PEN AND INK SKETCHES OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S CABINET.

THOS. F. BAYARD, OF DELAWARE, SECRETARY OF STATE.

HOMAS F. BAYARD is the hereditary senator from Delaware, representing the third successive generation of his family to occupy a seat in the GA United States Senate from that State. Besides his grandfather and father, his uncle, Richard B., was a member of that body from 1836 to 1839, and from 1841 to 1845. A great-uncle, Col. John Bayard, was a member of the Congress of Confederation of 1785. Two brothers named Bayard were among the Huguenots that fled from France to escape the massacre of St. Bartholomew's day in 1585. They went first to Ireland, and later to New York. Senator Thomas F. Bayard was born at Wilmington, Delaware, October 29, 1828, and was educated at Flushing school. Though trained for a mercantile life in his early years, he adopted the profession of the law and was admitted to the bar in 1851. He was appointed United States District Attorney for the State of Delaware in 1853, but resigned the following year. March 4, 1869, he succeeded to his father's seat in the United States Senate, a place he now holds by a third election. He was a member of the electoral commission of 1876, and has often been a prominent figure in Democratic conventions. He has been the recognized leader of his party in the Senate for a number of years, and at the last two National Democratic Conventions his name was favorably considered in connection with the Presidential nomination. Senator Bayard's career as a lawyer has nothing in it of more than local importance, though he has long been recog

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nized as one of the best lawyers in his State. He has made a record in the Senate of being a diligent, conservative, and watchful member. His constant attendance on the sessions of the Senate, his long service in that body, and his close attention to its business, have made him one of the best-informed Senators. Though a thorough partisan, his political opinions have not narrowed his grasp of public affairs. He is a graceful and pleasant speaker, but is not given to much talking. He is a man of good judgment, well balanced, and deliberate. Personally he is tall, smooth-faced, and a fine specimen of physical manhood in the prime of life. Socially Mr. Bayard's family is said to be exclusive, and to have aristocratic tendencies. He, however, is of a genial nature, and popular with his fellow Senators.

WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT, OF MASSACHUSETTS, SECRETARY OF WAR.

William C. Endicott is a native of Salem, Mass., where he still resides, and is now about 59 years old. He graduated from Harvard College in 1847, and entered upon the practice of law in 1850. Governor Washburn appointed him to a place on the Supreme Bench of Massachusetts, which position he resigned in 1882 on account of ill-health. Until 1860 Judge Endicott was an old-time Whig, but from that time forward was a Democrat. He never was prominent in politics until the last campaign, when he was the Democratic candidate for Governor of the Bay State. As a lawyer he is said to be thorough, painstaking, and dignified. He stood high in the ranks of the judiciary while a member of the Supreme bench. He is a descendant of John Endicott, one of the first colonial Governors of Massachusetts. His mother was a daughter of the Hon. Jacob Crowninshield, who served a term in Congress, and was President Jefferson's Secretary of the Navy from 1805 to 1809. DANIEL MANNING, OF NEW YORK, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

Daniel Manning was educated in a newspaper office. He

began at the age of nine as an errand-boy, became a reporter at fifteen, and subsequently a city editor, and graduated the general manager of a newspaper company. He afterward became identified with the management of the Commercial National Bank of Albany, and finally its President. While employed in the newspaper office he became familiar with local politics, and as a reporter of legislative proceedings of New York he acquired an extensive acquaintance with State political affairs. He already had something more than a local reputation as a politician when, in 1876, he became a member of the New York State Democratic Central Committee, of which body he was made Chairman in 1882. He managed the campaign that elected Cleveland Governor of New York, and was the first to name the latter for the Presidency. Cleveland's nomination for the office is generally conceded to be due to the adroit management of Mr. Manning, and his election to the no less ably conducted Presidential campaign in New York. Mr. Manning is a remarkably successful organizer and shrewd politician. He has had no experience in public affairs nor as a manager of great financial interests. His personal habits of close economy and his success in private business enterprises may be the foundation for great success as Secretary of the Treasury. His record is yet to be made. Mr. Manning is forty-seven years of age and a native of Albany, N. Y.

WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, OF NEW YORK, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.

William C. Whitney was born at Conway, Mass., in 1840. He graduated at Yale College in 1863, and at the Harvard law school in 1864. He at once began the practice of law in New York City, and speedily drifted into politics. He was appointed Corporation Counsel of New York City upon the downfall of the Tweed ring. His energy and ability in clearing up the mass of litigation that grew out of the ring's fraudulent transactions, made his reputation as a lawyer. He laid the foundation of a comfortable fortune in his profession, and completed it by marrying a daughter of Oliver W. Payne, of

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Ohio, one of the millionaire stockholders of the Standard Oil Company. Throughout his political career he has enjoyed intimate relations with Samuel J. Tilden, and has labored under the advice and direction of the sage of Greystone for the overthrow of Tammany and the machine rule of New York City. Mr. Whitney conceived the plan of organizing the County Democracy of New York, and largely aided in its execution. He is a successful organizer, and, after Daniel Manning, did more than any other one man to secure Cleveland's nomination and election. He is a clean-handed Democrat.

L. Q. C. LAMAR, OF MISSISSIPPI, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR,

L. Q. C. Lamar is a native of the State of Georgia. He comes of an old family which has distinguished itself in governmental affairs ever since the Declaration of Independence. He was born in 1825, and graduated from Emory College, Georgia, in 1845. He was admitted to the bar in 1847. He moved to Mississippi in 1849, and soon after was elected adjunct professor of mathematics in the university of that State. At the same time he held the place of assistant editor of the Southern Review. He returned to Georgia in 1850, locating at Covington for the practice of law. He was elected to the Legislature of Georgia in 1853, and in 1854 moved to Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he owned a plantation. He was elected to Congress in 1856, and re-elected in 1858. He resigned his seat in 1860 to become a member of the Secession Convention of his State in 1861, and the same year entered the Confederate army, being shortly promoted to the colonelcy. In 1863 President Davis sent him to Russia on a diplomatic mission. At the close of the war in 1866, he became professor of political economy and social science in the University of Mississippi, and the following year professor of law in that institution. He was elected to Congress in 1872 and again in 1874, and succeeded James L, Alcorn in the United States Senate in 1877, to which place he was re-elected for the term be

ginning March 5, 1883. He has been in public life ever since he came of age, and is a man of large experience, though not a hard worker like Bayard. He is quiet, reticent, and something of an idealist. During the troublous reconstruction period he was liberal and conscientious in his views, and threw his influence on the side of harmony between the different sections of the country. His mind is remarkable rather for its fine temper than its force. He is an eloquent speaker when aroused, though he is not often heard in Congressional debate. He made a national reputation in his eulogy of Charles Sumner on the floor of the House. He is a man slightly above the average height, possesses a full, rounded figure, and has the bearing

of a student and scholar.

WILLIAM F. VILAS, OF WISCONSIN, POSTMASTER GENERAL.

William F. Vilas traces his genealogy to Sir Richard de Vilas, a Crusader under Edward I. of England. He was born in Chelsea, Vermont, July 9, 1840. His father was a member of the Vermont Legislature in 1840, but removed to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1851, where he became prominent as a Democrat in the politics of that State. William F. graduated from the Wisconsin State University in 1858, and two years later entered upon the practice of the law. In 1862 he raised a company and entered the Union army as Captain. He was rapidly promoted and resigned a colonelcy in 1863. He is one of the lecturers in the law department of the Wisconsin State University. In 1873 he was one of the committee of three appointed to revise the statutes of Wisconsin. He was President of the Democratic Convention that nominated Cleveland, and is now a member of the Lower House of the Legislature of his State, the first elective office he ever held. Colonel Vilas is an able and eloquent advocate, a studious and hard-working lawyer, and a brilliant man.

A. H. GARLAND, OF ARKANSAS, ATTORNEY GENERAL. Augustus H. Garland was born in Tipton County, Tennes