Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-28
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
THE PRESIDENT ADVISED TO
STAY IN WASHINGTON.
Georgia Prohibitionists-F Cur
ists-The Chinese Question
Foreign Affairs.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD UNION,
DOMESTIC.
Cabinet Meeting-The Presidents Mes
sace-Hendricks, Funeral

Cabinet Meeting-The Presidents Mes
sage-Hendricks' Funeral.
WASHINGTON, November 27th.-The reg.
ular meeting of the Cabinet was held to.
| day. All the members were present The
Presidents message, as far as completed
was read and unanimously approved. 1t is
said to be an unusually strong paper, con-
tanning many new and valuable sugges-
| tons. The question of attending the funeral
| of Vice-President Hendricks was consider
| ed, and two or three members of the Cab
| met said it would be almost impossible for
| them to leave the city just now, without
neglecting many matters which it is i'm
portans should be settled before the meet
ing of Congress. The President expressed
his determination to attend the funeral.
His message was almost ready, and could
be easily finished on his return from In
dianapolis. The Postmaster-G General and
the Secretaries of War and Navy said their
reports were ready and thought they
would be able to accompany the President.
The Secretary of State also thought he
could arrange to go with the party. The
other members, however, said the affairs
OF their departments would prevent their
leaving the city. 1t was finally decided
to leave the matter to each member with
the general understanding that all who
consistently could go would do so. The
party will probably leave here on Monday
morning. The details of the trip have
been placed in the hands of Colonel La
mont, and have nor yet been completed.
The President Should Not Leave Wash
ington.
INDIANAPOLIS, November 27th.-In con-
nection with the announced intention of
the President to attend Hendricks obse-
quies on Tuesday next, the Journal of to-
morrow will say while the citizens of
indianapolis and the State of Indiana
would be both proud and pleased to meet
the President of the United States, for
whom plurality of them cast their votes
year ago, with such honor and respect as
the proprieties of the sad event of the
funeral of the late Vice President would
permit, and while the friends and neigh
bOrs of Th0s. A. Hendricks fully appre-
cat5 the honor that would be done his
memory by the presence of the Chief
Magistrate here on Tuesday next,
the Journal feels constrained to say
that it believes Cleveland should not
leave the White House at this juncture
to make the journey. The dangers incident
to necessarily rapid movement of a spe-
cial railway train should not be hazarded
by the President, whose life and active
services are now peculiarly valuable to the
whole people. There are too many risks
attending the trip. As was remarked when
the honored ce-President was go sudden
ly taken away, tits the unexpected that hap
pened and against the unexpected. and
We trust and believe, the improbable, il is
Mr.. Cleveland's imperative duty to take all
proper precaution. The country has gone
through, successfully, many perils during
the last quarter of q century but the line
has on more than one occasion been drawn
to its highest tension. There should
not be a possibility of another strain,
if human precaution can prevent it.
Every honorable citizen of the country. re-
gardiess of party faith, will pray for the
life and health of the President, who stands
alone now as the embodiment of constitu-
tional power and authority, and from the
moment he should leave the Capital until
he reached it again in safety, the country
would be in patriotic unrest and uneasi-
ness. The Journal feels free to make this
statement as a Republican newspaper, and
as one against whom the charge cannot be
made that 1t would do or say ANYTHING
against the largest possible measure Of
honor to the distinguished dead But Mr.
Cleveland is not his own; he is not his
party he cannot follow merely the die
tates of his personal or political friendship
He is the nations head the only life be-
tween the Government and an interreg-
mum. In view OF this, We would not have
him take risks incidental to the rapid
transit which would mark his Journey from
the National Capital TO indianapolis. Let
all the Secretaries come who can be spared
from their official duties, but the President
should not leave Washington"