The Washington herald., 1907-05-05

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The greatest grief in Tracy's life came
when his Washington home burned down
and his wife and daughter perished in the
fire.
Since leaving the Cabinet he has stuck
pretty close 10 his profession, though he
served as president of the commission
which drafted the charter Of the Greater
New York in 1898, and he ran for mayor
of New York, but was badly defeated by
Van Wyck Tammany candidate. in
three-cornered contest. Seth Low. the
Citizens Union champion, being third CON
testant. When Secretary OF the Treasury
Window died at a New York Board of
Trade dinner, in 1891 he fell into Tracy's
arms.
William Henry Moody, hfty-four a ma
tive of Massachusetts, like Roosevelt. a
Harvard man, and now member of the
United States Supreme Court, is one OF
the comparatively few who has served In
two Cabinet positions. Roosevelt ap-
pointed him both TO the Attorney Cen
eralship and the Navy Department.
Moody's predecessor under Mckinley,
John Davis Long. also a Massachusetts
man, had Roosevelt for his assistant just
before the Spanish war. and there was
more or less friction between them until
Roossvelts resignation TO join the Rough
Riders Long is between sixty-eight and
siXty-nine. lie held several State offices.
including the governorship. before going
10 Washington as a Representative in
lES3. He was born in Maine. got his de-
gree al Harvard and lives az bingham.
near Boston. The bulk of his very heavy
law practice has always been in the Bay
State capital
Hillary Abner Herbert who held the
post during Cleveland's second term.
South Caroinian by birth, but Alabama
bred, ana a Confederate officer in the civil
var, is practicing law in Washington at
seventy-three At sixty-four Nathan
Gof, naval secretary under Hayes, is
United States circuit judge. living at
Clarksburg, W Va, the place Of his
birth,
Famous state Department Heads.
Richard Olney at seventy-one. one Of
foremost legal lights in Boston. where he
OF the best known surviving Secretaries
of State. He served in Cleveland's sec
Ond term, and made the greater part OF
his reputation by the audacity with which
he upheld the Monroe Doctrine IN the
mid-nineties, when England was prepar-
ing to force certain claims against Veae-
zuela. At least, it always has been sup
posed by the public that he wrote the
Presidents famous message to Congress
announcing that this republic would not
allow the landing of an armed European
force on any part of the Western conti-
% nj without making every possible effort
to prevent IT,
William Rufus Day. who succeeded
John Sherman. is now a justice OF the
Supreme Court He is ffty-eight. slight.
also retiring and silent unless he is Wit
Messing a baseball game. Called TO Wash
ington by Mckinley in the midst OF tie
perpleNities incident 10 the beginning of
the Spanish war TO be Sherman's assist
ant when the latter was on the doWnhlU
road, Day fully justified the Presidents
confidence in him. and was made head Of
the department when Sherman resigned.
Day resigned at the close Of the war. but
served as chairman fog the United states
on the Paris commission which fixed the
terms of the treaty of peace with Spain.
Mckinley made Day circuit judge. In
1903 Roosevelt put him in his present
place
The third surviving Secretary Of State
John Watson Foster. is possibly the most
famous American international lawyer
He was appointed 10 the State portfolio
by Harrison. in 1892 soon after the Re
publican national convention. in which
Harrison had defeated Blaine for the
Presidential nomination. Pike County
Hoosier by birth and a graduate Of the
State university, Foster had served in
the civil war as a colonel, had been an
editor in Evansville, and United States
minister TO Mexico, Russia, and Spain;
he had also been counsel for various for
eign governments, and had negotiated
reciprocity treaties with Brazil, Spain.
Germany the British West Indies. &c.
His income from his international law
practice was big, and he used 70 wonder
whether he could get it back or not. Har-
rison was not reelected, but Fosters
fears proved groundless, since he was
sent to Paris in 1893 to represent this
in the Behring Sea arbitration.
He represented China in her peace nego-
tiations with Japan. and since then has
been intrusted with several important
special missions for this government, and
has got his international practice back
again. He is now seventy-one: his ia
nous side whiskers are as luxuriant as
ever, though whittier. and his voice and
manner have all their old-time suavity.
Former War Department Chiefs.
James Donald Cameron. Secretary of
War in Grants last year. rich in coal
and iron mines, manufacturing establish
ments and the like. is retired at seventy
four, and has been for years. His home
IS at Harrisburg. the capital Of the state
over which he and his father. Simon Cam
aron, were political bossee before the
Quay days dawned. but he is much in
New York. He was In the Senate from
for twenty years after Ieav-
ng the Cabinet. but resigned ten years
ago
Two years older than Cameron. Red |
field Proctor. appointed in the War Office
by Harrison, has been in the Senate ever |
since 1891 He is so big a mans feet 3 /
inches. and broad according" that his /
ordinary frock coat would be amply large 4
10 serve almost any one of his colleagues I
as an Overeoat He had been prominent /
n Vermont State politics and had served /
as governor. but never was in national l
politics before entering the Cabinet. He /
s famous for his dry New England 4
humor. Once a felIow-senator, speaking /
along lines that Proctor opposed. an
bounced that he desired to drop into
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