The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-04-18

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The real business of the Secrctar,
of State is to manage important treat
les and other dealings between thi
and foreign countries. but there arr
many small duties prescribed him by
law. He looks after all the CORE
spondence with our Representatives
abroad and with the heads of foreign
nations. Through him the Governor
of the various States communicat,
with the President. He has charge o.
the great seal OF the United States AND
affixes that seal to public documenti
whenever it is necessary. He pub
fishes the laws and resolutions of Con
gress, amendments to the Constitution
and proclamations declaring the Gre
alton of new States.
NO PUPPETS HERE.
Mr.. Gresham, whose white hair
hangs in tangled punches about his
head, spends all of his day at his of.
fee, but there is for him no novelty in
the public service. He knows about
it and takes it very coolly. He lives
at the Arlington Hotel, aud wanders
around the corridors occasionally in
an absent minded way, very exciting
to the crowds that hang about in the
hopes of getting COnsulship. He
and Carlisle have been selected by
those who would like to see a row
in the Administration as the probable
producers of the hoped-for trouble.
Neither man is very apt to get easily
excited, however, nor is either the sort
of man Grover Cleveland would have
been likely to select had he started
out, as is alleged by Republicans, to
form a Cabinet of Cleveland puppets.
Gresham and Carlisle would make
very hard puppets to handle.
Mr.. Carlisle spends his working
hours in the Treasury Building, which
is separated from the State Building
that Gresham inhabits by the White
House grounds.
Those who call upon Carlisle find a
man whom they would be glad to
point out to any visitor to the big fair
as an American type. He sits at his
desk all in black, with never sign or
a smile and no word for anything but
business. The men who crowd to see
him about offices are listened to pa
tiently when ,urtesy requires it-Car-
isle always standing to make the talk
as short as possible. Whenever it is
possible visitors are turned over 10
Logan Carlisle, the Secretary's son,
who is the chief clerk of the depart
ment. All of Mr.. Crrlisle's day is de-
voted to the examination ofthe Treas
ury's condition and to planning to
meet the demands that will soon be
made upon his department. If the
tariff is to be cut down, he will have
the task of providing with the help of
Congress for the shrinkage in the
national revenue in some other direc-
ton, and as the Republicans have left
the Treasury with an actual deficiency
which may be far more serious than
is generally supposed, the tall Ken
tuckian who sits studying from s in
the morning until late in the night
has more important things to think of
than finding salary of ST 500 year
for deserving Democrat
DISLIKE OF oFFICE-sEEKERs.
The humor of the attempt TO create
trouble between Cleveland and Car
isle on the ground that Cleveland in.
terferes with Carlisle's patronage lies
in the fact that Mr.. Carlisle dislikes
the place-hunting man more than any
other living creature, and would be
greatly obliged to anyone who could
rid him OF the task Of considering him
Or deciding about him. AT the same
time it may be said that Mr.. Carlisle
would suffer no interference with his
rights nor any insult to his dignity.
He has not face suited to that sort of
thing, as any man sees whoNcares to
study him.
Col. Lamont, the doughty Secretary
Of War, is the most satisfying and
gratifying Of all the Cabinet in some
ways. He is constantly cheerful and
mas the the strange faculty of having
plenty of time at his disposal. He is
with the work of his depart
meHt and in helping the President in
various ways, at least fifteen hours of
The day. He is spoken Of universally