The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-05-24
GOSSIP FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Cabinet Maffers-The Matthetrs Successor
ship-Gen. Angus Talked Of for Russia.

Cabinet Mathers-The Matthesrs Successor.
ship-Gea. Angus Talked Of for Russia.
Washington special to the Oman,
Bee: The air is filed with all sorts o.
rumors about cabinet changes, most o
which are wild, very wild, and unreli
able, but some of them are interesting
Your correspondent will give some oil
the interesting gossip afoat, but moth
ing is said upon the subject involved by
administration men. 1t is generally be
lieved that Attorney General Miller viii
be appointed a justice of the supreme
court Of the United States to fill the va
cancy created by the death of Justice
Matthews, and that his preferment will
take place in September or the early
part of October. 1t may be that Secre-
tary Tracy, of the navy department,
will succeed Mr.. Miller as attorney gen
eral, and First Assistant Postmaster
/ General Clarkson will become Secretary
of the navy. General Tracy would pre-
fer the legal portfolio to that of the
navy. Mr.. Clarkson went into the
postoffice department believing that he
would finally become secretary of the
interior or postmaster general by the
transfer of Noble or the retirement OF
Mr.. Wanamaker, but the natural tastes
and training of General Tracy, and
the fact hat Mr.. Noble is becom-
ing quite popular rs secretary
of the interior, incline those connected
most closely with the administration to
believe that Mr.. Clarkson is mole likely
to be secretary of the navy than secre-
tary of the interior. This evenings
Star says: "In judicial and political cir,
Giles it is confidentially stated that the
president will soon have to fill not one,
but two vacancies on the supreme
bench of the United States, the second
one being caused by the retirement of
Justice Miller. Who will fill the empty
chair, is still u matter of conjecture
with all the probabilities in favor of At
torney General Miller, but as to the
place occupied by Justice Miller, no
name has as yet been suggested to the
president save that of ex-Secretary of
War George by McCreary, and his
sponsor wa the justice himself. At
present the justice believes he will retire
early in December and he is really most
anxious that his friend, McCreary,
should succeed him. Thirty years ago
when Justice Miller was practicing law
in Keokuk, Ia, he took McCreary into
his office and there laid the foundation
for the broad legal knowledge which
McCreary is now credited with having
in his possession. Nh. McCreary is
now general counsel to the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe r.,ilroad.
APPOINTMENT DAY
At the first or second business meeting
Of President Harrison's cabinet it was
determined that Tuesdays and Fridays
should be days in each week when gen.
eral appointments would be made. Ex-
ceptiOns to this rule were made in
isolated instances, although it was very
closely adhered to, and the great bulk of
appointments have been announced or
agreed upon for those days. A new
schedule has Just been arranged, which
will undoubtedly be more satisfactory
to the ofice-seeking masses, as it gives
n more day in the week to them. APP
pointments for the department will be
agreed upon or made as follows: Mon
days. interior department; Tuesdays,
postoffice; Wednesdays, treasury. There
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other five departments and they have
not been put on the schedule for the fill
ing of emergencies. This schedule will,
of course, be deviated from. In some
of the departments complaints are heard
that the failure to make changes in the
principal positions is having the effect of
clogging business, as the officers who
daily expect TO be relieved take no in
terest in the business, and in many in
stances refuse to take action.
RUsK's RUMoR.
Secretary Rusk bids fair to prove one
of the most popular members of the adj
ministration. His good sense and sturdy
honesty of purpose are supplemented by
q keen sense of humOr that make him q
most entertaining companion, and he re-
ceives more invitations than any other
public man iii Washington. The other
day a visitor at the agricultural depart
ment gazing over the ample grounds in
which the buildings are located turned
to the secretary and remarked:
you've got the prettiest place in the
city"
"Of course. why not?" was the prompt
rejoinder. "You know the secretary of
agriculture is the tail end of the cabinet
and the tail is almost altogether orna-
mental. AS its principal use" the secre-
tary continued, with a merry twinkle in
his eye, sis to keep the flies off the other
members of the cabinet"
JUDGE sAvAGE R~EAPPoINTED.
Among the appointments made by
the president to-day, were the follow
John ". Whitcher, of Nevada,
United States attorney for Nevada;
John Murphy, of Dakota, attorney for
the territory of Dakota; James W.. Saw
age, of Omaha, Neb.. government di-
rector of the Union Pacific railroad;
John r. Lynch, of Mississippi, fourth
auditor of the treasury, and L. ". Hab-
Groom, of the district of Columbia.
fifth auditor of the treasury; Amos
jr., of Ohio, surveyor of GUS
for Cincinnati.
BAYARD's ENGAGEMENT.
The Every Evening, to-day, confirms
the rumored engagement of ex-Secre-
Bayard to Miss Clymer, a daughter
Of DR.. Clymer, of the United States
navy. The wedding will occur early in
the summer.