The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-11-04
THE PRESII ENT,s ADVISERS.


Az Everyday View of the Cabinet.
stood for half an hour Mt the front door
OF the White House yesterday and watched
the different Cabinet Ministers as they camo
in TO attend the regular meeting of the Cibi-
net, which is held al ii o'clock on three
days of the week. Postmaster General Villas
was the first to arrive. He came promptly
on the stroke of IL, in the stylish coupe
which he keeps at the expense of the Gov
eminent. His horse is a magnificent dapple
gray, and he has an English coachman with
stiff side-whiskers OF the same color as the
horse. This coachman is skeleton in nv
cry. He sits rs straight MS line and MS
solemn MS funeral while he drives along at
smart trot. Mr.. Villas brings his assistant
with him, and he is the most business-like
of the Cabinet Ministers. When he jumped
from his coupe on 10 the White House front
door-steps he Ind a portfolio as big as that
of an artist under his arm, and his left hand
held 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 two-horse
closed carriage. The Treasury adioins the
White House, but it takes two horses and a
double carriage to bring Mr.. Manning half
block.
Manning is the Jumbo of the Cabinet.
He is much like Cleveland, and about the
White House strangers always take him for
the President. He looks much like Grover
Cleveland, and at Albany be and the Gov.
ernor were dubbed the two Dromios. Man.
ming seldom hurries. He stepped slowly
from the carriage to-day, and sauntered into
the Executive Mansion as though he expect
ed 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 bamboo stick in his
hand and q 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 re-
ligion. Business was evidently not troub-
ling 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 well, and he
does not look well. He had light overcoat
over his arm, though the thermometer was
away up in the eighties, and he walked
slowly up the steps and into the Cabinet
with 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 up in the elevator. Endicott and Gar
land were absent from the city yesterday,
and they did not, of course, appear, but
Whitney was present, and he came in last
of all. 1t must have been 11:30 o'clock be.
fore 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 door and talk
I'd for some moments while the President
and the rest Of the Ministers waited up
stairs for them. At last he entered and
calmly walked up the stairs as though he
was first instead of last Washington Cor.
respondent Of Cleueland (O.) Leader.