The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-16

Pen Pictures of the Men Who Serve the
Glorious Nation.


Glorious Nation.
Carp in the Cleveland Leader.
| ST cd for half an hour at the front door of the
Wits cuse yesterday and watched the differ
emit Ca, net Ministers as they came in to attend
the regular meeting of the Cabinet. which is
held AT IL o'clock on three days OF the week
Postmaster general Villas was the frs: to arrive
He came promptly on the stroke Of IL, in the
stylish coupe which he keeps at the
expense of the government His horse
is a magnificent dappie gray. and he
has an English coachman with stiff side whiskers
of the same color as the horse This coachman
is skeleton in livery. He sits straight
line and as solemn funeral while he drives
along at a smart trot Mr.. Villas brings his as
sistant with him. and he is the most business
like OF the Cabinet Ministers. When he jumped
from, his coupe on to the White House doorsteps
he had q portfolio as big as that of an artist
under his arm, and his left hand held a bundle
of papers. He stopped not 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 adjoins
the White House, but it takes two horses and
double carriage to bring Mr.. Manning half a
block. Manning is the Jumbo of the Cabinet
He is much like Cleveland. and about the White
House strangers always take him for the Presi-
dent At Albany he and the Governor were
dubbed the two Dromios Manning seldom hur-
ries. He stepped slowly from the carriage to-
day. and sauntered into the Executive Mansion
though he expected to live to the age of
Methuselah He brought no papers with him.
and walked uL the steps with his hands behind
his back, slow, heavily and solemnly. The next
conner was the Secretary of State, who came on
foot from the State Department, walking along
jauntily with bamboo stick in his hand and a
tall white hat upon his head He stepped lightly
into the yestibule and then went up the stairs
three at q time, looking for all the world like
English parson who cares more for fun than for
religion. Business was evidently not troubling
him. and he had papers in mis- 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 well. He had a
light overcoat his arm. though the Their
mometer was away up in the eighties and he
walked slowly up the steps and into the Cabinet
chamber with a weary tread. The last time he
was here to Cabinet meeting he did not feel
able to mount the stairs. and he had to be taken
no 10 the elevator. Endicott and Garland were
absent from the city yesterday, and they did
not, of course. appear, hut Whitney was present.
and he came in last of ALL 1t must have been
ll:30 o'clock before he was seen walking slowly
across from the big granite pile in which his de-
partment is. A gentleman was with him, and
the two stopped at the White House door and
talked for some moments, while the President
and the rest OF the Ministers waited upstairs for
them. At last he entered ana calmly walked up
the stairs as though he was first instead of last