St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-01
SENATORIAL HEADS.
Our Erudite House of Lords
to Make Cleveland a
Cabinet,
And They Threaten to be Very
Angry if He Doesn't
Accept 1t.
Gov. Cleveland Accepts an Invitation
to be Present at an Entertain
ment for the Benefit of Actors.
Representative Randall Travelling Through
Dixie and Being Greeted by Enor-
nous Crowds.
The Consolation Reception to the Logan
FamiIy-Speculation Regarding
Arthur's Appointments.
Senatorial Cabinet Making.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |

intriguing for places in President Cleveland's
cabinet will begin when congress meets.
The headquarters of the intriguers will be in
the cloak rooms of the senate. There are
DETECTING passages from the main chamber,
where the senators, who are as chronic
gossipcrs as old maids, retreat to compare
notes and retail scandals. Here
states will be fixed up aud quarrels will be
brewed. Out of the quarrels will come the
exposure of the schemes set up from the lips
of some disgruntled senator. If it were not
for geographical division the senators would
soon fix up a cabinet for Mr.. Cleveland of
their own number. Take senator who is
on his second or third term, and he has
reached that stage of insolence in Office that,
to cross him, even by president-elect, is to
awake Bomb astes Furioso himself. Take
a dozen or more of such old-timers, and one
can imagine the power they have by their
own self assump tion.
Thus early in the game it is clear that GER
tain senators are laying pipes to capture
Cleveland. These men look upon the presi-
dent elect not as a great man, but rather as
an accident. They feel toward him as an
interloper, who obscured some of their num-
Der in a desire for the Office to
which he has been elected. Hence, fallac-
iously gauging him as a man of small parts,
they propose to map out for him a
curriculum from which he must not depart
To begin this kindly duty for the new priest
dent, it was of course, necessary for them
to cover as much of the cabinet as possible.
A cabinet slate which has not upon it the
name of one or more senators and eX-sena-
tors has no consideration at their hands.
These men live in an atmosphere of their
own and cannot bring their minds to
contemplate that there may be more
brains and business sense outside of the
senate than in it. 1t is, after all, fortunate
for the public that, like ordinary mortals,
they have their quarrels and jeaousies, and
thus the combined power of the leviathan
machine is dissipated. is quite probable,
therefore, that in the adjustment of cabinet
states the senatorswill go to pieces.
Those from the south, to a man, have
united in the effort to put Senator Garland
in as attorney general. There is a deter
mined movement on the part of the south to
claim two cabinet billets. Not only this;
but to designate them and be content with
more other. The two selected are the de-
parUment of justice and the post office depart
ment For the first place there is such uni
versatility of sentiment in favor of Garland
hat all that is now necessary is President
Cleveland's concurrence.
For the postoffice department there is not
so much harmony. The senators have as
yet found but one man, Henry G. Davis,
but meanwhile the members of the house
have crowded racers of their own on the
track, to the inefrable disgust of the house of
lords.
No matter how Mr.. Bayard may effect to be
contrary, there is and will be further strong
current to have him made secretary of state.
The pressure to have him there
assigned comes not so much from Democrats
as the class called Independent Republicans.
The extreme southern men, or rather those
from the old cotton states, are not in favor
OF Bayard because he would be accredited to
the south, and thus defeat them in the
scheme to capture the postoffice department
of justice. Mr.. Bayard meanwhile poses as
the sans De,r ct sans repro0che senator,
strongly in favor of civil service reform.
The first move of these senatorial schem-
ers win be to land president elect Cleveland
in Washington early in January and keep
him here until the cabinet is fixed. There is
wisdom in this. Should Mr.. Cleveland re-
main in Albany, the different sena-
torial cliques could get at him
without exposing the fact of their
visit to one another and possibly also their
petty quarrels. If, however, they can hive
him here, no one could get at him save he
crowded through a senators legs. This is
the secret of the purpose to get him here.
The aim is to surround him with Gordon of
senators with an inscription over the presi-
dental door, ''Who enters here leaves hope
behind" save, indeed, senator ushers
him.
If Mr.. Cleveland is seized with the very
good sense ascribed to him he will keep
away from Washington until he comes to
stay. The influences here for a president
of sand and grit are not nourishing. The
friendships offered are cold, and are gagged
solely to even up the favors granted. AS
Mr.. Cleveland is flesh, those who
would fawn upon him have but
little use for him. 1t is the power of his
Office that will invest him with what is
coveted.i If he does not take the senate into
eopartnership with him, he may not be in
fiuential with the senate, but he will strike
the people as president who, having been
nom mated without the aid of the senate and
in the face of its protest, can
make an upright and digniied
administration without being dictated to by
it. He will find, when he gets into the pres
idential chair, that the very men who are
supposed to be exemplers of pure civil
service, will be of those who will most Der.
sistently clamor for the spoils. So far as the
party of opposition is concerned, Mr.. Cleve
land will not be cautiously autagonized.
The well circulated story thai
Republican senators would unite in
an effort to defeat his nominees
is not born of truth. For decade half o.
those now constituting the Republican ma
jority have had to deal with spoils, and the,
well know it is the rock upon their party ha.
split Nothing can lead to distractions OF
disagreements touching the Offices AS thes,
promise to be the feature of the new admin.
istration, the aim will be to lave the Demo
Gratis have the full limit.
Another Invitation for Cleveland.
New YORK, Nov. 29.-Gov. Cleveland wa: