The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-31
USE NEW AUTHORITY
CABINET OFFICERS PROUD OF
 LATE ORDER.
Bsnauarte Fires c Man, and Certeiyou Tells the Fourth-Class Postmas- ters to Re Good or
 Look Ont.

Washington. Oct. 3o.--(special.l,- Each cabinet officer was handed pis stick in the Presidents g,ysns e&eSyh every head of & department the right to dischaTge an employe without hearing. Al ready one of them has % used domiSonsly niS nsW weapon, and anothershas ohhihoueAs Secretary Bonaparte has directed the peremptory dismissal of an enpsJSye e p3aSe an m enlisted man of the navy into his house as a boarder. Both the navy men are machinists. The iandloro ho nafsd mafnihiSs a room because he was an enlisted man. and in his judgment men of that clas5 sS were not dscently ssecrsas6ls secrsars sonaparte regarded this as a reelection upon the whole navy and issued his order or ois- charge in these awful words: .ho "A person whose attitude toward the | uniform of enlisted men is what is this employe states his to be Is unsultaoie for employment by this DepaTrtmahent; ar aha e,nt 5. nloye be dispensed with and that he receive immediate notice to this eneet, The offensive conduct of the ois missed man did not come under the nor ice of the Secretary except by report. | 1t had been contended by some persons apologizing for the Presidents orIsr ois behaved in the presence of himself or a cabinet officer. It appears that a 1 man may be dismissed from the ser | chief of the Department in which ne has served. In other words ne rQay pc discharged without hearing upon the | mere Accusation of others whose Woros may seem sufficient to the Department chief. , cou.o,vou rour- ished the big stick put into his hands bv inc President in a very formidable 1 address on Friday to the conventIon os | fourth class postmasters. He warned | them that their organization must pc | snieiv for improvements in the service | ar be of a purely fraternal character and not in any manner contempiate and prescribed regulations of the De-
 par 1t must be clearly understood. ssid al inc oficiai of the Department, and not the officials or members of any organi- | zation. are the proper persons 10 pre-
 sent the Departments need 10 con
 srThis expression is intended, it Is ta-
 ken, not only as timely admonittlon t a n
 to rehnke ehe % to letter carriers andeailway | man clerks who have recently been agitating changes in the reguiatlons Sor The employe must keep still and
 aS, ..pe decent" or the big stick will fa-
 tally butt into his job.
 Loeb and the Cabinet Lid.
 Nobody is less disturbed about the Presidents letter through his secrc,,
 tary. Willie LSeP, 3o 10 ta,k lne about cabinet
 assaiTs less than the Washington cor
 respondent, who IS veteran Tn the
 business The Tnrnod SidteTs bnm not to "e stand in impotent awe and how not to move around among those dressed Tn nI-
 tie brief authority atra1G d1ine no uS1 na more
 aattentinn aHe 10 the letter and the austere
 enyironment of MT. Secretary Loeb | than iT neither had ever been.
 | tHSah II first place the judgment of the veteran correspondents Is that the lcahinet chiefs will not stay gagged It Is not the first time. by several occa- sions. that a President has tried 10 make his ministers stop taking. mere are ways without number caDlnet oecer may convey information ne
 1,,ayts 10 get to the public. Trusting tho ne,yspaper friend or reputable cor | rasnondent as a man of discretion. WlIh
 q lively sense of the fitness of things Inc executive chief. having the WILL
 ,,,,II find the way to make known the 1 Viii VIII i inc conduct of even Presi-
 sant Posevelt's cabinet members since Its och letter to them sought to lay
 1a,,n tbe law of conversation with
 .lon,sraner men. The lid left by Loeb has been bobbing up and down ever since the President and ne went oo"h | tIon Taft has been taking Bonaparte | bas been talking. Cortelyou has been
 ,ait.inq Shaw has been talking on
 and off the stump and the others have
 baen talking. as though MT. Loeb had
 ~ never written them letter telling | them to shut up. ,..,--,,- ..,
 It has been optimisticaliy suggested | ,hat the Presidents efforts to set the lid tnau .innr inc cabinet members, while re-
 seprVing to himself the supreme right
 to to talk as much as he pleases. IS an-
 ot It ont of the running for the Presi-
 Hor HoncV in 1908; that 1t will not do for
 these cabinet fellows t0 participate too too
 III 1 the Roosevelt administration; that
 95 fbeir Inf business Is to do his business and
 conyersqtiOnno m aIsse 9sIlInS SSst Sfssnt w,
 But s,t tneIe ont of the irreverent dis
 ccegard co of the cabinet officers when Mir.
 Tasb ia landed. Mir. Loeb demonstra-