The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-01-24
FROM WASHINGTON
PREPARATIONS FOR THE INAU-
DURATION.
The Far South to BE Represented
In the Cabinet Habits OF
the President

From Duf Re-. u'ur COrttsp h'ehI
wAeutNG1uN, january 49, was for.
tunate last week in meeting gentle
man. an old friend Of President-elect
Cleveland. who comes from the same
section of New York, and now holds an
important office under Cleyeland's COM
mission. IL have known Cleveland p
wears" said this gentleman, land he has
not changed particle in manner In all
that tine. lie is 10 years old and weighs
about a2j pounds. In religious faith he
Is Presbyterian. presume that Will
become the court church in Washington
when he comes into the Presidency
AS to the Cabinet, the only thing |
know which has been determined on Is
that the Presidential advisers will be
selected from those states that cast their
electoral votes for Cleveland. ! say !
/ know this. because he has said as much
/ To me. and was talkingto Dan Lamont
and he intimated the same thing. | can
tell YOU, however, what | believe. |
think New York will get the Treasury.
cannot say who the man Is, or If he
| has been selected. The South proper
will be offered two places; they will
most probably be the postoillce depart
ment and Attorney General, and they
VIII both 90 to far South States.
"Now ms to Cleveland socially, he Is
/ different from President Arthur In very
many ways. / have always liked Arthur.
/ was member of the New York As
semblv one term when he was Governor
Morgan's Quartermaster General, and
Arthur once tore the shOulder-straps of
ola New York Coloners shoulders, and
gave him a sound whipping besides, iol
some vulgar nsolenCe. Arthur is q
good dinner-giver and diner out. Cleve'
land is like General sherman or Genera
Grant In his tastes. Neither OF the three
care very much what they eat, so II II
plan and well cooked. Cleveland Is
fairly good drinker, so the table menag'
will not be an ice water one. but hi
drinking is mainly beer. though he rel
ishes a cocktail now and then. lie /
very regular In his sleeping and cnnno
sit up all night, as General Arthur use'
TO do, and does still. | believe, and no
feel IL. | never saw such n man Il
Arthur Is in this respect. lie become
brighter after midnight, and about tw
in the morning. after he has hud goo
sumner and bottle or two of chan
payne. he Is positively brilliant. w
used to call him the owl NJ Albany, 70
he seemed never to sleep, and believ
he Is the same still. Cloveland's capt
CITY for hard work Is wonderful, and h
has not had II day Of illness worth SPEAK
ing of since he was II boy
Absurd as il may appear. the story
o ~ rAuuI. iluf the Pre-. iIpnt
retire rom office a comparatively poo
man. having been unable To save any
thing from his salary. Nothing ca
well be farther from the truth. Nearl
all the expenses of running the Pres
dertial establishment are paid by Cor
gressional appropriations, In one iorl
or another. leaving the necessary outla
of the President to be only Nhat it ma
cost for food and clothing, and the e,
, pense of few entertainments. The sa
\ AIRY Is $4,000 Il year, and liberal est
mate Of expenses Of all kinds would ia
far below $1,000 month. taking IL
year through, thus leaving net incOu
of $4,000 per annum. OF course, 1t
not pretended that more may not
i spent. If the incumbent Of the place be
man Of eXtrayagant personal tastes I
habits: but there IL nothing in Il
official or social obligations of the pos
tion requiring greater outlay than Il
| figures named above, and there Is
| good reason for believing that it will q
| dnarily reach that s"m. In other word
the President Is able to do all that e;
be Justly expected of him. officially al
personally. in the way Of living and e
tanning while in office, and still leave
., with competent fortune, as was
D." tended to be the case when the sala
10 was fixed at the liberal sum now paid.
The Inauguration committee are vi
+. orOusly at work, and all branches of I
great undertaking evince remarkal
X degree of activity. The prelmina
work at the new pension building
ID being pushed forward, and evcrythi
., Is almost ready for stretching the gre
NC steel cable which Is to serve as the rid
IN pole of the temporary canvass roof. i
canvass which is TO comprise the tie
l.. pOrary roof IL now being sewn by ST
makers at the navy yard. The hall
o. the new pension building in which il
proposed to hold the Inauguration bi
NJ is 300 feet long; and will form, it is ,
pected, ball room which for spacio
ness and elegance of appointments "
' be fully in keeping with the importal
' of the event celebrated. 1t Is estimat
that 1900 people can be accommoda
at the ball without discomfort
On dit, that the President-elect
positively engaged to be married I
lady In Buffalo soon after the inaugu
tion. The name will not be publicly
nounOed at present, If ii can be kep
secret, but 1t is not that of anyone v
has heretofore been spoken of as u |