Show WASHINGTON March GThe first official act of President Cleveland was the nomination of his Cabinet his second to offer his signature to the commission of U S Grant as an officer on the retired list of the army with the rank of general The crowd of callers at the White House today is even larger than yesterday They began to arrive before the doors opened and continued coming idurge i numbers all day The President received some of them in the library and others in the East room just as it happened to be convenient This arrangement kept him busy running run-ning up and down stairs The majority of the callers consisted of delegations from different States The President today accepted the resignation res-ignation of Mr Arthurs cabinet and signed the commissions of the new cabinet cab-inet officers They will probably enter upon the discharge of their duties tomorrow to-morrow All the Cabinet nominations were confirmed con-firmed without debate or division and by a unanimous vote of the senate No other business was done A lively 1 de bate was looked for when Senator Van Wycks backbone resolution was reached for discussion and action Senator Teller feels that an attack has been made upon his own official action as a member of the last administration and has declared de-clared his intention of making such defense de-fense as will leave no doubt of the propriety pro-priety of the act in question or of his indignation in-dignation |