The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-01-14
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.

The last days of President
Roosevelt administration are
{ ted T. be strenuous and stormy.
No doubt his exieri, nee in the
wilds OF Africa with lions, hippo
potami, and rhinoceroses will be
peaceful in comparison with the
entertainment that Congress is dis.
posed 10 give him between now and
the fourth of March. OF course he
has brought it all on him.e elf. He
should not have told the gentle,
virtuous Congress that they handi.
capped and hobbled the det. Give
bureau because they did not want
il TO play follow the leader" with
them. Ii is not good form to put in
a Presidential message and scatter
through the press 10 three or four
hundred constituencies or Congress
sional districts things that are not
known outside OF Washington or
that have been so long known here
that they are loo<ed upon as COM
mon-plaee and unavai'ab a. news.
Some members Of Congress repre-
senting both parti have lashed
themselves into fury Of indigna-
tion and are going 10 wipe from the
re :ord The Presidents plain talk
but this Of course, will only empha-
size and give greater publicity TO
his structures. His message 10 Con-
gress ard especially tcis part Of it
has been published in every paper
in the United States and through
out the world in all languages
and the re- entful fury OF those who
are hit will simply call further at
tention to the deserved re5uke.
Not since the day that the Repub-
lican majority in the House and
Senate turned on Andrew Johnson
has there been such intense feeling
against the executive office, but
here the comparison ends. Johnson
was unpopular, Roosevelt is
stronger in almost every Congress
ional constituency or district than
is the Representative in Congress.
t is predicted here that Mr.. Taw-
ney viii at the next Congressional
election be defeated through the
Presidents criticism OF his misrep-
resentation with reference to the
detective bureau.
T.T
1t is not usual for the Cabinet of
a President to be so widely discus
sed and apparently made up two
months before the day OF his inaug-
uration. As usual thing only
after the President is inaugurated
is the Cabinet named and then
there are some surprises. This after
all may be the case with Mr.. Taft S
Cabinet but apparently authentica-
ted announcements are already
made. There is no doubt but that
Senator Knox OF Pennsylvania will
be Secretary of State in the new
Cabinet, ex Governor Herrick of
Ohio it is believed will be Secretary
of the Treasury, the present Secre-
tary of War, Wright, is expected
to hold the same place in Mr..
Tafts Cabinet, General Meyer, the
present Postmaster General, it is
thought by many will be Secretary
of the Navy. Others believe that
Mr.. Thompson of New York will
be given the Naval portfolio. Hen
ry M. Hoyt of Pennsylvania is
slated for the Department of JUS
tice or the Attorney General.
Frank H. Hitchcock for Postmas-
ter General, James R. Garfield for
Secretary of the Interior, James
Wilson the present Secretary is ex-
pected to retain his position as the
head Of the Agricultural Depart
ment. Mr.. Loeb, the private secre-
tary of President Roosevelt who
has been the scapegoat of SO many
of his impetuous chiefs 'impro-
prieties" is so persistently msn-
toned for this or that Cabinet posi-
ton that he would seem to have a
cinch on something. 1t is now said
he will be Secretary of Commerce
and Labor in the place of Mr..
Straus, the capable and modest
Jew.
X"
There would seem to be every
reason why President elect Taft
would wish to retain the present
Secretary of the Navy, Mr.. New
berry at the head of the Navy De-
partment. He is throughly in SYM
pathy with the Roosevelt policy for
the regeneration of the Naval es-
tablishment, regeneration ana
logous to that which has been SC
successfully and profitably inaug.
urated in the army. Mr.. Newberry
is a comparatively young man. He