The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-13
SECRETARY SHAW
IS HE TO BE LEFT IN THE NEW
 DEAL.
If Bexius to Look As if the President is Bothered About it-Gen. Fits Lee and the Jamestown Ex-
 DosItiOn.

Washington. Dec. 12.-(Special.)- The most pretentious member or Presi- dent Roosevelt's cabinet, the most ag- gressiye in projecting his own views upon the public, has been Hon. Leslie Nj. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury. It is for that very reason. like as not that he is not a pleasing object to contem- plate in the Roosevelt ministry from the Rooseveltain point of scrutiny. It ia not in the nature, 1t is needless to say. of the head of this administration to enjoy association with a subordinate. even in the cabinet. who Is so restive as to exhibit a symptoms of branching out for himself. There has been strong intimation conveyed in the fact that while word has practically come from the White House who is to com pose the Roosevelt cabinet proper after the fourth of March next. that the name of Mir. Shaw has been omitted. and his friends are growing wistful over the incident. In their loyalty to him the Iowa contingent may well be concerned for his future. He is undoubtedly anx- ious to remain where he Is, but no sign of felicitation upon his service has ever come from the President as 1t has for other ofYicers of his cabinet. The evident truth is that the fact that Secretary Shaw has showed the temerity to take issue with the President in his disposition toward certain governmental reforms has rem dered his chances of staying in the Roosevelt ofiicials household matter shrouded in conjecture. MT. Shaw wishes to stay because he loves the field of finance. Away back wonder when he was young lawyer out in Crawford County. Iowa, he dabbled in finance in the way of negotiating loans for farmers. and. thus. according to his biographical narrative. he was kept in touch with financial matters. both east and west"
 Secretary Shaw was always a stand batter. He fought the Iowa idea as advanced by Governor Cummins. and nothing has so hurt his feelings as to have recently seen President Roosevelt giving respectful ear to his old rival. It Is said by revisionists that Shaw is extremely ambitious In 1908 to be the candidate of the high tarif and sub- sidy interests. proceeding in part upon the theory that 1t will be the vests time to present a candidate. The Sec retary is a vigorous man, in the prime of life, being only fifty-six years old, so that he will be of fair presidential age. should he be a candidate
 But, after all. 1t is said that Presi- dent Roosevelt is a bit bothered just what to do In the case of Shaw. He wishes to recognize Iowa in some sub stantial way. because 1t has become al- most as important and productive a state of big Republicans as Ohio used to be.
 FitxhuEh Lees Work.
 General Fitzhugh Lee is in the sad dle for the Jamestown. Va, exposition He Is here to See If something cannot be done to save the exposition in spite of the fact that the House Committee on Industrial Propositions. voted against appropriating any more money for in- dustrial expositions. The opponents of the measure urge that the people are tired of these big worlds fairs. and 1t is time. anyhow to call halt New ertheless it Is notable that no big northern show of an obstensible inter- national kind has ever failed of a liberal appropriation. the sums for Nashville. Atlanta. Charlestown and New Orleans being insignificant In com parison with the amounts allowed Philadelphia. Chicago. Buffalo. St Louis and Portland. Besides the Virginians ! through their legislature were in- duced to go to the limit of their moans in appropriating the stae's money for he celebration of the great historic set clement of Jamesotwn, and their rep resentatives were persuaded to vote for other exposition measures with the express understanding that the James, town exposition would fare propor- tionately well. President Roosevelt himself recommended liberal treatment for this exposition project and Gen. Lee is going to remind congressman of that fact and make a vigorous fight for an appropriation which will con- template something more substantial than a mere naval display. as the In. dustrial Committee suggests.
 R. H. Watkins.