Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-02-10
A CABINET VACANCY.
Story That Blaine is
Soon to Resign.
POOR STATE OF HEALTH
Alleged to Have Led to the Decision
Probable Successors.

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 The Press today
prints tho following from its Washington
correspondent: Secretary Blaine's resig
nation from tho cabinet will, after "A reas-
enable interval follow his letter of with
drawal as presidential possibility. For
this statement The Press correspondent
has authority second only 10 that of Sec
retary Blaine himself. Mr.. Blaine has
reached n definite determination to resign
his commission as secretary Of state. Only
III ate at which this action shall be
taken remains undetermined.
Mr.. Blaine. IL he followed his personal
inclination, would tender the president his
resignation at once, but he realizes that
such an act, following Immediately upon
his letter TO Clarkson, would
lie widely misInterpret-d.
and would be construed by the opponents
Of the Republican party either as an act of
piquc, or M indicating serious differences
between the president and his premier.
Therefore Mr. Blaine will postpone his
resignation from the cabinet until time
enough shall have elapsed To separate In
the public mind that act from his an
nouncement that his name would not go
before the Republican national convention
for the presidential nomination.
The reason which Sec; etary Blaine will
give to the president for retiring from the
cabinet will be that of
Physical Inability
10 continue 10 perform the arluous and
eyN"ting duties Of his present office This
t., fact, the true reason for Mr. Blaine's
determination 90 Withdraw entirely from
oiiic.al life,
II has been the hope of Mr.. Blaine for
several months to spend some Of the
present winter in a warmer climate. When
he left Bar Harbor last fall il was with the
intention Of going from Washington to
either the extreme southern part Of Texas
or to Mexico to spend the winter
The determination OF Mr.. Blaine to re
tire from the cabinent, which il here pub
icly announced for the flst time, was in
timated yesterday by General Agnew.
Cabinet Making begun.
1t is Of course too early tospeculate as 70
who may succeed Mr. Blaine as secretary
e. .D"tc. The name Of cX XSenator Ed
u.a..,B of Vermont naturally suggests
itself because Of his known intimacy with
the president and his great experience In
public affairs but N will be remembered
that Mr. Edmunds assigned his precari'
ous health as his reason for resigning
from the senate.
New York has member Of the cabinet,
which would seem 10 dcbar from consider
alton the name OF ex-senator Evarts, who
was secretary Of state under President
Hayes.
II is Thought more probable that the
president would look in the west for n
successor 10 secretary Blaine, and IL is
suggested that lac might find it good poll
tics 20 select a man from Illinois.
In this connection Robert T. Lincoln,
who was secretary Of war under President
Arthur, and who is now the United States
minister at the court of -. James, might
be recalled aLd promoted To the head of the
state department,
The most important subject after rccip
rocity now before that department is the
Behring ,ca question, with which Minis
ter Linc"lns duties during the past three
years have made him thoroughly familiar.