The Washington herald., 1907-05-05

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1903. It's delivery took four days. and il
took him fun week 10 revise It for the
printer. The circumstances attending
! Teller's last reelection to the Senate. in
1903, were unusual. There was Just one
too few present in joint session OF the
| legislature to make quorum. The ser.
geant-at-arms went out found a men,
Der named Madden. who was sick abed.
bundled him into an ambulance against
his wife's protest and took him to the
/ chamber where he completed the quo.
rum and Teller was elected
These Looked After the Mali.
There are eight living former Postmss-
/ ters General counting George Bruce Cor.
telyou, now Secretary OF the Treasury.
and therefore not an "ex." and Villas.
who has been at the head OF the Interior
| Department as weH
/ cortelyou's immediate predecessor as
Postmaster General was Robert John
Wynne. who reached his Cabinet chair
/ via the First Assistants place. in 1852
/ Apparently he was expected 10 be only
/ hgurehead but he insisted on knowing
/ what was going on. The result was var
/ between Machen and Beavers. bureau
heads, and Wynne; a general investisa-
/ ton Of the department and trial on Grim
I inal charges for Machen, Beavers. and
some others. Postmaster General Payne
was not In sympathy with Wyune al
/ first. but fell IN with him later Wynne
was made head Of the department in
I 1904; in 1905 ne was sent to London as
United States consul general. He Is
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was Washington correspondent Of the
New York Press when taken into the
Post-ofiee Department
McKiniey's Postmaster General from
{ 1898 TO 1902 Charles Emory Smith, was
/ also newspaper man. editor Of the Phil
adelphia Press, both before and after his
connection with the department He is
sixty-fye, a graduate OF Union, q native
/ Of Connecticut, and was Minister % Rus
STA under Harrison. James Albert Cary,
who preceded him as head Of the depart
ment under Mckinley, Connecticut born,
was manufacturer in Baltimore when
I placed In the Cabinet and returned 10
the business on resigning in 1855 He is
] seventy-three.
At sixty-nlne John Wauamaker. Of PhH-
adelphia. is pursuing his way as q retail
merchant the business which he was en-
gagged in when intrusted with the port
/ folio by Harrison in 1Ss3
Don NJ Dickinson. Postmaster General
under Cleveland, during his first term,
returned to his law practice in Detroit
after leaving the Cabinet. ana at sixty
one is stil active He is a graduate Of
+ the law department Of the University of
/ Michigan. In 1886 he was senior counsel OF
/ the United States in the prosecution Of
/ the Bering Sea claims and IN 1902 was
] a member OF the board Of arbitration
appointed 70 settle the differences be-
tween the United States and Salvador
Thomas Lemuel James Garfeld's POST
master General, now seventy-six. who be-
gan life as q printer IN Utica. n Y.
and was postmaster in New York when
called TO the Cabinet, became president
OF the Lincoln National Bank. in New
York, on leaving the department and
has held that position a quarter of a
century. He Is not q college graduate,
but has received several honorary de-
grees.
Former Chief Law Officers.
Including Williams, there are eight sur
viving Attorneys General. seven besides
Supreme Court Justice Moody, Who mas
hlled two Cabinet places. both under
Roosevelt. Philander Chase Knox. who
was a big corporation lawyer in Pitts
burg when called TO the Cabinet by Ne
KinIey in ECI resigned the place under
Roosevelt, in 1904, when elected TO the
Senate, and has devoted himself to his
Senatorial job ever since. He is one OF
the most picturesque men. both in ap-
peaTance and in personal history Wh9
ever filed q Cabinet cnaiT. Al dfty-F0ur.
G feet TALL smooth shaven, alert. he is in
the very prime of life. He is a Pennsyl-
vanian by birth and a graduate Of Mount
Union College. an Ohio institution
He never heII bat one ofice before en-
tering the Cabinet, that Of Assistant Unit
ed States District Attorney. He was Car
negie's attorney in many of his earlier
operations. He thinks his work in exam
ing the status of the Panama Canal com
panies before the purchase Of the canal
was the most important he ever did. Il
was he, who. as Attorney General, caused
the dissolution of J. J. HIS Northern
Securities Company, The Senator IS as
fond of a fast horse to-day as he was
when practicing law
John William Griggs, who succeeded
Knox as Attorney General and was Pat
erson. \. J.. lawyer before entering the
Cabinet returned 10 Paterson and re-
sumed his practice there on resigning in
1901. He is dfty-eight, a native Of New
Jersey, and a graduate of Lafayette. His
predecessor. Joseph McKenDa. a native OF
Philadelphia. though appointed from Cal
ifornia by Mckinley. was made a United
States Supreme Court justice in 1865 He
is sixty-three
Judson Harmon. of Cincinnati. Attorney
General during a part Of Cleyeland's sec
ond term. an Ohioan by birth and Deni-
son University man. is practicing law AT
sixty-one in Cincinnati, as ne was in 1885,
when called TO the Cabinet Harrisons
Attorney General and for years his part
ner. William Henry Harrison Miller. is
practicing law at Indianapolis. He is
sixty-six, a native OF New York State,
and a graduate Of Hamilton.
WAYNE MacVeagh, the Oldest of the Iiv-
ing ex-Attorneys General-he IS seventy
four-who served under Garfield and re-
signed when Arthur succeeded him. is
practicing law in Philadelphia. where he
is a very big hgure He is a Pennsyl-
vanian by birth and enlisted IN the States
defense when it was threatened by the
Confederate movement which eliminated
at Gettysburg. A Republican ia the time
of Hayes, who sent him TO Louisiana to
smooth things over there. he became Il