The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-02
CABINET MINISTER'S
OF VARIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS
oftho aovornmontfr from the Adoption of the
Constitution to the Present Ttmo-Tho
Nature of their oeoupAtiOn-PrsSi-
dent Tylst's Turbulent Term.



Cleveland, we have had, in all, twenty
two Presidents OF the United States, Q
whom sixteen were lawyers; three be
longed to the military profession; one, tb
first and greatest OF all, was a surveyor
one tailor; and one, the Father OF tn
Constitution, James Madison, Of Virginia
is on the record rs Of mo profession
OF the fourteen Vice Presidents, the Law
has had eleven representatives; one wa
merchant; one a printer, and one shoe
maker. EIdrdge Gerry was the merchant
Schuyler Colfax the printer, and Henry
Wilson the shoemaker.
OF the thirty.ons Secretaries OF State
twenty.seven have been lawyers; two
Edward Everett and James G. Blaine
teachers and editors; and two had no pro
fessIon. ono Of these being james MRdi'
son and the other Robert Smith.
THR FINAEcIRRs.
From 1889 to 1887 is a century lacking
two years. During this period there have
been thirty.eight Secretaries OF the Treas.
ury, beginning with Alexander Hamilton,
OF New York, and ending with Charles S,
Fsirchild, Of the same State. All but
four OF the thirty.eiHht were lawyers.
The exceptions include Albert GAllatin and
Daniel Manning. The former is recorded
ss having had no profession, and the latter
as an editor. Oliver Wolcott is registered
as military" and 8. D. InRhsm as a
manufacturer" Wolcott was an able
man, native Of Connecticut, who, before
he became Secretary, had rendered dis.
tinguished and faithful service as First
Comptroller, the second incumbent Of the
Office, from June II, 1901, to February 2,
1895. Prior to his appointment as Comp.
troller, he had been the Auditor OF the
Treasury, the first to hold tho office, from
September y, 1889, to June IL, 179l.
Hamilton and Wocott went into the
Treasury Department the same day, but
Wolcott was not sworn IN until the day
after Hamilton had taken tho oath, Sep.
tember II, 1850. From that time on, 9
close friendship held these two men to-
gether in and out Of office, and when
Hamilton retired, he was succeeded by
his friend who, as his coadjntor, had
helped 60 much in organizing the Treas
ury which has since grown to such pro.
portions that division OF to day is larger
than the entire department OF their time.
sEcRETARIEs OF WAR AND NAVY.
OF the iorty-one Secretaries Of War,
twenty.four were lawyers; seven were
military men, four had no profession,
three were physicisns, two were authors,
and one was an editor. The physicians
were McHenry, the third Secretary; Dear.
born, the sixth, and his successor, Eustis.
The two calling themselves authors were
Eaton, Andrew Jackson's friend. and
Poinsett, who was in Van Buren's Cabi'
net. Those who had no profession were
Barbour and john B. Floyd, Of Virginia; {;
J. Donald Cameron, Of Pennsylvania, and
Alexander Ramsey, Of Minnesota. Bar.
bour was q member Of John Quincy
Adans's Cabinet; Floyd, Of BuchAnAn's;
Cameron OF Grants, and Ramsey Of R. B,
Hsyes's. The solitary editor in the War
Office was Simon Cameron, who succeeded
Joseph Holt.
We have had thirty-two Secretaries oil
the Navy, Of whom twenty-one were law
yers; Eve had no profession, two were
merchants, two were authors, ono was O
druggist and one, under the head Of occu.
patton, wrote down naval" This was
William Jones, who served from January
y to March 4, 1918. The authors we're
James K. Paulding, who was In Van Bu.
ren's Cabinet, and the distinguished bic.
toriGn, George Bancroft, OF Folks Cabinet
The druggist was David Henshaw, one oil
John Tyler's five Secretaries Of the Navy,
Tyler's administration was turbulent
one. Time and sgain he changed his
CAbinet. He had four Secretaries OF
State; as many Of the Treasury, and five
Secretaries OF the Navy.
TYLER AND DICKENS.
When Charles Dickens came to thit
country for the first time, in 1912, he call
ed by appointment upon President Tyler
the morning after his arrival in Washing
ton. After the call, Dickens said to hi
friend Washington Irving: ''Your Presi
dent seems to be at peace with himself i
he be, as l understand, at war with the
rest Of mankind" Many years atteEward
in 1869, when l saw the great novelist al
Gad's Hill, he referred, during the two
hours l spent with him, to his visit Il
America and made some illusions to Ty
ler's Administration. Laying his hand
upon the manuscript OF his last and ther
unfinished novel, "The Mystery OF Ed
win Drood," MI. Dickens said: "Yor
may know what l said in my American
Notes Of America in 1912. The country
was then cursed with slavery and everJ
political element seemed to be RrrayeC
against every other, and all in the namt
OF that monstrous system full Of dsform
ity and uSliness and atrocities-slavery
You will also remember that In 1868, a
the public dinner given in New York BY
the kind friends shall ever cherish,
gave unstiuted testimony to the wondroul
changes made in America from the mac
days Of 1872"
Many other things we're said by Eng
lands greatest novelist touching thu
stormy scenes he Witnessed during his
first visit to this country which can have
no special relevancy here. Referring Il
his call at the White House, may al!udt
to what gave great offence to many who
really admired Dickens as an author, Rnt
that was his studied neglect to mention
by name In his Notes" O single one o.
those who had rendered him many kind
netses during his stay in Washington, ant
especially his omission OF the Presidents
name. The only person OF all the really
and Justly distinguished men whom hi
thought worth his while to mention wa
Washington Irving, for whom he had I
sincere affection and was more Congenia
to him because, like himself, the author
Of go much that had frightened 30 many
homes and made happy 80 many hearts.
posTMAsrERs GENERAL.
otthe thirty-three POBtmasters General
twenty.fOur were lawyers; two had n,
proieGion; two were printers; one was
physician; one q tanner; one q mauulaC
turer; one had been in the military ser
yics, and one was an editor. The two y b.
had no profession were Barry, who was Ii
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