The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-03-09
Dickinson and Macveagh
Still Absent
THEY SOON WILL REPORT

Continue to Exist Despite Congress.
No Word of Tariff in Call for Extra
Session.
Cry the Associated Press.)
Washington, d. c.. March 6.-All
but two OF the nine members of PreSi-
lent Taft's cabinet I now in office.
Six, including Secretaries, Knox Mey-
er, Ballinger. Wilson and Nagel and
Postmaster General Hitchcock. took
the oath of office i'll the cabinet room
today: Attorney General Wickershaln
was sworn in yesterday n Secretary
Dickinson and Secretary MacVeagh
will present themselves for duty with
IN a week or more.
In was anounced that Secretary
COrte1you would remain at the head
Of the treasury department. until
probably Monday next, Mr.. MacNeagh
being expected to arrive from Chicago
on Sunday.
President Taft today issued a proc
lamatiOn calling Congress in eNtraor-
binary session March Is. While there
was nothing in the call which limited
as t. the purpcse OF the session.. its
object has heretofore been stated to
be to revise the tariff and transact
no other business. The weather ca
lamity which overlook the national
capital on inauguration day, however,
has created such q general public de-
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auguration that the prediction OF
congressional action on this question
seems to be general
Conservation Congress 10 Live.
The continued existence of the ma
tional conservation commission seems
to be assured Notwithstanding the
action of Congress which has been
interpreted to discourage the con-
t%inuance Of this body. President Taft
TODAY conferred with the Joint. COM
r,jtfaa of onr0SnntafiI-o Df %l,a Nyo
tional State bodies Of this ~organiza-
ton with the result that while no Off
cial statement was issued the infor-
nation was impaired that the work
would so on.
The precise question at issue is eN-
planned to be that Congress has pro-
hibited n national expense being in
Cured for the commission. The po-
sition Of the executive is said to be
that the commission was appointed
by President Roosevelt as q consulting
body on the question of the conSerVa-
ton of the natural. resources Of the
country; n that the States. indicated
their willingness for cooperation by
appointing a consulting commission
That such an arrangement can be
carried out without congressional ap-
prevail and without Federal expenses
seems to be the decision reached.
President Taft's second day at the
White House, like the first, was one
Of handshaking and gladstone words
The demands upon his time in the IA
nous East room were constant. Dele
cation after delegation was received
His methods in the art OF mixing
were demonstrated to be differen,
from those of President Roosevelt
Mr.. Taft takes much more time thar
did his predecessor in making the ac-
quaintance Of his callers and insists
on knowing not only their full name
but their residence and matters o.
family history.
Wants to Go Out Like a Lamb.
Mr.. Taft remarked that although
ne had come in like a liOn-haVin
reference to the blizzard on the fourth
Of NIarch-he hoped to go out like
lamb.
The ceremony of administering tn,
oath of office to the six members o
the Taft cabinet who presented them
selves at the White House today, wa
witnessed by President Taft. TIL
oath was administered by Chief JUS
tice Fuller of the Supreme Court 0
the United States.
Huntington Wilson. appointed as
sistant secretary of state in succession
to j.. C. O'Loughlin. also took tn
oath of Office.
Mr.. Taft had his first conferenc
as President with the corps Of Wash
ington correspondents a
the close Of the day. He greeted tn
score or more of men personally an
stated that in fairness to himself /
would be his policy that quotation
marks should not embrace statement
of news which might be given out a
the White House. When he desfret
to make a formal statement, it would
he said, be addressed to Congress. @
be embraced in a speech. This polio,
is a continuation of that which hal
heretofore prevailed as The preroga
tive of the President, not to. be quotes