The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1906-11-16

the Governors of all seven of his pro-
vinces at great reception to President
Roosevelt in the Capitol. Dispatches
from Panama already announce that peo-
pie from the interior towns are arriving
10 great numbers, and it will be made a
gala occasion.
Announcement has been made from the
White House of two more Cabinet
changes that will involve the shifting of
some minor position in the Federal de
partments. Attorney General Moody. 1t
has been understood for some time,
would 20 from the Department of Justice.
and it is now announced that he would
succeed Associate Justice Brown in the
Supreme Court Secretary Hitchcock
will also resign from the Interior De-
partment, and will be succeeded by Jas.
A. Garfield, at present Head Of the Bu-
reau Of Corporations. Secretary Hitch
cock will quit the government service al
together decided against the wish of the
President, who offered him the Ambas
| sodorship to Paris, in succession to Am
bassador Mccormick, who is returning to
this country. Secretary Hitchcock de
clined, however. on the plea that he had
| all eady served eight years in the Depart
ment aside from his previous service as
Minister to St. Petersburg, and was en-
titled to a rest There will be number
| of other changes in the diplomatic corps,
| following the retirement of Mr.. Meyer
from st. Petersburg, to position in the
Cabinet Lloyd Grscome, new Minister
to Brazil, will fill Mr.. Meyers place as
Ambassador at St. Petersburg. There
| has been considerable speculation as to
Mr. Griscome's successor in Rio Janeiro,
and the most generally accepted choice
for the place is Charles Page Bryan,
Minister to Portugal, who was formerly
| Minister to Brazil before that position
was raised to the Embassy. There are
| some other changes in the Diplomatic
corps impending, the most important be
ing that of John Barrett, Minister Of Bo
gotta, who is now in this country. 1t is
| generally understood that he will not re
turn and that Leslie Combs, now Minis
tor to Honduras. will be given the Co
| lumbian post. There is also an opening
for some promising young man as Secre-
tary to the American Mission at Santo
Domingo. No appointment has as yet
been made to this place. There will also
be vacancy in the Secretaryship Of the
| American Mission at Bolivia, and there
| will be several other changes in Secre-
taryships at the European posts. But no
changes have yet been announced in these
minor positions. and while they may be
| decided on during the Presidents ab
sence, Secretary Root will not make them
public until after President Roosevelt's
| return.
To return to Secretary Hitchcock. His
term of service in the Interior Depart
ment has beeu one of hard work and lit
tie praise since he succeeded Cornelius
N. Bliss of that Department. There
have been more frauds turned up in the
| Land Office during Secretary Hitchcock's
| incum bency than under any previous
| Secretary of the Interior. 1t has been
| due perhaps to the fact that land was one
of the cheapest things in possession OF
the United States government, that such
wide field for fraud was allowed to ex
ist. The Oregon land fraud cases have
been notorious and have involved hun
dreds of thousands of acres of govern
ment land. There have been swamp land
frau9s, mineral entry and railroad frauds
and frauds under almost every other sec
ton of the Land Laws that it was posi-
BILE to conceive. All these have come out
| during Secretary Hitchcock's administra-
ton, and while they have rendered it an
unceasing period of hard work and Grim
inal prosecution, it has been something
to the credit of the Secretary that they
were discovered at all. Possibly his var
| led and unpleasant experience in office
| has contributed to make him grabbed. He
has been by all odds one of the most un
approachable members of the Cabinet,
and personally there are very few men i'll
| Washington who have had to do business
at the Interior Department. who will view
his retirement with any sense of personal
loss. But he has certainly been a hard
worker and an honest one. and his sue
cessor Mr.. Garfield will find the official
desks considerably cleared. althoug h
there are number Of land fraud prose
cutions still holding over.
The most important change in the dip
lomatic corps that has happen ed since the
death of Sir Julian Paun cefote comes
| with the resignation of the British Am
bassador Sir Henry Mortimer Durand.
| He has served in this country for com
| parativelv short time succeeding Sir
| Michael Herbert after the latter's death
| in office He has made a number of
friends in Washington and will be quite
generally regretted both socially and of
| fl tally.
VOTE IN FIFTH DIST RIOT.