The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-31
CONKLING'S COHORTS.
SHry ARE SEEMINGLY SAT UPON.
Conk'ing. Piatt and Arthur ns Alba.
ny-,s"ggestton rhot the Leg
isiA'ure FAKE Recess tiI
After the November Elec.
tion-NO One Knows
How the Election
will stand.

How the Election
will stand.
New York, May SO.-Conkliop, Plat and
Arthur went TO Albany yesterday.
Albany, MAJ 30. -Vuos- President Ar
thur, ex'Senators Conklipg and Plsu and
several other leading stslwarts reached This
CITY this morning and are ut the Dsleyan
house. There are very few members of the
legislature in the city aud there is no excite.
ment.
| The suggestion is made in .ome Quarters
tnatthe legislature take recess until alter the
November election, and then come topther
again to vote for the two New York senators
IL IS said that the members can vote more
independent of Influences whicn now govern
them, for the reason that they would know
the disposition of their Constituency toward
them. Ii they were renominated and elec.
ted, then they would understand that their
respective positions now on tho question
were approved. # they are not
renominated or not elected they cnn vote
accordingly. This plan is attributed to the
s.awarls. The administration supporters
laugh at this proposition as entirely INSULT :
cient. They say they do not want 10 con.
slider any plans just now. All they want is
to vote in joint session, with no caucus. no
plans, no mschine contrivances whatever.
Oonkling and Platl can't get the now requisite
oO votes, owing to the absence of j s. Gar,
nenter. They ssythey will quietly accept
their defeat. They do not claim as yet there
will be so votes against tho resigu;ng sena-
tors. The fact is no one knows certainly
how the vote will stand. The administration
section claim every member who has re
quested that his nsme be taken from the
call for caucus as an opponent of
Conkling. The stslwarts at tho start put down
some ninety names Of members on their call
for caucus, aud these names crunbled
away until the list contained only minority
or some lifty names; but those who with
drew their names, or moat all of them, never
signed the paper oatraclsing Conkling and
Plat.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD SPEAKS.
New York May 80.-The Washington
correspondent Of the New York Commercial
Advertiser has succeeded in obtaining nm
interview with President Garfield and has
secured an expression Of bis views on the
New York senatorial contest. The presiien.
expressed himself in very conciliatory termp,
He said in substance that he regretted deeply
the existing difficulties. lie had really nomii
mated Mr.. Robertson, in the first instance
in the belief, from information he had Pc
ceived, that the nomination wss in acco d
with the wishes of Senator Plat, Governor
Cornell and Others, who did not desire to | @
consulted in advance in order that they
might escape the embarrassment of a con.
troversy with Mr.. Conkling. lie had
perseyered in the nomination more on ac
count OF the indortement by the New York
legislature, by which Mr.. Plat had beer
elected, than from any other consideration
lie had meant every word he uttered wher
no declared that the patronage of the New
York custom souse should not be used il
hostility to MIR. Conkling and his friends
He admired Mr.. Conkline's great abli.y
and thought congvess would suffer by III
loss Of his experience and ststesmanship i
the United States senate.
The president said, also, that he shoul,
regard il as a great misfortune if Il shoult
lead to an open disruption of tho party or
postponement which might give the tw
New York senstorships, and hence til
control of the United STATES sens.,
TO the democracy. He thought that woul
be the greatest misfortune that coul
befall his administration. Mr.. Conk
ling's republ'csnism had been tiie
and Is usdoubtei, he said. and II would b
very singular If any republican administra
tion would not rathor have his powerful ait
In the senat, for republican measures tha,
tho hostility of the democratic majority
His sympsthies, no said, were of cours
with MIR. Robertson and his friend.
but II they are not IN major
ity in the party, there Is no resource for iner
hut to obey and respect the will Of tho mn
jority. Political organizations cgn only b
msiolsined in ono way, and that Is by allow
lag the fairly expressed will of the maj ilrit
TO prevail. "lf ono minority can refuse I
be SO controlled" said the president, "ano,h
OF can, and then al idea of an organic z u
party is destroyed"
Albany, May 80 The administration me
were .jubilant this evening over fresh acco:
sions to their ranks. Among then
was Senator Wells, of Utica, who las
week held sloof and would not state hi
position. Gerslne. Bosdman, J. N. Paine
and Gales, members of the assemb Y, VIII
have been classified with the stslwarts. ar
now placed with the esdmnistrationists. Othe
changes are also anticipated
The administrationists clsin, th
vote for Conkling tomorrow will snow hir
TO be in the minority, in which case they aa
he will be abandoned entirely. On tho oihe
hand tho stalwarts say that he will never b
absndoned; that his true friends wi
stand BY him TO tho last. .
firmly as the 306 did by Grant Al the Chics
20 convention. Ex x-Sens,or Conkling an
Governor Cornell had an interview whic
lasted over an hour.
Tho Conkling men In the assembly hsv
called caucus OF republican members {
that body for to-nightto agree on candidates.
The senators arc also respectfully invited I
attend.
Albany, N. Y, May S0.-In the assembl
Tonight the senate resolution for q ion
convention 10 elect United Stat
senstors on Wednesday next WI
received by unanimous consent and adop!t
Tho democratic members ofthe |, gisla.u
meet In Joint 0 ucus In tho senate chsmb
this evening, Fowler acting as temporal
chairman. Assemblymsn Murphy is ma,