Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-07
ARTHUR AND HIS CABINET.
How They Received the News Wired
Them from the Convention.

How They Received the News Wired
Them from the Convention.
WASHINGTON, June 6.-There were
more signs of activity in and around the
White House to-day than at any time
since the meeting of the Chicago Conven-
ton. The Cabinet met as usual shortly
after noon. All the members were pres
ent, including the Attorney General,
who returned from Philadelphia this
morning. Secretary Chandler was the
first to arrive; Secretary Lincoln came
next, and was closely followed by the
other members. Postmaster General
Gresham was the last to put in an appear
ance. He was about an hour behind the
others. The members remained together
in the Cabinet room only a short time,
and then separated into groups i'll differ
ent parts of the mansion.
Private kilograms and Associated Press
bulletins were received at short intervals
and read with an eagerness that
left no doubt as to the interest taken
in the result by the Presidents friends
and advisers. Secretaries Frelinghuysen.
Lincoln and Chandler and ex-Att0rney
General PierrepOnt, of New I Ork, formed
an interesting group in the private secre-
tary's office. 1t was here that the news
was received and communicated to the
President and others. The vote on the
first ballot caused no surprise, but con-
siderable speculation was INDUCED in as
to how the next vote would stand.
ARTHUR's SERENITY.
WASHINGTON, June 6, II P. M.-Presi-
dent Arthur received the decisive news
from Chicago with great composure.
Secretaries Lincoln andtChandler, Post
master General Gresham and Senator
Don Cameron w NJ hac
the White House for several DAYS. were
with him when the foreshadowing bulle-
tins arrived, and without waiting for their
complete fulfllment the President invited
the company to proceed with him to
luncheon. Shortly afterwards President
Arthur responded to the card of an agent
of the Associated Press, who found
him looking not only cheerful, but
apparently in the best of spirits.
He remarked that the news
from the convention to-day had not taken
him by surprise, disappointments in
politics being of such common occurrence,
and so readily discounted. He also pleas
antly referred to the general law of COM
pensation, and said that he highly priced
the numerous compensations that might
be mentioned in the present case. AS to
his position in the coming canvass, the
President said that it was sincerely out
lined in the telegram which he had sent
to Blaine immediately upon the receipt of
the announcement of the conventions
choice.
LOGAN's OPINION.
Senator Logan was found at his rooms
by a representative of the Associated
Press this evening, and, in answer to a
request for an expression of his opinion
regarding the nomination of Blaine he
said that he could not express his senti-
ments better than by showing what he
had already written. He thereupon pro
duced copies of two dispatches sent by
him this afternoon. The first was the
one sent to the Illinois delegation while
the third ballot was being taken, and was
as follows:
UNITED STATES SENATE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., June G, 1884,
Hon. s. II. CuLL0D and the Illinois Delegation,
Convention HdU, Chicago:
The Republicans of the States that must be
relied upon to elect the President having so
strongly shown preference for Blaine 1 deem
it my duty not to stand in the way of the peO-
ple's choice, and recommend my friends to as
sist in his nomination.
[Signedl JOHN A. LOGAN.
The second dispatch was as follows:
UNITED STATES SENATE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., June 8, 1SS4.i
Hon. =. q. Elaine, AaGusta, Me-:
nomination, You will be elected.
tsignedl JOHN A. LOGAN.