Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-04
HISCOCK RETURNS HOME.
The Result of His Visit Dark Secret. but
BE is in nl-Humor.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 3-Senator Hiscock,
Of New York, had private conference
with the president-elect this afternoon,
lasting nearly three hours. As soon as it
was over the senator proceeded to the
depot and left for the east. To the crowd
of reporters he said Gents, my
visit was an uneventful one both politi-
cally and personally" These are the
words that three of the correspondents
who were present attribute to him and
they agree that the distinguished gentle
man still labored under an apparently dis
gruntled state of mind. Not much i'm
portance is attached to the single express
ion he made, as it is thought if his mission
had proved fruitless one he would not
have made the remark. His apparent
ill-humor, however, which is not
chronic with him, when considered 10
connection with the genial complacent
frame of mind in which the writer discov-
cred General Harrison only SO an hour or
so later is more significant than the words
attributed to the big senator. After a
long days conference with several distin-
guished public men it would seem but nat
ural that General Harrison should show
signs of fatigue and an absence of his usual
urbanity, but on the contrary he was with
out sign of worry or dissatisfaction. A
good many of General Harrison's close
lShed and If these incidents are of any In
terest or value they would seem to
strengthen this view of the situation.
SENATOR PLUMB CALLS ON HARRISON.
The day brought another senatorial pill
grim in the person of Preston B. Plumb,
of Kansas, who arrived this morning from
the west. His conference was less than an
hour and he left at o'clock for Washing
ton.
In an interview Senator Plumb said he
merely stopped over to have a general talk
with the president-elect. He had no
special mission and was not specially in
vited to call. He was not pressing any
name for cabinet position: Kansas had
no candidate. All the people of Kansas
wanted was the privilege to vote for and
sustain the Republican party-nothing
more. He was in favor of an extra session
of congress and believed that party and
Harrison to call congress together
He was in favor of a vigorous
and early investigation by congress of the
alleged suppression of the colored vote in
the south. He thought Mr.. Blaine would
sit at the head of the new cabinet. AS to
the situation in New York state, he was
not well enough posted to express an intel
Ngent opinion. He was highly gratified
with his visit to the president-elect and
predicted an administration that would
satisfy the country in every respect.
HON. NJ. w. FIELD, OF MICHIGAN.
Another visitor of prominence was the
Hon. Moses w. Field, of Detroit, one of
the regents of the Michigan univer-
sity, and during the campaign
of 1876 chairman of the
national Greenback executive committee.
in the late campaign he. with a large ma
jority of Michigan greenbackers, ardent
1y supported the Republican party on the
tariff issue. He said he had no doubt
whatever Alger would comprise one of
General Harrison's cabinet. He seemed
positive on this point, and was equally
positive in his opinion that Mr.. Blaine
would be secretary of state. He regarded
both of these appointments as settled some
time ago.
A CALLER FROM TENNESSEE.
Hon. II. W. Hawkins, of Tennessee, late
defeated candidate for governor, spent an
hour with General Harrison this evening
He says his visit is partly political.
but largely social. He went into the
southern situation at considerable length
In talking with the president-elect and is
strenuously in favor of an extra session OF
congress and speedy investigation of
what be terms ''outrages perpetrated upon
Republican voters in Tennessee and other
states at the late election" He says that
fraudulent count of the votes in six of
the counties where the black population is
lagest caused his defeat. The county of
ficers, instead of selecting the election
judges and inspectors from the two par
ties, appointed none but Democrats and
they had their own way about counting
the votes,
WAS there no recourse" he was asked.
..'''None that known Of" he replied
Mr.. Hawkins is second cousin of Alvin
Hawkins, the Republican who was elected
governor of Tennessee in 1880, and who is
now being urged by Tennessee Republic
cans as the representative of the south in
the cabinet. His friends ask the position
of postmaster general for him. Mr.. Haw-
kins stated that he did not
press his cousins name for cabi-
net recognition, but suggested three
names to Gen. Harrison, either of whom
would be satisfactory to his section. to-
wit: Alvin Hawkins. Judge Baxter, of
Nashville, or Mr.. hurry, of Knoxville
what the Republicans of the south par
ticularly want" says Mir. Hawkins. 'and
want it early, is a national election law
that will take the presidential and con-
gressional election machinery entirely out
of the hands of the state legislature" He
will not state, for publication, what, if
any. views Gen. Harrison expressed on
those subjects.
MR. BLAINE'S RUMoRED VISIT.
Regarding the report that Mr.. Blaine is
about to start for indianapolis, there is
excellent authority for the statement that
no information as TO his expected arrival
has yet been received at the Harrison resi-
dence. There is scarcely doubt but that
Mr.. Blaine, like many other distinguished