The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-12-27

, 1.-THE Presidents cabinet and ne,
! '~ecreiary of the Treasu, j. 10 IL
. elected. II has been evident 1,
I everyone ia touch with the Whit,
!. House that this change has been de
sired by the President for som.
time, but, having included the Sec
felary 81 the Treasury inthe genera
invitation 10 the members Of ths
cabinet 70 remain, Mr.. Roosevelt
! postponed hi action in the hope
b lhal Mr.. Cages resignation woulc
te voluntarily offered. Ii j. be
Isytd ihat tile Nakeman affair II
: New York, ard the objections Il
Assistant Secretaries Spaulding anc
Allies nave precipiiat,d Mr.. Gage I,
resignation.
7 The removal Of Mr.. Wakemsr
ard the probable appointment Of
7 MI Geo W. Whitehead to succeed
him were announced in these letter.
some time ago. Mr.. u akeman
however, refused 10 surrender bis
position as appraiser of the port ci
New YORK aud lodged complaints
against the Secretary Of the Treas
ury and some Of his sub0rdinates.
The President has disapproyeI OF
the language ia which Mr.. Wake.
man coucled his complaint, and has
summary removed him, ordering
NJ. Alfred W. Brown, appraiser al
Boston, 70 lake his place, until Mr..
y hlteheai, whose name Will be sent
- the Senate a soon az congress re-
cpnyenes, can be confirmed. The
charges u Mr.. Wakeman include,
among o,hcr things, the statement
that, after he had unearthed exten-
siye ilauis in the valuation of i'm
pcrtallcns OF japanese silks, he was
refused permission to cone to-
Washington to confer with the Sec
rotary ana the legal advisors of the
Department, and was subsequently
Instructed To pursue bis investiga-
tons no further. He also states
that, after he had recommended the
dismissal of Assistant Appraiser
Warner Sherwood, and his recon-
mendation had been approved byl
the Whitehead commission. after
investigating the facts, Mr.. Gage as
sured him that Mr.. Sherwood would
be dismissed, and later wrote per
sonal letter TO a friend authorizing
the friend to show the letter to Mr.. 4
Wakeman. This letter stated that
Mr.. Gage ieconsidered the dismiss
al Of Mr.. Sherwood because Of the
opposition Of Assistant Sec
retary Spaulding. Mr.. Gage says
that ihe relations between himself
and the President are cordial, but
others say that Mr.. Wakeman's rev
revealed to the President a
condition Of aiflirs he could no
longer tolerate.
The President has not yet select
ed Mr.. Cages successor, and the
latter will retain his portfolio until
the new appointee il ready to quail
ify. The names Of Col. Myron T.
Herrick, President Of the American
Bankers Assn, and Mr.. L. Jeifer-
son Coolidge, Of Boston, Minis
ter to France, are both believed to
be under consideration.
Mr.. Roosevelt has not remained
content with merely recommending
reciprocity with Cuba in his message .
,ut has taken steps to ascertain the
acts in relation to the objections of
tie Beet Sugar men, who called Oh
i'm and presented their views some
Ime ago. lie gave them no en-
ourlgement, and met their objec-
ions with some very pointed ques-
ons and emphf'ic statements.
lis irierds outside the White House : :
ave been spared on 70 renewed ef 4 /
,rts, aud wnen the question comes :
p in the Senate, Senator Lodge :
i'll have by him an amount Of am Z
with which to put the op J,
,sition to hasty flight. Whether : !,
Ie Presidents friends are warrant !. !
in their belief i questionable, = =
1t they believe that they will have -
| the lcgic Of the situation on ntheir -
le aud will carry the day. :.
The most powerful implement OF i.
.rare at Mr.. Lodges command =,
II be letter written by Henry +. - ~
saari, president Of American Beet ~ -
gar company, and undersigned -, ~
w. Bayard Cutting, director j., -,
the same company. The letter 49,
IS issued in 1899, and definitely ~ -
ted that "There IL, however, no IL y.
Ir that Cuban production, even 49, !.
der an annexation to the United -
ltes, can, in our day, expand To !.
, point where the United States ~ ~
uld become exporters Of sugar -
tead Of importers, and hence that ..s =
,tection would no Longer pro- -