The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-19
MELCA SLATED
 $ HEAD OF NAVY
PAUL MORTON TO RETIRE IN A FEW WEEKS.
Third Term Talk Annoys President Roosevelt win Make Only One
 More Tour Because of Embar- H raising Suggestions.


 John o'Laughlin's Washington Special to Chicago Tribune.
 A definite decision has been reached in the case of the Secretary or the Navy, Paul Morton, fixing the date or his retirement from public life. He announced the other day he would not fretire until fall. He was mistaken. It is intended he shall leave the cabinet within six weeks. This meets the ap- proval both of Secretary Morton ana President Roosevelt
 Morton does not like official life, put he refused to resign while under hIe' and the President sympathized with him. What will happen to Morton after he leaves the cabinet Is no. known but he will not be prosecuted in connection with the santa Ee case while he Is in the cabinet The in- terest of the administration ceases at this point If the grand jury should indict him it will be as Paul Morton and not as the Secretary of the Navy.
 How near Morton Is to leaving the cabinet is indicated by the fact that ms successor already has been determined upon The portfolio will be offered 70 Victor H. Metcalf, Secretary of Com merce and Labor It is a post Met calf always has wanted. He was slated for the secretaryship of the navy when the President first offered him a place in the cabinet. But the Presi- dent also wanted Morton as an ad- wiser.
 MetcaIf Served on Naval Committee' Metcalf has done excellent work Tn his present office, and has satisfied the President He was a member or the | Naval Committee of the House when | he served in Congress. and evinced an intellizent interest in the develop I raent of the navy. He believes with | the President in big navy.
 l Who will be Metcalf's successor probably will be settled shortly by the President. James R. Garfield. commis- sioner of the bureau of corporations, | has an excellent chance of being pro- noted. He has handled the corpora I tion matters firmly and equitably and has made few influential enemies. He | is from Ohio. | There will be a general reconstruc- l tion of the cabinet. MT. Moody has stated that he will not remain much | longer as Attorney General, and It was
 reported today that Secretary Ial' d would be transferred from the War De- partment to the Department of Justice. But there are bigger questions at this I mop1ent under the Secretary or War | than in the Attorney Generals once, | The President believes Taft Is In the right place and wants to keep him | there.
 Taft has no desire to change. He | ia an today. Hay has recovered his | health. and the President is delighted that he will remain Secretary of state. shaw is expected to remain In the Treasury Department until next Feo- ruary. Wilson and Cortelyou will stay
 with the President. Loeb, the private secretary to the President. has been | talked of for a place in the capinet, but the President desires he snali stay l where he Is.
 l nounced that he will get out as soon aa the land fraud cases are disposed 1 off. but the proceedings are expected | to take some time. Loeb Is regaroeo las one of the strong men of the ao- ministration. and has exercised an ID. nuence in governmental anairs not generally understood.
 Stops Third Term Talk. l Tba President proposes to stop all | talk of d third term in spite of the re- | cant declarations that he will not ac' | cent renomination or that he deslret | to name his successor in the Wnite House. It was announced autnorita' ! lively today the President would make | a trip through the South next fall' and | | tires from public service
 There is no doubt that in determin- | in9 to restrict his journeys between l washington and Oyster Bay or some l special point where he wishes to make specific declaration the President was moved Ds | the experience he had recently tr | inc west. He had said emphaticallS | he did not wish a third term and meant | iii. But there were some people whc | did not know him, and who thought Il | would hatter him to speak to ana pc | fore him of the universal demand tha
 he should continue in office. But h'
 has come back to Washington mor' | determined than ever, If that Is pos
 sible, not to consider another term ant
 not to give countenance to talk of thi:
 character.
 The President intends to avoid per
 hitting an opportunity to any one tt
 broach the subject, and decided th' | tions through the country. He ar ranged some time ago to go South anC | he will keep the engagement
 Determined not to give countenanc' to efforts to continue him in office, ant l equally determined not to have any
 thing to do in urging any one upoI the country as his successor. the Presi I
 who shall be President from 1909 tt 1913. So long as a man is in hts cabi net he must not carry on Presidentia | campaign. This is one reason wh! | Secretary Shaw Is going to leave. H' 1 wants to be free from the embarrass ments of offlcialdom to prosecute hii claims upon the country.
 Taft is sitting on the lid of his owr aspirations. His ambition is to b'
 chief justice of the Supreme Court. bu
 events are sweeping him to the from
 as a candidate for the nomination oi
 the Republican Party. President
 Roosevelt likes and admires Taft i'm.
 hating against American goods. An
 other senator who ranks hign In the
 Republican party said he would re- gard the action as highly unfortunate
 and certain to bring the Republicans
 face to face with the tariff issue in
 It's keenest form. He said 1t would
 give the Democratic party just the
 weapon it most badly needed in its
 fight against the protective system.
 Naturally. General Grosvenor, of
 Ohio, one of the high priests of the
 high tariff, was much disgusted. He
 said he did not desire to pose as a
 critic of the administration, and then l -s.