The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-31
An Everyday View of the Cabinet

stood for half an hour at the front
door of the White House recently and
watched the different Cabinet Ministers
as they calne in to attend the regular
meeting of the Cabinet, which is held
at II o'clock on three days of the week.
Postmaster-General Villas was the first to
arrive. lie came promptly on the stroke
of IL, in the stylish coupe which he
keeps at the expense of Government. His
horse is magnificent dapple gray, and
he has an English Coachman with stiff
sid0w hiskers of the same color as the
horse. This coachman is a skeleton in
livery. He sits as straight as a line and
as solemn as a funeral while be drives
along at smart trot. Mr.. Villas brings
his assistant with him, and he is the
most business like of the Cabinet Minis
tiers. When he Jumped from his coupe
on the White House front doorsteps he
had portfolio as big as that of an ar
fist under his arm, and his left hand held
a bundle of papers. He stopped not a
moment, but rushed into the white
House and hurried up the stairs. Next
came the Secretary of the Treasury in a
two horse closed carriage. The Treasury
adions the White House but it takes
two horses and double carriage to bring
Mr.. Manning half block.
Manning is the Jumbo of the Cabinet.
He is as much like Cleveland, and about
| the White House strangers always take
| Inn for the President. He looks much
| like Grover Cleveland, and at Albany
| he and the Governor were dubbed the
two Dromios. Manning seldom hurries.
| He stepped slowly from the carriage
and sauntered into the Executive
Mansion as though he expected to live
to the age of Methuselah. He brought
no papers with him, and walked up
the steps with his hands behind his
back slowly, heavily, and solemnly.
| The next conner was the Secretary of
State, who came on foot from the State
Department, walking along jauntily with
a bamboo stick in his hand and tall
white hat upon his head. He stepped
lightly into the vestibule, and then went
up the stairs, three at time, looking for
all the world like an English parson who
cares more for fun than for religion.
| Business was evidently not troubling
him, and he had no papers in his hands.
After Bayard came Secretary Lamar in
the carriage which he paid for out of his
own pocket. Lamar is not we'll, and he
does not look we'll. He had light over
coat over his arm, though the thermome-
ter was away up in the eighties, and he
walked slowly up the steps and into the
Cabinet chamber with weary tread
The last time he was here to Cabinet
meeting he did not feel able to noun,
the stairs, and he had to be taken up ir
the elevator. Endicott and Garland were
absent from the city, and they did not
of course, appear, but Whitney was
present, and he came in last of all. II
must have been 1880 o'clock before he
was seen walking slowly across from the
BIG granite pile in which his department
is. A gentleman was with him, and the
two stopped at the White House dool
and talked for some moments while the
President and the rest of the minister:
waited up stairs for them. AT last hi
entered and calmly walked up the stair.
as though he was first instead of last
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