The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-11
CLEYELAND'S CABINET.
Bsyard or PeneIetop for Home Secretary.

Special to the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON Feb. S-Men who have Wis
tied Mr.. Cleveland and claim to be wise in
regard to Cabinet matters say the President
elect is now and has for some
time been very solicitous about having
Senator BsyaId, OF Delaware, for his
Secretary Of State. The Senator.has steadily
refused, because he preferred 10 the first
place to remain in the Senate on account
of the character of work to perform in the
two p aces, and secondly his colleagues had
imprs ssed him with the necessity of remain
ing ere.
Il was reported to-day that Senator Bay
ard would probably yield to the importuni-
ties and enter the Cabinet. Next to Senator
Bayard, Mr.. Cleveland has preferred, it is
stated, Senator Rendleton. of Ohio, for the
SecretsryshIp of State, and in the event the
Delaware Senator will not accept the posi-
ton, Senator Pendleton may do so. Ii is
known that Senator Pendleton prefers going
to Paris as the Minister to France. however.
Until the Secretaryship of State is settled
Mr.. Cleveland will have slow work forming
Cabinet. While the Treasury portfolio is
the most important 1t is easiar 10 fill than
that Of the State Department. There are
any amount of able fnanciers, but there
are few men who combine diplomacy, law
and society, as the latter position demands.
Senators Bayard and Pendleton possess this
trio OF qualities.
The Secretary of State is the confidential
adviser of the President. When the Execu-
tive lie perplexed over an issue he calls in
the Secretary of State as his official and per-
soDal friend. The man who occupies that
position therefore is one who commands the
fullest confidence of the President.
1t is believed here that the Attorney Gen.
eralsibp and Postmaster Generalship will go
South, to Garland, of Arkansas, and to
Money, of Mississi Dpi, or Barbour, of Vir-
GINA, probably; that the SecretaryshI of
the Interior and Secretaryship OF War will
go West, to McD 1ald, of Indiana, and pos
sibly Villas, of Wisconsin. The other places
will likely go East.
River and Harbor Bills III ara to Pass.
Special 10 the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Sit has occurred to
the members of the House during the past
week that the days of River and Harbor bills
are fast waning. A few years ago bill
sppropristing $50, 600 900 could be and was
gotten through more readily than one now
appropriating but one-third the amount.
This opposition to the bills grows out of two
causes-protests from the people against ex-
pending so much money on waterways and
| inability OF members to harmonic on the
amounts their individual sections OF country
shall receive.
With great difficulty will 1t be that the
bill now before the House will fnally pass.
There are many indeed who predict its de-
feat eventually. The clauses which were
supposed to be life savers TO the measure
the Galveston Harbor and Hennepin Canal
being knocked in the head, the bill is APP
parently left to sink at the hands OF
disgrunt tied members. who are boring
holes in it every day. The River and Hsr-
Dor bill has always been an omnibus for
jobs in larger or smaller degree. 1t in
variably contains provisions which are
wrong, but which are placed there to pacify
those who would make disturbances if they
were not included.
Any class of regular legislation nat must
go through upon pacilying conditions will
eventually cease. and the river aud harbor
bills which have been offered in the House
annually, and generally passed, have never
been so compiled that they coald be aggres-
sive. They are beggars, and it Looks al
though the people had enacted vsgran'
law which will arrest them.