The morning news., 1889-01-30
ALLISON IS A PUZZLE.
UNCERTAINTY AS TO WHETHER
HE HAS ACCEPTED.

A Friend Of the Iowa Leader Claims
to have Telegram Saying That He
Declined-Blai1e els Anxiety to Clear
His Path for the Presidency in 1892.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29-It is learned to-
night from a gentleman whose information
Is direct that four places in Gen. Harris)n's
cabinet have been definitely settled, and
while not all of them have formally ac-
cepted, there is no doubt about their ulti-
maely doing so. In the first place, Mr..
Blaine wrote to Gen. Harrison more than
ten days ago, accepting the Sec
retaryship OF State. Senator Alli-
son will be the next Secretary
of the Treasury. This has unique tionably
been decided on, although Sen tor ALI on's
letter accepting the honor has not been
write. 1t VIII be this week, Cen Rus
sell A. Alger will be member of the
cabinet taking the post OF Secretary of War
and Mr.. Wanamaker will be postmaster
general.
ALLISON ALL THE TALK.
Senator Allison's final statement to Gen.
Harrison at indianapolis was o great topic
of discussi n at the capitol to-day Sena or
Hlscock was almost the only promnea
Blaine man who did not say that he
the advice Senator Blaine sent him Just
before he left, that he ought to yield to
Senator Harris1n's wishes. Senator His
cock had seen Senator Allison just before
he left, and remembered that he salt he
would not yield. Senator Allis9n's especial
friends all insisted that he had not yiel led.
and one of them after saying so all the
morning on the strength of what Senator
Allison had said to him on Friday, was
strengthened in the afternoon by a telegram
from Senator Allison tating that he had
definitely aud finally declined to go into the
ca met, and that Mr.. Ciarkscn would
probably have place.
WARNED BY HIS FRIENDS.
These friends # Senator Allison warned
him before he left that there was in his
Judgment plot on the part Of the Blains
cabal to shut Senator Allison out of the
race for 1892 either by boxing him up nov
in the treasury department or if he should
be too wise to be caught iu this way, by
preventing his reelection to the Sc ate two
years from no v Mr.. Blaine they saw, is q
cand date in 1892 just as he was III 1888 pro-
vided he can get the nomination i 1892 as
he had hopel to get it in 1888, by killing OF
all his rivals.
HOPES Eo SETTLE HARRISON.
He thinks he can settle Gen. Harrison by
his coign Of vantage in the state depart
| Of himse T, If he ba1 not already done so.
| Mr.. Mckinley he hopes to see entangled in
the speakers in. Senator Sherma !, Mr..
Depew, Gov. Foraker and the other mem
tionabes he regards as out Of the question.
If Senator Allison, the only really formid-
10 CO npetitor he has, could be set aside
and kept aside, all would be- made SO much
| easier for himself.
| ATTITUDE OF HIS FRIENDS.
1t was thus Senator Alisons fre ds ex-
plHined their strong feeling agains Senator
Allison going into the cabinet. However,
they had to await Senator Allison's return
at $3.50 o'clock tonight to definitely insure
themselves that he had kept of one of the
horns Of the dilemma upon which Mr..
| Blaine, they think, seeks to impale him.
Senator Allison returned here this evening
| from his visit to Gen. Harrison at lad q l.
| apois. As to thu result of his conference
with the President-elect the Senator de-
clined TO say Iything for publcati n.
Senator Allison's train as over an hour
late tonight. 1t was nearly 10 O'Clock be-
fore he got to his house, so he went right to
| bed. His friends still say that they have no
doubt that he declined to accept tho Sscre-
taryship of the Treasury.