Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-14

bis mail is brought in to him TO sign
lie IS very careful as to this part OF his
work. He dictates the letters very
rapidly, but he signs them very slowly.
lie reads over every letter, word Tor
word, before he signs II, and In case there
a doubt as to policy or meaning he
lays tho letter aside or changes IL. At
i2.3o his Boston mail comes in. He
looks over this, and by O'Clock is ready
10 leave Tor luncheon. He drives home
IN the department carriage, and IS gone
about three quarters Of an hour. lie
eats mode ately, drinks but little, and
does not chew or smoke. After he Is
through with his lunch he goes back TO
the d parlment and works steadily until
Tour, when he leaves for his walk or his
tennis
HOW oLNRY PREPARED THE BAyARD
LITTER.
have said that the Secretary dictates
answers to all Of his Letters. II is in
teresiing TO know how he prepares his
state papers. When he has ANYTHING
very important to write he does not use
a stenographcr. He first takes a pencil
and pad aud writes out carefully lust
what he wants to say, and then hands
the manuscript over to hi. typewriter 10
be copied. lie reyises carefully, and
when the paper is completed il represents
his exact thought. All OF the important
State Department papers which have
been sent out during his administrator
have been written by him. lie wrote
| all Of the Bayard Instructions except the
last paragraph. This was written by
| President Cleveland.
HE has 4 BACKBONE,
called upon Secretary Olney som,
time ago at the State Department. II,
talked with me Tor some time, bu
would not permit me to quote him IL
the newspapers. / could see, however
/ that he has a number Of new ideas as 1,
our diplomatic service, aud that he is
big Enough man not to be twisted arount
the fingers Of Julian Paunceiote, III,
British minister, or Of the other viii
| diplomats OF Washington. lie Is,
Judge, a man with strong backbone
| lie has opinions OF his own, and is no
afraid to act upon them. lie comes on
In striking contrast with Secretary Bay
ard, VINO had no backbone at al, an,
VINO was, believe, the weakest maj
who ever held the portfolio OF state
BAyard was always an English trimmer
When he was Secretary OF State b.
knuckled down TO the English, aud b.
was only happy when he was giving
luncheon 10 some OF the Englishme
who now and then come to the capital.
oLsEy AND CLEVELAND.
Secretary Olney has a summer hom,
not Tar from Gray Gables, where Cieve
land has been spending his summe
vacations, and II was probably through
the acquaintance there formed that tn,
President chose him as Attorney General
am told that Olney took the placi
thinking that his work would be, to
large extent, judicial in Its nature. II,
found Il was much more political thar
anything else II Is said that he wa
much disguised with It, and that he wa
/ glad to leave It for the SecretaTyship o
State. While he was Attorney General
Cleveland advised with him as to stat,
matters, and the two are very close tC
one another upon all matters relating tC
| the administration. Olney Is made o
different stuff from the average cabinet
minister that Cleveland has had. Dur
ing his last administration the diiieTen
Secretaries were only clerks to tn,
Presideni, and this is, to large extent
the case today. with the exception o
Secretary Olney. Olney has an Opinion
Of his own ON every subject He al