The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-06
WHO OHARRISON HONORED
THE SENATE CONFIRMS THE CAB
MET IMM DIATELY.

Blaine, Window, Proctor, Miller, Wan
amaker, Tracy, Noble and Rusk the
Men Put in the Eight High Places
No Opposition to a Single Name
Made by the Senators.
WASHINGTON, March President Har-
rison to-day sent to the Senate the follow.
ing nominations:
| Secretary of State-JAMEs q. BLAINE of
Maine
Secretary of the Treasury-WILLIAM
WINDOW of Minnesota.
Secretary OF War--REDFIELD PRocToB
of Vermont.
Secretary of the Navy-BENJAMIS F.
TRACY OF New York.
Secretary of the Interior-JoHN W. No
BILE Of Missouri.
| Postmaster General-JoHN WANAMAKEs
of Pennsylvania.
Attorney General--W. II. II. MILLER oi
Indiana
Secretary Of griculture-JEREMIAH NJ.
RUsK Of Wisconsin.
| CONFIRMED IN TEN MINUTES.
The Senate paid President Harrison and
his cabinet Q unusual compliment con-
| hrmlng his nominations for all the cabinet
places within ten minutes after the ma .nea
arrived in the Senate. The nominations to
cabinet places of men who have been sena
tors are usually confirmed in this prompt
manner without reference to committees
| although there have been exceptions this
But ordinarily the nominations of outsi lert
are not so graciously treated. Today
however, as soon as Secretary Pruden, the
assistant private secretary of several Presi
! bah nm ~ h Ia ~.
envelope to Vice President Morton, the
Senate dropping a discussion about thG
credentials of Senator Chandeliers tempo
rary successor, Gilm n Marston, quickly
swore HIM in and went into executive ses-
sion. As soon as the crowd of 1,5J0 peopls
" no had come up supposiag tIey won d zoe
tho new cabinet officers sworn in could be
gotten out OF the galleries and the d)ors
could be closed, Vice President Morton
picked up the nomination of Mr. Blaine
from the top of the pile and handed it to
the clerk to read, after which Vice Presi-
dent No ton said: "Wlll the Sc ate advise
and consent to this Nomination.
NO OBJECTION.
Hearing no objection from either side, he
declared it confirmed, and then picking up
| Mr.. WINDOWS nomination, put it through
as he had Mr. Baine's. lie then pursued
the same course with Gov. Proctor's, ID
no objection being made, proceeded TO Tue
end of the lisJ il The same way. 1t was all
over in ten minutes, aud then the Senate
adj jou ned, AID wi hin an hour the secre.
tary of the Senate ad certified to the
President that his cabinet was confirmed
All the members of the cabi
net having accepted in ad ance,
they will all take their oficss' at once
receiving their commissions tomorrow
All were in the city to-day except Mr.
Wa amaker and Gov. Rusk, and they were
expected tonight. They will probably
take the oath of Office before no0atiei
among the clerks of their respective de
partments. Oct genarian LawrensOn, VINO
was appointed in the postoffice department
| by President jackson, will probab y swear
in Postmaster Gene al Wana maker as he
has his predecessors for ma ~ years back.
HOW 1T is RE LEVIED.
Comment upon the cabinet nominations
is neither valuable nor interesting when
made for publication. Almost ali repuDli-
cans praise it publicly, although
Pacific coast delegations, II Malone Of Vir-
ginia, or Sabin of Minnesota, growl pretty
| loudly even In public. Southern republi.
cans generally are disappointed that nc
real southern man was p { in the cabinet.
This. taken with the msnaces in the ad
| dress, gives them something 10 talk a5out
Democrats say that II Is another compro
mise lika President Garfield's, except tnat
in this instancs Mr.. Blaine geJs really more
| con idaring the state of his party than his
opponents. M. Blaine Is recog
nized by the office-seekers al
the power be lind the throne
He has almost as many applications "a
President Harrison. Democ ats contrast
this cabinet with the elder Harrison's to the
advantage Of the at er, but mere is genra
di Imposition to give President Harrison good
fair chance without advance criticism
which is in marked contrast with the dispo-
sition of the republicans to ward President
Cleveland four wears ago.
EDMUNDs MOVED BLAINE's CONFIRMATION
For weeks senator's on both sides of tn,
chamber nave been chafa & Senator Ed
munds mildly about the prospect Of hi
having TO vote for Mr.. Blaine's conhrma
ton as Secretary OF State. Some of then
have gone so far as to say to him that theJ
expected hun TO 60 out into the lobby while
Mr.. Blaine was being confirmed. Mr.
Eimunds has said very little in reply, bu
to-day he was very careful to be in his seal
when the nominations were brought in
and as soon as the Vice President laid tn,
nomination Of Mr.. Blaine before the Senate
M. Edmunds jumped up before Mr.. Hale
who was expecting TO do it, could rise, ant
made the formal motion for It's conflrma
tion. All the senators smiled at this.
QUAY FOR wANAMAKER
Mr.. Quay made the formal motion IL
Mr.. Wanamaker's case, Senator Morrill, II
Mr. Proctor's, and SO on, except that Sen
ator voorhees, moved Mr.. Mllle.'s conhrna
tion, and Senator Vest Gen. Mobiles. Sena
tor Vest, departing from the routine, took
occasion 10 say that he was graf fled TO be
able to move the confirmation Of so good
nomination. Some wagg.sh de nocratie
senator's lave been giving out ory to
CO fiding newspaper men about ) natoI
| Il Il ~ hA n nhar fT
avoid being present when Mr.. Blaine was
confirmed Tut this is what they desired
rather than what occurred.
CLEvELAND's CABINET RESIGNS.
All the members OF ex-Presldent Cleve
lands cabinet rendered their resignation
to President Harrison yes erday, aud he ac
cepted them to- ay to take effect upon tn,
qualification Of their successors. II Is ex
| pected that all the new officers will take
hold tomorrow. Assistant Secretary Rives
of the state department., has rendered his
| resignation TO take effect ut once. He lefl