The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-30
MANY CHANGES
FREsrDENr HoosEvELr-s CABI. ;a NETS BREAK RECORD.
Twepty-Nine Appsfr.tmeats ih the two Terms. Mr. CirveIand. Had Twenty- Three In Ills Time. Dfstrfl5us
 ton of Memhers.

s fhree Tn tttai .Hfmes Dtstrfbus E tfen ef Memhers. fss, ]. When .Theodore Rooseven retirss from the pfesidential~ ofice he will have made record for nufneroiis Cabinet appointments. = s writes, the Washington Correspondent or The Boston Herald. The 1ast CaBfr meet ing he presldes ovar will De. cornpos- ed almost solely of cofnparative1y new men. There viii be but one man. Sec retary Wilson, who attended the. first Cabinet meeting that. Ro6sevelt held in the autumn Of 1901 There, win be only one other, Secretary of the Treas nfy corteiyou, who was at the cabi- net table in March, 1905. when Mir. Rootevelt entered upon .hfs present term. ettt sstl
 In the seven and a half years of .bis tenure. Mir Roosevelt will have had twenty nine different Cabinet ofiicers, but not as many differeHt men. for MT. Root has served under ih{sii first as Secretary of War and then as Secre- tary of State. Mir. Cortiyou has had three Cabinet positions under, Roose
 t--Commefce and Labor. Post -office and Treasury. Attorney General Bona Parte first came into the Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. r No other President has made so many changes. There have been six Secre- taries of the Navy since Mf Roose- welt entered t1ie White House--L.ons, Morton, Moody. iEonaparte, sMetcalf and Newberry7-and five Postmasters General--Smith. Payne. Wynne, Cottele you and Meyer. Tn ere have been two Secretaries of State--IIay and Root. The recent announcement that Secret ry Root is stos resign las soon -as he Pis elected to the Senate from New York and that Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon, of Neg York and Bos- ton, will succeed him. assures three l Secretaries of State < during President Rooseveltss time. sMrs iRoossveits has also had three Secretaries Of the Treas | ury,s three Secretaries of War, three lAttorneys General. three secretaries Of Commerce .andsitwo Secretaries fof tiie | Infertor.N5 [. sStt t&trs8 sg ss k5 4-E :. Grover Cleveland. theJ.. only other President since Grants time who has served two terms. had but twenty three Cabinet officers. They we're in two sdministrations, separated by, a four-year period. Tn each aofssIis aatl- ministrations most of the t'meh rwifo came Into offlces with him remained at his Cabinet table till the close sof the four years for which tite President had been elected Hut onetof tile !ciien- ges in MT. Roosevelt,ss Cabinets has been on .acconnt bof. a death,s and that vas in the4 State Depar tment.s ss l,S When Mir. Bacon becomes Secretary of State. three ofgthe nine members of the last RopseveltS Cab met, will sbe4 men who were favorites at stepnis and have been counted members of the. tennis Cabinet. They, are; besides Mir. Bacon, Postlnaster General Meyer \ and Secretary Garfield.s .e9Y ! i,a4ssSf
 l Five members of the Cabinst have had butestwo. years experiehce.s or whereabouts, having come in when Mir. Roosevelt reorgauized his Cabinet in 1.-the middle of his present administra- Sscretary of the Treasury MT. Meyer Postmaster General and MT. sGarheld ESecretary. of tl3e Interior.. A few months before that Mr.. Bonaparte had become Attorneys General and Mir. Straus Secretary of.' < Commerce and Labor. ss1~s ,..s l..9.-.,s... s...sss :
 From all ;appearenceso t. the Cabinet members Mir. Roosevelt has developed will not stand fas1 prominently before the country, as. those whom Mr. Mo Kinley. named, Secretaries ss Haysg and Root In the State Department, sSeeTe. tary Taft in the War Department, aktl 1 torney General Knox e In; the yDepart- ment of Justice and Secretary Cortel- you in the Trsasury, have figured ai the ableste officials in the two Roose- welt adminlstrations. All were. men | whom Mckinley l, discovered. and brought. into public service He gave Root, Hay and Knox Cabinet port. folies, whose names will figure in the Cabinet rosters of three succeeding ad
 ministratioTs as premiers, McKinleO took Taft from tn he Federal bench anC made him Governor General of. the Philippines whence he, came to thu
 Roosevelt Cabinet to become Roose
 velts successor.
 M,rs Roosevelt has also broken al
 precedents' in the distribution Of hi Cabinet favors.t No other 1PresIden
 has kept so many men from his 'liorn,
 State around the Cabinet table. Ther,
 are now three members from New Yorl !-Roote, CortelYou and Straus. As {
 rule Presidents have had but one mem
 Der from any State. Mr. Roosevelt a
 one time had two from Iowa-ShaV V
 and Wilson-and two from Ohio
 Taft and Garfield. It is unusual for ,
 Republican President to have even on
 member from the South, but MT, Roose
 welt now has two in Attorney Genera
 Bonaparte from Maryland and Secre
 tary of War Wright from Tennessee
 It has been very exceptional for , President to choose for his .Cabine
 men from. the opposite political party
 Cleveland came near to that when h
 named Gresham for Secretary of State
 The latter had even a Republican, h can
 didate' for the presidency, but .iffs tn , 1892 campaign had been an ,tndependen Mir Roosevelt has chosen two ae knowledged Democrats-Straus an, ! Wright--both of whom are in th
 Cabinet at the present time.
 It has. become increasingly. dificul
 to persuade able men to accept posi-
 tions at the head of executive depa rt menrs. The. salary has been increas
 ed, but still less than a Cabinet of
 hcer's expenses. Several of Mir. Roose ] velt's advisers have resigned for fin
 ancial reasons, but several of then
 have been forced into private life.