Morris tribune., 1885-03-11
II. w. RANDALL,
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SWORN INTO OFFICE.
ANOTHER STEP IN TIE FORMATION
OF THE NEW CABINET. 81
Chambers Joke-Farewell to the Chiefs
The Coming Financial Policy Gossip
About the New Deal-Republican
support for Cleveland.
.!wasH1N;eroN CRY, sMarch 9 -promptly

WASHINGTON CRY, March 9.-Promptly
| at IL o'clock Saturday, four of President
| Cleveland's cabinet, Messrs. Bayard Whit
| ney, Eudicott and Garland, entercd the
office Of the secretary of state. Mrs. Endi-
colt, wife Of the new secretary of war, &C
c,mpanied the party, as did also Justice
Field, of the United States supreme court,
| Immediately after entering, Mr.. Bayard
.ook the oath of office, which was admin
istered by Justice Field. Secretary Freling-
huysen and the ex-assistant secretary were
prs ent, also Senator Payue, of Ohio, and
ex- Attorney General Pierrepont The party
then went to the room occupied by Secretary
Chandler, where Mr. Whitney took the oath
OF office as secretary of the navy. In Secre-
tary Lincoln's office, where Lieut. Gen,
Sheridan and stat and other officers
of tue war department. had Assem-
bled, the oath was administered to Mr.. En-
dicott Mrs. Endicott entered the room on
the arm Of Mr.. Bayard As soon as Justice
Field had administered the oath, various
army officers. were in turn introduced to the
new secretary by Mr.. Lincoln. Att orney
General Garland was sworn into office at the
department. of justice, the oath being ad-
ministered by Justice Field, in pres
ence of ex-Attorney General Brewster
Secretaries Bayard, Manning, Whitney,
Endicott, Lamar and a. few Others Mr..
Brewster will continue to act as attorney
general until Monday, when he will formally
present his successor to the United States
supreme court. The party then proceeded
from the department of justice to the
treasury department where the oath of office
was administered to Secretary Manning.
In addition to those already named, there
were present ex=Secretary McCulloch, As
sistant Secretary Coon, w. H. Barnum, of
Connecticut, Smith NJ. Weed, of New York,
and many others, including several ladies.
Soon after Secretary Manning had qualified,
all the bureau officers and chiefs OF di-
visions visited his office and paid their ra-
spects. -.
Prior to the incoming secretaries taking
the oath Of Office, the building was filed
of Alabama, headed a delegation that en-
tered the apartment occupied by the secra-
tary of the navy The members of the del
egation were men above the average size,
and numbered about Dozen They were
introduced to the retiring secretary, every
one as general or a colonel Mr.
Chandler, a man small in STATURE quietly
folded his hands in front of him and plain
lively remarked: @Gentlemen, give me time
to pray" Then he turned to MIR. Wheeler
and was about to ask: @Where are the
judgesp but found that the congressman
elect had left lhe room for a moment; he
soon returned with four Alabanians, to ALL
ct whom he gave the title of Judge" A
general laugh followed, and the party then
in conversations.
The formal transfer of the treasury de-
partnlent from ex-Secretary McCulioch to
Secretary Manning took place Saturday
morning The new secretary was escorted
to the department. by the retiring secretary,
who called at his house for him.
ME- Manning and Mr. McCulloch re-
tired to the secretary's private Office, and
remained closeted together for = several
hours talking over business and the person
Rei OF the department. A large number of
persons called to pay they respects to the !
new secretary, but were denied admission
Postmaster General Villas and Secretary
Lamar of the interior department, laterat
took the oath of Office and entered upon the |
discharge of their. duties. There was little
formality in the ceremony in either case.
The oaths were administered by Justice |
Field in the presence Of Secretary Bayard, |
A Attorney General Garland and Others. - !. |
L Secretary McCulloch, in speaking Of the
change in the administered ion, that said hetook it |
for granted Mr.. Manning shared the views
Df President Cleveland on tine question of
finance, and, as the presidents views on that
subject were in accord with his own, he did
qot anticipate any. change in the present
financial policy of the governments.
In the state, war and navy department
building, Saturday morning, the ret1rings
secretaries babe the chiefs and clerks who
;sryed undera them geosl-bye, and compli-
tented them on theirseasyices Secretaries
FreIing huysen and Lincoln met their subor.
linates in the Offices which the heads of the.
tate and war departments have oceupied.
Secretary Chandler called upon his subor
iinates in their respective rooms No Off
,iaI business Of any character was transacted
BY the retiring officers