The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-22
R0oSEYEfT,S PLANS
WILL HAVE RANCHlGAlges CON- 2 sFIpEtsCE ANnsTATEsltAN's
No Extra Session Just et-Root and One or Two Other Cabinet
 -.' Members May Finish .a Their Terms.

U. t.s -------e------ .---.-.-s 4s. Washington Special to Brooklyn Eagle.
 There is no need for President koose- ssther. xrthnr caiied the Senate to meet on Octobsr 10. hut that was to. enable it to elect a President Pro. Tempore. that sss sSs saS s ses s.ds s1 and sSsre being none. The reason there. was none was because up to that time.it had been extracrdinary, session Of the Senate that is held Immediately after the tnauEnra- tion of a newly. elected President t4 ab- ternporary presiding ofiicer. and at the senate session so held in the previous spying Vice President Arthur. owing to the quarrel oyer yer the MeT " fS1K Rascas spgk pgonk- ling had not 50 vacated his seat TOT day, and so the, Senate had not been able to elecs.a President, % PTe y...sasg%re Tss5angors;
 The importance -ofs having a Senate President for the time being rested in the fact that the law of. Presidential success sion then provided that, upon the deatn. removal rssignasi9mn m oT & inap1i.sxd Presdent o % the duties of the Presidential once snoulo devolve upon the President Fro Tmpors of the Senate, if there was one. ana an .,,a a House of Representatives.
 When Arthur suce eeded Garfield there was no President of the Senate, TOT the
  yet met, of course there was no Speaker sor provided anything happened to Ar The Senate was brought together to remedy this situation and avoid the dam ger of leaving the government without "A "A G similar state of afrairs arose in Mir. Cleyeland.s first term Vice Presi9ent Hendricks for some reason failed to ao- sion following the inauguration. so that when he died in the following November before the assembling of, Congress there re Iss tns sensts sasasr nor Speaker of the HoSse
 E The Existing Law.
 The Congress in which this happened, the Forty-ninth dSsS-SD at its frst ses- sion enacted a new law of succession Dy a Vice e-President, the Secretary of State succeeds, and If there is no Secretary Of State the Secretary of the Treasury ana Secretary of Agriculture that ofice not existing, when the law was passed Oi course any cabinet ofiicer who does not for the presidency is7 excluded from suc- ceeding to the presidency. Iii the event Of cabinet officer suc- ceeding to the presidency ne iH IF urssa rSguIree together immediately unless It VII meet by operation of law within twenty days to enable it to provide for the eiect,on
  moment. No such requirement. exists when the viee-President succeeds. Nev. ertheless Congress may be called to meet | dsrstood last spring that President Nc | Klnley intended to bring Congress to- getfier in the autumn in order to enable | it to- get through with it's work on an | early date next. year. There Is an enor' nous amount of work befcre Congress | and unless 1t gets to wofk long before the 9sra 1me & sne cognhs ,g,5sr sess Pres,dent @ Roosevelt rrobably has not considered | this matter at all. (
 Roosevelt will Be Conservative. l Those who know President Roosevelt ss. hs adS1frsed S fys the # i predetes that | as ~Ptesiderit he will be conservative in | the best sense of that too often abused for cef,ssrva{ism on. the one hand nor brayado for courage on the other. He will De as firmly and eopsistsntly. Amer
 as Webster Marcy Gr slalss @ nas faithful- and patriotic as Jackson or Lin coin. and in both will largely follow and carry out to their logical and proper end n, allgGrated by the wise and great man whom he untiraeiy succeeds 1
 Resignation of Cabinet
 The members of President Mckinley Cabinet ,will.-of course, tender their res | ignations. as will some other ot the prln- l President Roosevelt will request them to remain at their posts for the present, nnI | til Congress meets. whether In special oE routine ses,i1n % sSls rhsy SIp T te rar proceed m to form Cabinst of his own at his lei- sure. It is regarded as certain that sec; retary Hay will go., His policy Tn regard to Great Britain and the IsthmiaD canal | and the Clayton-Buiwer treaty Is not in accord with that of President Roosevelt.
 Who will be the new Stafe Secretary; | the premier of the new admtntstratlon At first everybody said without hesita- ton, Henry Cabot Lodge of MaSsachu' setts. He is close friend of the Fresi' deit, but he is in the Senate and prob ably could do Roosevelt more good there than at the head of. the Cabinet Lodge !: a member of the Committee on Forelgl
 RetatSns and % as ambition Ss1n 10 of pc tba ad
 mi1istration this ambition would De II
 a fair way of realizatton!
 Lodge Prefers the Senate.
 And Lodge prefers life as a senat9
 young, as public men go, rich, learned i cultured and much given to literary wors Tine Senate suits him and he can sta! } | there as long as he likes, but If he wer toF leave 1t he might not get back s' Webster, Clay and Calhoun in thei ss nsSttv % much as they pleased. John Sher . man and. Mir. Teller left the Senate fo ) the Cabinet, and returned to the Senat upon their retlrement IrOul eAeCu'lNS oA
 flee, But Bayard of Delaware and Gar
 land of Arkansas who left the Ssnat } to enter CleYeland's first Cabinet, failed
 to return to the seats they had thus va
 cated. So ,precedents are even.
 Root May Be Asked to Stay.
 It is believed here Roosevelt will asl
 Secretary of War Root to remain in th'
 cabinet and he may possibly ask nm t'
 leave that desk and 70 to the head O scnal and political friends; Both arc
 men of strong convictions Can they ge
 along together in the new relations to
 ward each other into which fate hn:
 thrown them? It is an open secret tha
 Root himself has presidential ambitions
 second man on the ticket and that Pres lident Mckinley preferred him for run
 hing mate to anybody else: Root found
 that. he could not get the place and h' let himself down so easily that only {
 few even so much as suspected his dis , corntlture. ,...,. i General Knox and Secretary of :Agricul . tIlre Wilson can stay if they care to s Mir Knox is B good lawyer. though O - not much political weight in the Key
 stone. State. But his retention Woult 2 furious factional quarrels of the Reput n licans in Pennsylvania and that Is some t thing. As to Wilson. everybody likes an, s respects him. It Is highly improbabl
 that President Roosevelt could make ?, change for the better from any point = view Moreover. Wilson Is we'll located
 coming from Iowa, west of the Missls'
 ippi and Is successful practical farme
 Geography Win Not Control.
 Secretary of the Treasury Gage, Se'
 retary of the Interior Hitchcock an z Postmaster General Smith will all g