The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-03
BONAPARTE MAY
SOON Be RETIRED
Att0rney-General Said to Be at
Outs With the Big
Sucker.
CMail Special to the Advertiser,

(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, d. c.. May IL
Three members of the Presidents cab
met have been depicted recently as
preparing to retire from the comforts
and convenienees of high Office to the
cold, cold world. Postmaster-General
George Won L. Meyer of Massachusetts,
would resign, it was said, because he
Cortelyou putting in" on his bus
mess; Secretary of state Root would
get out soon, according to like re-
port, because his did not fancy the
Presidents preference for Secretary
Taft; and, finally, Attorney General
Bonaparte was going to relinquish his
duties as the governments leading law
officer because his health was bad.
The stories about the first two cab
met officers rested apparently on very
slender foundation; probably had no
foundation at all. It has been taken
around the State Department as set
tied that Secretary Root intends re-
naming because he has recently order
ed years supply Of coal for his large
and pretentious Rhode Island avenue
residence. However, there was proba-
bly, considerable foundation for the
newspaper articles about Attorney
General Bonaparte, and a number Of
Washington people. who think they
know the inside Of the situation, are
laughing at the expense Of the descend
ant of the mighty soldier who once had
all Europe at his feet
BONAPARTE AN ABSENTEE.
According to the best information
obtainable, Tip" went out of the
White House offices by authority that
Attorney General Bonaparte was too
i'll to continue his duties long in the
cabinet. It is known that the Presi-
dent did not take at all kindly TO the
practice Attorney General Bonaparte
has adopted of conducting most of his
departmental business in Baltimore
Many people come to Washington on
errands before the Department of JUS
tice and often have to consult with the
Attorney General. Since he assumed
that office, it has been increasingly
difficult to see Mr.. Bonaparte, because
lllIuIFSTS nave Iou1l4 that ne
was absent. Cabinet meets, as a rule,
twice a week, and Mr.. Bonaparte has
been sufficiently punctual at those
gatherings. But he often went straight
from the railroad station to the White
House offices and returned straight
from the White House offices to the
station, looking over mail that had ac-
cumulated during his ride back and
forth, his secretary being in attendance
to present matters of pressing import
ance.
A dozen instances are told TO prove
the Attorney Generals absenteeism,
and, apparently, many of them are
true. One account Is that he came
straight from Baltimore to the United
States Supreme Court room two or
three weeks ago to argue the important
case involving the constitutionaIity Of
the Eight Hour Law. The Attorney
Generals critics say he had not been
at the department then for several days
and had not properly prepared himself
to argue that case.
When these accounts of his alleged
illness, said to have originated with
President Roosevelt, came forth. Mr..
issued prompt denial. He
said he was not i'll and that he had