The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-29

Lean under the agreement should pay
over the purchase price and receive
the stock; the sale was completed, all
details were disposed of. the transfer
could not be recalled. Then Mclean
produced ten shares of stock in the
company which had been owned by
Criah Painter and which Mclean
purchased from the estate after Paint
er's death. John Wilkins had over
/ looked this stock. With these ten
shares in addition TO the half inter
est he had purchased from the Will
kius femily, Mclean has absolute con-
/ troll Of the property. The Wilkinses
. are heartbroken. John collapsed and
has been FASTENED to the Virginia hot
springs.
LOOMS on the Payroll.
/"Indiscreet' LOOMS seems endowed
with the nine lives of q cat and to
/. possess the feline characteristic Of al
ways falling upon his feet. One day
LOOmis lays down his official cares and
retires from the office of assistant sec
rotary of state, where, by his bungling,
nc has been a source OF annoyance
10 the president and congressman. and
the next day we learn that LOOMS. in
stead of retiring to private life, is TO
become a sort OF confidential adviser
TO the secretary of state. There is some
uncertainty as to just what LO0mis'
work is to be, but there is no doubt
whatever that he will remain upon the
government payrOl1s For the time be-
ing he viii be assigned to the place
which John A. kasson of Iowa. a tariff
expert, occupied. when he was officially
known as special commissioner pleni-
poteuuary under the tariff act and was
entrusted with the task of negotiating
reciprocity treaties. When KassOn be-
came convinced that the senate could
not be induced to ratify reciprocity
treaties. he ia disgust abandoned his
work and would have nothing more to
do with the office.
Had Nothing to Do.
There were at the time upon the pay
roll 80 assistants and clerks TO Mr.
kasson three men. Although they have
performed no work because. since the
absence of Mr.. KassOn there has been
none for them 20 perform, yet they
have managed to hold on TO the good
thing One of them has recently been
promoted 10 become chief of a bureau
in the state department. and his place
iu this mysterious room where reel
procity treaties were at one time ne
Sotiated has been taken by a man who
because of his habits was dismissed
from the army. With a force of three
clerks who have been called upon TO
do no more arudous work than draw
their salaries. "Imdiscreet" LOOMS will
proceed to do what? To advise the
secretary of state? To negotiate reel
proCity treaties? Il has been demon
strated beyond "A doubt that the SEN
ate viii not ratify such treaties. Sooner
or later We shall learn the reason Loo
mis- is retained i'm the state department
and not permitted to give his atten-
ton TO his pressing business affairs.
Loeb's Mouth Buttoned.
After the unfortunate incident due to
Secretary Taft's discussion Of Secretary
Metcalf, the president decided TO pro-
hibit his cabinet officers from discuss
ing cabinet meetings, and entrusted
that great responsibility TO his COM
municative secretary, Mr.. Loeb. For
two weeks the experiment has been
tried and, as was TO have been ex-
pected, Mr., Loeb, i'm keeping with his
record, has been a dismal failure. The
newspaper correspondents applying TO
their friends in the cabinet from whom
they have been in the habit of learn
ing cabinet secrets, have been directed,
under the presidents instructions, To
see Mr.. Loeb Mr.. Loeb. looking as
wise as an owl has consistently re-
piled: II have nothing 10 announce" /
The whole proceeding became such a
joke that the president could not re-
strain his laughter. MIR, Loeb, as a
chrOnicIeT of cabinet affairs, was such
complete failure that the president
at cabinet meeting told his official ad-
yisers that some other arrangement
must he made. Some member Of the
cabinet, probably Secretary Taft or
Secretary Cortelyou, viii be selected to
give to the newspapers report of
the cabinet proceedings and relieve
Mr.. Loeb of this too great RESPONSE
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