The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-31
NO SECRETARY IN SIGHT.
Ex.Gov. FOSTER THE ONLY AVAIL
ABLE MAN MENTIONED.


offered the Place A Strong Man
Needed to Fill the Place.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-President Hars
rison has given no thought to the question
of Secretary Windows successor. He has
been too busy with the kindly Offices of
friendship, which he is performing for the
family of his dead Secretary of the Treas
ury as tenderly and thoughtfully as for
his stricken Secretary Of State and his
afflicted Secretary of the Navy a year ago.
The calamities of his cabinet have affected
the Presidents sensibilities to an increas-
ing degree. until this latest one, so sudden
and so dramatic, has almost overwhelmed
him. He has done practically nothing
since he got the news last night except to
care for Mrs. Window ana her daughters.
GOING WITHOUT us SLEEP.
After he had gotten Mrs. Window home
last night through her friend Miss Coleman.
aided by the suggestion OF the Postmaster
General that she make q sudden indisposi-
tion (which she really felt an excuse for
wanting to go, he remained till O'Clock
trying to comfort her, while Mrs. Stanley
Brown (nee Mollie Garfield was repaying
the kindness Of Mrs Window to Mrs. Gar
field, in the hour of her great distress, by
oonsoling the Window girls. 1853
ON HAND E3RLY.
Fairly this morning the President was at
the Window residence again with Mrs
Dimmick MRS. Harrison and Mrs. Mckee
being still confined to the house with colds
and after drove the Postmaster General, who
had been put by Mrs. Window in charge of
the funeral arrangements, out at Rock
Creek cemetery, where Gen, Logan and
nth IN lnx1vsf fa6 la
for the dead secretary, and this afternoon
he made other arrangements for the funeral,
returning to the Windows this evening after
the remains had arrived and Mrs. Window
had gazsd upon the cold face which yester-
day morning had smiled farewell to her in
apparent health.
POLITICIANS sPECULATING.
But while the President has been thus
nobly engaged the politicians have been
filing the vacancy at the head Of the treas
ury department for him, and the claim Of
the larger number OF them has fallen upon
Representative Mckinley, Their reasoning
is to the effect that MIR. Mckinley, being
about to 60 out of Office and being on the
best terms with the President, would
naturally occur to him at once as a western
man in whose financial views the east has
confidence, and who, as the chairman Of the
ways and means committee and the god
father of the Mckinley tariff act, ad-
ministrative and cautious, would be ac-
cepted as having peculiar fitness for the
place.
DON'T wANTrf.
Mr.. Mckinley hos the quality, the char
acter, the especial fitness for the place, but
does not want it. "If he had wanted it, he
would have taken it. said close friend of
his to-day, when it was offered to him by
President-elect Harrison, before it was
offered to Secretary Window Then he
Irsferred to remain in congress,
in order to become either speaker
or chairman on the committee on ways and
means. Now he will prefer to remain out
OF Office to become governor of Ohio. 1t
must be remembered that Mr.. Mckinley
has presidential aspirations, and that the sec
retaryship OF the treasury at this time,
when the quiet seems to be only the lull
between the storms, with two years of the
term remaining, offer no sure promise of
adding to the new secretary's laurels.
DEMANDS OF THE SITUATION.
Secretary Window. as everybody here
admits, came through the storm which has
just passed with credit, but, considering the
accidents Of life, it was we'll for the security
OF his fame that he died at the hight of his
achievement, and his successor will go into
office finding possible strain which may
wreck him. In the opinion of the wisest
men here the situation demands the ap-
pointment of the strongest available man to
be found in the republican party, a western
man Of national reputation, of unquestion-
able courage and conservatism, and of
proved financial ability.
SHERMAN MENTIONED. H"
1t being assured that no one would be ap-
pointed whose views did not accord with
the Presidents, Senator Sherman is gem
orally mentioned as the man who ought to
IA IN fa la ha Nf Har
in the time Of the last preceding infation
craze, but it is coineidently admitted that
Senator Sh erman could not sit at the same
council table with Secretary Blaine ev on il
Sherman were willing to give up his present
Independent position, for it must be remem-
bered that he, too, is a presidential candi-
date.
Ex-GoV. FOSTE r A POSSIBILITY.
Messrs. Nc Kinley and Sherman being con-
sidered out OF the way, the choice Of the
best appearance falls curiously enough on a
third Ohio man, ex-Gov. Charles Foster,
who is a close friend of the President, and
whose fight against Thomas Ewing and
initiation in the gubernatorial campaign in
1879 President Harrison remembers well,
from having participated in ii. Senator
Allison. who is mentioned, declined the
Secretary Window, and therefore is
set aside, perhaps prematurely. Eastern
men seem to be barred in the discussion, on
account OF the strong sectional feeling
now prevalent In the west Otherwise
Senator Aldrich, as the Mckinley
of the Senate would be a prime favorite, for
he is closer to the President than almost
any other sena tor, and his advice on tariff
and financial matters has been taken by the
President, probably as often as that of any
member OF the cabinet.
wANAMAKER NOT AVAILABLE.
Postmaster General Wanamaker, who is
nearer to the President than any other
member of his cabinet, except probably At
torney General Miller, would probably be
the Presidents personal choice, provided
Postmaster General Wanamaker could af-
ford to give up his business connection.
A rearrang cement of his cabinet would, it
Is believed, be agreeable to the Pres ident,
but it does not seem practicable, because
not one OF the other members of the cabi-
net, as circumstances are, could take Secre-
tary WINDOWS place.
MUST BE WESTERN NAM
The feeling that IL must be a western man
is strong, and this narrows the Presidents
choice very much, as it was narrowed when
Secretary Window, q western man In
name. but an eastern man In fact, was sug-
gested by Secretary Blaine, after he had
failed TO get Senator Allison or Representa-
tive Mckinley to take it, Outside Of Ohio
there are few western republicans of
national prominence who are not more o-