Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-08-08
Members af Cabinet and Other nigni-
taries Depart.
ECLE JOE RACK IN nAKvuLE
Speaker VIII Rest in Bosom of His
Constituents.
IMPORTANT CHANGE PLANNED
President VIII Map Out ReorEu niHa-
tion of Interstate Commerce
Commissfon at EARLY Com
ference at Beverly.

WASHINGTON. y. c., Aug 7.-Direc-
tion Of the affairs of the administration
was tonight left In the hands of two cabi-
net officers-Secretary OF the Treasury
Macveagh and Postmaster General Hitch
cock and by Monday night the distinction
viii probably be enjoyed alone by Mr..
Hitchcock
President Taft Is keeping in close touch
with Washington over the government
wire from Beverly, Mass Vice President
Sherman is at his home in Utica, N Y.
Speaker Cannon left today for his home in
Danvile Ill Attorney General Wicker
sham. accompanied by Mrs. wickersham,
started today for New York in an auto
mobile.
To ReorERniEe Comm ission.
While no definite time has been fixed
for a conference respecting President
Taft's plan to reorganize the Interstate
Commerce commission, it is expected that
the president and some members Of his
cabinet, including Attorney General Wick
ersham and Secretary of Commerce and
Labor Nagel, will have such a confer
enoe early in September either at New
York or at Beverly. The whole matter
yet is in a tentative state.
The presidents idea is to arrange for
a division OF the work now done by the
Interstate Commerce commission. His
plan provides that Investigations into vio-
lations of the interstate commerce act,
from which prosecutions may result, shall
be conducted either directly by the De-
partment of Justice or by the Bureau OF
Corporations instead of by the Interstate
Commerce commission.
Secretary OF State Knox left today for
his home at Valley Forge, Pa. Secretary
Of the Treasury MacVeagh expects TO
leave Monday for Dublin n. H., where
he has a summer home. Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson will leave tomorrow
for the west.
InvestiRatiOn by Wilson.
Mr.. Wilson will spend week at his
home in Tama, Ia, after concluding some
departmental work N. MXomins and Utah.
He will confer at Rawlins, wyo., with the
sheep rnisers OF that country. He Is anxious
to ascertain Whether there are lands in
cluded In the forest reserves which arc
valuable for agricultural purposes.
II there are such lands in the reserves
he will recommend to the secretary of the
interior that they be listed for settlement
and entry. Later Secretary Wilson will go
to Ogden. Utah, where he will take UP
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have been 10000 acres of farm lands in
the forest reserves turned over to home
steaders.
Secretary Nagel Of the Department OF
Commerce and Labor will leave tomorrow
night for his summer home at Marion
Mass to spend ten days. He will then
return to Washington for a few days on
business connected with his department
He will then return to Marion again and
will visit his home in st. Louis before re-
turning to take up the winters work here
Secretary Of War Dickinson is at his
home at Belle Meade near Nashville, Tenn
Secretary OF the Navy Meyer is catching
salmon on the Restigouche in Ontario
Postmaster General Hitchcock has not de-
cided when he will leave Washington for
his vacation or where he will spend his
holiday. He may later make a visit tc
Secretary OF the Interior Bailinger at Seat.
tie.