New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-22
CABINET TROUBLES RUMORED
SECRETARY GRESHAM AND THE president
SAID TO Be OUT
THE HAWAIIAN POLICY THE TRouBLE-HCKE
SMITH ALSO HAS GRIEVANCE.
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Washington. Nov 2l.-Reports Of disagree
ments in the Cabinet are persistent. No sooner
is one shelved and forgotten than its successor
appears and today two were current. both Of
which are interesting II true" According 10
the first one Secretary Gresham thinks he has
reason to feel that the President is dissatisfied
with him on account Of the Hawaiian affair.
In this relation the gossips assert that the Presi-
dent has intimated to more than one prominent
Democrat that the Secretary OF State has
placed him in embarrassing position. which
he might have avoided If all the facts and testi-
mony in regard to the Hawaiian complication
had been presented to him in their true light.
and that these limitations have reached the
ears of the Secretary Of State, who naturally
feels hurt if not resentfu
II is hard to believe that these assertions are
true II is known to be a fact that the policy
of this Administration in regard to Hawaii was
initiated and indicated, If not fully defined. by
President Cleveland himself when he withdrew
the Treaty of Annexation from the Senate. That
act was his own. and If he performed 1t at
anybody's suggestion except his own that per-
son was not the Secretary Of State. Para
mount Bount was President Cleveland's own
choice for Special Commissioner. and he II was
who conferred plenary powers upon that ex-
lions to which Blount so faithfully adhered.
OF course il is not impossible that the ire
mendous Outbursts OF public Indignation against
the most recent developments Of his HAWAIIAN
policy has affected the President 10 such' an
extent that he would he glad to shift the re-
sponsibty to the shoulders of the Secretary
of State just the responsibility for other sug-
gestions which aroused public disapproval were
cast upon another member of the Cabinet and
upon Democratic Senators who supposed that
they in the confidence Of the Administra
ton and knew what IL desired.
According TO the other report mentioned
President Cleveland and his Secretary OF the
Interior out and the latter. before leav-
ing Washington for Georgia recently. coniided
To a friend the interesting Information that II
he could effect satisfactory arrangements with
pressed desire to engage his services as gen
eral counsel he should resign his seat in the
Cabinet. 1t is asserted that Mr. Smith proposed
to do this because the President had taken him
task and lectured him with considerable
severity for what he chose to style the Sccrer
and pensioners.
Mr.. Cleveland, IL is asserted. bluntly told
HOke Smith that he must carefully consider
and clearly define his pension rolicy. and then
adhere to il. 1t is further asserted that Presi
dent Cleveland has said to ore or more promi-
nent Democrats that he had been disa ppointed
in his Secretary Of the Interior, and had inti
mated that he might have do.r better If he had
appointed some other man. ana that these re-
marks and limitations conveyed to Mr.
Smith by somebody who yas cognzant Of the
facts Secretary Smith has ~sturncd to Wash
ington. but he was proven ID from attending
the Cabinet meeting to-day, II Is said, by illness
in his family.