Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-10
SPEER AGAIN SET BACK.
THE COMMITTEES REPORT DE.
LAYED ANOTHER WEEK.

WASHINGTON, Feb. emory Speer il
no nearer confirmation to-day than 'ht
was week ago. The Judiciary Commit
tee did not have time this morning, since
the Senate met at II O'Clock instead of a
| Il, to consider the case, and so 1t gOe.
over until the next meeting, which viii
be on Monday next. Mr.. Speer says the
committee will then report the nOmina
ton favOrably, and that it will 90 right
| through. This is not absolutely certain.
MR.. CLEVELAND's 5 POLICY.
If the Democrats who went over to see
Mr.. Cleveland last week brought back
little information about his Cabinet, they
have brought back a good deal OF InfoT
nation about his probable policy. About
this Mr.. Cleveland spoke freely and frank
ly. All the returned statesmen agree il
their reports respecting the policy, how
ever they may differ about the Cabinet o
the President-elect. They all agree thai
Mr.. CleYeland's policy will be to give the
country an honest, economical, progress
sive and conservative administration
such as he has given New York, and thai
he will be as Independent of the pOliti
clans here as there. Specifically
they say that he favOrs q
conservative foreign policy, q
new navy, better coast defenses, the sus.
pension of standard silver dollar coinage
and the redemption of the trade dollar
tariff reform and the enactment of a gen.
eral bankruptcy law similar to that con.
tanned in the bill now pending in the
House.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
But the one thing most deeply i'm
pressed upon the mind of the average re.
Ihannprn ia yrfci TO
land is that the latter really means all
that he has said about civil service re-
form. A Democrat who was in New York
last week says on this head: "Mr. CleVe-
land inquired of several of the Senators
what was thought in Washington
OF his late civil service letter
and the principles laid down
therein. 1t was suggested to him
that more than one construction had been
put upon the letter; that it had been In
terpreted, for instance, by some office,
seekers as not meaning so much as ap-
peared to those who were not looking for
place.
NO DECEPTION IN HIS LETTER.
To this suggestion he replied very de-
cidedly that the letter meant exactly
what it said, no more and no less,
and that those who were under
taking to read between the lines would
find themselves mistaken. He did not
propose removing any Republican official
who had been faithful and attentive to his
duties and whose administration of his
office was satisfactory to the public who
were Immediately concerned. When the
terms of such officers expired he expect
ed of course to fill their places with good
men of his own party, if they could be
found, which he did not doubt. There
might be reasons in some cases why
this position should not be adhered to,
but under all ordinary and usual circum-
stances 1t would be the rule.
POINTERS ABOUT THE CABINET.
The News correspondent is able to
make several positive statements about
Mr.. CleYeland's Cabinet. First, no men,
Der of it has yet been selected; second.
Messrs. Bayard and Garland will almost
certainly be in it; third, Mr.. Money. of
Mississippi, and Mr.. Jonas. of Louisiana.
will almost certainly not be in it; fourth,
the three mentioned among his visitors
who pleased Mr.. Cleveland most last
week are Messrs. Lamar, of Mississippi,
and COlquitt and Norwood, of Georgia.
Mr.. Lamar recommended Gen. Walthall
of Mississippi, and Messrs. COlquitt and
Norwood recommended Gen. Lawton, of
Georgia. The Presdent-elect will give
their recommendations careful cOnsidera-
tion. Gen. LawtOn he knows and likes
very much. He has placed his name on
the list of those whom he would like to
appoint members of his Cabinet,
BAYARD's FINANCES.
Mr.. Bayard is said to feel that his
private fortune is too small to Justify him
in taking the portfolio of State, position
that requires its occupant to eXpend
money far in excess of the salary of the
office IN social entertainments. Besides
this reason Mr.. Bayard has another, and
that is that he likes his post in the Sem
ate, where he VIII naturally be the leader
of his party. 1t is an open secret that
Mr.. Bayard would leave the Senate, how
ever, to be Secretary of the Treasury if
he were urged to do so. and that August
Belmont, William K. Travers and other
tinanciers would like to have him in
that office. 1t is also pretty we'll under
stOOG that strong influence in the party
is against the policy of making him Secre-
tary of the Treasury. and that Mr.. CleVe-
land has inclined to listen to this in
fluence, and to intimate that, while he
hopes Mr.. Bayard will consent to be his
Secretary of State, he has other notions
about the Treasury Depal tment. Mr..
Belmont and his friends are now said to
have yielded so far as to agree that Mr..
Bayard ought to be induced to take the
portfolio of State, and to be pushing
H.. II,
Secretary of the Treasury.
MANNING's INDIFFERENCE.
Daniel Manning doubtless could be
Secretary of the Treasury if he would say
the word, but he is wholly without am
bition for public office, and feels, besides,
that his business affairs demand his per-
sOnal attention. Several New York bank
ers and business men have told Mr.. CleYe-
land that they would be pleased with Mr..
Manning's appointment, and the pOliti-
clans who follow Mr.. Mannlng'5 leader
ship strongly favor his selection, in the
belle that it would strengthen the party
in the State. Mr.. Manning, it is said,
fails to see the force of any of these argu-
ments, and prefers to be the silent power
behind the new administration. Some of
the party leaders about the hotels last
night thought that Mr.. Tilden mightper-
suade MIR. Manning that it was his duty
to go into Mr.. Cleveland's Cabinet.
THE TRIO OF FAFORITEs.
A Democrat who is very well informed
but who would not permit his name to be
given as authority for the statement, said
that the Post Office Department would be
given to one of three men. These men
are Gen. E. c. Walthall, of Mississippi,
Gen. LawtOn, of Georgia, and Senator
Jsnas, of Louisiana. He said that the
ulMculll VIII tuG appointment VI MI
Jonas was that the failure on the part of
his State to give him a reelection to the
Senate deprived him of much prestige.
and promised TO clear the way for one of
the other candidates. The same gentle
man also said that Mr.. Moneys candidacy
was only the result OF persistent Pick
wickian flattery.
Among the reports in circulation, and
perhaps the widest of all that flOated
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effect that under the direction of Mr.. Til
den, Mr.. Cleveland had induced Mr.. Ran
dali and Mr.. Carlisle to agree upon a
proposition that, in the FOrty-ninth Con-
greSs, a compromise on the tariff question
should be reached between the wings of
the Democratic party by which reductions
should be made in both the internal reve-
nue. and customs taxes sufficient to pre-
vent the accumulation OF surplus, and
thus the tariff question should be taken
out of Congress. MIR. Randall laughs mer-
rily at the idea of thus disposing of a
great public question.
AN EXTRA SESSION OBvIATED.
Mr.. Randall says that the victory of
the Appropriations Committee in the
House to-day insures the passage of all
the regular appropriation bills before
March 4, and so Obviates the necessity
for an extra session of the next Congress.
He is supposed to reflect the wishes of
Mr.. Cleveland in opposing an extra ses-
sion.
AS has been said. everybody is appar-
emily opposed to an extra session. But
there is sometimes a current in politics
which it is vain to oppose. The indiffer-
ence of tie leading Republicans to the
dispatch of business is Ominous. They
saw they are anxious to proceed, but they
don't 20 ahead. On the contrary, they
hang back. The voice is the voice of
Jacob, but the hand is the hand of Esau.
Mr. Randall NAV sketch a programme for