The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-25
ADVISORS SELECTED
TAFT CABINET IS FILLED WITH EXCEPTION CT SECRETARY
 OF TREASURY.
pRESIDENT.ELECT HAS FIVE LAWYER AIDS
Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee,l Massachusetts Two Places, Missouri, Washington, and Iowa Get Port. folios-Members Give Up Large Sal aries to Accept Place.

Philadelphia, Feb. 23.--Mr. Taft, who arrived here early Sunday morn ing, admits he is making headway in the selection of a secretary of the treasury, but maintains that the place Is not yet filled. Franklin MacVeagh and Myron T. Herrick are two of the men under consideration. With this exception, the Taft cabinet is com plete and when officially promulgated shortly before his inauguration, will be found as follows:
 Secretary of state. Philander c. Knox of Pennsylvania; attorney gem eral, George w. Wickersham of New York; secretary of war, ! M Dickin. son of Tennessee; secretary of the navy, George Von L. Meyer of Mas. sachusetts; secretary of commerce and labor, Charles Nagel of Missouri; secretary of the interior, R. A. Bal. finger of Washington; postmaster general, Frank H. Hitchcock of Mas. saschusetts; secretary of agriculture. James Wilson of Iowa
 It will be observed that in the above list are five lawyers of whom Mir. Taft believes there are none better in the country
 It may be stated that this fact is not mere coincidence. but is an ac- complishment which has been careful ly planned and striyen for by the in. coming president.
 Constitutional legal restrictions on corporate abuses are the accomplish. ments he will strive for The extreme difficulties of first framing such meas ures and then of securing their enact. ment have confronted Mir. Taft with great force. To meet them with sue. cess he believes will require the com, bined legal skill of the ablest minds he can bring to the task In assem- bling his legal cabinet, the president elect has not lost sight of the neces sity of obtaining men whose beliefs and the questions to be dealt with co incide witi his own. MT Tafts DO sition has oeen clearly embodied in his inaugural address and this docu. ment Is known to have received hearty adoption aAd complete ap. rToxax ny al. of the men selected to be Mr. sTafi's cabinet advisers. II requires liitle imagination there. fore to picture Mir Taft's expectancy 10 be that was- z reform recommen. dation shall te F ade to congress it will first had careful weighing as to Its necessity and efficiency, the greatest ease in it's preparation with a view to exact justice. and possesses al t.t will insure it's efficacy before the courts Such measures, if is be iieved, will not only commend them selves for their intrinsic merit 10 the national legislators, but may also be expected to have behind them the weight of popular approval.
 With this known careful consider ation with regard to the lawyers in his cabinet 1t is interesting 10 know something of the personality and legal achievements of the latest acquisition -J. M. Dickinson of Tennessee, who accepted the war portfolio at the hands of Mir. Taft in Cincinnati Sat urday
 Mir. Dickinson will give up the DO sition of general solicitor for the Ill nois Central railway, and a salary of s35.000 a year to become cabinet minister. He is between 54 and 55 years of age. a native of Mississippi served three months Tn the Confed crate army as a boy graduated from the University of Tennessee and fin. ished his education in Germany His grandfather was Phelix Grundy, at torney general of the United States; his father a distinguished chancellor in Mississippi. Mir Dickinson has al ways been a Democrat, although he is personal friend of President Roose welt and refused to vote for Bryan.