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Show llillifllT UM.V It Now Seems Probable That He May be Offered the Treasury Portfolio. t Heii Very Much Dissatisfied With Hii Presnt Po3t, According to Best Advices. WHY IAERIS0N ASKED DELAY. The Strongest l.videnees of tlio ' President's Personal Regard For Him Already Furnished. And it is Believed That He Would Accept Ac-cept the Post if it Were Offered Him- T WOULD , BE A HAPPY MOVE. No Man In Amrr U .Mora lnlrrlly Popular Tliun Ilia Son of tba Uraat War Preideut. New Yokk, Feb. 4. The Herald's Washington special says; "It is given out that the president's purpose in asking ask-ing an extension of the time within which Secretary Windom's successor must be appointed, had especial reference refer-ence to Robert Lincoln, minister to the court of St. James. Lincoln is not at all satisfied with his present post. His appointment furnished the strongest evidence of President Harrison's personal regard for him, for it was made without solicitation solici-tation on his part. Iu fact, the Illinois senators did not themselves know it was going to be made until the president presi-dent so informed them. Since the death of his son, Lincoln has been more restless than ever and the best information is that if the treasury treas-ury portfolio be tendered him he will accept it. Ui appointment from a political point of view would be regarded as an especially happy one. No public man in America is so universally popular with the colored race as this son of the great war president." |