The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-11
NEW REGIME
IS IN POWER
Rs OF TAFT CABINET
THEIR ASSISTANTS
ARE SWORN IN.
r emit Attends Ceremony and
Afterward Receives Hundreds of
Visitors.

SIX members OF President Taft's
cabinet took the oath of Office in the
cabinet room at the white house
shortly after 10 o'clock Saturday
morning. The oath was administer
ed by Chief Justice Fuller Of the SUI
preme court OF the United States.
The oath was administered first to
Philander c. Knox as secretary oil
state Frank H. Hitchcock was next
sworn as postmaster general. George
Won Langerke Meyer as secretary OF
the navy; Richard A. Ballinger as
secretary of the interior; James Will
son as secretary OF agriculture, and
Charles Nagel, as secretary of com
merce and labor
George w Wickersham took the
oath of Office as attorney general Sat
urday, and Messrs Dickinson and
MaoVeagh viii not reach the city fol
some days.
President Taft, Secretary Carpen-
ter, Senator Burton, of Ohio; Richard
d. Harlan. son of Justice Harlan, oil
the supreme court, and John Barrett
director of the bureau OF American
republics, were present during the
ceremony.
As soon as the ceremony had beer
completed President Taft gave him
self up to the reception of several
hundred persons who gained admis-
sion TO his offices by reason of be-
ing accompanied by senators and re
resentatives The outer office wa:
crowded and as the line passed
through the cabinet room where the
president stood and was introduced
he shook the hand of each person
The line outside seemed not TO dimin-
ish. Senator Aldrich of Rhode Is
land, interrupted the reception pro.
ceedings by a somewhat lengthy con-
ference with the president
While the friends of senators and
representatives were being received
in the Office buildings, several thous-
and people gathered in the east room
being delegations with proper ere
dentials, and when Mr.. Taft had dis
posed OF the first crowd he went to
the east room where the handshakine
process continued for some time
Huntington Wilson, appointed as
sistant secretary of state, in success
sion to ]. c. Mclaughlin, also took
the oath of Office Saturday. Imme-
diately after being sworn in Secre-
tary Knox, in company with the re.
firing secretary, Robert Bacon, made
tour of the different bureaus OF tn,
department with Mr.. Wilson. Their
the new secretary settled down to the
routine business OF the department
The reorganization OF the navy de
partment as result OF the change o.
administration was completed Satur.
day afternoon Beekman Winthrop
ooS4SldHt SC$iNldiy Vi lHC llCdoui ,
under President Roosevelt, took The
oath of Office as assistant secretar,
OF the navy succeeding Herbert L
Satterlee. who returns to New York
Secretary Meyer, the new secretary
OF the navy, installed Charles E. Tay
lor, Washington newspaper man a.
his private secretary. Mr.. Taylor
comes from Massachusetts.
Don NJ Carr, of Canton, o., wa.
Saturday appointed secretary tC
Richard A. B;-ilinger, the new secre
tary OF the interior.
Call Issued for Special Session.
President Taft Saturday issued /;
special call Tor the special session
of the Sixty-hrst congress, to oper
March Is. The call does not mention
the object for which the special ses
sion is called No nominations wer,
made by the president Saturday.
Text of Call for Session.
Following is the text OF the call:
By the President of the Unitet
States of America: A proclamation
Whereas Public interests requir
that the congress of the United State
should be convened in extra session
at IL o'clock noon on the 18th day o
March, 1909, to receive such commun
ication as may be made by the execu
tive now, therefore,
|, William Howard Taft, presiden
of the United States of America, d.
hereby proclaim and declare that a
extraordinary occasion requires tn
congress of the United States TO con
vene in extra session at the capito
in the city OF Washington on the 15t
day of March, 1909, at IL o'cloc.
noon, OF which all persons who sha
at that time be entitled to act a
members thereof are hereby require
to take notice
Given under my hand and the sea
of the United States of America, tn
9th day of March, in the year of on
Lord one thousand nine hundred an
nine, and of the independence of tn
United States the one hundred an
twenty-third William II. Taf,
Not Open on Sunday.