Life — March 12, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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MR. CLEVELAND'S CAB- INET. [8y Lire’s Men who Knows all About it.) R. CLEVELAND'S Cabinet, as announced by him last week, has caused the utmost dissatisfaction among members of his party. prove of the choice of Mr. Wm. C. Whitney as Secretary of the Navy, because he states that Mr, Whitney does not know a marlin-spike from a midshipman. As regards this objection, your correspondent has only to say that while walking with Mr. Whitney near the Navy Yard last week that gentleman walked on board the Tu//apoosa and gave orders for ten extra ships’ logs, to be used as life preservers and protection for the side of the vessel in case of acollision. thoroughly educated in nautical affairs. And even if he knows nothing whatever about naval techni- calities, it is beyond the question of a doubt that the gentleman is sufficiently versed in sailing to enjoy the yachting at govern- ment expense which devolves upon him in his new position. ee * . R. ENDICOTT is a Salem man, and being a big man in a small place, is just the kind of aman for the War Department. Our wars have generally been in small places of late, and if the Secretary of War is only true to his past, and will consent to go to the front, he may keep the other man in the army safe from harm. The Judge is well known as having most valiantly headed in person every battalion of office-seekers when anything was upand in Democratic hands, and in casting about Massachu- setts it is not surprising that the President should stumble upon this “ Last of the Mohicans.” If Mr. Endicott should suddenly find a war on his hands, | I doubt not that, true to his New England instincts, he would dispose of it in sections at reasonable though profitable rates. It is denied that he has purchased a Brigadier General's uni- form and a horse with which to attend Cabinet meetings, and as he is said to have remarked that he is perfectly aware there is no trigger on a sword, he may be considered fit for the position. . . . R. MANNING is in reality the inexperienced member of the Cabinet. He is not to be blamed, because Democrats have been so long on the outside that their grasp upon matters connected with treasuries has become a little warped. Of course Mr. Manning in his capacity of President Mr. John Kelly does not ap- | This, in addition to his witticism that the | pilot was a relic of the steerage, shows him to have been | of a country bank has seen one or two five dollar bills, but his nerves were badly shattered on Friday when he handled a thousand dollar silver certificate. The attendants in the patent office say that when Mr. Manning first encountered the miniature of Spinner’s signature, he turned pale and said something about having them again and left the building. * * * R. FLOWER’S frierids are angry at the selection of Garland. They had an idea that horticulture in the Cabinet was to be represented by New York's choice exotic, and that this Southern Senator should be chosen they regard as an affront to their bud. * + * M R. BAYARD, in the State Department, gives satisfac- tion everywhere except in Texas, where a strong desire is evinced for the advancement of Mr. Ochiltree. * . * | Oe lane cama ia VILAS and Secretary of the Interior Lamar are good selections. True, Mr. Lamar has had more experience with the exterior than otherwise, but it is not to be doubted that he will ere long become so accustomed to the duties of his office that our Indians will become paying institutions. Mr. Lamar’s policy seems to be to confiscate all the reservations and induce the chiefs of the hostile tribes to organize themselves into dime exhibitions for revenue only. We regard this as a most excellent policy. 7 HN\ : 7] / S : R. DALY'S new adaptation, “ A Night Off, or a Page From Balzac,” may be set down as one of the great- est successes of an already successful season. Tie only dis- appointed ones at its first performance on Wednesday night were those bald-headed sinners who were there in the hope that the “ Page From Balzac” was torn from what the Post calls the “ unmentionable” Contes Drolatigues. The lovers of refinement and art, on the other hand, testified by their hearty applause their thorough appreciation of Mr. Daly's effort in their behalf. Concerning the play itself, it is of a most complicated plot, the principal characters finding themselves in a perfect cata-