Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-31

New York, Second Illinois, Nineteenth
New York, and Fourth Pennsylvania. 1t
Is not anticipated that any of these con-
tests will prove very heavy tax upon
the committee, and it is expected that a
speedy action will be taken on them. The
case OF the State Of Virginia Is one, how
ever, OF more serious moment, and will
PROBABLY occupy fair share
OF the attention of the con-
Vention and provoke considerable dis
cusslon before closed. Among the
colored Mahoue delegates from Virginia
IS William II. Peasants, who has vet
departed Tor this city, according TO late
adVlces received here to-day. Yesterday
morning negro dressed in broadcloth
suit and palmetto hat made his appear
ance at the Grand Pacific Hotel and gave
hlmselr out as the original.
de was entertained somewhat lavishly
py number of local lieutenants until
the receipt of the telegram from Washing
toh, directed to j. d. Brady, of Virginia,
which read:
'Pleasants is here. The man imper-
sohatlng HIM is an impostor and should be
arrested
The individual who called himself
Pleasants was lying back comfortably in
one of the plush-covered easy chairs at
the Grand Pacific on receipt of the tele-
gram, but soon after took hurried de-
parture. No attempt was made to arrest
him.
Headquarters under the auspices of
leading business men of the city in advo-
cacy OF the candidacy of President Arthur
were opened at the Palmer House to-day,
and at meeting this afternoon a commit
tee was appointed, with power to add to
itS numbers, to receive the New York
business mems delegation, which will ar
rive tomorrow, and tender its members
the use of these rooms.
The Citizens Arthur Committee have
prepared long address to the delegates,
which will be printed in large type and
richly decorated and framed, and is to
be displayed at their headquarters and
distributed at various points about the
city tomorrow morning.
MALONE ON HAND.
WASHINGTON, May 3O.-A Chicago
special to the EUeniRg Star SAYS "SenatOr
Malone and some of his delegates are
mere. The proposition to admit both
virginia delegations to the convention is
opposed by Malone, and the National
committee are puzzled as to who shall
have the tickets of admission primarily to
reference Of the question to the Committee
ON Credentials. If the Dezendorf dele
gatlOn is admitted in whole or in part,
Malone says that his delegation will leave
the convention. He SAYS that De-
zendorf has been Outvoted as a ReDubli-
can, and that his cOadIutor. Gen,
Wlckham, is Democrat. Mrs. Belva
Lockwood, who is a delegate to the con-
vention, with Rev. DR.. McMurdv and ID.
Bland, from the National Arbitration
League and the Universal Peace Union,
are here. Her object in attending the
convention is to urge the insertion of a |
plank IN the platform favoring arbitra-
ton. She will go before the committee
appointed to draw up resolutions, and |
VIII make an appeal for the adoption OF !
one provision that, as the women of this |
country are citizens, producers and tax
payers, and amenable to all of the laws of |
the land, civil and criminal, which thus |
Tar they have had no part in making. they |
should be given the right to vote on equal |
terms with men. Tonight she will lee |
ture on ''The American Statesman and |
HIS shortcomings, or Who Shall be Presi- |
dent?"
WHAT SOME OF THE LEADERS WILL DO. |
The attractions OF Decoration day did |
not mold the Congressman and delegates to
Chicago here. They left on every train |
tonight. The town is more lonely than |
1t has been since last fall. Blaine is still |
here, though, and all the other candidates.
except Arthur and Lincoln, who are ex- |
pected back at once, despite the story that |
Lincoln IS going to Chicago. Blaine is |
not going fishing, as he at first |
announced, and he is to have a special |
wire, although he publicly declined the |
offer made by the telegraph companies |
TO him, as to every other candidate. He will |
sit at this end cf that wire until the con- |
Vention adjOurns. At the other |
end are his managers. Sherman and |
Logan VIII probably avail themselves of |
similar wires. Secretary Chandler has |
determined that, in compliance with the |
PresIdents request, they will not go to
Chicago. He will keep himself and his |
representatives at Chicago well informed. |
Tonight Blaine went to the opera. Very
appropriately Fra Diavoloo held the |
boards. Blaine was recognized |
ana cheered again and again by the audi
ence. lie gave no sign of recognition to
stralghtouts, after a parting conference |
with Blaine, went out to-day in the hope
that ne would be admitted in preference
to Malone through a combination of the
anti-Arthur men.
NEWSPAPER MEN ON THE ROAD.
A party of sixty or more Washington
newspaper men, representing leading
journals in all parts of the country, left |
here this morning for Chicago in o special
train as the guests for the entire trip of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany. Their train consists of two new
sleepers and Mann bOudor car. Ade-
lima PATHS dining car will be attached TO
the train tomorrow morning. The
party dimes to-day at Cumberland
as the guests of the Baltimore
and Ohio Telegraph Company, the train
stopping an hour and half for the pur-
pose. The cars are to remain upon a
siding in Chicago and be at the service of
such OF the guests as prefer them to the
crowded hotels. The train will return
to Washington after the convention.
Maj. j. G. Pangborn, Assistant General
Ticket Agent of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, accompanies the train and has
its arrangements in his immediate charge.