. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . nand Hamilton could not fail to give their offices dignity andimportance as advisory officials. In 1798 a Department ofthe Navy was organized and its Secretary was invited intothe Presidents council. In 1829 the Postmaster-Generalbecame a Cabinet officer; in 1849 the Department of theI
. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . nand Hamilton could not fail to give their offices dignity andimportance as advisory officials. In 1798 a Department ofthe Navy was organized and its Secretary was invited intothe Presidents council. In 1829 the Postmaster-Generalbecame a Cabinet officer; in 1849 the Department of theInterior was established, followed in 1889 by the Depart-ment of Agriculture. As a matter of fact it rests with the President whetherhe shall make any of these officials a member of his Cabinetor whether he has a Cabinet at all. No law declares thathe must, but custom is stronger than the law at times, andin such matters it is seldom departed from. When the officeof the Commissioner of Agriculture was raised to one of thegreat departments, President Benjamin Harrison at oncemade room at the Cabinet table for the new member, thelate Jeremiah Rusk of Wisconsin, who when twitted withthe fact that he was the tail of the Cabinet, retortedthat it would need a good tail k to keep the flies off GOOD ADVISERS AND HARD WORKERS. 185 The first task of a newly-elected President is the selec-tion of these important heads of his administration, andtheir names are announced at once after the inauguration,though his choice is generally known some days usually draws them from his list of close politicalfriends, and always from his own part}^. Lincoln, facing apeculiar emergency, selected for some of the importantposts men who were his political rivals; but this customdoes not usually prevail, for the relations between the Presi-dent and his secretaries must be of the most confidentialnature. Of late the administration of affairs has become soextended in scope, and re
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