Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-05-19
CABINET TALK.
ARR THERE TO BIZ CHANGES IN THE
MAR FUrUREf
Mr.. Blaine's H~eaith-The Supreme Court
vseancy-politieians Very Uneasy
The Next House.
From Our Regular oOrrcspOn,euti

kOm0rs gave nttu NNluk tNiSN " '"ss ~
late in regard 10 possible Cabinet chsngesi IN
The near future, but they do not appear to be
well founded. especially the one In regard 10
Mr.. Blaine's early retirement. IL IL true thai
the Secretary IL apparently In bad beaith.
He Is 80 pale as a ghost, and when nc walks
Of all his s.ep is unsteady and he looks as II
he might topple over from sheer Exhaustion
at any moGent On Monday when ne
reached the PENNSYLVANIA station 70 take tue
train for Baltimore 20 attend the dinner
given by General A-pus. 81 the American,
many persons who had not seen The Name
statesman for some time were asionIshed 10
note the pallor Of his checks and the falling
,away in size. Mr.. Blaine was In robust
health when be became = member OF Car
seld's Cabinet IN 1881, hut he injured bis
health CONSIDERABLY during the lew months
that he served that Administration. lie
then worked hard on his book during
the next few years. and bis arduous
hbors IN the campaign OF 1854 when
he was tho presidential candidate oil tue
marty also told upon him. Besides the dis
snpoiptment over his defeat-defealed, too.
bya nan who had 50 suddenly sprung from
.obscuriiy-must have been > bitter dose Tor
one who had been so prominent In the coun-
cils OF his own psrty. Then he went n
Europe, and while away reports OF his III
health came constantly from over the waters,
but were OF course denied. Ia spite Of his
Florence aud Paris letters Mr.. blaine ex-
pected that the Republican Convention or
last year would again nomiuste him, and
there was another disappointment for BIN.
WHAT MS FRIsNDs SAY.
II Nh. Blaine ultimately QUITS the Cabinet
81 will be because his health Is then too bad
20 allow hun TO remain al IT'S head. his
friends saw that be Is not as sick q he looks;
-. 4. - - t.ancr. too much gfUrP the
9TH OF March, and that when he goes away Tor
the summer and gels the fresh country arr
on the coast OF Maine he will be apt TO
br.ce M aud return TO WASHINGTON 10 the
fail In much better trim. should any
thing happen 10 Mr.. Blaine during the hrst
wear OF President HarTison's Administration
il would be = severe blow, and new wrangles
would follow well calculated to add TO the
,dissensions already existing IN the kepuDil'
can party.
Notwithstanding the fact that Secretary
Blaine is so pale and thin his voice il stu
strong. aud when he spoke in tie open air at
"Nacirema" The other day II was without
txertlOn.
TUE SUPREME COURT VACANCY.
n there IL a break IN the Cabinet at all In
The pear future II will probably he brought
about by the appointment Oi " Partner Mil
Ter 10 the vacancy on the supreme Court
cansed by the death Of Justice STAN
lev Matthew's. This IS strongly talked
OF. but very few people here OF
prominence can he made 10 believe taat
President Harrison will do such a thln2'
IL wss bad enough to appoint an obscure
LAWYER Aiiorney.General OF the United
States and il would be ten times worse To
place him on the Supreme bench with a
salary OF $4,000 per wear for life simply be-
cause he happened to have been the business
member OF the Presidents old law firm In
Indianapolis. What = bow 1t would create
among the eminent iurists OF the laud'
GENERAL NOBLE.
AZ the story goes, General Noble, Of the
Interior Department. is TO DC transferred 10
The Department Of Justice, and Mr.. Clark
son. now First Assistant PoStmaster-Gene-
raj. will succeed him aS the bead OF the In-
terror. General Noble Tould make a mucl
more ABLE and Crediiable Attorney-GeneIal
than Mr.. Miller. Next TO Mr.. Blaine the
Missouri member is perhaps The aplcst mar
in the Cabinet. No one stood higher al the
great II. Louis bar than General Noble,
but II il absurd 20 think OF placing
an editor ike Mr.. GARRISON NJ the head OF
,he Interior Department. where peculiar
legal ability Is required. Dir. Villas Ha good
laUver and be made a better Secretary than
he did Posimsster.General and MIR. Ciark.on
IS better fitted for his present. duties toan ne
would be across the way where land queS"
sIions are IL he decided.
II the changes In the Cabinet come about
I'm ID. near future rs = result OF Mr.. hlIeIs
'~trausfer 10 the Supreme Count General NO"
fble NAV possibly be made AttOrncy-General,
hut Mr.. Garrison will hardly be placed st
the head OF the Interior. TIE Iowa ehltor
probably knew what he was about when he
consented 10 play second fiddle TO "old
brecches-maker.r whether the politicians
succeed or not their Intention has been to
freeze the good Nj. Wanamaker out OF the
Cabinet inside OF q year. They are rapidly
disgusting him and no one need be surprised
10 hear al auy moment that he has thrown
IN the sponge. When Dir. NananSker
faised the S400. 900 for tho campaign 1t was
needed 80 badly by the bosses that they feit
Nike rewarding hln; but he Is entirely too
=. ~goody.Coody" 10 he mixed up more than
ayear with the wicked people OF this Ad>
ministIation. and the bad ones Will do their
utmost to shock ana disgust him.
Posr-oFFIcE DEPARTMENT.
They have some queer wrinkles down at
The Post. Office Department, anyway. Editor
Carkson wields the axe regardless OF sys-
TEN or pOllcy. He has evidently made up
his mind that in handling the applications
for fourth-class Offices be will make absolute
removals whether a mans term hiss expired
or not. Brother Wanamaker, with the assist.
snoe OF President Harrison and Priyate-Sec.
reiary Ualford, looks after the appointment OF
postmasters OF the presidential class. There
Is no liked rule IN regard 10 these otices
either. Some OF the appiicans have been told
that Democratic postmRsters would not oe
disturbed until the expiration OF their
terms. True some have been removed on
iliIpsy charges, and applicants wonder why
charges csuDot be preferred against all the
Democratic pos,masters. Theu, again, some
Of the Democrats are allowed to hsve their
terms date from confirmation by the Senate,
Instead OK from the time they were first ap-
pointed. For instance, Mr.. Gibson, the
present postmaster OF Winchester, Va, was
appointed in April. 1885, but was not con-
frued until MAY. lss6, by the senate. Ned
Griffith and a Mr.. Dean are the two RepuO-
lican applicants for the office. la tins case
The officials say that Nj. Gibson has smother
wear TO serve, rs The senate did not confirm
him until May, 1856. The iactOf the matter
IS, they are not anxious 10 make many
changes lust yet In Virgins. on account OF
The tight between Malone and the "Antis."
They m4y take up Virginia cases when the
campaign in the State Is we'll under way,
but not now when the factions ale at war.
vURY UNEASY.
The leading Republican politicians are
very uneasy II present, and they are looking
FAR into the future with q view OF doing
something which viii slave OIL reyerses that
threaten 10 give the Administration a black
eve. The newsirom Montana Is d~iscouraging,
and when Washington Territory gets ready
20 come into the Union they apprehend a
defeat there also. and OF course IL would
never do 10 lose the Senstors and Represen.
tailyes In Congress from that new Stale. The
organization OF the next House OF Repre-
sentatives il also bOihering them. Most OF
the leaders are Of tue opinion that an extra
session must be called for October LIST, but
they are not certain that thew can organize
the House without preclpitating the worst
deadlock In the history Of the Government.
There can be no doubt that the Republicans
have been cooking up deyilish schemes 10
take unlawful possession OF some ten or
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