The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-22
All Have Been Selected Except
 Treasury Secretary
TWO MEN FOR POSITION
Official Family of the New President Will Have Five Lawyers, and One
 of Them Gives Up Job
 Worth $35,ooo a Year.

dent t-elect Taft arrived here this morn ing from Cincinnati, and with Mrs. Taft, who came over from New York to join him, Is the guest of Dr. s. Weir Mitchell in his Walnut street home. MT. Taft attended morning services at the Uni tarian church, and with Mrs. Taft drove to Bryn Mawr, where they called on tn cir daughter Helen and returned with her in their automobile to dinner at the Mitchell residence. conference took place between the President-elect and Frank Hitchcock, who came here at the request of MT. Taft. Frank B. Kel- logg was also visitor. Mir. Taft was greeted by an enthusiastic crowd upon his arrival and when, a 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 Taft smile. 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 he would hold it under consideration. This same answer. he said, likewise applies to invitations to visit Denver and Seat tie next summer. He has not yet de- cided what his travelling itinerary for the year will be, except that he will make a trip through the south and southwest as far as Texas.
 Address to Be Made.
 An a7sress will be delivered by Judge Taft at the Academy of Music here to- morrow morning under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania in cele- bration of university day A walking stick used by Benjamin Franklin and by him presented to Lafayette, will be a gift to the university by the Presi- dent-elect. After the celebration Mir. Taft will be the guest at luncheon of the First Troop, Philadelphia City cav airy, and at night will attend the Penn sylvania University Alumni dinner.
 Many other functions, such as lunch . cons and dinners have been arranged with a desire that MT. Taft attend but his capabilities in this respect will depend upon his time. He expects to leave for New York Tuesday morning. MT. Taft admits he is making head way in the selection of a Secretary of the Treasury, but maintains the place is not yet filled. Franklin MacVeagh and Myron T. Herrick are two of the men under consideration. With this exception the Taft cabinet is complete and when officially promulgated, short- ly before his inauguration. will be found as follows
 Taft's Cabinet.
 Secretary of State, Philander c. Knox of Pennsylvania.
 Attorney General George W. Wick ersham of New York.
 Secretary of War, J. M. Dickinson of Tennessee.
 Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Charles Nagel of Missouri.
 Secretary of the Navy, George von L. Meyer of Ma assachusetts.
 Secretary of the Interior, R. A. Bal finger of Washington.
 Postma ster General, Frank H. Hitch- cock of Massachusetts.
 Secretary of Agriculture, James Will son of Iowa.
 It will be observed that in this list are five lawyers of whom Mir. Taft be- lieves there are none better in the coun- try.
 Constitutional legal restrictions on | corporate abuses are the accomplish ments he will strive for. The extreme difficulties of first framing such meas ures and then of securing their enact ment, have confronted MT. Taft with l great force.
 nc ,nt,at tt,ffl l0 haIs it will require the combined legal skill of the ablest minds he can bring to the task. In assembling his legal cabi- net the President-elect has not lost sight of the necessity of obtaining men whose beliefs on the questions to be dealt with coincide with his own. MT. Taft's posi- tion has been clearly embodied in his inaugural address and this document is known to have received the hearty and complete approval of all of the men se- lected to be MT. Tafts cabinet advisers.
 Dickinson's Sacrifice. J. M. Dickinson of Tennessee, who ac- cepted the war portfolio at the hands of MT. Taft in Cincinnati yesterday, will give up his position as general solicitor for the Illinois Central railway, and a salary of $35,000 a year, to become a cabinet member. He is a native of Mis- sissippi, served three months in the Con- federate army as a boy. graduated from the University of Tennessee, and fin ished his education in Germany. His grandfather was Felix Grundy, Attorney General of the United States; his father a distinguished chancellor in Mississippi. MT. Dickinson has always been dem ocrat, although he is a personal friend of President Roosevelt and refused to vote for Bryan. Mrs. Dickinson was a Miss Overton, daughter of General Over ton, and both are related to prominent southern families. He Is the owner of the famous Belle Meade manor house and immense estates three miles from Nash vile, in which city he began his law practice. He was for a time judge of the supreme court of Tennessee and was appointed by President Cleveland assist ant attorney general of the United States, serving under Attorney General liar mon
 Service of Dickinson.
 MT. Dickinson was selected by Presi- dent Roosevelt to present the argument of the United States before the Joint high commission which adjusted the Alaskan boundary dispute between this country and Great Britain, and his presentation of this case won for him an international reputation. He has just retired as presi= dent of the American Bar association
 The new War Secretary became general counsel of the Illinois Central under the presidency of Stuyvesant Fish, and 1t is said that in the subsequent controversy between MT Fish and MT. Hartman he was strongly on the side of MT. Fish. If ia known Mir Dickinson's will be the hand which will have immediate super vision of the Panama canal construc- tion.