San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-16

NTIOul OuI hCS correspondence
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18th, 1889.
Daily LIGHT.
In the last few days Senator Plumb
has sprung into prominence as pro-
spective cabinet officer. Some go as
far as to say that he has been asked
to become secretary of the treasury.
Mr.. Plumb discreetly keeps his own
counsel, but some of his closest
friends have been talking, which ac-
counts for the matter having gotten
out. Senator Ingalls,, in reply to a
question, said that he did not know
whether General Harrison haG made
such an offer to Senator Plumb, but
he doubted very much whether Mr..
Plumb would accept it if it were
made.
Representative Thomas, of Illinois,
will be the next secretary of the navy,
unless my informant, who by the
way gave me the first news of Mr..
Blaine s acceptance of the state port.
folio, is mistaken. Mr.. Thomas is a
member of the house committee on
naval affairs, and is the designer of
what naval officers consider to be one
of the best plans yet submitted for an
armored cruiser. Those who know
Mr.. Thomas best, think that he will
make model secretary of the navy,
and that no better man could have
been found to superintend the build
ing of the new navy.
Desperate efforts are being made by
many of the officials under the pres
ent admins tratiOn to get themselves
Quartered on Uncle Sam in some per-
manent capacity. The friends of A S.
sistant Secretary of the Treasury
Thompson have succeeded in getting
his name sent to the senate as civil
service commissioner, in place Of Com >
missioner EdgertOn, whom Cleveland
peremptOrily removed III order to get
Thompson a chance of being con-
firmed by the senate. Uhe removal of
Edgerton leaves only one commits
sioner, Lyman, a republican, and the
friends of Thompson will endeavor to
persuade the republican senators that
he should be confirmed, and that the
other vacancy will be left for General
Harrison to fill with republican. A
very ingenious plan, but what effect
it will have is yet to be seen.
Then First Assistant Postmaster
General Stevenson is after a lifetime
job. Owing to a recent death, there is
a vacancy on the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, and Stevenson
has made dead set at the appoint
ment. Mr.. Cleveland may nominate
him, but there is little probability
that the republican senators will con-
firm the man who openly regretted
that the official day was not longer so
that he might remove more republi-
can postmasters.
Mr.. Blaine has taken a long lease
on the residence which was formerly
occupied by Hon. H. H. Seward,
President Lincoln's secretary of state.
1t is peculiarly appropriate that the
of state of the first republican admin
twenty-five years of that party's
ming of the party's second quarter
century of ascendancy be again Oc-
cupied by the same official. 1t is a
good omen.
The conferees on the Springer COM
nibusu bill failed to come to any
agreement. No report has yet been
nldu6 10 elGIleF uOuS0, DuG d caucus vi
republican senators have decided TO
stand by the senate amendments,
which, so far as can see, settles the
fate of the bill, but Mr.. Springer still
thinks the bill will pass. He says
that three republican senators will
vote with the democrats to admit
New Mexico. Perhaps they may, but
if so, it will be the first time that a
republican senator has voted against
party caucus, in my recollection.
Senator Frye says if he has
any influence with the next admins
tration Sewell shall go back to Samoa
as Consul General.
Governor Hill of New York was
over here last week, and he and Mr..
Cleveland had regular monkey and
parrot time keeping out of each others
way. The fact that Mr.. Cleveland has
decided to live in New York city after
the fourth of March has added moth
ing to the love between these two
gentlemen.
C. A. S.
Information from San Diego, Cal,
saws that Willie TaylOr a well known