The morning news., 1888-12-25
SOON TO BE READY FOR HANGING.
A Capital Story Told by Attorney
General Garland duplicating Him.
From the Mep York World.

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! From the Nelc York World
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 Attorney General
Garland is quiet, reticent, unassuming
gentleman, who usually has very little to
say to anybody. No one would evsr i'm
agine he could joke and laugh and tell sto-
ries at his own expense, yet if caught in
one of his genial moods he is as delightful
an entertainer as one could desire to
meet. The Attorney General exhibited
to correspondent to-day the
fine set of portraits which
adorn his room, and which formed
the most attractive part of the exhibit
which the department of justice lent to the
Ohio Centennial Exposition at Cincinnati.
They have just been returned from Ohio
and have been hung up again on the walls
of the Attorney Generals room. Many of
them are old pictures, but some of them
have been painted recently under the au-
thority of an act of congress providing for
full set of the portraits of attorney gen.
erals from the foundation of the govern
ment down to the last administration. The
gallery is now complete with the exception
of Mr.. Brewsters portrait, who always
politely but firmly declined to allow himself
to be painted
81 made repeated requests of Mr.. Brewss
ter" said Attorney General Garland, "but
he steadily refused to comply, and ! am
now in communication with some members
of his family, in the hope of getting from
them a photograph or something from
which proper portrait can be painted.
The only pictures of the whole set which
have been painted during the present
administration are these tw1," said Mr..
Garland pointing TO the counterfeit pre-
sentiments of Wayne MacVeagh and
Charles Devens. "MacVeagh's cost $500,
and Devens', being considerably larger, as
you will notice, cost $3.50. Judge Durham,
remember, did not want to pay for them,
for the judge is an economist, you know.
1t is not on that ground, however, that he
is so often mistaken for me and for him.
The resemblance, as / understand it., is
confined to the mere quality of personal
beauty
1.-THE first time was mistaken for Judge
Durham" continued Mr. Garland, twas in
1885, shortly after the present administra-
ton came into Office. | got into street
car at the corner of Fourteenth and f
streets, when to my surprise a very fine
looking lady bowed to me and said: How
DIDO, colonelF l bowed in return and
thanked the lady, and told her was very
we'll; but she saw that | did not
recognize her. So she asked me if
| was not Col. Durham. l told her
that l was not Col Durham; that my
name was Garland, and that if she had a
husband or brother or grown son, or any
relative who would assume the RESPONSE
bility for the affront she had put upon me,
would like to know his address, that might
inform him where he could meet me. The
lady took it quite in earnest, and let me
know that she had male relatives who
would champion her cause. She also showed
great Indignation that Col. Durham should
be sighted by me, and went off into eX-
travagant praises of the colonel.
'When she expressed the opinion that he
was very handsome and a very excellent
man, l could not resist the temptation to
say that forgave her for the mistake she
had made, and that did not insist upon
any further satisfaction. The lady and l
parted very good friends.
But the matter came back to me and
began to weigh heavily on my mind, and
SO brought it up at a cabinet meeting one
day. | remember there was some tough
nuts to crack. and things were not all as
merry as marriage bell at that meeting.
Manning, L remember, was sitting at the
head of the table with a very troubled ex-
preston on his countenance. The entire
cabinet was in a very serious, not to say
uneasy mood. l felt that some relief was
needed, and so when l was asked If had
any proposition to make, | at first said
thought not, but then l said l thought
had, and l proceeded to tell of my
grievance, closing with the remark that
I thought the proper thing to do
in tho circumstances was to resign.
The proposition was great relief to
Manning. He laughed very heartily, and
agreed with me that it was time for a
man to resign, or die, or do something when
it had come to pass that he had been mis-
taken for Judge Durham"
OF all the portraits in his official gallery,
Attorney General Garland likes the portrait
of Nathan Clifford best He says Judge
Clifford had the finest face ne ever saw, and
that he never saw better or truer likeness
of a man than that of Judge Clifford, which
hangs among the other attorney generals
on the wall
"We don't hang attorney generals on
these walls" said Mr.. Garland, signifi-
cantly, until they go out of office. In
that respect. shall soon be ready for hang
ing myself"