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Show The IVuil -Street liroUerf Sus- mt u llll Cf. New York, S. A meeting was called ibis alternoon . to express approval ap-proval of the policy of President Hayes in regard lo tbe civil service reform and lhe paeitication of the southern tlatia. In the street and on the steps ol the budding William A. B.iotli, president, and Jacob D. Ve-inilye, Ve-inilye, prcsi cut of the Merchants' hank, lead the resolutions. They slain that the policy declared in President Hayes' inaugural in favor of the permanent pacification of the south with equal protection lo nil citizens, of thorough reform in the civil service, at'd of an early return to specie payments, commends iUell lo the country us one entitled to the fairest trial; that we stand by the president in the exercise ot his con stilutional lights, and that we uhall regret any herniation to confirm hi? cabinet, including cur honorable townsman, Win. M. Fvarts, or any dinpohition to embarrass or obstruct his policy of conciliation and rulurm, tM tending lo interrupt and postpone tbe restoration of tho national confidence confi-dence bo essential to t;ie prosperity. ol all sections. The resolutions were received with applause John A. Stewart said that nino-tenths nino-tenths of the people or at least those who were not office seekers were in (avor of Iho principles expressed. Senators were apt to obey tho will of the people when they once knew it, and he believed they would confirm the nominations lor tho Hayes cabinet. John Austin Stevens said the president presi-dent had been thwarted by men within with-in the ranks ot hisowu party. It was bis conviction that the people were not willing to have the wheels stopped any more at Washington. (Applause. ) John Jay spoke briefly iu answer to calls. He said the country would decidedly disapprove any attempt to block the wheels of the new government, govern-ment, especially as to tho policy of conciliation and reform. He ro marked thai he should preside this evening at a meeting of the Union league club, at which similar declar-. declar-. ations would be adopted. GeO'ge T. Hope b.-licved the eoun-1 eoun-1 try needed just what President IL'yes proposed to accomplish. Tho voice , of the peoples should bo hearth Ii : wis only fair thai tbe president I should b allowed to construct his own cabinet, and the people meant ' that ho chnuld Ivwii Ids own way. ' Thry agreed with him in demanding i civil nervit'0 reform, pacification ami : rmeeio payment', Tho resolutions were then adopted by acclamation. |