The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-01
GOVERNOR moRroN,s CALLERS.
Successive Conferences With PIatt and
 Mayor Strong.

Successive Conferences with PIatt and Mayor Strong.
 New York, April S0-A series of po-
 litical conferences were held at the Ho- tel Renaissance this morning. Cover nor Morton arose before ' o'clock and he had not finished breakfast when short
 ly before o'clock Thomas c. Platt sent up his card. MT. Platt was received at
 once, and a conference lasting till g
 o'clock followed. When MT. Platt was
 asked afterwards if the problem of re-
 storing harmony in the local republican
 ranks had been discussed, he said:
 well I guess we talked some politics,
 and the local situation was not over
 looked"
 When questioned about the reports
 that the governor was to make an ef-
 fort to induce Mayor Strong to give
 Platt recognition in the appointment of
 police magistrates, Mir Platt said: 1T
 have nothing to say about politics"
 At 9:30 o'clock, a half an hour after
 Mir. Platt had left the hotel, Mayor
 Strong drove up. He went at once to
 the governors apartments and remain ed there half an hour. When question: ed afterwards about his talk with the governor, he refused to give any infor- nation. A reporter asked this ques- ton: Tt has been reported that the governor has come here to bring about harmony in the party in the matter of municipal patronage. Has your Inter view effected any change in your atti- tude?"
 None whatever" replied the mayor emphatically.
 The next caller was Warner Miller. He spent half an hour with the gover- nor. Afterwards he said: T don't know what the prospects for harmony are, but I hope they are brighter"
 A few of the lesser lights of the re- publican party came to the hotel dur ing the morning, but the governor was too busy to receive them, so they stay ed in the lobby and indulged in guesses as to what had occurred at the confer ence. The general opinion was that the efforts of the governor, if he had made any to induce Mayor Strong to come to terms with Platt were not suc- This opinion was confirmed by | the very emphatic way in which the mayor declared that his attitude re- mains unchanged.
 Mayor Schieren of Brooklyn called | the governor shortly before noon. He | said he had come to pay his respects. | Later H. c. Duval called with a mes sage from Chauncey M Depew.
 Governor Morton was seen at noon. | He said: T am not going to talk pol tics, I have come here to take part in | the Washington arch ceremony. MT. | Platt. Mayor Strong, Mir Miller, Gen. eral Fitzgerald, and several other gen ,lenen called on me but, of course, I | cannot tell what we talked about"
 The governor said he was more anx- ous just then about the weather than about the political situation
 After noon the governor received only l he military officers who had charge of he prospective parade, Few politicians appeared at the hotel, and they did lot reach the governors room. Late o-day. 1t was said, there would be fur her conferences, and the program of he last two weeks of the legislature will be mapped out. The indications ,eem to be that all the reform bills will ,e passed. The governor, IS is well 1nown, has declared his opposition to etaliatory legislation, and the Platt nen seem to be hopeless that anything hey can do can change Mayor Strong's ourse So the program which will probably be agreed upon will include he passage of the bills which Platt elayed as long as there was a pros- ,ect that something might be accom- lished by delays.
 It is generally believed by the poli- icians that the bill which passed the ssembly yesterday forbidding the ap- ointment to office Of non-residents will ever reach the governor. This bill eems to have been prepared and put ] trough by Tammany men and a few ] epublican assemblymen "to get even" 1 ,fth Mayor Strong, and it has not 1 he approval of the Platt leaders. It ( said that Platt will promptly kill . he bill when 1t reaches the senate, ] nus making final effort to gain favor -ith the mayor. Al