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Show v AH, THERE ! GARLAND J And He Will Probably " Stay There," and Keep His Telephone Tele-phone Stock, Too. Washington, February 12 The connection connec-tion of the Attorney-General with the Pan-Electric Pan-Electric Telephone scandal has been the subject of several heated discussions between be-tween the President and members of' his Cabinet. There is a decided conviction in the minds of several of the President's advisers ad-visers that Garland should resign. That gentleman, however, shows no disposition to leave the Cabinet; in "fact, he apparently seems at a loss to comprehend why any person per-son should criticise his acceptance of a blook of stock as a gift in consideration for the influence he could exert in behalf of the company. Two, at least, of the members of the Cabinet have urged the President to ask for the Attorney-General's resignation. There is every reason to believe that one member of the Cabinet has said that he would resign if Garland did not. Cleveland, however, is not disposed to request Garland to step out, and the Attorney-General has no intention of asking to be relieved. Mr. Cleveland Cleve-land has absolutely refused to request Garland Gar-land to resign, but he is not insensible to the clamor of leading members of the Democratic Demo-cratic party, and as a middle course will advise ad-vise the Attorney-General to dispose of his Pan -Electric stock. It is suggested that the Attorney-General give this stock to some one or more charitable charita-ble institutions in time, so that if the suits to set aside the Bell patents be successful, the Pan-Electric stock may have a value. It is not known, however, that Garland will consent to give away his stock. If he does so it will be construed as a. tacit admission that he was in the wrong to own it during the period that he has been at the head of the Judicial Department of the Government. If he declines to part with it the President may be influenced by his closest friends to request the Attorney-General's resienation. The whole subject at present is in a muddle, mud-dle, and it cannot be safely predicted whether Garland will leave . the Cabinet or not. |