The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-04
CABINET MEN BACK
HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS RETURN
 TO CAPITOL.
After likeness of Summer OhiciaI Life os Warrington Revives--Severai Chiefs Will Accompany
 President aft.

Washington. Oct. 3.-Washington will soon be in the full swing of the governmental work under the direction season of administration of affairs by the assistant secretaries, two mem- bers of the Presidents Cabinet-Sec- retary of the Navy Meyer and Secre- tary of Agriculture Wilson, are to- night sitting on the lid" of the gov. ernment, and two others-Attorney? General Wickeersham and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel-are ex- pected by Tuesday The other mem- bers of the Cabinet are out of town.
 During tn esummer vacations, the Cabinet officers wer efrequently con suited on official matters and Import ant business has been transacted by some of them, notably Attorney-Gen- eral wickersham. who had offices in operation In New York City. Annual reports of the various branches of the executive service are being prepared, and there are & number of complicated questions which will be threshed out on the return of the Cabinet officials.
 Secretary of Ctate Knox, who spent most of the summer at his country home at Valley Forge, is expected in WaBnlngtOn the IdSL W0ck III OCtVpeA'
 He will consider the Hankow Rail- way loan question and the reorgan- zation of the bureaus of the depart ment, and will decide whether the United States shall protest against the two treaties recent ynegotiated by China and Japan involving Manchuriau issues.
 Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh is at Dublin. N. H., near the White Mountains.
 Witn the improving treasury situa- tion, the question of the issue of cer- tidcates of indebtedness under the dis eretionary authority given by Congress. has been pressed into the background for the time, but this, together with other matters of financial Import, will be discussed in his report.
 Attorney General Wickersham, who may be back by Tuesday, is to partic- Ipate in the argument 9f the govern ment's suit against the American To- bacco Company for alleged violalon of the antitrust laws in the Supreme Court of the United States on October 1a Former Assistant Attorney Gener- al McReynolds, who was active in the case in the lower courts, will be asso- ciated with him.
 The proposed legislation of sweep ing character to overcome the weak of the pTtSeuL LhNOA ohaNo SOAH Ynerce law for which 8 bill incorporat- ing the administrators ideas has been tentatively prepared, and the consid- eration of antitrust prosecutions, to- gether with other legal problems prom ise A busy time for the deoartment Of justice.
 The reorganization of the Navy De- partment, with a view to creating a continuous policy Is among the ques- txa tol EV Secretary MeE- CT who returned today rom New York. where he attended the Hudson-Fulton celebration.
 Secretary of War Dickinson is at Belle Meade, Tenn, where he has been called because of the critical Illness of his son, J. o. Dickinson. IT his son improves, Secretary Dickinson will at- tend the meeting of Presidents Dag and Taft at Fl Paso, on October Is and willoar adj larl way gadrp waltytl vt will accompany MT. Taft down the Mississippi the last of October. He will take deferred trip to Porto Rico next month and in December will in- spect the Panama canal, the construc- ton of which Is under his supervis- ion.
 Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel. who is due here early thls week, will leave in few days to join the presidntial party in the West. and meantime he Is expected to announce inc successor of Assistant Secretary McHarg, who has had to remain be- vond the time he had fixed for enter ing Into private business. The change however. will be made before the first of November. The re-organ- fzation of the department. with possi- ble consolidation of the work or the bureaus of manufactures and statistics, will be considered among the first prob lems.
 postmaster General Hitchcock is Tn Arizona, and Is not expected to return before the end of tlie first week of November.