Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-29
ALLISON Is MUM
And Evidently Enjoys all Attempts to
Draw Him Out,

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 2S-This has been
rather an uneventful day. Senator Allison
remained the guest of General Harrison
last night and departed for Washington by
The $50 train this afternoon. He had an
other long conference with the president
elect this morning with no third party
present.
AT noon General Harrison and the SEN
ator took a walk down town, arriving
home at luncheon hour. After luncheon
the general and his guest had another talk
and about 9 o'clock the senator took his
departure from the house.
At the depot several brief interviews
were had with the Iowa senator but he
threw very little light upon the cabinet
situation. When told that he had been
for the state department instead of the
treasury, he laughed heartily and said:
That's very good" He was in fine humor
and rather enjoyed the attemps being
made to obtain some cabinet expressions
from him.
He stated to gentleman that within
the next few DAYS some important replies
and intimated that a number of cabinet
officers had recently been made.
He is also said to have let slip
while conversing hastily with well known
gentleman, some expressions which had
the effect of impressing doubt on the lat
ter's mind as to the certainty OF Mr.. Ais
son having accepted the treasury port
folio The opinion is current that while
the senator's name will ultimately be
gazetted as the next secretary of the treas
ury, bare possibility still exists that he
may, ASIAN ultimatum, decline to leave the
senate. At any rate, everything obtalna-
bic points to a strong reluctance on Mr..
Allison's part to cut short his successful
senatorial career.
This public sentiment is undoubtedly
strengthened by the recollection that Mr.
Allison was strongly urged by President
Garfield eight years ago to assume the
treasury portfolio, but fatty declined to
leave the senate, compelling General Car
field to look elsewhere for his finance min
ister The consultation over the Samoan
affair yesterday seemed to lend color to
the theory that Senator Allison may be
the coming head of the state department,
or the quasi-admission this afternoon
pretty reliably attributed to the senator
that he was aware of other cabinet prof
fers having recently been made, is
certainly calculated to lend addi-
tional coloring to this this sugges
ton, as it carries with it the infer
ence that he was counseled with touching
there other proffers. Whatsoever Mr.. Al
his return will be of deep interest.
Apropos of the state department theory
above suggested, one of the most distin-
guished Republicans in Indiana, in con-
yersation this afternoon, remarked that 1t
was finally settled that Warner Miller was
to have seat in the cabinet. He didn't
qualify the expression at first, but when
pressed for his authority or grounds he
would say nothing more on the subject
and gave evidences of being little con-
cerned that he had said what he did. When
asked what position in the cabinet ex-Sen-
ator Miller was TO have the distinguished
gentleman replied: "Oh, / don't know, but
he's quite capable of filling almost any po-
sitiOn."
ado you think he is booked for the
treasury, or for the navyW
To this he replied, left handedly, that he
had never heard of Miller's name being
connected with the naval secretaryship.
This prominent man has means of
knowing General Harrson's conclusions
about as soon rs any one could learn them.
General Harrison made second trip
down to the city about 3 O'Clock, the pre-
vious bad weather having interfered with
his outings.
There was scarcely the usual number of
visitors today Among the out of town
callers were Judge c. II. Moore, a promi-
nent Republican OF Plattsburg, \. Y,
who is a stauEch friend of Warner Miller S
and presumably made known that fact to
the preSident-elect.