Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-02-28
.Dined His Successor.
President and President.Elect
Break Bread Together.
A SELECT WHITE HOUSE PARTY

And an Evening Spent in Quiet Chat Be-
tween Ben and Grover-'LUe and Dan
Also Have a Confab-The Alleged Fight
Against Window Temporarily Adam
.doned-The Woe President and VIE and
Babies Arrive-Callers at the ArilnGt on
Official Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON CITY, Feb Is Gen Har-
rison remained in his apartments all yester-
day, principally occupied in receiving BALI
hundred callers. In addition TO those who
called on the general fully 100 men and
women of prominence called on Mrs. Harri.
SON During the afternoon the president
elect had brief interviews with Blaine, ALI
son, Wilson, Stanford, Jones OF Nevada,
Crllom, Hawley, Palmer, Hisoock, Sayer,
Paddock, Frye, Teller, and Hoar, ex-Sec-
rotary Window, Justice Gray, and many
wel-known Washingtonians At 5 o'clock
he received a delegation Of Indanisns
Ingalls, was also q caller-one Of the earliest
and so was Sherman. besides a number of
representatives including Lodge of Mas
sachusetts, Sherman of New York, Moffitt
of New York, Long of Massachusetts,,
Thomas of Illinois, Belden OF New York.
Baker Of New York, and Stewart of Yer
mont. Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Walker, Adjutant General Drum, Col
Clarke E. Carr, of Illinois, and Mr.. Dodge,
OF North Dakota, were also among the
callers
A few minutes before O'clock Gen. and
Mrs, Harrison drove TO the executive man
sion and dir0d with the president and Mrs
Cleveland. Mrs. Folsom made the fifth Nom
Der of the party. The occasion was almost
informal in its nature. Long after the cof-
fee was served Gen Harrison sat talking with
the president, and Mrs Cleveland
entertained Mrs. Harrison Goodnight was
said at 10 O'clock, and at 1918 Gen. and Mrs.
Harrison we're again in their apartments at
the hotel
Late in the evcnipG Private Secretary Hal
ford passed an hour with Col Lamont at the
White House
Vice presidept-elect Morton. Mrs. Morton,
their five children and attendants reached the
Baltimore & Potomac railroad station at $50
in tho afternoon 1t was raining heavily.
but several hundred people were in waiting
They were met by Chairman Britton, judge
McCammon and Gen. Williams of the in
augural COMMITTEES. The party was rapidly
driven to the Arlington hotel. aud ushered to
the apartments prepared for them The par
LOT table contained nalf-OOzen handsome
baskets of flowers, the gifts of personal
friends An hour after his arrival Mr.. Nor
ton sent message to Gen. Harrison notify
ing him OF his arrival, but the two distin-
guished men did not meet until late In the
evening Mr.. Morton eft the botsl at
o'clock
The publication yesterday morning OF the
announcement that Senators Sabin and Davis
thought OF calling on the presidentelect to
protest against the appointment of Window
% be secretary OF the treasury, was read with
great interest 1t excited 80 much interest
that some friends Of Window called on Davis
and strongly advised him not 70 take the pro-
posed step They brought such pressure TO
bear that Davis, they claim, assured them
that he would not go to see Gen. Harrison on
this business unless he should be sent
for. As Davis refused to go, Sa-
bin gave up the idea of calling
on the president-elect. He was informed
early In the day that Window had stated to
several personal friends that he had bsen Of
fered and had accepted In prospect the office
Of secretary OF the treasury. He spent par
Of the day, however, bringing his influence
to bear upon senators who had interests in
Governor Rusk and other cabinet candidates
in the northwest He assured them of the
futility Of the aspirations of their friends IL
the northwest should find a representative In
Window. What effect his efforts had is not
known, but the feeling prevails that Win
doms hopes are on rock foundation