The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-19
CABINET CARPENTERS
BUsILY ENGAGED IN MAKING AL.
 TERATIONs.
All Seem Agreed that Wilson and shaw Must Get Out-Ccming Session of Congress Attract
 ing Attention.
By R. H. watkins.

Washington, Nov. 1S-(Special)- Presidents may come and Presidents may go, but none of them can. or will attempt to. suppress the apocryphal factions of that sort just now in Washington. They are so busy and present so many plausible reasons for their opinions as to what Mir. Roosevelt is going to do and as to why he Is go- ing to do it, with respect to a read justment of his ministry, that 1t looks indeed as though the country will soon see some notable changes in the Cab- inet.
 One of these factions has for some time persisted in placing George B.. Cortelyou. now Postmaster-General. as slated for Secretary of the Treasury Department. and, giving President Roosevelt credit for desire to do something for the South, insisted that John w. Yerkes of Kentucky was the man to succeed MT. Cortelyou in the Postoffice Department Mir. Yerkes has also been discussed as a strong possi- bility to take the place of Victor Met calf, Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor, who is under stood to be desirous to get out of the Cabinet and back into business at his home in California.
 Wilson May Retire.
 The same faction of Cabinet makers say that Secretary Wilson is soon to retire from s~e Department of Agri- culture, and that he will be succeeded by James Wolcott Wadsworth, who represents the Thirty-fourth New York Congressional District. and has been a member of the House over twenty years. about fifteen of which have been consecutively served. and several .t.l .l-t. L -I. .t.x~. of the Committee on Agriculture.
 The same Cabinet framers say that Secretary Shaw will go out of the Cabinet very much to the delight of President Roosevelt. when he does go, as it Is said he will on or about the first of next February. Secretary Wil- son, the same source has 1t, cannot go too soon to suit the President. These Cabinet officers are said to be the chief offenders who led to the President sending them a letter through Pri- vate Secretary Loeb to quit talking to newspaper men. It is at least known Messrs. Shaw and Wilson expressed their objections very plainly to the order or injunction.
 From the same inspiration comes the gossip that Secretary Taft Is held in waiting for a Supreme Court vacancy which is regarded as certain to occur during President RooseveIt's admin istration. It is surmised that the va- cancy will come through the retire. ment somehow of Chief Justice Foller.
 Justices Getting old.
 Justice Fuller is now in his 73d year and has been on the Supreme Court bench seventeen years. Justice Har- land is but a few months younger. and has served longer on the Supreme bench than any other member. having more than twenty-eight years to his credit The ages of tho other judges of this court are: Brewer, 6S; Brown, 6s; White. 60: Peckham. 67; McKenna. 62; Holmes. 64; Day. 56. It is suppos- ed that the course of nature will retire one of these justices and make place for William H. Taft at no distant pe- riod, so that there need be no worry ing over his political future. {
 Concurrently with the erstwhile gos- sip about Taft as a Presidential quan- tity, and notwithstanding the immi- nent possibility of MT. Roosevelt changing his mind through stress of public opinion about succeeding him. self ip 1908. it is said that the Presi- dent really prefers Elibu Root above tion in 1908. Secretary Root, MT. Roosevelt and his friends believe. will make a great record at the head of the State Department. and, by the time of the next campaign, he will so have impressed himself upon the country as a man of transcendant ability. that his nomination will be no hard matter. backed, as he will be. by Theodore Roosevelt,
 The Other Cabinet Carpenters.
 The other faction of Cabinet makers are more positive in their assertions.