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factory to Speaker Cannon. It was
not until the entire approval of both
those gentlemen had been assured that
Mr. Taft permitted the announcement
of Mr.. MacVeagh's selection for the
cabinet portfolio to become public.
The State, Treasury, Justice and
Navy Departments are easily the most
important now, because of the aues
tions of policy and administration with
which they have to deal, and the four
men who head those departments will
apparently be most prominently before
the public, along with the President,
during the next four years. Secretary
of the Navy Meyer was brought face
TO face with acute Navy questions, the
moment he assumed charge of that de-
partment. The abolition of the navy
yards at Pensacola and New Orleans
by President Roosevelt the last day
of his administration was followed by
protests and by claims that the action
had not been legal. Mr.. Meyer is
therefore brought to pass upon the le-
gality of action taken by his former
official superior.
Ohio Men Scarce.
In all the hustle and hustle of the
first days of an administration, it has
been much remarked that Ohio politi-
clans from the President s home State
have been so little in evidence. Very
few Buckeye politicians of influence
came on for the Inauguration, and
Buckeye people have not been especial
~ thick around the White House. The
most notable have been ex-Representa-
tive Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, the
President half brother, who leased
Washington house shortly before the
Inauguration, and Arthur I. Vorys, one
of hic campaign managers. Taft takes
the deepest interest in the success of
his brother and will undoubtedly be
one of the President s closest advisers
The President visited Mr.. C. P. Taft 3
house on Sunday, which was the first
private residence he entered after he
had become settled in the White
House.
The fact that Ohio has no member
of the cabinet and also that the Gov
ernor of Ohio, Hon. Judson Harmon, is
a Democrat, may have had something
to do toward depicting the attendance
of Ohio Republicans at Washington
during the past week Then there has
been such sweeping change in the
personnel of Buckeye Republican man
ayers during the last year that many
| new men, little known outside of the
state, have come to the front.
Applause for Hughes.
Apart from the fact that Ohio was
furnishing the President, it has not
been as conspicuous for inaugural Wis.
itors as has New York, the state of
| the retiring President. Gov. Hughes
was the greatest lion among all the
visiting governors. He received more
| applause along the line of the inaugu-
raj parade than any other governor and
| was pointed out and sought wherever
and whenever he appeared in public.
| The Western visitors to the Capital
were especially anxious to see him and
| to hear him. Then ex-Secretaary OF
State Elihu Root, now United States
/ Senator, was much noted as one of the
| chief personages of the Inauguration
| period. He is known as the stanch
/ friend and adviser of the new President
| and as the man who will be the Re
publican leader of the Empire State, at
| least during the absence of ex-Presi
| dent Roosevelt in Africa.
The Importance of New York was
| also emphasized further during the
days Immediately preceding and follow.
| ing the inaugural by the enthusiasm
| with which Vice President Sherman
was greeted on every hand. He has
! been a very popular member of the
| House, all of whose members gave him
most cordial applause when he was in
augurated in the Senate chamber Al
| though the object of the little preju.
| dices that are common among Senators
/ toward members of the HOuse-and
which members of the House in spirit
of legislative rivalry also have towards
Senators-the Senate has taken Mr.
| Sherman in most friendly way He
| has ingratiated himself highly in sena-
| torial favor and is already regarded as
| one Of the family-which is the kind
of feeling that Senators like to have
| toward their presiding officer.
| Vice President Sherman is speedily
| becoming aware that he has large ora
| torical opportunities ahead if he wishes
| to improve them. Requests to speak
| on divers public occasions are already
pouring in upon him. He is a ready
| public speaker and was one of the most
effective party orators that Repub
Leans had on the stump in the last
campaign He will easily adapt him
self to this. new role of delivering non
partisan addresses and showing himself
| around the country-as Vice President
Fairbanks did-if he chooses so to do
/ Senate Committees.
i Very much of the current Washing
ton activity has to do with preparation:
for the approaching session of Con
gress. The Senate is getting ready Il
fiji it's committees not such a thrill
ing topic to fhe outsider but mos
momentous proceeding to the Senator:
| themselves. For it is remarkable thu
wires a Senator will pull and the fever
ish work he will do to get desired
committee assignment.
There is good deal of caste in Sen
ate committees A Senator who get
on Finance. or Foreign Affairs or Ap
preparations or any one of three o
four other committees which might b.