Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-11-05
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case. His fate is close confinement
i'll Fort Pickens, Fla, with Natchez
and thirteen of his male adult COM
panions. The women and children
and two scouts go to Fort Marion
The President, Secretaries EndicOtt
and Lamar, Attorney General Garland
and General Sherman gave the mat
ter careful consideration, and decided
/ that as the miscreants had surren-
dered as prisoners of war they could
not be turned over to the civil authori-
ties and that there was no warrant for
their trial in n military commission
But their punishment is pretty severe,
after all. Close confinement in an is
olatcd fort, far from their wives and
children, and i'll Il country where they
will have to take their chances with
yellow fever, is regarded by military
officials Il treatment that the bucks will
feel terribly. Their family affections
are very strong.
Once more all of Mr.. Cleveland's
official family may be seen at their
desks. Secretary Manning goes to the
Treasury Department every day. He
is really looking better now than when
he first came to Washington, for then
he had not recovered from the eX-
haustion of the campaign. 1t is his
hope to he able to remain in the Cabi-
net throughout President Cleveland's
term. He is anxious, of course, to
carry out his financial policy. Mr..
Manning has many of the traits of
Secretary Whitney. Besides being
steady, methodical worker, he has
great capacity for work and he is al
ways pleasant to those about him.
He sits at his desk now with a black
scull cap on the back of his head.
Hon. Samuel Randall called on Mr..
Manning at the department yesterday
and as they sat talking Mr.. Randall
would have been called the sickcr look
ing man of the two. He looks as if
he had suffered great deal physically,
and his usually pale face is paler than
ever. He now uses pair of crutches.
He would not talk politics when ap-
preached on the subject. He came to
Washington this time only on domes-
tic business; that is to place his
daughter in the Academy of Vista
ton in Georgetown.
A number of corpulent statesmen
and stout men in public life who live
in fear of apoplexy, paralysis and 9TH
er troubles, are thinking of adopting
some means Of reducing their flesh.
1t is said the President is convert to
massage through Secretary Manning's
improved condition, and that he has
decided to take a full course of the
treatment when he can find the time
to begin. He will not be likely to
find time, however, during his Presi-
dental term.
Secretary Lamar recently gave evi-
dence of very strict construction of
the Presidents order. An officer in
his department who is going home to
vote in November asked him if it
would be improper for him to make
political address to the people of his
home on the eve of the election. "It
would" replied he, You should keep
entirely aloof from politics with the
exception of casting your vote"
While the President was the guest
of the Old Dominion for few hours
on Thursday, there was considerable
comment in political and social circles
as to the cause of change of pro-
gramme which excluded Mrs. Cleve-
titc vi tIlc SdDlI1cC
who had intended to go to Richmond.
To some extent the impression pre-
vailed that the daughter of Jefferson
Davis, who was to have assisted in re-
ceiving the Presidential party, was the
trouble in the way; that the President
and his wife put politics and society
together and concluded it was politi-
cal and social recognition the Admin
istration could not permit. At the
White House all such ideas were
secuted as prosperous. The trip to
Richmond was to he very hurried,
fatiguing one, and as the party had to
return late that night it was decided
at the Cabinet meeting that the ladies
should remain at home. Some of
Mrs. Cleveland's friends We're much
annoyed the matter should have given
rise to so much gossip.