Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-01
GOSSIP FROM ALBANY.
THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AND
THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.

Dined by the A6jutant- -General-sIan G
ming Arranging to Enter the Cabinet
The Question of Allowing Press
Representatives on the Special Train
a Labor Representative Makes a
Call.
ALBANY, n. Y, Feb. 2s.-President-
elect Cleveland will be in Washington on
Tuesday evening next. he will talk with
only few of the Democratic leaders. Mr.
Carlisle he has an especial desire to see.
Adjt. Gen. J. G. Farnsworth gave a
private and select dinner party to Presi-
dent-elect Cleveland this evening. Mr..
Cleveland had received other invitations
to dinner on the eve Of his departure for
Washington, but declined all in favor Of
the AdJutant General, to whose house he
was invited to a similar dinner party
when he came mere two years ago as Gov
ernOr.
The question of allowing representa-
tives Of the press to accompany the train
taking Mr.. Cleveland to Washington on
/ Tuesday morning will be decided on Mon
day evening.
The Journal states that the directors OF
the Commercial Bank held a prOtracted
meeting this morning, but the proceed
ings were secret. 1t is believed, hOwey-
er, ;hat Mr.. Manning rendered his resig-
nation as President, which was accepted,
after the passage of suitable resolutions,
70 be made public next week, and that
Mr. Robert e. Pruyn was elected Presi-
dent.
d. J. Hagerty, of Brooklyn, prominent
in labor associations, called on Mr.. Cleye-
land to-day.
AN EXTRA SESSION OF THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-The President
to-day issued a proclamation cOnyeniDg
hn to in frac cir snH
March to act on such communications
as may be made to it by the Executive.
ANECDOTES OF LAMAR.
The impression is strong that Lamar
Will be Secretary OF the Interior. Senator
COlquitt tells many pleasant anecdotes of
Lamar's early life. COlQuitt, who
graduated at Princeton, was present at
Lamar's graduation AT Emory College.
This is Colquitrs opinion OF him: La
mar, whom / have known since we were
both boys, when we were counting our
wives, and whose public career l know
almost rs well as he does himself, is ade-
quate to any position in the Cabinet,
although l should have preferred TO see
him Secretary of State
Speaking of Lamar's absent minded
ness, a Repu blican Senator said to-day
il would be just like Mr. Lamar, after
getting into the Cabinet, to forget his new
pOSltItu anu 20 10 Lue cdpilOl some udy 10
take his old seat and make "A speech that
neither Mr.. Ingalls, nor Mr. HOar could
answer. And" continued the Senator,
"We should all be so much interested that
nobody would want to stop him."
1t is a high tribute to Lamar that both
Republicans and Democrats gravely dis
cuss the bearing upon his future of his
hual decision to surrender four years in
the Senate and an almost assured life
tenure upon the Mississippi SenatOrship
to become a part of the Cleveland admin
istratiOn. Senator Bowen, Of Color ado.
said that While Republican, he could
not fail to regret the removal from the
Senate OF such great conservative fac
tor as MIR. Lamar would always be
while he continued in the body. Other
Republican Senators were exceedingly
kind in their illusions 10 him, not uu-
mixed with regret at losing an agreeable
companion and an always fair opponent,
and satisfaction that the most formidable
debater on the Democratic side Is no
longer to be in their front.