Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-23
Windsns Interviewed up Chicago.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.

Windsne Interviewed i,s Chicago.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
CHICAGO, Jan. Ex-senator William
EWindom, of Minnesota, arrived in the city
yesterday afternoon. The train from
Washington on which the senator arrived
was seven hours behind time, having been
detained on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
twenty-five miles east of the city, owing
to the extreme cold weather, which froze
tie water in the tenders of the engines.
He spent only about four hours at the Grand
Pacific hotel, and left for st. Paul last
night, where he goes to exercise more
personal supervision over the senatorial
contest now being waged in the Minnesota
legislature. In an interview with the rep
resentative of the GLOBE the senator said:
81 have nothing to conceal about my
prospects for becoming my own successor
in the senate. The fight is by no means
over, and do not regard my chances as
altogether lost. l am still candidate.
Whatever my fate is to be, l can abide by
it. AS to the presidential succession
bill 1 am free to say that congress
will certainly pass the bill in some shape
or form. The fact that there is nothing
but President Arthur between US and peril
to the country, bordering on anarchy, is
reminder to all Legislatures that they have
duty to perform. No, / do not think an
extra session of the senate necessary.
That would enable US to provide a presi-
dent of the senate, who would succeed to
the presidency; but this matter has got to
be provided for once for all, and the pres
ent congress will do it before adjourn
ment if am any Judge of the temper of
both houses"
''How about reciprocity treaty with
Mexico"
II look upon it as question far off.
Gen. Grant, who is one of the commits
sioners, has been busy at Washington. He
is fully impressed with the Importance of
such treaty. have really not given the
subject any attention as yet because it is
not before the senate or any of its com1t-
tees. notice, however, that
the mere mention of a
reciprocity treaty has already load people
to charge that the monopolists are op
posed to it,"
''Is any great reform expected from the
new civil service bill?"
Undoubtedly more sincere and lasting
reforms are expected from the law than
the one previously enacted. While no new
power is conferred on the president by the
bill, he already having power to form
civil service commission under pre-
vious statutes, still the money
to put the machinery of
the commission into operation
has been wanting. Under the new law
there will be Nothing lacking in that re-
spect, and no excuse for the commission
to refrain from inaugurating practical
civil service reform
"You are on your way to Minnesota. Do
you think your presence will unite your
forces!"
"My dear sir, am not
going to Minnesota upon my
own motion. 1 have been urged and
pushed by my friends to leave Washington,
because they hold that it. is my duty to do
so. They say that I am the choice of
majority of the Republican party of my
state for senator, and they insist that I
shall receive the nomination. They claim
that as [ am the choice of large majority
it is my duty to go there and prevent
disorganization and decentralization of the
Republican party in the state. I am not
fr,+
States senate. I have been ten years
in the lower house, and fourteen years in
the senate-twenty four years in all in con-
gressional public life. In that time 1 have
made some mistakes, and twenty four years
of public life are apt to create some antag-
onisms. The glare and glitter of the SEN
ate have no great attraction now, but |
don't want to be defeated, and I don't
think that l shall be. am conscious that
l have endeavored to do my duty at all
times. So far as the opposition to me is
concerned, it has only been that of three
men, who have made the air blue
with their falsehoods. 1t is
not generally known, bat
it is nevertheless true, that have had three
more than majority to elect me; that
seventy-nin different members of the
legislature have voted for me-not all at
once. Ny going home, at this time, is,
assure you, no actual step of mine. have
been urged to do it. So far as the actual
result is concerned I am not in the least
alarmed. think that will get the requi-
site maj ority to re-slect me-"
Hr. ISdbtR Interviewed.
A GLOBE envoy called upon Mr.. Sabin at |