Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-11

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Navy, will be . passenger on the Gslena, and
1t is therefore expected that the vessel will be
restored to him as soon a. 1t gets into the pos
session OF the naval officers. Secretary Whit
ney returned from New York yesterday after
noon, and was at the Navy Department to-day.
He declined to talk about the Haytien trouble,
| on the ground that there was nothing TO add TO
what has already appeared in the newspapers.
THE VISIT OF MR.. MORTON.
He is Expected to Arrive in Indian
spolis This Week.
wEsr-rHE MISREPRESENTATION NAY BE
TREATED TO SURPRISE PARTY IN REGARD TO
HE FRIEND PLAT.
The interest in Indianapolis centers in the
distinguished visitors which it is expected Gen.
Harrison will receive this week. Both Vice
President-elect Morton and Senator Quay are
booked to 60 west. The New York Herald says
that William Copeland Wallace, Congressman
elect from the third congressional district in
Brooklyn, will accompany vice-President-elect
Levi p. Morton on his visit to Gen. Benjamin
Harrison at indianapolis. Mr.. Wallace will be
thus honored because he will be the only rep
resentative of the republican party in this state
from the region south Of the Harlem river. It
is understood that it will be Mr.. Wallaces first
duty to present to Gen. Harrison the claims Of
Thomas C. Plat for Secretary Of the Treasury,
on the ground that Kings county did more than
any other locality of the same size in the whole
country. from Oregon to Florida for the cleo
ton Of the republican candidate.
PREPARING FOR NIB. AND MRS. NORTON.
The Sun special saws: Mrs. Harrison is still
busily engaged in getting the house to rights
for the yice-President elect and Mrs. Morton,
who are expected on Wednesday. No definite
arrangements have yet been made as to the
social events that will mark the visit. There
will be open house for all callers at the Harri-
son residence, as there is all the time, in fact
but it is doubtful whether there will be any for
NAL reception. 1.-THE trouble is" said Gen.
Harrison this afternoon. that il we invite all
who might wish to come our house would be
too small to hold them, and il We invite only
as many as the house will hold. then there
would be hard feelings on the part Of those not
invited. We do not know vet how long Mr.
and Mrs Norton will be with us or what their
wishes are, and all the arrangements we are
making are simply to make them as much at
home as possible"
1t is probable public reception may be ten
dered to Mr.. Morton by a committee Of citi-
zens. aside from the entertainment at the Har-
rison house. 1t is also expected that if the
guests arrive AT u convenient 0Our tQey Will De
met at the station by either the Veteran club
or the Columbia club and escorted to the resi-
dence Of Gen. Harrison. Social doings aside,
those who ought to know say there
IS ABIG SURPRISE PARTY
in store for Mr.. Morton when he gets here and
begins to talk Platt to the President-elect.
This is on the assumption that Mr.. Morton will
talk Platt. Two men of prominence among
the republican leaders here, and said to have
close relations with the President-elect were
interviewed separately to-day. and agreed that
Gen. Harrison had his mind very firmly fixed
on Miller for New York's representative in the
cabinet, and that any change which implied
the setting aside of Miller against Miller's
wishes would be made only in response to the
most urgent and forcible reasoning on the
part of even the Vice-President-elect. Gen.
Harrison, ii is said, is inclined to rate very
high the share Of Mr.. Miller in carrying New
York and it is determined that nothing shall
be done that will imply any slight upon him.
THE STORY ABOUT DANA.
The publication of the name Of J. l.. Smith,
the Dana, Indiana, editor, as responsible for
the story Of Gen. Harrison's alleged remark
about the Sum- has led Mr.. Robert Pierce, the
lawyer. who had charge of Gen. Harrison's
hunting trip, to make q statement on the SUBJ
ject. 1T is true, he said this afternoon, that
Smith, who is the editor. by the way, Of dem
ocratic, and not a republican paper as has been
alleged, was present in the parlor Of Captain
Bates house with Gen. Harrison. myself and
one or two others that afternoon after dinner
1t was purely private and social chat and
Smith had no business to repeat any of it out
side, but it would have been no great matter IL
he had repeated it correctly. But his story of
it Ia all wrong. There was a conversation
growing out of a mention of the fact that the
town of Dana was named after Charles A. Dana,
but there was nothing said by Gen. Harrison
that even implied that he had the slightest
knowledge Of the desires of Mr.. Dana a. to the
election or defeat Of Mr.. Cleveland"
QUAY MUST DO HIS OWN TALKING.
The World man says: Gen. Harrison was
asked to-day about Quay's coming. He smiled
and said: well, let whoever wants to come
and see me come but then. when they get here
they must do their own talking" When Quay
comes, and no one knows whether it will be
noon or night. there will be one man here who
wants to see him before he goes to Harrison's.
Major Scanlon, Of Chicago, who is an ardent
Irish -American. has been here at work for
Wharton Barker, is waiting yet, and no one
doubts it is because he wants to talk to Quay
and find out how much bottom there IL to the
Wanamaker boom.
PLACES PROMISED.
The Heralds Indianapolis correspondent says:
BY agreeing to send John G. New abroad and
by promising to make Chairman Huston first
assistant postmaster-general, the President
elect has the two men to whom he is the most
indebted, but for whom it was the most diff
cult to find places, for which they were suited
provided for. Now that he has that much done
there il again some lively gossip about Indiana
and the cabinet. It is being quietly talked
among the friends of Judge Woods, of the
United States district court that he and his
family have already made some preliminary
arrangement with reference to removal to
Washington, where, it 10 said, he will 90 q the
next AttOrney-General Of the United States
Many Of Judge Woods friends, however, say
there is nothing in this story, and declare that
when the judge gives up the life position he
now has 1t will be to accept another on the Su-
preme Court bench.
GEN. AL0ER AGAIN.
Gen. Algers name comes to the front again
in Detroit special to the Times, in which it 10
stated that "Michigan's prospective new Sena-
tor was asked to-day what he thought about
Gen. Alger going into the cabinet II think"
said he, that Gen. Harrison will ask Gen. Al
ger to take cabinet place. Ibelieve he should
do so. Gen. Alger il the only one Of the presi-
dental candidates at Chicago who gave Gen.
Harrison loyal support from the beginning to
the end OF the campaign. Depew did not,
sherman did not, neither did Allison. Gen.
Ayers support was active, untiring and effect
| ave. And then, again, Gen. Alger il fitted for
| Just snch place. l think and hope he will 60
| into the next cabinet"
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