The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-12
Department Shake-Ups
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star
mat economy Us one OF tho reasons
pht by no means the only reason for thu
proposed reduction of the working force,
OI tho, various executive departments Is
me opinion Of those IN close touch with
the Iaft administration Politics is play.
| lpg considerable part in the coming
snake-up, Long ago President Taft de-
I cared for economy. lie Informed hi.
CABINET officers at one Of the first ca u
net meetings held after the naugura
, cioh tnat ne wanted the departments put
Oh business basis and run more eco
nomically than I'm the past ''Rrducr
your iorces To working basis Throw
put an the dead wood. Keep the com
Pctcht Lose nothing In efficiency, but
pave cthciency at the least possible cost
eh preparing your estimates make them
as as stnall as possible was, In effect. what
INC president told his cabinet He also
outlined Ia them a general policy for
transfer of certain work with a view 10
Tightening up the departmental ma 20
nnincly. The law divisions OF the de
paItlnents were tho ones he was most
ANXIOUS to have overhauled.
ne members OF the cabinet immedia lc-
~ ~ TOOK up the task set for them by the
FtSldcnl: The most enthusiastic mem
oeIS OF The Taft official household were
secretary Nagcl Of the department OF
commerce and labor and Secretary Bal
nnger of the department Of the interior.
Both Of these mon are. by the way. anti
MooSeEelt In their general tendencies.
therefore. when they found right at
onctr ..a handS certain monuments to the
genus OF Jacob Rudolph Garfield in the
snnpe ol pet bureaus under tho depart
mept OF commerce and labor and the de-
partment or the interior they shed no
demolition.
The pet bureau under the Roosevelt
dunlinlStrauon was the bureau Of cor
poratons of the department Of com
merGe and labor. From being the head
OF mat bureau. which he built up. Mr.
,Id'HeId beCam" secretary OF the inter-
ior' IN most ways Garfield aud the men
ig irg Salhcred around blm were theorists,
Lh"F worked mp a lot OF good lnforma-
tion ana annoyed and alarmed the trusts
ana G,22rporatIons to an amazIng degree.
But they never knew when To Lei go
Having gathered a mass OF evidence.
they would turn il inside out. examine
the works and study the whole i'm It's
ciiaIIotl TO evolution. the theory OF trans
IhISfaton OF the soul. socialism. Bryan
Ism ana all the sociological problems.
w non they got through with a digest OF
INC evidence they had collected and made
= - report on IT the results looked like
INC reynolds report on the District of
: oiuhpld-prettY, but not practical. The
bureau OF corporations. under Mr. Car
m mns'd, frequently reached a quarter TO
j.. but never struck the hour
President Taft thinks il should be mart
lt the department OF Justice and has di-
rectcd Attorney General Wickersham to
,2 r'nulate a general plan to get II there
lc wants the bureau OF corporations TO
get facts and turn them over. Wicker
7ham told Nagcl TO look the bureau OF
corporations over so the bureau OF
corporations is being reduced Along
win II other divisions OF the department
!t commerce and labor arc being reduced
ABOUT 200 clerks VIII be caught In the
iraenct.
In the department OF the interior there
Vas general shalie-up some time ago in
ne law division and the land Office
There were few dIsmssals comparative-
Y speaking, but general tightening up
vas effected and the seekers after cvi-
fence, the various land agents. for tn
stance, were told to go more slowly and
o stop sending in all sorts of evidence
nat made the departments legal repre-
'entatives look like idiots when they
ricd 10 present it in court.
Then Mr.. Ballinger went after the In
IAN office. He figured that matters
leeded tightening up a bit One OF
hose who first ran afoul OF the change
n methods was Miss Estellc Reel. SUI
,erlntendent OF Indian schools Under
he Roosevelt administration Miss Reel |
pent half her time in the field and half |
n Washington, Hereafter she will spend |
practically all of her time In the field a |
lint TO that effect having been given her !
ONE time ago by Secretary Ballinger, |
'he other departments have been going |
ncrc slowly