Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-13
GROWERS PREMIER
The One Common Report Says
He Has Chosen
COMMENTED ON AT WASHINGTON.

Fellows Thinks No Republican Safe and
Forman That 1T Is Too Bad" but Gem
eral Acquiescence Seems in Command
The Car Coupler Bill Passes the Senate
Its Provisions as Passed-Progress in
the Hawaii Negotiations A Russo
Franco-Yanko Alliance Alleged and Dis
credited.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-"Has Cleveland
gone outside of party lines to select the
chief OF his political family?" is the ques-
ton which is agitating to greater or less
degree the Democratic statesmen at the
national capital. Most of them have con-
cluded that the report that is asserted
withso much confidence to be true, and
that neither the president-elect, any of his
advisers nor Judge Gresham will deny,
must be correct and they IRE trying to be-
come reconciled SO the idea. Forman of
Illinois says: at is too bad" Most of the
other members of the Illinois delegation
have taken occasion to reflect, and those
who have not already wired Judge Gresh-
am their congratulations are free to declare
the selection a most appropriate and happy
one.
No Republican Is Safe.
An incident that occurred in the house
Saturday expresses the feeling of good
many Democrats over the alleged selection
During the debate on the pension bill
Grout interrupted Livingston, starting
with the word "If"-when Livingston
broke in with "The heavens may fall Are
you willing to go into Mr. C,eveland's 5
cabinet? What do you think Of thate"I
Loud laughter, to which Grout pleasantly
contributed.l Said Fellows (sotto vurel TO
Dingley: "So far as Mr.. Clevelg ,,!'s caii-
net is concerned no Republicaa is safe"
Aud the personal friends and political foes
indulged in a hearty laugh.
Other Places Said To BE Filled.
Three places now appear tc be filed l.e-
yond question. Carlisle is to be secretary
of the treasury, of course and il is gen
orally conceded that Daniel Lamont. of
New York, will be the secretary of war
For secretary of the navy Mr.. Herbert, of
Alabama, who has long been chairman of
the house committee on naval affairs,
seems to be a general favorite, though he
says he Is not candidate, and declares
that he has received no intimation from
any authoritative source that his name is
even under consideration.
Only One Portfolio in Doubt.
Friends of Hoke Smith, the Atlanta (Ga.)
editor, state quite positively that he is as
much of a certainty for secretary of the
interior as Carlisle is for the treasury and
that there is no longer any room for doubt,
Smith having been offered and finally ac-
cepted the portfolio. If that be true,
Blount, of Georgia, can no longer be re-
garded as possibility for postmaster gen
eral, place for which his friends declare
he is so eminently fitted by his long expert
ence as member of the house committee
on postoffices and postroads. According
to the slatemakers only one cabinet place
is in doubt. and that is secretary of
agriculture.
Resolution of a Missouri SoIon.
A telegram from jefferson City saws that
a resolution has been introduced in the
Missouri legislature which, after comment
ing on the extraordinary nature of the al
legged selection of Gresham in satiricaI
manner, resolves: "That this house de-
clares its abiding faith and confidence in
President-elect Grover Cleveland in max.
ing his cabinet agreeable to his own taste
and placing Republican in the direct line
of succession to the presidency. and should
he fail to avail himself of the wise counsel
of the Missouri Legislature and reject our
favorite son we will bow in humble sub
mission to his august will and retire into
innocuous desuetude.n