Mower County transcript., 1888-11-14
WHAT is TO COME.

WHAT Is TO COME.
Speculation Concerning esident. .Elect
Harrison'a Administration-The Belief
Expressed That Special Session of
Congress Will BE Called ::to LegisIato
on tho Tarl1-Dakota Sure OF Admis.
sion-sOmo Cabinet Predictions.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. 9--General Harri-
son began to receive congratulatory kilograms
from New York and the East as early as
o'clock election night, when the first meager
returns indicated his probable election From
that moment TO the present writing kilograms
and letters Of congratulation have poured in
upon him from every city in the Union. The
table in his library Is piled with bundles of
these kilograms, there being fully 5000. 81
General Harrison talked for short time
with newspaper correspondent last night.
he would not talk on politics, but turning tho
conversation to personal matters the General
said that he had not especially considered
what he would do between now and March 4.
There will be many personal callers and the
Cabinet will be made up be:oyc the Presiden-
tial party leave for the inauguration
"What course will you probably pursue in
regard to the practice of law? Haven't you
some big cases now pending in the courts?'
"Yes II the election had been otherwise in
Sbo ACoult WOulu UB III CuICdSO LO-MOrrOW 10
argue the Chicago & Atlantic railroad case.
But shall not now go. Mr.. Miller or Elan
will 60 up and make the argument. have not
! considered what I shall do in regard to my
partnership in the practice OF law" 4
There was a tnge OF pathos in the Generals
voice as he spoke OF his Old firm. He and Mr..
Miller have been associated for many years.
The court-rooms OF this city and their IA
miliar faces, among which that OF General
Harrison has SC long been conspicuous,
| are to live to him only in their memories OF
great struggles, their brilliant victories and
their hard defeats One OF the unpleasant
| features OF the Generals election will be his
cherished by him so long.
Already the friends of General Harrison are
| talking about the character OF the administra-
ton he will make and the first important steps
he will take as President. His most intimate
asso ciates IN the campaign make no secret OF
the fact that he lays great stress upon
revision OF the present tariff laws
and it is stated on good authority
that among the very first steps he will
take Will be to call the Fifty-irst Congress in
extraordinary session, that is il the lower house
Is Republ ican The primary object in dong
this will be to secure the passage OF a tariff
BILL the disposition Of the surplus and some
action on the currency question.
Attention " Ill also be given to Dakota and
the other Territories which have for years been
clamoring for Statehood. It will be remem-
bered that General HARRISON. while chairman
OF the Senate Committee on Territories, advo-
Gated with great vigor the division and
admission as TWO States OF the Ter
ritory OF Dakota. 1t is safe to say Dakota
will come in as two States within ninety days
after Congress meets ii the House is Re-
publican, and there seems to be no doubt that
1t will be. Montana and Washington Terri
tories will also be admitted to Statehood, but
it is not probable that they Will receive The
early and preciptate action that Dakota will.
Dakota was an issue In the campaign, the plat
form mentioning it prominently and General
Harrison on several occasions referring
to it in his speeches.. The division and admis-
sion OF Dakota means the acquisition OF four
Republican Senators and as many Representa-
tives in Congress. Montana and Washington
Territories will add at least four Senators,
and three, IL not four, Representatives. These
will permanently make the party solid in the
upper, II not also in the lower, branch of Con-
gress.
nently mentioned in President Harrison's first
message to Congress will be the necessity OF
new pension law. He believes that all present
laws should be repealed, and that new and
simpler ones should be enacted, SO that expert
lawyers and physicians will not be necessary
In the completion OF a pension case, and so
that the great machinery in the Pension Bu-
reau at Washington can be reduced.
It is believed by well-informed politicians
here that General Harrison's private secretary
will be D. L. Alexander at present a resident
of Buffalo, N. Y. Mr.. Alexander is about 42
years OF age. He possesses all OF Colonel La
mont's caution and shrewdness, but Is less
austere and reserved.
General Harrison has received congratula-
tory messages from Chairman Quay. Hon. M.
NJ. Estee. Belva Lockwood, James G. Blaine,
Senator John Sherman, Governor Russell A.
Alger, of Michigan; Chaunccy NJ. Depew, Con-
gresham William Mckinley, Jr.. of Ohio;
John NJ. Thurston, OF Nebraska; Tom C.
Platt of New York; Senators Spooner, OF
Wisconsin; Dawes, of Massachusetts,; Leland
Stanford, OF California; Paddock and Mander-
son, of Nebraska; Dolph, of Oregon; Aldrich, OF
Rhode Island, and Sabin. of Minnesota; JUS
tees Harlan and Matthews, and hundreds Of
others.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. 9. - President
elect Harrison hesitates to say any thing re-
garding the situation, but he has told some OF
his friends that he regarded the result of the
election as positive expression OF the peo-
pies disapproval of free trade or any ten
dency to it beyond a fair reform Of inequali-
ties in the tariff schedule.
CABINET PREDICTIONS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. a-The Washington Post
predicts that Reed, OF Maine. will be the
Speaker OF the next House. 1t predicts that
John G. New will be Secretary of the Treasury:
Alger, Secretary Of War; Goff, Secretary OF
the Navy, and Blaine, Secretary of State, ii he
desires that position; Mchener General Har-
rson's partner, Attorney-General; Miller OF
New York, Secretary of the Interior, and Ma
hone, Postmaster-General T.-~
II neither Blaine nor Edmunds cares for
the State Department the Secretarship may
go to William Walter Phelps, who will get q
irst-class foreign mission, say England, il
he does not take the Secretaryship Of State.
Mr. nf will nd hfo6ly eHofa
t1rst-class fore gn mission. Had Blaine been
elected four years ago Hit would have been
appointed Minister to Russia. Senator Cullom
is mentioned in some OF the speculations about
the approaching Cabinet AS his term in the
Senate expires March next the ambitious Re-
publicans of Illinois would like to know before
the meeting OF the Lee stature whether ths
Senator is going into the Cabinet or not.
ERE LOSSES.