The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-06
CABINET GOSSIP.
The Estrangement Between the
President and Blaine.
GENERAL U. S. GRANTS REMAINS
Mrs. Grant Declines to Talk About Senator
Piumb's Resolution Young Ulysses
Speaks For Her.

Especial to THE HERALD-ExaminerD Dis jatch.I
CAPE MAY PoINT, Aug. 5-A cor respon-
dent of the New York World, ultimately
acquainted with the secretary of state, tele-
graphs this to his paper: M
One does not have to comet to Cane Nav
to see that the commanding figure of the
Republican party is James G. Blaine
Blaine has grown more ra.Didly within the
past SIX weeks chan any period in mis- long
career. He has had his UPS and downs
BUTT viii be admitted by his severest crit
les that each time he scars he lights on a
higher perch of pubic esteem. He TODAY
occupies such dominating position in the
Republican party that everybody instinc-
lively regards bis visit to the President as
an act of condescension.
After two days careful observation, in
which L have seen the President and secre-
tary OF state many times, | stake my iudg-
ment on The assertion that their relations
are now more strained than they were one
year ago. The men associate without anv
co1Ni1ality; mutual reserve possess them.
Rlalne is no more the Blaine of his speaker
ship days than the President is the Harri
son OF the Senate. Nobody acquainted with
the facts will pretend That intimacy ever
did or could exist between these two. and
| yet they are essential one to the other.
Mr.. Blaine cannot afford To leave the
cabinet even were it settled that the party
were behind the secretary. He has forrnu-
lated policy of peaceful commercial ag-
grandizement and he must make a show
OF developing it. Nor can he afford to give
up the chief post IN the cabinet in order
that Reed or Mckinley may secure if. He
| would not no half FIJI
martyr as ''hen- pecked'' secretary of
state. The President and Mr. Blaine have
! been IN conference most of the day. The
| large front room on the second story of the
Harrison cottage, overlooking the sea has
| become diplomatic workshop, and a large
amount OF accumulated public business has
Deen disposed of. There is more reason
| for thinking the Behring sea CONTROVERSY
had earnest consideration and that E.ore
correspondence on that important subject
Will be made public at an early day. An ex-
eeedingly interesting rumor exists in re-
gard to this matter. Mr.. Harrison's mes
sage on the subject declaring the sea closed
TO foreigners raises an issue that now seri-
ously confronts the administration. Two
of Mr.. Blaine's friends have
within few hours declared that
MIR. Blaine did not approve of the
| Presidents position in that matter. They
insist that if the administration is on I'M
tenaole ground 1t was the chief executive
and not the secretary of state who placed
| II there. Blalne's- correspondence with
Salisbury shows that the secretary is
handling the difficult situation with great
Icleverness. The President must see it is
asserted that Blaine is the Only man who
can pull him out
To-day MIR. Blaine treated your CORE
spondeEt courteOuSiy, and furnished re-
newed proof OF MS marvellous memory by
recalling the last meeting with the visitor
at the Stanley club dinner at Paris. The
secretary is looking much better In the
face than he did two years age.
His eyes are bright and his
smile has its old time chesrfulness.
He gazed intently out to sea for few mo-
ments as If he did not hear the next uues-
ton that was asked. 1t was regarding the
one topic now uppermost in the public
mind, namely, the secretary of states plans
for reciprocity with the other Latin-Amer-
lean nations. When the inquiry was re-
peated MIR. Blaine turned his face toward
the speaker, but said not word Eyentu-
ally his lace broke into a smile and he said !:
II really don't want to discus the matter at
present. My letters to Senator FRYE define
lmy position" Some of his friends declare
that Mr.. Blaine regards his plan for reci-
proclty as above mere politics and worthy
much more serious consideration than his
party is likely to give it. He wants to re-
establish our commercial supremacy and to
do for the United States what Robert Peel
did for Great Britain.