The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-25
NEW FACES ABOUT
CABINETS TABLE
CHANGES ARE TO BE MADE
BECAUSE KNOX is GOING 70 THE
SENATE.


General, and Morton Succeeds
Him-MetcaIf VIII Get the Job ms
the Head of the Newest Depart
ment-MOOdy and Payne Get Ont
LRter-Then COrteIyOu, After Rum
ming the Campaign, viii Get
Payne's Job.
Washington. June PA sweeping
change in the cabinet of President
Roosevelt was announced officially at
the White House to-day. The an
nouncement came in the form of
brief typewriter statement, issued by
Secretary Loeb as follows:
1.-THE following cabinet appointments
are announced:
William H. Moody of Massachusetts,,
Attorney General
paul Morton of Illinois, Secretary of
the Navy.
Victor H. Metcalf of California, Sec
rotary of Commerce and Labor.
The designations of Secretary Cor
telyou and Attorney General Knox
have been accepted to take effect July
L.
For two weeks or more it has been
known that these changes were i'm
pending. When Secretary Cortelyou
was selected by President Roosevelt to
be his campaign manager it was GER
tain that he would retire from the cab
met upon his assumption of duties as
chairman of the Republican National
Committee. Just before he left for
Chicago last Wednesday he placed in
the hands of the President his letter
of resignation from the Department of
Commerce and Labor to take effect at
the end of the present fiscal year,
June 80.
One week ago to-day Attorney Cen
eral Knox formally announced he
would retire from the Department of
Justice, probably at the end of the ifs
cal year. 1t was understood at the
same tame that Secretary Moody would
succeed Mr.. Knox at Attorney Gen
eral.
Morton His Warm Friend.
President Roosevelt rendered the
appointment of Secretary of the Navy
to Paul Morton, first vice president
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad. Mr.. Morton is a per-
sonal friend of the President of many
years standing. He is a son of the
late ]. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska
Secretary of Agriculture in Presi-
dent Clevelands last administration.
Since President Roosevelt has been
in the White House he has made more
than one effort to induce Mr.. Morton
to accept a position in his adminstra-
ton. Feeling that his life work in the
railroad business, in which he has
achieved success, might be impeded by
III to, sc AfF7 81 to-.
in the government, he uniformly has
declined such offers. as he did the
proffer of the place of Secretary of
the Navy. He was requested by the
President to reconsider his declination.
Last light he took dinner at the White
: House, and the whole subject was con-
sidered. after Mr.. Morton had con-
suited with his personal and business
friends and associates. At the con-
clusion of the conference. Mr.. Morton
told the President he would accept the
position in the cabinet.
VIII Get COrteIyou Back.
1t is expected that further changes
will take place in the cabinet next
winter. Postmaster General Payne
probably will retire from the cabinet
after the campaign. He will be sue
ceeded by National Chairman CorteI-
you.
Secretary Moody will continue as
member of the cabinet only until the
end of the present administration on
March 4 next, when he will retire to
enter upon the practice CT law in BoS-
ton.
The correspondence between the
President and Mr.. Knox was made
public tonight. In rendering his res
ignation to the President Mr. Knox
expresses his "unfeigned respect and
admiration for the lofty purpose and
splendid courage you have ever mani
tested, which has inspired and sus-
tanned your cabinet in their efforts to
promote the public welfare by effect
ing the wise policies Of your admins
tration."
Knox is Sui Generis.
The President in reply says: MANY
great and able men have preceded you
in the Office you hold; but there is none
among them whose administration has
left so deep a mark for good upon the
countrys development. Under you it
has been literally true that the might
lest and humblest in the land have
alike had ii brought home to them that
each was sure of the laws protection
while he did right and that neither
could hope to defy the law if he did
wrong. In what you have done you
have given proof, not merely of the
profound learning of the jurist, hut
of the bold initiative and wide grasp of
the statesman. You have deeply af-
fected for good the development of
our entire political system in its rela-
tons to the industrial and economic
tendencies of the time. !"