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CLEvELAND'S CABINET.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.


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s~us 20 she senate Biographical Sketches.
lsueclal telegram to the Dispstch.l
WAsHIEaTos, March 5.--The Cab
met sent to the Senate by Dir. Cleveland
is as follows:
BAYARD. SECRETARY or STATE.
MANNING, SECRETARY OF THE
TREASURY.
LAMAR. SECRETARY OF THE IN
TERROR.
GARLAND, ATToKNEY-GENEsAL.
ENDICOTT, SECRETARY on WAR.
Villas. Observation-Disclosures.
WHITNEY, SECRETARY OF THE
NAVY.
Biographical.
We give below brief biographical
sketches Of the members Of the new
Cabinet
THOMAS y. BAYARD.
Mr.. Bayard was born at Wilmington,
DEL. October 30, 1929. He was
chiefly educated at Flushing School,
and his early training was for mer-
camille life. After having had some
experience in business in New York
he returned to Delaware and studied
law with his father, Hon. james A.
Bayard. who was then in the Senate.
He was admitted to the bar in 1851,
and in 1853 he was appointed United
States District Attorney for Delaware,
but resigned in 1854 and went to live
in Philadelphia. where he remained
till 1856, when he returned to Whining
ton, where he remained through the
civil war, practicing his profession.
In the winter of lS68-'69 he was elect
ed to the Senate to succeed his father,
and was reelected in 1875 and 1881, In
1876 he was a member of the Electoral
Commission. Mr.. Bayard is the fourth
of his family who have served in the
Senate. His grandfather. James Ash
ton Bayard, was elected to the Senate
from Delaware in 1904 and served till
1913. when President Madison appoint
ed him one of the Commissioners to
negotiate the Treaty Of Client. His
uncle. Richard II. Bayard, was elected
to the Senate from Delaware in 1886
and again in lS4l. His father. James
A., served in the Senate from 1851 to
1869.
DANIEL MANNING.
Mr.. Manning was born in Albany, n.
Y. August 10, 1891. His parentage
was of Irish. English. and Dutch ex-
traction. lie WAS poor boy, and his
early opportunities for schooling were
very limited. At eleven years Of age
he went t. work as an Office boy at the
establishment of the Albany Atlas,
which was afterwards merged into the
Albany Argus, with which paper he has
ever since. in one capacity or another,
been connected. In 1873 he assumed
sole charge of the Argus. and was elect
ed president Of the company, which po-
sition he yet holds, though he has done
little or no writing for some time.
lie was member of the Dem
ocratic State Convention Of 1874
that nominated Samuel j. Tilden
for Governor, and was a dele
gate to the St. Louis Convention OF
1876 that nominated Mr.. Tilden for
President. He has been a member OF
the Democratic State Committee since
1876; was its secretary in 1879 and
1850. and was elected chairman in 1881,
which place he now fills. He was
warmly interested in the nomination OF
Mr.. Cleveland for President at Chicago
last July. and it is generally conceded
that he showed great skill in the Con
yention as the head Of the New York
delegation. Mr.. Manning has been
active and successful outside of jour
nalism and politics. He has long besi
a director of the Albany and Susque-
hanna Railway Company. and is presi-
dent of the National Commercial Bank
of Albany. of which he was tirsi
director and then yice-president.
LUCIUs Q. c. LAMAR.
Mr.. Lamar was born at Oxford. Put
nam county. ga, September Il, 1925
and received his early schooling in hi:
native town. He graduated at Emory
College. Georgia, in lS45. He studied
law at Macon, Ga. and was admitted t.
the bar in lS47. lie moved to Oxford
Miss, in lS49, and was elected Adjunc
Professor Of Mathematics in the MisSis
sippi State University. DR.. A. 7
BledSoe. editor of the Southern Reriew
being the senior professor. He resigned
in 1850 and went to Coyington, Ga.
where he devoted himself TO the prac
tice of law. In 1853 he was elected to tn,
Georgia Legislature, and in the followin;
year returned to Mississippi. where h
settled on plantation in Lafayette coun
ty. He was elected to the Thirty-fiftl
and Thirty-sixth Congress and resigned
in 1860. lie entered the Confederat,
army in 1861 as aforementioned o
the Nineteenth Mississippi volunteers
and was soon promoted to the colo
nelcy. In 1863 he was sent to Russi;
by the Confederate Government on al
important diplomatic mission. He re
turned to Mississippi at the close of tn
war. and in 1866 was elected Professo
of Political Economy and Social Scienc
in the University of that State. A yea
later he was transferred to the Pro
fessorship of Law. lie was elected Il
the Forty-third Congress and reelecte'
TO the Forty-fourth. In the winter o
1867 he was elected to the Senate
where he has since served.
AUGUSTUS II. GARLAND.
Mr.. Garland was born in Tiptol
county, Tenn. June ii. 1882. TIL
following year his parents moved t
Arkansas. where he has made his HON
ever since. and which State he has repre-
scented in the Senate since 1876. III
was educated in St. Mary's College an
st. Joseph'S College, in Kentucky. II
studied law and was admitted to prac
tice at Washington, Ark, the plac
where his parents had originally set
tied, in 1853. He removed to Littl
Rock whore his home NOW is in 1876