The Washington times., 1909-08-15
HITCHCOCK PROUD
OF HISOEPARTAENT,,
NO CHANGES NEEDED
Postoffce Employees Are
Hustlers, Says Secretary
AT Beverly.
TAFT is CERTAIN
TO KEEP BALLINGER
Knows Interior Head Gave Up All
Outside" Connections Before
Entering Cabinet.
By JAMES HAY, il.

BEVERLY. Mass, Aug. 15.-W hile the
Department Of Commerce and Labor at
Washington is just emerging from the
clerical shake-up given il by Secretary
Nagel and the Treasury Department Is
being overhsuled by an investigating
committee. the Postofice Department
is in such excellent shape that there
will be no clerical changes in it at all
Thiss was announced here today by
Postmaster General Hitchcock, who will
return to Washington tonight. arriving
there early i'm the morning.
Mr. Hitchcock said the clerks in his
department keep right up to the minute
with their work and hustle along with
business to such an extent that ne has
no criticism to make of them.
Work Is Pressing.
He explained that the business Of the
Postoffice Department is always so
pressing that II has TO be done on the
minute. as each branch Of the service is
in a great degree dependent on the 9TH
ers. For this reason, he said, Il is fire.
ouently the case that the employees have
to work overtime and clerks who are so
hard worked as to be compelled TO put
in overtime viii not permit any loafers
in their midst.
II is Tor this reason that Mr.. Hitch
cock after investigating the matter.
has found that there is no necessity for
a shake up in any of the branches uu-
Ger him. In this way, the POstomtce
Department gets the first clean bill OF
health given to any Executive Depart
bent since this Administration began.
Practically every other department Is
due for shake-ups, Overhaulings, or
changes in salary lists None of these
things Viii be visited on the men and
women who work for Hitchcock. The
Department Of Commerce and Labor is
not yet through with its changes.
Investigation On.
The investigating committee of three
assistant secretaries is at work on the
Treasury Department Secretary Ball
niger has made up his mind TO have a
house cleaning in The Interior Depart
ment within the next month or two.
There viii be a rerating Of the clerks
in the State. War and Navy Depart
ments by the estimates sent into the
next session Of Congress ana there VIII
be changes in the Department OF Ag-
riculture according 10 the present plans
Such a situation makes the POstmas-
ter Generals tribute TO his clerks all
the more impressive.
IN connection with the attacks made
ON ArtLtEN EAAltnDls 4 alAAFA states 7 ht
ester, on Secretary of the Interior Bal
linger, and the charges insinusted
against Mr.. Ballinger in certain quar-
ters, it can be authoritatively stated
today that before accepting the port
folio Of she interior Department Mr..
Ballinger severed every business rela-
ton he had which might in any way
make MS holding OF the position ques-
tionable.
He went so FAR in his conscientious
sacrifice OF personal interests that his
friends asked him TO desist, but ne pre-
ferTed 10 place himself in such a position
that there could be no legitimate criti-
cisu of him whatever.
This is one of the reasons that MT
Taft is supporting Aim with great en-
phasis.
The President with his aide, capt
Archibald Butt, attended divine services
al the Unitarian Church here today
and tlis time he was pUnctual, arTiv-
ing the minute sevices were due 10 be-
gin.
Eliot's Son breaches.
Last Sunday he was quarter Of an
hour late. The minister who preached
today was DR. Samuel A. Eliot, presi-
dent Of the American Unitarian Asso-
citation. and a son Of DR.. Charles ".
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