Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-24

Is doing anything with the postal service.
But IL the looks of the Postmaster General
count for anything, Cortelyou has done
wonders.
Cortelyou has good men under him, how
ever. In his first assistant Frank H. Hitch
cock, end his fourth assistant r V. De
dfaw. They both DO plenty OF work and
as Cortelyou IS not lazy nor incompetent
himself the regular administration OF the
departments affairs are in excellent hands.
good deal of Cortelyou's time il given 10
ADVISING with the President on political
matters
MI. Hitchcock's Success.
Secretary Hitchcock. perhaps the most un-
popular man who ever held a Canine, Of
| nce. is one of the best workers and proha-
bly, the most efficient muck-raker on the
residents STAFF. While Attorney General
Moody and James Rudolph Garfield have
met with doubtful success in most OF their
bounding OF the octopi Hitchcock has gone
out after the land grsfters in the western
states and sent barrels OF them 10 the
peh'tentiarles. senator and a gepresente-
1--WE went down before him and as to
common or garden varieties of land sharks,
ms victims are without number Many in
olctInents are stun pending but the chances
are that Secretary Hitchcock will land them
All before he gets through. And no govern
.heLt oniciai has had half the odds to con-
eend against that Hitchcock has In this
crusade. Several senator's have fought him
IN every possible way and strong friends
OF the President have tried TO poison has
mind against the Secretary of the Interior.
hitchcock has kept at IL. however. to win
out IN the end.
immigration matters have absorbed most
OF the time OF Secretary Metcalf of the
department of Commerce and Labor dur
ing the past year. except when he was sent
10 san Fracisco as the special representa-
tive OF the President, after the earthquake.
When tortelyou organized the Department
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way as to make the Secretary responsi-
bic for all sorts of detail such as the hes do
or departments usually leave TO competent
subordfnates. Consequently. Metcalf fell
heir to tough Job. Also. II may be said.
Congress is very niggardiy with Its appro-
prtations for this department and Metcalr
mas barely enough money to get along with.
Sun. ne does the best he Secretary
Wilson gets plenty OF money for the De-
partment OF Agriculture and according to
plans he has been working on for some time,
he intends to put the cotton boil weevtl
ana the Texas cattle tick out of business
during the next year Incidentally he and
his civil service inspectors hope to so con-
troll the beef packers that the common peo-
pie can eat all sorts of meat with perfect
safety from this time forward Wilson 10
a steady going ScotChman that has been
worried only once since he has been in tho
cabinet. That was last summer, when the
ofhcials of the Southern Cotton Associa-
ton succeeded in proving that his statist!-
clans were in the control of Wall street
spectators. The Secretary of Agriculture
has recovered from that shock however,
and is helping the farmers right along
The Secretary of the Navy.
Charles J. Bonaparte Secretary of the
Navy, has, In the opinion of most Wash
ingtonians, failed to take strong stand in
the cabinet. Great things were told OF
him when he came to Washington. All sorts
of stories were printed about the manner
In which he had cleaned out the machine
politicians Of Maryland and great things
were predicted for him. Up to date the
kinsman OF the Little Corporal" has done
nothing great in the cabinet. Gossip in
Washington is to the effect that Bonaparte
lets Assistant Secretary Newberry do NEST
of the work at the Navy Department. The
Secretary is not particularly interested In
the navy, but 1t is thought that he will
hold on to his Job until Moody quits the
cabinet, SO he become Attorney Gem
eral, which is his ambition. Bonaparte is an
exceptionally able man, but he is not the
most energetic person In the world except
where law and civil service are concerned.
Attorney General Moody is another man
who has not shone with particular luster
in the cabinet. He does what the President
wants him to do. however, and does not
1eopardize HIS standing with his chief by
attempting TO alter any course Mr. Roose-
welt elects to pursue. Moody catches the
drift of the presidential breeze and sails
along with 1t in sereneness and tranquility.