The Mitchell Capital

GOOD BUSINESS MAN WANTED.

The President Looking Around for a Successor to Secretary Lamar.

Washington, July 5.--The persistency with which Senator Colquitt has been put forward the past few days as the probable successor of Secretary Lamar, should the latter go to the supreme bench, has drawn public attention to that gentlemen here in Washington as one of the sensible business senators with a leaning toward conservatism and a disposition to talk little that has won him the regard of the older senators and the people. He has twice been elected governor of Georgia and showed great ability in the management of the affairs of the state. He has, like Mahone, a strong belief in the recuperative powers of the south, and, in a business sense, is liberal and progressive. He is a great friend of Lamar, with whose views he is in practical accord, and whose policy in the management of the interior department he would carry out to the letter were he made secretary. It is not unlikely that Assistant Secretary Muldrow will receive some consideration for the place under a civil service policy, but there is one latent opposition to him in the department. There is a movement on foot, also, among Pennsylvanians to have Solicitor General Jenks appointed in Lamar's place, and it is known that the president has received the suggestion with considerable interest. He likes Jenks and would appoint him secretary if public policy would be subserved thereby. The fact is that the president has felt much safer regarding his department of justice since Jenks has gone there and is strongly opposed to his leaving there while Garland is at the head of it. As has already been stated, however, the president is determined to secure a good business man for the head of his interior department and all the pressure and political influence in the world will not secure any man the appointment.