St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-25

| ton q short time in advance, ana VIII
, take apartments at one or the hoIels.
| When the Harrison5 came mere lour
years ago, says New York Advertiser
correspondent, the ClevelandS invited
them to stay at the executive mansion I
until inauguration day, but the olIer OF
hospitality was declined. Owing TO MS
recent bereavement, Mr.. Harrison will
not return the compliment by extend
ing a similar invitation to MIR. and Mrs.
Cleveland.
A little before noon on March 4, MI.
| Cleveland, attired in his best frock coat
and with rosebud in his button-hole,
! will proceed alone to the White mouse,
! where he will be welcomed by Mr.. Har-
rison. The outgoing president VIII nave
| his own private carriage at the door; III
| which his coachman will drive MI.
! Cleveland and himself down Pennsyl-
vanla avenue to the Capitol, where the
! incoming president will deliver his IN
augural address.
| The new president and the eX-preSl-
| dent will then return together 10 tne
! White house, where Mr.. Harrison Will
| bid Mr.. Cleveland good by. and will be
| driven away, leaving his successor I'D
possession. Mrs. Cleveland will soon
! after go to the White house, in time Tor
| the president and his wife to view the
parade from the stand in front OF the
| executive mansion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland will take few
belongings with them besides wearing
apparel and toilet necessarle5. Inc
| government provides them with pretty
nearly everything. Uncle Sam gives
them rent free, dwelling furnished,
lighted and heated. The table linen
and bed linen, the glassware and silver
the crockery for the kitchen-eYery-
thing, in fact, is supplied except tood,
and part of that is obtained IN the shape
of vegetables from the garden, planted
and tended by government gardeners.
In addition to what the superb White
house Conservatives will furnish, the
presidents wife can have carloads OF
roses and other flowers from the propa-
eating gardens If she wants them.
If she wishes to have any article OF
furniture renewed or any alterations
made about the mansion, she has only
to communicate a request to the com
missioner of public buildings and
grounds and the matter is attended to
at once. Col. o. Ii. Ernst, the present
incumbent of this Office, will be sue
ceeded by new appointee at the be-
ginning of Mr.. Cleveland's admlnlstra-
ton. The post is always held by an
engineer officer of the army, VINO IS eX
officio military attache at the White
house, acting as master Of ceremonies
there. Mr. Harrison was the first pres
ident to appoint naval attache, Lieut..
Parker, Z. S. N. to serve as assistant
master of ceremonies, and 1t is not un-
likely that Mr.. Cleveland will make
similar appointment.
Did congress authorize Mr.. Harrison
to appoint a naval attache at the Whlte
house +? OF course not. Why. bless YOU
the president of the United States has
legal right to order the whole army
and navy to follow him around II he
chooses. Few people realize what an
enormous power is vested in the CHIEF
magistrate of this country. Not many
monarchs are as powerful as he. Inc
queen of England has no such contro
over affairs, and it is doubtful II the
emperor of Germany is mlghtler man
If Mr.. Cleveland shall want a brigade
of infantry to guard little Ruth's baby
carriage he has only to order it. and NJ
one can gainsay him. BY one stroke o.
his pen the president can dismiss 10000
officeholders, and can appoint in thell
places as many Italian peanut venderS
The civil service law has no authority
over him. 1t is made for him to app y
as he may desire, and he can Withdraw
' it from operation If he wishes. He cal
put stop to immigration whenever III
, likes.
There is no law to prevent him from
suspending OF broadening all OF th'
treaties by which the relations of TIT
: United States are with other nations es
tablished. By few words of writing |
is in his power at any time to recall al
of the ministers, cOnsulS and othe
diplomatic officials representing TIL
country in other parts of the world, ant
5 to do this he need not ask anybody
. permission. In such case the person
, dismissed would be entitled to thel
travelling expenses home. But. If h
+ preferred to remove" them they woul
y be left stranded in foreign lands with
; out penny from this government t
q fetch them back.
9 The secretaries of state, the treasury
war, the navy, agriculture and the int
rior, the postmaster general and the a
torney general are merely clerks in til
office of the chief magistrate. The al
thority they exercise is his authority
and they have none other. He appoint
and discharges them when he choose: