Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-16
WINDOW HAS GONE WEST.
He Is Expected to Bring Back
 a Portfolio.
SUMMONED BY GEN. HARRISON.

Lively Speculation in Indianapolis-Rep- resentatives of the American Shipping League Call on the President-Elect. Other Cabinet Gossip.
 NEW YORK Feb 16-Ex- United States Senator William Windom formerly of Mime sota but now of Wall street, left the Bucking- ham hotel yesterday and went west by the Pennsylvania road. He has been summoned to confer with Gen. Harrison at Indianapolis. He informed his friends that he would be back in New York on Monday next, and if he does not then have the treasury portfolio under his arm its absence will surprise those friends, and will only be accounted for by some extraordinary occurrence in Indiana polls.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. l6.-Windom stock has taken sudden rise, and many of the specula- tive politicians have come to the conclusion that the two chief secretaries of the Garfield administration will have a chance to serve out their interrupted terms under Gen. Har- rison. The reason for this sudden confidence, after many doubts and uncertainties about the disposal of the treasury, was the re- ceipt of two or three telegrams from New York announcing that the eX-senator from Minnesota had started on q journey to Indianapolis on an invitation from the presi- dent-elect This statement, though uncon- frmed here, gave Wei ght to the talk that Mr. Windom wouR surely be made the next sec retary of the treasury, and some bets were made in the hotel corridors that the treasury question was at last definitely decided in his favor. Still there were other political ex- perts who were sure that the treasury would go to another western man.
 The most important callers from distance were Andrew Wheeler, of Philadelphia; George A Kelly, of Pittsburg, and ex-Con- gressman H. D. Money, of Mississippi. They came a committee from the American Shipping and Industrial league, which held its third annual convention recently ill Wash ington. They brought a set of engrossed resolutions passed by the convention for presentation to Gen. Harrison. The National Shipping league is non-partisan organlza- tion, formed to promote the develop ment of the merchant marine of the United States and to increase the efficiency of the navy, and the resolu- uons of the convention sum up nt length the causes that have driven the American flag from the seas, and urge the president-elect to recommend to congress such measures as will tend to revive American shipping. The ton mage and naval reserve bills now before con-
 
 subsidies to American steamers to carry American mails to all parts of the world is suggested. The committee went up to Gen. Harrison's house and had a short but satis- factory interview.
 I've knew," said MT. Wheeler afterwarl "that the president-elects record was sound on the question of developing this country's shipping interests. All we wanted was to stir him up little and get him to give some attention to the subject in his inaugural ad- dress We expect some important shipping legislation from the next congress, and a reference to the pressing need of merchant marine by the president at the outset of his administration will be highly encouraging"
 The cabinet is complete, and Gen. Harrison has caused it to be so understood through Private Secretary Halford The president elect will not himself announce the cabinet, Mir. Halford says, until the 5th of March, but after the 10th of this month, and ill all ikeli- hood sooner, the restriction of silence which has been imposed on the chosen ones is to be removed