The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-07

some other law officer.
AS matter of fact, the President
is not likely to ask the resignation of
| any of his cabinet officers at this
stage of his administration. He said
at Provincetown the other day that he
had but eighteen months more to serve
, as President. During the six years and
more that Mr.. Roosevelt has been in
the White House he has not dismissed
a single cabinet officer. Mr.. Mckinley.
in the more than four years he was
President dismissed two cabinet Off
cers-the late Senator Alger of Michi-
gan who was Secretary of War, and
the late John Sherman, who was Sec
rotary of State. Cabinet quarrels are
much less frequent nowadays than for
merIy. The administrations proceed
with finer discipline, cabinet officials
have a much larger mass of details
to handle, but Presidents keep closer
eye on matters of general policy, prob
| ably. At least, that has been the case
with President Roosevelt, who has APP
proximated the custom of President
| Cleveland in that particular. 1t used
| to be said of Mr.. Cleveland that he
! reduced his cabinet officers to the grade
| of clerks and simply made them the
instruments for executing his orders.
President Roosevelt has by no means
been entirely satisfied with all the men
who have served in his cabinet and
has frequently reorganized that body.
But he has gotten along amiably with
every man he has invited into the
| cabinet. No member has gone out who
wished to remain, except Postmaster
General Robert J. Wynne. But he was
appointed at the very close of Mr..
Roosevelt's first administration. He was
promoted from the office of First As |
sistant Postmaster General, upon the
death of Henry c. Payne of Wiscon-
sin, and it was well understood that /
Mr. Wynne was appointed only for an
interim.
There have been two deaths of cab
met officers since Mr.. Roosevelt be-
came Presi6ent-that of Mr.. Payne and
that of the late Secretary of State John
Hay. The mortality percentage in the
cabinet has therefore been high.
Very likely there will be more cab
met changes before the close of the
administration, for it is very unusual
that year passes with every man re-
tanning his seat about the Presidents
council table. But the designations
1TOUl IIllS tkilS Iii &ndIIhs IJOoy diC
likely to be for business reasons. Even
with the salary of $4,000 a year, which
a cabinet officer now receives. many
members are anxious to return to their
business interests. The designations
for that cause have been increasing
in the last twenty years.
The President now has several
wealthy men as well as several poor
Of feaI
Root, who has recently gone to the
training farm of Billy Muldoon, a.
former wrestling champion, near White
Plains. n. Y, to build muscle and over
come the fatigue of official labors, is
now counted as worth at least several
hundred thousand dollars. When he
resigned as Secretary of War in Pres
ident Roosevelt's cabinet and returned 1
to the practise of law in New York,
he was comparatively poor. But enor-
NOUS retainers came to him, once he
hung out his single again, and he now :
has sufficient money to maintain one
of the most elaborate cabinet estab-
lishments in Washington. There is lit
tie danger of wolves bowling at Mr..
Roots front door.
Probably Secretary of the Treasury c
Cortelyou, the second highest ranking
member of the cabinet, is poorer in S
this worlds goods than any of his col- T
leagues, unless it be Secretary of Agri-]
culture Wilson. Mr.. Cortelyou has had i a
to count the dollars in his salary, but
ha has lived modestly, is still in mid
die life, and, as an ex-Secretary of
the Treasury. will be in a good way to
make fortune for himself and fam
lily within the next ten or fifteen years. 4
He can command a gilt-edged salary ]
as head of a financial concern when !
he retires from public life.
Secretary Taft, too, is poor man.
He has held office ever since he was
a very young man, but his official
salaries have no more than sufficed to
maintain himself and family. Some of
his brothers are wealthy, especially
his half brother, Charles p. Taft, of
Cincinnati, and it is understood have ]
advanced him money occasionally that I
he might continue to hold high office
and keep UP appearances commensu-
rate with his position. Secretary of
the Interior Garfield is by no means
a rich man but there is money enough
in the family so that he does not
have to worry.
Attorney General Bonaparte is
very rich man, probably many times
although he has never
been much advertised in the million
aire class. He is a large landlord in
Baltimore, having a multitude of
houses that net him a handsome in
come. The nucleus of his wealth came
from his grandmother, the beautiful
Miss Patterson, whose marriage to the
great Bonaparte's brother was an
nul1ed.
Postmaster General George Won L.
Meyer is also a very wealthy man. He
inherited a large fortune from his
father, married a rich wife, and is now
in charge of a big and lucrative BUSH
ness. Considerable of his income
comes from the manufacture of choc-
olate. Secretary of the Navy Met
calf, too, has plenty of money, al