Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-01
ALLISON IS UNDECIDED.
He May Not Accept a Cabinet
 Portfolio.
STRONG OPPOSITION TO BLAINE.
Allison's Friends Want to Save Him
 for 1892-Wants of the West-Sherman

Utterance.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Senator Allison has accepted and refused the treasury portfolio in President Harrison's cabinet, and then has asked for time ill which to reconsider his last decision The matter is now ill abeyance. It is stated that Mir. Clarkson, of Iowa, was here on Thursday of last week. He went to Senator Allison, who stated that pressure had been brought to bear upon him to accept the treasury portfoGo but that he would not ac- cept it.
 He asked MT. Clarkson to go to Indian apolis and convey that decision to the presi- dent-elect. MT. Clarkson left for the west What effect the refusal of the treasuryship has upon the president-elect can be imagined when it is stated that information received from Indianapolis on the Friday night fol- lowing induced MT. Allison to depart for the Hoosier capital on Saturday morning. There was long conference between the presicient-elect and the Iowa senator, and the latter finally yielded.
 When the senator arrived in Washington he was besieged with telegrams from the friends of MT. Clarkson, urging him to recon sider and to stay out of the cabinet, and at last l, communicated with the president-elect that le desired to reconsider his last decision and to have the question held in abeyance The time was granted and Senator Allison is as far away from a final decision-so he stated to his congressional friends-as he was two weeks ago.
 Rumor has it that Gen. Harrison's real difficulty is in filling the interior department and the department of justice. For the two rNla thn hi are making especial play Both places have so intimately to do with the national land policy that it is of the greatest imaginable moment to the people living west of the Mis- sissippi river to have them presided over by two men in thorough sympathy with that section. But it is this very fact that makes Gen. Harrison pause. He is afraid that if he yields too much to this sentiment he may incur the criticism of having filled the two places with an eye alone to pleasing western interests.
 The oft repeated declaration that Gen. Alger is to be secretary of war has seriously disgruntled Senator Sherman, who holds the man from Michigan responsible for the dis integration of his forces at Chicago last sum- mer MT. Sherman has not been to Indian apolis, and some of his friends give as the reason the amount of consideration Gen. liar rison has manifested toward Gen. Alger It is even hinted that MT. Sherman has formally protested against the recognition of Alger and that if the appointment is made the ad- ministration will receive no active support from the Ohio senator. Certain it is that a good deal of feeling has been aroused, and the Sherman men are most open and emphatic in their denunciatlon of Gen. Alger.
 CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-Gen w. D. Washburn the new senator-elect from Minnesota, arrived int Ina oif tp 'Fol1, of politics, Senator Washbtrn said: ''I don't see how it is possible for Gen. Harrison to construct a cabinet without Blaine In my opinion there is every reason why he should be called to the chief place, and I believe he will If Senator Allison goes into the cabinet am just as confident that he will only do so under pressure. In my talk with Gen. Har- rison a month ago, from what he said 1 know he wants Allison to accept the treasury port folio, and 1 believe he will even push it upon him.
 ''As to the other cabinet places, I should not be surprised if Wanamaker was asked to become postmaster general I have reason to believe California will be given the secretary ship of the interior In that case should not be surprised if Swift should be chosen As to the other positions, I have only the vaguest notions. Gen. Harrison said to me that he did not see how he could take a member of his cabinet from New York, and when saw him this matter was giving him considerable trouble"
 INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 1.-The Hoosier capital is still sceptical concerning the story that Blaine has been called to the ministry of state The Augusta dispatches, which were deplored as bearing too palpable and convincing marks of truthfulness, are called in question and frequent expression is heard of the belief that their publication is only an effort, bolder than any previously made of Blaine's friends to lay for him violent hands upon tue state portfolio. There was current a declaration that Gen. Harrison would in day or two give to the press for publication the core spondence appertaining to Mir. Blaine's selec- tion and acceptance, but the statement could be traced to no reliable source.
 Indiana will not believe in Blaine's appoint ment until Gen. Harrison tells it. The prophecy of Senator Allison when he was in Indianapolis was that the responses to some weighty invitations would be received here within the week. This s,lstains the belief of Gen. Harrisons friends that as yet the cabi- net is in state of total uncertainty, and that until within the past week the proffers had not been made by him.
 J. F. Scanlon of Chicago, and Dr. Carroll, of Philadelphia, who, soon after election came to town in the interest of Wharton Barker, again put in an appearance, but said nothing of Mir. Barker's claims to cabinet honors MT. Scanlon admitted, though, that they had little political ax to grind, and they went up to Harrison's and ground it. More Removals in the Appraiser's Oflce.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-The apprehension over further removals broke out again at the appraisers stores yesterday. Enough in- formation had been furnished to Appraiser Stearns to warrant him in recommending the removal of Assistant Appraiser Daniel J.