The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-02-22
ESlDENT-ELECT HAS CHOSEN
HIS ADVISERS, WITH Ex-
CEPTlON OF ONE.
ARRIVES IN SLEtPYTOWN
Ohioan Reaches Philadelphia From
Cincinnati and Is Greeted by En-
thusiastic Crowd and Admits That
Headway Is Being Made In Selecting
Secretary Of the Treasury.

Philadelphia, Feb. 21-President-
elect Taft arrived here this morning
from Cincinnati, and with Mrs. Taft,
who came from New York to join him,
is the guest of DR. S. Weir Mitchell
at his Walnut street home. Mrs. Taft
attended services at the Unitarian
church, and with Mr.. Taft drove to
Bryn Mawr, where they called on
their daughter, Helen, and returned
with her in their automobile to dinner
at the Mitchell residence. A confer
ence took place between the president
elect and Frank II. Hitchcock, who
came here at the request of Mr. Taft.
Frank b. Kellogg was also a visitor.
Although it was early in the morn
ing when Mr. Taft alighted from his
Cincinnati train at North Philadelphia
he was greeted by an enthusiastic
crowd. When few minutes later he
stepped from his automobile at the
Mitchell residence, the street was
blocked with people, who cheered as
they caught glimpse of the bulky
form of the Ohioan and of the beam
ing Taft smile.
In giving an account of his day
here, Mr.. Taft laughingly remarked
that he had awakened Philadelphia at
the unusual Sunday morning hour of
I o'clock, for which he felt he owed
an apology.
The report printed today that as
president he would go to Alaska, Mr.
Taft said, had only the foundation
that he had received an invitation for
such a trip, and had replied that ne
would hold it under consideration.
This same answer he said likewise ap-
piled to invitations to visit Denver
and Seattle next summer. He has not
decided yet what his travelling timer
airy for the year will be. except that
he will make a trip through the south
and southwest as far as Texas.
To Speak at Academy.
An address will be delivered by
Judge Taft at the Academy of Music
here tomorrow morning under the
auspices of the University of Pennsyl-
vania in celebration of University
day. A walking stick used by Benja-
min Franklin and by him presented to
Lafayette, will be gift to the uni
versity by the president-elect After
the celebration Mr.. Taft will be a
guest at the luncheon of the First
troop, Philadelphia city cavalry, and
at night will attend the Pennsylvania
university alumni dinner. Mr.. Taft
will leave for New York Tuesday
morning.
Mr.. Taft admits he is making head
way in the selection of secretary of
the treasury, but maintains that the
place is not yet filed. Franklin Mac
Veagh and Myron T. Herrick are two
of the men under consideration. With
this exception the Taft cabinet is
complete and when officially promul-
gated shortly before the Inauguration
will be found as follows:
The Taft Cabinet.
Secretary of state, Philander c.
Knox of Pennsylvania; attorney gen.
eral, George w. Wickersham of New
York; secretary of war, J. M. Dickin-
son of Tennessee; secretary of the
navy, George Won l.. Meyer of Massa-
chusetts; secretary of commerce and
labor, Charles Nagel of Missouri; sec
retary Of the interior, r. A. Ballinger
of Washington state; postmaster gen.
eral, Frank II. Hitchcock of Massa-
chusetts; secretary of agriculture,
James Wilson of Iowa.
1t will be observed that in the list
there are five lawyers. 1t may be
stated that this fact is not a mere
coincidence, but is an accomplishment
which has been carefully planned and
strived for by the incoming president.
Constitutional legal restrictions on
corporate abuses are the accomplish
ments he will strive for. 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
comedies with his own. Mr.. Tafts
position was clearly embodied in his
inaugural address, and this document
is known to have received hearty
adoption and complete approval by all
of the men selected to be Mr.. Taft's
cabinet advisers.