Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-03-12
THE NEW CABINET.

President Cleveland's CABINET. as we
published in last weeks paper, was con-
6rmsd bv the Senate on Friday without
discasslen. The selections are general
ly sat sfactory to the party, although
there is strong feeling throughout the
west that this section has ret received
the recognition it was entitled to. The
timber which compOses the Cabinet is
varegated and unsymmetrical, and it 10
extremely doubtful of it holding togeth-
or for any great length Of time. The
brains Of the structure is from the south
in the persons of Bayard, Garland and
Lamar, and in choosing these men he
has left his party in the Senate wItEout
all available leader. An exchange gives
the following biographical sketch of the
Presidents advisers:
THOMAS F. BAYARD. OF DELAWARE,
the new secretary of state, is one of the
few public men whe have had distir-
guished ancestry. His grandfather, uI-
Gle and father represented Delaware in
the senate from 1904 to 1869, when no
was elected to succeed his father. He
is Sc years old, was raised for msrcan-
tile life, but subsequently studied law
at Wilmington, Del, his birth place, and
removed to Philadelphia to practice, re-
naming there until 1856, when he re-
turned to Delaware. Since he has been
been in the senate he has practised lit
tie. He is of heroic build, average
height, with clean shaven face and an
habitual stO0p, He is the father of II
children OF whom 10 are living.
DANIEL MANNING, OF NEW YORK,
secretary of the treasury, is a native Of
| Albany, N. Y, where he was born "a
years ago, and raised himself from the
position of Office boy ON the Albany Atlas
to the prOprietOrship of the Albany Ar
gus, into which that paper was merged.
He has been prominent Democratic
politician during all his life, was
member OF the stare convention which
nominated Tildsn for Governor, and also
q delegate to the st. Louis convention at
which Tilden was nominated for the
Presidency. He has been successful
outside politics and journalism. is nnan-
cially solid, cool. calculating and clear
headed, without any sentiment in his.
make up. He engineered Cleyeland's
Presidential boom and was virtually the
manager Of his campaign.
VIM. C. ENDICOTT, OF MASSACHUSETTS,,
secretary of war, was born in Salem, in
1927. and Is lineal descendant Of John
Endicott. the first Governor of the Mas
sachuesetts Bay Colony. He graduated
from Harvard in 1S47. read law in the
| Office of Nathaniel Lord and was admit
ted to the bar in 1850, forming a part
nership with the late j. W. Perry, which
was continued till his appointment on
the supreme bench in 1873, which he re-
signed in 1882 on account OF ill health.
He has nllsd many public Offices, but
has never been an active politician.
Last fall he was the Democratic candi-
date for governor of his state, but did
mot make personal canvass. AS q law
yer and judge Mr.. ERdicOtt holds high
rank. t'f
Loo. MAMAR, OF MISSISSIPPI,
The new head of the interior depart
ment, Is aged 81. In intellect and pO-
litical influence he stands second to no
man in the south. He was horn in Gesr-
gia, Taught at Oxford university there
and entered the state legislature in 1850.
He served in the 35th and seth congress
%, resigned to take part In the secession
convention Of his state and served the
coRfederacy az a soldier and cOn6den initial
agent to Russia. Back to his school af-
ter the war, he re-appsarsd in the 43d
and 44th congresses. and was then ebos-
en- to the senate. Lamar is q student, a
thinker, but withal born leader. He
accepted the result of the war and eul0-
glzed Charles Sumner in the House. Ne
directed the southern side OF the plan
to give Hayes the Presidency.
WIN. c. WHITNEY, OF NEW YORK.
secretary Of the navy, is a son Of an old
time collector OF the port of Boston. and
was born at Conway, Mass, in 1889. lie
made his liteEary studies at Yale, pur-
sued tho Harvard law course. and grad
uated in 1863. He achieved distinction
BY defending his class mate, c. II. Sweet