New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-01
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
POSSIBLE SUCCESSORS FOR SECRETARY
WINDOW
HIS AVERSION TO EXERCISE PREDICTING
THAT THE SILVER COINAGE BILL WILL
NOT BE MADE A LAw-sENAToR COR
MAN TRAINING SENATOR GRAY

MAN TRAINING SENATOR GRAY
FOR THE PRESIDENCY
Washington, Jan. Interpretations people lay
great stress upon the continued affections which
pursue the Harrison Ctbinet. Secretary Windows
death has been great source of sorrow to the
President aside from his sense of personal loss
He had hoped to keep his Cabinet entire until the
end of his administration. The two men who are
mentioned as Mr.. WINDOWS successor in the Cabi-
moi are Senator SpOOnef and Congressman McKin-
Icy OF these two men Mr.. SpOoner is considered
mich the more available man. He has had more
experience in practical affairs wider knowledge
of business and more executive ability. The
President some time ago established a rule in re-
gard TO foreign appointments that he would not
appont any defeated candidates to these Offices
But in Mr.. McKney's case the President has
always considered him as defeated by most unfair
means He has regarded his canvass sub
stantial victory in that it reduced Democratic
majority VIGOROUSLY manufactured through
oerryInanderng process to secure Mr.. McKinleyS
defeat Mr. Mckinley has no special knowledge
Of financial subjects beyond that acquired in the
study of the tariff. Mr. Spooner is a hard-mOney
man and is thoroughly in sympathy with the
Administrators policy. There does not appear
TO be any particular reason for mentioning the
names of these two gentlemen in connection with
this Office except that they are close friends OF
the President and that their present terms of office
are about to expire.
Mr. Window was man of most kindly Temporal
ment. lie had himself passed through e Western
money craze, and had beccme in time converted
TO hard-money principles, lie voted himself IN
the Senate some Years ago for ereenback initiation
bills. Like nearly every public man from the
West. he has had his day OF belief in cheap
,fr If lat
been as sound as the best professors of finance
could require. Mr.. Window did not take much
exercise He was inclined TO be stout. His neck
WAS short He was a great smoker of cigars, and
this affected his heart. He was reluctant TO walk
even the shortest distance lie has gone in
carriage even when starting out from the Treasury
70 20 only to the White House. This reluctance
to take exercise similar TO the disposition oil
Secretary Manning. Secretary Manning was stout
lie was great smoker, and he was always seen
in his carriage. When he first broke down, II
was from a stroke of paralysis. The physical
labor connected with the duties of Secretary Is
great The Secretary is obliged TO sign hls nai1e
5000 or 1000 times day to documents whlch
he cannot by any means read There are always
puzzling and complicated questions at the Treas
ury There is no department of the Government
so closely scrutlnized by the public wall street
of the Secretary In times OF panic frantic appeals
are made to him, so that man with any sensitive
ness comes to think that the responsibility Of the
financial situation is upon his shoulders 1t was
one of the criticisms of foreign nanciers directed
oyainst our administration of financial affairs that
the Government has the right to interfere in the
Street or come to the rescue of the market. lhey
say that this is one OF the unfortunate ana dis
turbing elements in our financial SITUATION Men
are led to lean too much upon Government sup
port The people who went into silver specuia-
ton expect Treasury support or III Congress- anu
SO on through long list of similar TRANSACTIONS
A high official of the Treasury Department
Yesterday explained TO me the silver SITUATION
at Washington He says that the free-coihaRe
nronosition can never become law. The Bank
ing and Currency Committee IN the House VIII
carry on its hearings for some days yet, but Will
in the end report against n free-cclnage Dill
With this adverse report he does not believe that
il can be carried through tie House. prop
osition. however. for compromise has been pre-
parod in the Treasury Department. This bilI
was outlined by the Director of the Mint Mr.
Lecch. 1t provides for the increase Of the monthly
purchases by the Treasury Department, 80 tha'
the present silver in the market can be purchased
and got out Of the way. This amount varies
according to the estimates OF experts. Some
nlace the surplus as low rs S13,000,0O0, while
others place il as high as S25,O0o,oOO lhf
would only make q moderate imitation prom
inent financier in speaking OF this pressure loi
further imitation, says; between 1915 ana Il'
present time, 1891, specie payments having oeel
resumed on January /, 1872 The SIN KINDS VI
circulating medium in the United States, gold
silver. greenbacks, National bank notes silver
certificates and gold certificates, have increased
II =
81 Der cent Has population increased or business
increased in the same ratio? In the West we
have had a drouth and short crops If Congress
can legislate more rain fertility and fecuhdl
into Kansas Nebraska, Colorado and the Dakotao
and thereby give the citizens Of those STATES
products with which 10 buy money it can lcgls
late value from mere words, as in silver
II is now said that Senator German has II
training a new dark horse for the PTesidch'ia
nomination This dark horse is Senator Gray
Delaware. He is great friend of the Senate
from MARYLAND and has a certain amount OF popu
larity in the Senate. The Delaware Senator i
nearly six feet in height. He is broad-shouldere'
and has powerful figure. His head is oil goo'
size and is sumOunted by iron-gray hair falling
corclrssly His features are large. HIS 1oIehc''
is broad his eyes are dark, and his nose prominent
An iron-rray mustache conceals his mouth. Hi
laws are smOoth-shaven. The beard is 50 thlcf
and dark that the lower part OF his shaVen rae
Is blue in tint against the dark color OF his com
plexion He is an easy talkcr. lie is a graduate
Of the Harvard Law school, and had made a goo
reputation for himself as lawyer before coming T.
.hn Senate as Mr. Bayard'S successor. lie made hi
art renutation rs politician in the National Dem
ocrotic Convention in St. Louis III 1876. He wa
At the Cincinnati Convention OF 1850 and al Tn
Cbicago Convention of 1854. lie has always bee
consistent advocate of the claims of Thomas 7
poyard for the Presidency. In the Senate h
,otes . featurc Of presenting arguments upO
constitutional questions. lie has heavy sluseis
manner until lie is well warmed up to his subject
.t,o i, connection with this paI