Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-08
MOVED IN AND OUT
Grand Transformaticn in the
Washington Departments.
ms MOVE IN, AND OUTS MOVE OUT.

IND mUfb I'M AMI OUlS MUVh UUI,
CIeveIand's New Cabinet Officers on Duty
Incidents of the Change-A Long Wait
for would-Be Offcials-Senate Demo-
Gratis Caucus and Ignore the Populists-
First Cabinet Meeting and Subj ects Con
sidered-Visitors at the White House
Statement of Bond Purchases-Capital
City Notes.
WASHINGTON, March S-The induction
into Office of the members of President
Cleveand's cabinet (save Secretary Gresh-
am, who was sworn in Monday was
the event at the state department yester-
day morning. For the first time in the
history of the government the head of the
departments assembled in the diplomatic
parlor and together took the oath of Office.
On the occasion of Cleveland's first inaug
uration all the cabinet officers assembled
| at the Arlington hotel and accompanied
| by Associate Justice Field drove TO each
| executive department in turn, beginning
with the state department.
Not Acco, ding to Precedent.
This was proceeding out of the usual
|
previous administrations, and upset the
calculations of some of the old clerks and
notaries public in the departments who
had the honor of swearing in former
heads of departments. Especially was
this the case with the venerable Judge"
Lawrenson, of the postof1ice department,
who had up TO that time as the department
notary administered the oath of office to
every postmaster general for half a CEN
tury.
Taking the Official Oath.
There was a quite a concourse in the
corridors of the state department yester-
day to witness the new ceremonies. The
Iseyeral members of the cabinet were on
time and at HEB o'clock Justice Field
Icame into the room of the secretary OF
state. The party at once repaired to the
diplomatic parlor. There were about fifty
present outside of the cabinet and other
officials to witness the ceremony. Thenew
cabinet officials grouped themselves about
the table at the east end of the parlor,
Justice Field and Secretary Gresham at
the head. The venerable jurist then calling
the secretaries to his left hand in turn ad-
ministered the statutory oath which he
read without glasses to Messrs. Carlisle,
Lamont. Smith, Herbert, Olney, Bissell
and Morton, and each signed. The table
used was a new one procured for the occa.
sion.
Installation Into Office.
The process OF installing each head of
department into office was an afternoon s
job. Secretary Carlisle, accompanied by
his son Logan Carlisle. arrsved at the treas
u -
mediately ushered into the office of the
secretary of the treasury, where he was
. welcomed by ex-Secretary Foster and had
a private conversation with him, while his
son Logan proceeded to tackle a pile OF
packages largely consisting of applications
for office. Later he received his subordi.
mates, who called to get acquainted with
their new chief Then there was host oi
visitors who had little axes to grind.
Lamont and Mtrton Take Hold.
Secretary Lamont went over to his de
partment where he had talk with Gen
eral Schofeld, his predecessor having bio
adieu to office yesterday and vacated
Later Lamont received large crowd ol
: visitors. Secretary Morton went over tc
the agricultural department and was
T heartily greeted by ex-Secretary Rusk
who introduced his assistants and later
took him over to the weather bureau
: Then Attorney General Olney was formal
ly presented to the supreme court by Mil
Ter, and Justice Field welcomed the com
ing and speeded the parting officers with
grace and feeling.
Herbert and Hoke Smith.
:, Secretary Herbert took charge of the
naval office, and his predecessor intro
2 duced the bureau chiefs The two "olC
tars" lay alongside each other and "blowec
> their pipes" with great satisfaction. Their
r ex-Secretary Tracy weighed anchor and
got under way for private life Hok,
Smith, the new interior secretary, had the
hardest AFTERNOONS work of any. He shook
hands with 1900 employees of his depart
ment and as they bid him welcome they
passed on to General Noble and bade hin
goodbye. The new incumbent had Ions
conference with Noble regarding the de
tails of the Office.
Change in the Postoffice.
At the postoffice department Bissel
found Wanamaker, and after little ex
PLANTATION of the geography and topograph,
of the office proceeded to get acquainted
with his subordinates. Later he made th
acquaintance of whole lot of congressmer
and others who will have something fur
ther to say to him some of these days abou
postoffices in the rural and other "dees
tricks" This ended the moving in ans
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