody, from
the President down to the youngest mid
shipman, wants to be rid OF him, he will
probably be sent outside our boundary
lines
II is Chandler who will find his path
strewn with thOrns. When nominated
for Solicitor Of the Treasury, by Garfield, he
was defeated by his own party friends, aid
ed by the Democrats; and certainly there
has been nothing in his persistent defence
/ if the Star Route thieves and his attack on
! those VINO were OStenSlDlS prosecuting
| them. that has rendered him more worthy of
| the high place for which he is now named
I than he was then. The Democrats will OPP
pose him solidly, and it is difficult to
/ imagine what grounds such Republicans
/ as Cameron ard Judge Davis, who voted
against him before, can lind upon which to
/ base q change.
/ The fact that the Navy is to be recon-
/ structed, and that the funds for this pur-
! pose will be practically under the control
OF the Secretary of that department, and
the further fact that Chandler is regarded
as not only one of the most able and
shrewd, but unscrupolouS politicians OF the
! age, renders his confirmation a matter OF
doubt. The fact that the nomination was
referred, does not indicate, OF itself, the
opposition which exists, for that is mere
matter Of form, but the opposition is al
ready crystalizing, and unless the influence
of the Administration shall prove powerful
enough to whip into the traces, those Re
publicans who refused to vote for Chandler
before his chances of confirmation are de-
! Cidcdly slim. e.