The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-03-23
STARTING THE WHEELS OF
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION

NfnrfHl unIff fHu HinrfIEi Presidents.
~ knew bow i0 settle down tu business
/ promptly u soon Hs be- hni most of ihe
nthrf eHh.ntt officers bad gone io the
White House saturday nothing and an
infrn inr obti As administered by
Chicf Justice Fuller
TOE hnt man 90 congratulate Setrr-
iary kuox was BE prospective success
fnf Boz tHc sonnie. Gcorue r. OHtcr.
of rJusbure Mr. Ohyer's appearance
at he State Department was the sig.
NAB for -hc dNiug up of political differ.
cnces between him and Mr.. Knox. tho
lattor having favored the election of
Representative "jimnief' Burke. of
Iittshutg for senator. As soon a. CON
pratuHtons were over Secretary Knox
and Mr. Oliver talked senatorial poll
ties for few moments and the Segye-
tary assured the prospective Senator
Of support in winning the election
which will take place ait Harrisburg
next week. Mr.. Oliver had already
virtually won his fight He afterward
had a talk with Representative Burke.
in which they settled their differences
and parted in political friendliness This
done Mr.. Oliver hurried back to Penn
sylvania expecting to return here IN
about ten days with his credentials and
to take the oath as Senator forthwith.
Secretary Knox has been disap-
pointed because the Congress refused
to authorize an under secretary or vice
secretary of state and also a fourth
assistant secretary. He wanted those
two officials to facilitate the work of
the State Department during his adj
ministration there. The Senate voted
the authority for the two additional
nf with alanritx- hpt
was stoutly opposed and fought the
proposition TO the very last ditch. The
proposition to increase the Presidents
salary to 100000 a year, which was
carried on the same appropriation bill.
was saved only in part. The opposi-
sition to it was the same opposition
that fought the additional offices in
the Department of State.
Taft's Salary $4,000.
By the agreement which was finally
reached, President Taft will have "A
salary of $4,000 year, or $3.50 a
month. 1t is more than was ever paid
to any previous President in salary
, But Congress cut off the allowance of
$4,000 year for travelling expenses
which it has been giving to President
Roosevelt, Mr.. Roosevelt did not
, spend all of that amount for travelling.
! and it will not cost Mr.. Taft, prop.
, ably, half of $4,000 year for trans
t portation. Therefore, all round, he
gains something in compensation
New Attorney General.
There is great official interest in the
< new Attorney General, Mr.. Wicker
n sham, because he will be one of the
f most important of cabinet officers dur
/ ing the next four years and also be-
@ cause as a public official he is an UNI
IS known quantity in Washington. He
g was the first of the cabinet to be sworn
t. in, and, in fact, took the oath on FRI
l. day, after the Inauguration, the day
e before most of his colleagues took the
N oath.
IS President Taft intends to place great
r reliance upon Mr.. Wickersham in out
& lining the policy to be followed toward
e the trusts and corporations. He has
e said recently that he does not propose
e to make "special' the libel suits in
II the name of the government, which
President Roosevelt pressed with great
re zeal, but that he would regard them
81 simply as cases before the Department
d of Justice, like many other cases there.
'ithcioihlh Will uuNb
as as much important business to bring
n to the cabinet table as any other of
IA Mr.. Taft's advisers.
Of Secretary MacVeagh.
=, The new Secretary of the Treasury
u Mr.. Frank MacVeagh of Chicago, was
y the last cabinet officer to be selected
and probably will be the last to be
sworn in. There is an Interesting
is story in inside circles as to the care
an which Mr.. Taft exercised in selecting
he this cabinet officer, who has great fl
MS nancial problems to tackle during the
ce next year or two. AS Mr.. MacVeagl
al in his department will have much tt
all do with questions of government rev
81 enues, upon which Congress will bt
At called to legislate, President Taf
in wanted the new Secretary of tn,
ms Treasury to be acceptable to the lead
in. ers in both branches of Congress
he When Mr.. Taft was last in New York
lat he sent for Senator Aldrich, who wa
to asked his opinion of Mr.. Macyeagl
Die and was then requested, on returning
we to Washington, to ascertain whethe
rec the nomination would be wholly salts
NY factory to Speaker Cannon. 1t wa
me not until the entire approval of bot
az. those gentlemen had been assured tina
Use Mr.. Taft permitted the announcement
oi of Mr.. MacVeagh' selection for tn
i nd cabinet portfolio to become public.
Ia Ia The State, Treasury, Justice an
~ Navy Departments are easily the mos
pn important now, because of the quei
NJ, nu tons of policy and administration wit
t ,a which they have to deal, and the fou
tba men who head those departments wi
h;s apparently be most prominently befol
o n the public, along with the Presiden
"a during the next four years. Secretar
of the Navy Meyer was brought fac
to face with acute Navy questions, I'll
moment he assumed charge of that d
of partment. The abolition of the nav
tbs. yards at Pensacola and New 0rleai
out by President Roosevelt the last da
ork of his administration was followed |
gis- protests and by claims that the actit
oli- had not been legal. Mr.. Meyer