Show I I GATHERING STORMS Garfields Cabinet to be hoop j Cuoizcd Chicago 1ii Times Washington Whenprr t e liz ° 9 the situation at UK inl fior i dephrtment it is hard to umler stiind bdw Garfield could have Eelrclx EirkwrxTdjaaJt member sf the cubnit The old gentleman never had any vzt u tiveability He isoneof the most bontt men in the world and he thought the interior department would get away with his reputation he did not personally toivery detail Be wil tigu tie document wthout first reading it nc has determined all which make clerks powerless to evade hit orders He never knew how tO protect himself from swarmsof ofiicaseekers The work of the department is behind jut as man weeks as have elapsed since Kirkwo oJ assumed the duties of secretary I be letters and documents are several fret high on his desk while bales in an al l jbinlng > ropm await attention Kirk wood8 > rctircmenl from the cabliet oj courEOriieuhR that be will be cared for somewhere else as he gave up his seat in tho Senate and to cannot be sent back to private life JCirkwoods going out too will make the first break and porh p < j give tome excuso for a general uiinipliin > f tbe cabinet that everybody in Wash neton now believes is not tar dis ant The Blaine people are In favor of n reor anization but it is a fact that within tno asttwoor threo wecksyGarfleld has become be-come distrustful of Blaine OneofGar lids i chums save that tho President now suspects Blaine uud regards him ncaily as much as his personal enemy Couk ling Blame he credits with the respou sibility for hid becoming so involved in Now < York The chums whisper h Garfield that Blaino is u = desirous of making him parson par-son ally t unpopular is is Conbling That when the climax is reached Blaine intends to retire from the cabinet and make capital for himself The real truth agthat General Garfield is already Jookingfeverishly ahead to his reelection I rand nearly all his acts are shaped by lopes and tears for his future Lt is doubtful if Mr Blaine himself can remain re-main long I in the cabinet unless he secures cures entire control The President noa distrusts him and yet he wag taken into tho cabinet as bis warm personal friend fjClaino is not really his friend then the resident is without a single supporter intt cabinet Not long ago General ilarfiold sent for an unofficial friend to comEt and sea him This friend he ad reused by liii first name as he said Blank I am in a bad box Yes ana I am gleA of it dame you was the frank reply Ibis blunt visitor then went pa to say that what the President needed i tnoro than anything else was a ew friends His present policy wan alienating them all What he advised him to do was 1 reorganize his cabinet and put nono but Garfield men in i Thin advtee was respectfully considered 5b ut it is not expected that it will te f ollowed GOJ Garfield at tbe present time isfnot worrying very much He is represented as in buoyant humor and as one observer put it is doubtless up to soma new Ohio surprise for the country I |