The National tribune., 1907-08-15
THE CABINET.
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started recently that the Secretary
might resign his portfolio. so that he
could go it alone as 2 Presidential can
he has returned from bis round-the-
world trip. His friends Claim that he
would thus relieve himself from the
criticism of being Ro6seyelt's legatee.
The tariff revisioflsts,, all over the
country have been taking up Mr.. Taft's
boom. He has said Just enough about
revision and declared in favor Of some
revision just strongly enough to attract
the revision wing of HIS party. The
s:and-p pat wing. on the other hand. are
opposing him by the same token. How
ever, there are numerous powerful re-
vision newspapers thruout the country,
and they have generally been comment
ing favorably on his candidacy and re-
joicing that he has secured the indorse-
ment of the Ohio State Central Com
mittee.
His friends claim that the Secretary's s
boom will be given an impetus by the
several political speeches he is sched-
uled to make on his trip across the
country on the way to the Philippines.
He has had many invitations to speak
along his line of travel. but has had to
limit his acceptances to about half
dozen cities. In the course of these
speeches it is expected that he will more
clearly define his attitude on several
public questions.
Secretary COrtelyou.
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou is
expected in Washington about the same
time that Secretary Taft comes. His
Presidential boom, too. continues to at
tract notice, althO Mr.. Cortelyou has
appeared to discourage it. Mr.. Cortel-
YOU has been living very quietly for the
rt nf fNUn Long
Island, within calling distance of Oyster
Bay. He is supposed to have done some
quiet political work in New York State.
In spite of disclaimers it is believed that
the Secretary of the Treasury is alto
gether frigid toward his own little boom.
True. it has been fostered to kill off the
Taft boom. and there have been reports
of friction between Mr.. Cortelyou and
the President and between NJ. COrtel-
you and Mr.. Taft on that account. Those
Midsummer stories of friction between
any two of this trio should be taken
with a grain of salt. They are not the
kind of men to be foolish about such
things.
AS has been previously explained, Mr..
Cortelyou is undoubtedly loyal to the
man who has done very much to ad-
vance him in the official world. which
man is President Theodore Roosevelt.
Mr. COrtelyou is not the kind of official
to forget such things or to be migrate
full. He will help the President as far
as he consistently can to advance the
Taft boom. At the same time Mr.. Cor
telyou has very friendly ties with the
men who are using him to prevent Sec
rotary Taft's nomination. knowing that
Mr.. COrtelyOu is very acceptable man
to the President.
Secretary Root.
Secretary Root has been spending a
quiet Summer in central New York, and
nothing has been heard from him by
the outside world of late, except the
announcement of the engagements OF
his son and of his daughter. Mr.. Root
is one of the few Cabinet officers who
have been in the vicinity of Oyster Bay
during the Summer without going there
for consultation. He will probably jour-
ney over to Sagamore~Hill for instruc-
ton and advice before he starts on his
fine trip to Mexico to promote amity
and friendship between. the two Ma
tions.
Secretaries Root and Taft are the only
two members of the Cabinet who are
often able to influence the President to
their way of thinking on matters of ex-
ecutive business. Their power with him
is attributed to theft long friendship
and also to their ability to comprehend
the Presidents divers moods. 1t has
been said in inner official circles that
they are able to move the President by
humorous remarks about little things
that tickle the Presidents funny bone.
---- ;AttOrney-Genernl Bonaparte.
Attorney-General Bonaparte has been
doing some work at his Summer home
in Lenox. and has been giving out sorle
characteristic interviews there about
legal matters before the Department of
Justice. He never resorts to the evasions
and circumlocutions. of most other men
in public life, but speaks out with the
freshness and pith that was his custom
when only plain Charles ]. Bonaparte
Before he resumes his work in the De-
partment with earnestness he will have
to superintend the State campaign in
Maryland. He is the recognized Repub-
lican leader there. and the Republicans
are making an effort to capture that
State this Fall. The campaign has al
ready begun and promises to be vigor-
GUS. The orators will be out on every
hustings. and, as prominent member
of the Administration, Mr.. BOnaparte
will feel bound to make as good a show
ing as possible. for a large Democratic
majority in an off year, when the
Democratic Party in the State is badly
divided. would be interpreted as an un-
favorable augury.
The POstmnster-G
Postmaster-General George Won l..
Meyer has been sticking to his post
very pluckily, but at last relinquished
1t for little vacation. He is rather
proud that for the first quarter of the
fisc&i year the Department Is running
without any deficit. In other words, the
receipts from the Postal Service will be
equal to the expenditures. Last year
the deficit was approximately $9,00O,-
900. Mr.. Meyer does not expect to keep
up the good record of running the De-
partment without drawing any money
out of the National Treasury, but he
expects to reduce the deficit for the
present fiscal year to about $1,000, 900,
which would be rather remarkable. He
intends to make several important rec
concentrations to the coming session OF
Congress for the improvement and ex-
tension of the service. Tho most i'm
portant of these will be the Inaugural
ton of parcels post In making the
experiment Mr.. Meyer would limit the
weight of parcels to five pounds or pos
sibly to 10 pounds.
He recently described in Massachu-
sets his aversion to being called by the
title of General" The Postmaster
General and the Attorney-G General have
often been addressed by that title, be-
cause ii is more convenient than Mr.