The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-17
NONE LICENSED TO PRAY.
No Nan Of WanamakeT'S Stamp in
CleVeland'S Cabinet.

The Former Postmaster General
offered supplication Every Time
the Cabinet Met-BIaokburn's Fail
ure to Get an Office Attributed to
Indiscreet Talk Graves at the
White House.
Washington, June 16.-To-day cabinet
meeting was held, and this is always a
dreary spell in the life of the office hunter.
Selling advantage Of cabinet days the big
doors to the inner sanctuaries of the min
isterial family are sealed to all callers ex-
cept newspaper reporters, who are not sup
posed to want government jobs. President
Cleveland has removed his immediate
belongings away from the white house to
his suburban cottage, and so he drove in
to-day to see Hoke Smith, Postmaster
General Bissell and the balance of the
ministers, who had an opportunity to
meet him around the council table.
When Mr.. Harrison met his cabinet on
Fridays Deacon Wanamaker used to offer
a supplication, but no man in the
existing cabinet is licensed to pray even on
Sunday, and so the benignity of the great
scheme of American salvation is carried
on without the white radiance of spirit
uality. Among the early callers at the
white house were Representatives Caba-
Miss, Moses and ex-Collector Tom Cren-
shaw, the rail bird orator from Troup.
They called to talk Trammell to Mr.
Cleveland, and they did, but the President
said that Representative Turner had
pushed his man Clements to such degree
of excellence that he had half a mind to
submit the whole scheme to primary,
or else take to thewoods.
WHY BLACKBURN WAS LEFT OUT.
The secret of Editor Blackburn's fail
ure to secure a government position COM
mensurate with his arduous service in
the late campaign has Just leaked out
1t is alleged that Mr.. Blackburn talked
too freely. He not only, so the story
runs, yitrolized Hoke Smith as an original
Hill parasite, but he pluclzed
the tail feathers of Senator Gordon and
denounced him as a Cleveland follower
from compulsion and a lukewarm devotee,
so long as Mr.. Cleveland's opportunity
hung on the balance. My informant de-
clined to give further details, but he is a
Georgian of high credit and his limited
vocabulary on the subject does not de-
stroy the savory perfume of the story.
But for this tongue lashing of the two
distinguished men, alleged be it under
stood, Mr.. Blackburn might to-day have
been leading torchlight procession in
Dresden rather than bracing the editorial
column Of the Atlanta Herald.
Representative Turner called again to-
day to see Mr.. Cleveland to talk Clements
and the collectorship. He remained for
n r.
some time to deliver himself, but he
caught no fish, as the collectorship papers
are still snug in the treasury building.
GRAVES AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Among the other callers at the white
house was MIR. Bissell, who took John
Temple Graves up in his postoffice chariot
and introduced him into the inner temple
of the tabernacle. The President re-
ceived Mr.. Graves with cordiality, and
pointed to the sideboard in the blue room,
but Mr.. Graves turned to the ice vater in
the room that is painted In red. Then Mr.
Cleveland complimented the young
Roman on his commencement oration at
Charlottesville, and asked for a copy,
which Mr. Graves, of course, promised to
forward. Nothing was said abouta for
eign mission, for Mr.. Graves is making
81 800 per month in the lecture field and
Mr.. Cleveland sotto voce expressed a wish
that he could part with his Office and be
with him on the road and have a good
time.
Emmett Womack will come to town
very soon now and the Georgians are
thinking of organizing a Hibernian
society.
Sterling Roberts qualified to-day as
chief of the mail division of the pension
office.
A r. Lawton, Jr., Cecil Gabbett and
George S. Owens of Savannah are here
tonight en- route to Georgia.