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There is Only One Mckinley Mem.
Der Now in Original
Place.
RAPID RISE OF coRTELYoU.
California Congressman Visit Panama
Hair Raising Jokes on Bar
Der Member Elect.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence,
Washington. Dec. st-Among the
many things for which President
Rooseyel,'s administration Is remark
able Is the number OF changes he has
made In his cabinet When all the
changes that have heretofore been an
nouneed shall actually have been made,
there VIII be only one member OF the
cabinet holding the same office he held
when Mr.. Roosevelt succeeded Mr. Me-
Klrley That one is Seey of Agrlcul-
ture Wilson. Secy. Of State Root was
IN the cabinet when Mr., Roosevelt be-
came president. but at that time he
had the portfolio OF the war depart
ment. Secy. Of the Interior Hitchcock
was IN charge OF the interior depart
ment then, too, but his retirement and
tho selection of James X. Garfield 10
succeed him have already been def
nitcly arranged for.
CONTIGUOUS PROGRESS.
No member of the present cabinet has
riscn as rapidly as George Bruce Cor
telSou, now postmaster general. whose
apl ointment as secretary OF the treas
ury 10 succeed Leslie NJ Shaw WAS
announced some weeks ago. Indeed.
few public men OF modern times have
had more brilliant career than Mr..
Cortelyou Starting as n government
clerk at very small salary, he was
President McKinley's private secretary
when the tragedy at Buffalo made
Theodore Roosevelt president Mr.
Roosevelt kept him IN that position UNI
III Congress created tho department Of
commerce and labor Of which Mr.. Cor
telyou was made the head Resigping
that post to take charge OF the Re-
publican national committee IN the last
presidential campaign, he was later re-
appointed TO the cabinet, being given
the IcstoiIlce portfolio, which he now
holds. He is only ~ years old.
STRAUS ONLY ONE FROM OUT
SIDE
Oscar S. Straus OF New York, the only
Hebrew In the cabinet Is also the only
one of the new members who have not
heretofore been connected with Presi-
Gent Rooseyelt's official family In some
way. Victor S. Metcalf, whom Straus
succeeds and who IN turn succeeds
Charles j. Bonaparte. who becomes at
toiney general, vice William n. Moody,
made an associate Just OF the SUI
pTeme court of the United States, was
formerly member OF the house Of rep
resentatves from California. Mr. Gar
field. the new secretary OF the interior.
has been chief of the bueau OF corpora
tiors. department OF commerce and la
Dor, for some time.
CALIFORNIA TO PANAMA,
| The California delegation in Congress,
! which has been very much In the pub
| lie eye recently as result OF the trou-
| BILE IN San Francisco growing out OF
the segregation OF Japanese pupils
from white children In the public
schools. is now aged In another en-
terprise which Is certain to attract con-
siderable attention Yesterday a party
containing most Of the national legis-
lators from the Galden Gate state left
Washington for Panama via Tampa.
They Will spend five days on the isth-
mus for the purpose OF personally in
vestigating the labor conditions exist
ing there, The Pacific coast generally
is opposed 20 the use OF Chinese coolies
fornia congressman desire to see for
themselves what the results OF the en-
ployment OF such labor may be.
A HIT AT BIGELow.
The largest picture In the Panama
canal message which President Roose-
welt sent TO Congress earlier In the
week showed the Colon reservoir, a