The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-20

Harrison Mckee and his little sister. Mr..
and Mrs Cleveland will bring few be-
longings with them besides wearing ap-
parel and toilet necessaries, because the
government provides them with pretty
nearly everything. Uncle Sam gives them
rent-free dwelling furnished, lighted and
heated. The table linen, bed linen, the
glassware and silver, the crockery for the
kitchen-everyth thing, in fact, is supplied
except food, and part of that is obtained n
the shape Of vegetables from the garden,
planted and tended by Government gar
deners. In addition to what the superb
White House conservatories will
furnish, the presidents wife can
have carloads of roses and other
flowers from the propagating
gardens if she wants them. II she wishes
to have any article o; furniture renewed
or any alterations made about the mansion,
she has only to communicate a request
TO the commissioner of public buildings
and grounds and the matter is attended to
at once. Colonel O. H. Ernst, the present
incumbent of this office, will be succeeded
by new appointee at the beginning of
Mr.. Cleveand's administration. The post
is always held by an engineer officer OF the
army who is eX- officio military attache at
the White House, acting as master of GER
emonies there. Mr.. Harrison WAS the first
president to appoint a naval attache, Lieu
"
serve as assistant master of ceremonies,
and it is not unlikely that Mr.. Cleveland
will make similar appointment
Did Congress authorize Mr.. Harrison to
appoint naval attache at the White
Houses OF course not. Why, bless you'll
the president of the United States has
legal right to order the whole army and
navy to follow him around if he chooses.
Few people realize what an enormo Gus
ia Q0 in ms at "a If
this country. Not many monarchs are so
powerful as he. The queen of England has
no such control over affairs, and it is doubt
full If the emperor of Germany is 9 mightier
man. If Mr.. Cleveland shall want brigade
of infantry to guard little Ruth's baby car
riage, he has only to order it, and no one
can gainsay him. BY one stroke of his pen
the president can dismiss 20. 600 ofice-hold-
ers, and can appoint in their places as many
Italian peanut vendors. The civil service
law has no authority over him. 1t is made
for him to apply as he may desire, and
ne can Withdraw it from operation if
he wishes. He can put stop to iMmi-
grafton whenever he likes. There is no
law TO prevent him from suspending or 40
rogating all of the treaties by which the
relations of the United States are with
other nations established. By few words
OF writing it is in his power at any time to
recall all OF the ministers, consuls and
other diplomatic officials representing this
country in different parts OF the world, and
to do this he need not ask any body's per-
mission. In such case the persons dis
missed would be entitled to their travelling
expenses home. But, if he preferred TO
''remove'' them, they would be left
stranded in foreign lands without penny
from this government to fetch them back
There is one very curious exception which
should be noted. There are thirteen con-
sular clerks who are appointed by the
president under the law without the con-
sent OF the Senate which is required in the
case of every other diplomatic officer. AT
the same time the president cannot dismiss
any OF these clerks without the approval Of
both the Senate and House of Representa-
tlves.
The secretaries of state, treasury, war
navy, agriculture, and the Interior the
postmaster-gene and the attorney gen.
eral are merely clerks in the Office OF the
chief magistrate. The authority they ex-
ercise is his authority and they have none
other He appoints and discharges them
when he chooses. The president is made
by the constitution ommsnder-in-chief Of
the army and navy. He appoints all the
generals, and il time of war if he cared 10
do 80, he could take the field in person as