Show CABINET resignations at washington there was a mixture of amusement and aind irritation over the poor mouth made hy by ex secretary lie in explanation ot of hla his withdraw nl at from tile the cabinet and now co ines attorney general gregory who gives practically tho the same reasons for tits his withdrawal from the wilson war ivar cabinet but to the averaged i man the real reason for their resigning la Is that tha t they aro are more afraid of tho the problems of reconstruction tl than an they were of the problems of the war truth Is that no member of tile the tion from the president down lives beyond his official atlary in washington it more more la Is spent it la is not directly y I 1 connected with tile living expenses at the capital for example tho the president does little entertaining and practically all of what h he e does is paid tor for from public funds vico president marshall only the other oilier day gave a luncheon to the japanese prince but it Is understood that the state department paid the bill tho the marchalls marshalls Mar live in fit two rooms at the shoreham Shore Shor ham cham hotel and their out outlay layon on social account can not amount to a perceptible percentage of the vice presidents at al f alary f tha ha jaye in ili a modost modest house housed d aho ho rent of which ought to be about a year and they do very little entertaining their carriages doorman drivers chauffeurs cars care coltof cost of maintaining cars and carriages and much of tile the house service la is said to be paid for out of public funds gos sip which at Wab washington hIngton keeps a pretty close tab on such matters declares that the men servants are detailed from laborer jobs in the treasury treasury dopart department part ment under these circumstances a year can well cover all normal expenditures no member of the 1 cabinet entertains lavishly and all of at them turn oft off some of their expenses particularly for vehicles and ana servants upon the government they need have no flour bills for example when they do entertain having simply to draw on the white house green hou ses in other days a cabinet dinner one such as a was given toy by each edich member berot ol 01 the cabinet each winter would cost oftentimes from to fo 1000 oven even with the flowers coming from the white rouse house gardens there has been lio nothing thing of the sort in recent years talk of the heavy cost of keeping up position by members of the administration at washington Is piffle biffie verily the times have changed since the day when an attorney G general of tho the united states and a presidential nominee tor for th the a chief and one of the greatest and boa best ap who has in recent times graced our public life was arraigned and practically broken in the court of public opinion because his wife had driven about town making social calls in her husbands official carriage the fam j ous k that was before the reformers had purified our official al life itte in this day of higher morality nobody questions the ithe propriety of at a cabinet minister shunting of a considerable percentage ot of his domestic elpe expense nse account upon the government under i ono one Dt pretense otense or another it would tiei much hotter better if we assigned larger sal 1 lories to our larger officials and then required them to pay the their irown own household buls if not directly corrupt it tends to corruption when the personal and domestic servants or of officials are carried on depar departmental payrolls pay rolls under designations which do not reveal the nature of at the tha service they render I 1 in the matter matter of simplicity of 0 living the wilson administration has held a very good pace there bad been slowly developing at washington the notion that cabinet officers ammers or other functionaries function aries of the government should maintain a certain blab I 1 tion I 1 of dm domestic 0 astle life not frequently cabinet ministers in recon recent t times tames have I 1 expended the whole aholo of their official al salaries or more for house rent alone 1 it has been bad from every point ot of view bad tor for the official al himself de moralizing moral izing king to his family under our system and property properly so BO the families at 0 officials hold no definite rank which needs to be maintained by formal living true the ot the cheap or er press have long lone tried to elevate the presidents alfo into the first lady ot at the land and to define schemes or precedence along 16 descending IWO 1410 for the womenfolk of functions function functionaries ries aries a of lesser degree but aitho without ut success no member of the presidents family or any other official family holds holda any rank or the semblance of any under our system officials families are lust just folks like other people and w when en attempt Is made I 1 to lift thera them into gl a kind of 0 artificial at dignity by formal i practices of at living or by any other means it should be rebuked president cleveland had the right idea when lit in his first presidency he tendered a place lit in the cabinet to a western statesman the latter replied pile d that he badnow had not the means to live up to lie he position all tho the bet tor ter replied nir mr cleveland 1 I dont want anybody in my official al family to got get tko ako idea that they hold any poat poal tion which need to bo be lived up to I 1 J prefer that those who shall be asso elated with me in ili the government shall illustrate the simplicities and therefore the true dignities es of american life rather than its and pretensions |