The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-04-11

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secretary knew him. IL is then thai
he sees the little cards OF all the call
ers arranged on the desk, and cannot
help beginning to suspect that the
clever private secretary either skill.
July placed the people In the room
la the same order as the cards were
stacked or that he arranged the cards
after the people we're In and seated.
At any rate he knows something has
happened that he did not see.
Secretary Garfield quick 10 urse
business IL Is not always easy for a
man to stand in the presence OF a
score of strangers and reveal what 1t
Is that brings him there, but there is
no help for II. IL he wants the Sec
Rotary to do something for him ne
has got to say what 1t Is and why he
thinks be ought to receive that ac-
commodation. The almost invariabie
effect upon people Is to cause them
to hurry, which is the reason that
the secretary does 1t that way In
stead OK giving all who come a pri-
yate Interview. One after the other
they are called TO the desk and their
various requests passed upon. Some
get peremptory dismissal, indeed,
and from Others the secretary takes
pains to draw out all the information
he can. But. at any rate, in sur
prisingly brief time the room Is
cleared and the same process Is then
repeated until all who come are dis
posed of.
MIR. Gariield's selection for the cab
met was undoubtedly due to his
service as commissioner OF corpora
lions in the department OF commerce
and labor. In that capacity he had
the responsibility OF investigating
and reporting upon variety OF Inn
portant matters, but his greatest
work was done in connection with
tue exposure OF the secrets of the
beef trust and the oil-trust. He also
had under his glass such concerns as
the tobacco trust, the insurance
question, steel and iron, inland
waterway Transportation, ETC., but 1t
was To the beef and OIL Investigations
that he gave the largest measure OF
his personal attention. 1t is very
true OF Mr.. Garfield that he is ''From
Missouri. lie wants to know things
for himself, and for that reason went
to Chicago and elsewhere and asked
the beef packers and others to show
him. The same process Is promised
In the interior department
Coming into the department at
this time Secretary Garfield inherits
all the land fraud cases not yet dis
posed Of, and he will have to decide
many important questions relative to
the land question. That he may
know for himself he will spend three
months this summer In the West,
studying the present condition of the
public domain. This will include
a visit to every important land Office
and every project now under way for
the reclamation of arid lands. When
he has completed the trip the secre-
tary feels that he will begin to have
an understanding of the subject 10y
which lie may reasonably undertake
to deal justly With the land question.
Furthermore, he will have a better
light on the circumstances surround.
ing the land frauds and will be the
more perfectly equipped to handle
them. In this connection it is worth
repeating that Mr.. Garfield says to
all who talk with him on the matter
that he does not propose 60 hold
man guilty OF land frauds until he
has been proven so. The atmosphere
of the interior department, as is the
complaint OF many, has been in favor
OF believing all guilty who came I'M
der suspicion, an atmosphere which
is the inyariaDle result OF such a
great investigation as the depart
ment has been carrying on through
special agents throughout the West.
At the same time the in7estiga-
lions are to continue as vigorously as
heretofore. The country is to be
purged Of this species of fraud, no
matter how long IL takes. As Com
missioner of Corporations, Mr.. Gar
field kept seventy-three people busy
and with this training IL will be
strange IL he will not manage To lind
steady employment for the larger
staff accorded by the interior depart
ment. But to all his special agents
and TO all Others who have to do with
the investigations he has been laying
down the rule that they must not 20
upon the assumption that every man
who falls under suspicion is guilty.
"You get the facts and bring them
to me and l will soon decide what
ought TO be done. he says to them:
but be sure TO get them all -
Secretary Garfield is II years old.
He was born at Hiram o., and served
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