The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-03
CORTELYOU WILL BE
A MEMBER OF
The CABINET
Presidents Secretary Slated
for Head of the New De-
partment of Commerce
Rush for Coal in Washing
ton-Remarkable Output
From Reform Bureau.
From Globe Washington Bureau.

From Globe Washington Bureau.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 2.-There
have been, and doubtless will be, booms
for Others; but there is but one man
who stands any show to be appointed
to the new cabinet office, soon to be
created, of secretary of commerce. He
is George B. Cortelyou, at present sec
rotary to the president He was the
choice of President Mckinley, and he
is the choice of President Roosevelt.
He is the choice of the latter partly
because he was the choice of the for
mer, but that is only part of the con-
Sideration. Mr.. Roosevelt has had
some opportunity to become acquainted
with Mr.. COrtelyou, and he approves
heartily of the choice. The booms of
Merriam and others are but passing
shows. So soon as the new department
becomes a reality Cortelyou will be ele-
waited to the cabinet.
Should Be More Like Him.
Listen to this! A government official
has been found who declines to make
an annual report because he has moth
ing to say. Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Darling (the position Roosevelt
once graced), says his bureau chiefs
have said all he knows to tell, and a lot
more, so he will save the country the
expense of printers ink and white pa
per, and let it so at that.
Indiana Faction Fight.
There may be the beginnings of a
big faction fight III the seemingly inno-
cent announcement that Congressman
James a HemenWay, of Indiana, is a
candidate for the Republican nominal
ton for governor. Several important
conferences have been held during the
last ten days, and there is repressed ex-
element among the Hoosier politicians.
1t is reflected even so far as Washing
ton. In a word, the situation is this:
Hemenway is the candidate of the In
diana state machine, of which Fair
banks is the titular head. The ma
chine has become Wabbly of late, and
the Philistines have been closing in
with evident intent to throw it into
the ditch.
The machine drivers want to tighten
up the screws and bolts, and then they
want to drive it, a la steam roller,
over Beveridge, the senator, and all
that to him appertains. Hemenway is
put up as a sort of rallying pole. The
programme is: Nominate HemenWay
for congress in March; for governor
in May; for United States senator to
Supplant Beveridge a little later. 1t is
quite contract and a good deal for
HemenWay to carry
Meantime the anti-machine crowd
are becoming very cocky. Nothing
would please them so much at this
time as a fight. They believe that the
psychic moment has arrived, and that
the fates call to battle. The appoint
ment of A. 3. Anderson to the federal
district bench was a great blow to the
prestige of Senator Fairbanks. He Of
fered the president list of six can
didates who would be agreeable to
him, and the candidate chosen was not
on the list, and was an original Bev-
eridge man. But Fairbanks gave chief
offense to his friends by refusing to
go to the front and indorse some one
candidate.
Coal Functions.
To one walking up Washington s
principal shopping street any day of
late it might appear that the important
social events of the season were being
held at the local coal offices. Carriages,
coupes, automobiles, have lined the
curbs and almost stopped street car
traffic. Women in furS, braces of foot
men in immaculate HVeries, spry-
breeched tigers, fur robes, silk feathers
and Velvets-all the induces of wealth
and faShion-and what for? Coal!
Clamoring for coal! Begging for coal!
No telephone orders No delegating the
the secretary. But the mistress of the
mansion herself is out making it the
business Of her life to get on the warm
side of the dealer in Goals. She must
have it. Her house is about to freeze
up. What is to become of her recep-
ton and her dinner, and her tea? She
cannot turn her back and go to Flori-
da; she has made all her plans to win
ter in Washington. And she must have
some at once.
By tomorrow the last shovelful will
be fed into the furnace. And then
what? Go to a hotel? Wrap up in
furs? Go to bed? 1t is not pleasant to
contemplate. So she puts on her best
clothes and her most winning smile
and goes to see the coal man. She loves
him like a brother and jollies him like
a confidence man. She calls on his wife
and sends a doll to the baby. She re-
proaches him for not having been more
neighborly, and begs him to come to a
little dinner of eighteen to meet Alex
ander Graham Bell and four senator's
She plays her strongest and best cards
and, if she is lucky, gets a promise OF
half ton for immediate delivery. Oh
it is not the washlady alone who feels
the pinch of coal famine. The poor
society woman has had to take her
turn.
gloves and the very crease of his
trousers, unless it is because 1 have
never done her any injury
You have!" exclaimed the widow
smartly.
Bloodgood stared in amazement. He
almost violated the first principles OF
his existence-that of control of his