New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-18
CONCEDED TO MR.. WINDOW.
INDIANA POLITICAL GossIPs PUT HIS NAME
ON ALL THEIR STATES.

TREASURY DEPARTMENTS-THE NEW
EST SUGGESTION THAT OF sENA-
TOR JOHN NJ. PALMER FOR
SECRETARY OF AGRIcUL-
TURF.
I'M TELEGRAPH TIE rKBUNRI
Indianapolis, Feb. 17.-Everybody comedies now
that ex-senator William Window win be the next
Secretary of the Treasury. filing out the term
which ended so abruptly for him in the fall OF
1881. Even the local politicians. who looked to
see one of the great Cabinet prizes fail to Indiana
and whose hopes, perhaps. colored the statements
about the Treasury so repeatedly attributed to
General Harrison have yielded to the general
conviction. 1t must be said for many of those
who are thought to be among the President-elect's
closer friends that Mr.. WINDOWS visit
was q surprise to them. They were so
confident that one Of two or three other Western
men would be chosen, and were fortified by so
many hints to that effect, as they thought, from
General Harrison, that the sudden appearance Of
the ex-Secretary left them adrift and rudderless
on the stream of Cabinet gossip and speculation.
To-day, after the local experts have had time to
gather their ideas, Mr. WINDOWS appointment has
been pronounced on all sides an easy and natural
way out of the difficulty about the Treasury.
General Harrison, it is said has only followed
tie precedent set by President Garfield, and
secures a Secretary whose previous administra-
ton, though short was eminently satisfactory.
Western man is put at the head Of the Depart
paent, yet the policy that may be looked for
from the new Secretary gives every promise,
it is thought, of being as satisfactory to the
East to the West.
General Harrison could, of course, have paid
of greater burden of political obligations by
appointing man nearer home, and until within
four or five days there were many indications
that such an appointment would be made. The
fact that it has not been, however disappointing
TO local PRIDE is regarded here as highly sign1h-
can't of the method and policy which are to
characterize the next Administration. The Cabinet,
IL woufd seem, is to be made up. not on the
basis Of reward for political services. but on
that of a broad and universally satisfactory
representation of the party in the President
elects official family The appointment Of Mr.
Window must certainly be taken as peculiarly
General Harrisons. he worked out alone the
solution of the Treasury problem left him by
the dechnation of Senator Allison, and though
few If any of his intimate friends here were
consulted about Mr. WINDOWS availability as
member of the Cabinet and all of them had
fixed on some other choice, no one doubts now
that the appointment, If actually made, viii
bear out the Judgment Of the Presdent-elect.
With Mr.. Window at the head Of the Treasury
the Cabinet problem seems almost definitely set
tied. The best Judgment here is that the first
four places in the Cabinet will be filed as follows
Secretary Of State Mr. Blaine: Secretary Of the
Treasury. Mr.. Window: Secretary Of War, ex-
Governor Rusx: Postmaster General John Wanna
maker Scme doubt Is felt now whether or not
Warner Miller would accept the portfolio OF Agri-
culture He has been put down on every slate
for that place. and no other name has even been
suggested for it. Missouri will probably get the
Department of the Interior California or Indianas
as things now look. the Attorney Generaship; and
with NJ Miller out of the field for the Department.
of Agriculture New-York the Navy If there is
an equal distribution of departments between the
East and the West the four Eastern portfolios VIII
probably be those of State, the Navy, Agriculture
and the Postmaster-Generalship. The four West
ern ones will be the Treasury. War. the Interior
and the Attorney-Ge neraiship.
The secret visit here yesterday of General John
w. Noble Of St. Louis, gives some plauslbihty
to the statement that he will be Missourls rep
resentative in the Cabinet General Noble IS
the head of the st. Louis law firm of Noble o.
Orcutt He was graduated at General Harrisons
alma mater, Miami University, and served in the
War of the Rebellion, going into the field with
an Iowa regiment. This fact is urged as
strong point in his favor, on account Of General
Harrison's weIl-lxDown partially for old soldiers
General Mobiles name has been mentioned several
times by the President-elect in conversation with
visitors from Missouri. Only last week he made
some searching inquiries of party Of Missourians
about General Mobiles record as representative
Republican. The St. Louis candidate has the
backing, too, Of ex-senator John B. Henderson,
who has practically declined in his favor. MIR.
Henderson wrote long letter last week. with
drawing from the field as Cabinet candidate
NJ n. Al. H.
elect as probably the best selection that could be
made from Missouri. The fact that General Noble
came here secretly by invitation and had long
talk with the President-elect makes him strong
favorite this evening for Attorney General or
Secretary of the Interior. General Noble went
away on the same train which brought ex-senator
Window from the East
Now that Colonel John G. New is practically
out of the field as probable Cabinet officer. the
Indiana politicians say that, il there is Hoosier
ia General Harrson's official family, w. ii. H.
Miller, the President elects law partner, viii be
the man. About the middle Of last week 1t was
announced that Mr. Miller would take the
Solicitorship of the Treasury, but on Wednesday
or Thursday General Harrison's plans seem 10
have changed suddenly, for the first news about
Mr.. WINDOWS visit was followed by revival
of the rumors heard here frequently early in the
winter that Mr.. Miller would go into the Cabinet
The place assigned to him by his friends here
is the Attorney Generalship a Department that
might do equally well for Mr.. Noble or Mr.. Estees
Of California. Any Of these three candidates.
again, might accept the Interior Department
But as the three of them cannot be squeezed into
two Departments one, apparently, must be
dropped, unless the Department Of Agriculture is
also filed from the West The friends of j. N.
Huston are convinced however, that Indiana will
not have Cabinet place
IL there is q general shake-up in the minor de-