The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-22
TAFT TO TALK IN
PHILADELPH IA
President Elect the Orator on
the Occasion of Univer-
Sity Celebration.
CABINET SELECTIONS MADE
ONLY VACANCY AT PRESENT IN
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
CABINET SELECTIONS MADE

Philadelphia, Feb 2l.-President-elect
Taft arrived here this morning from Gin
cinnad and with Mrs. Taft, who came
from New York to join him, is the guest
of DR. s. Weir Mitchell in his Walnut
street home. Mrs. Taft attended services
at the Unitarian church, and with Mr.
Taft drove to Bryn Mawr, where they
called on their daughter Helen, and re-
turned with her in their automobile 10
dinner at the Mitchell residence. A con-
ference took place between the president
elect and Frank H. Hitchcock, who came
here at the request Of Mr.. Taft. Frank
B. Kellogg was also a visitor.
Although il was early in the morning
when Mr.. Taft alighted from his Cincin-
natl train at North Philadelphia, he was
greeted by an enthusiastic crowd. When
a feW minutes later he stepped from his
automobile at the Mitchell residence, the
street was blocked with people, who
cheered as they caught 3 glimpse Of the
bulky form of the Ohioan and of the
beaming Taft smile.
In giving an account of his day here
Mr.. Taft laughngly remarked that he had
awakened Philadelphia up at the unusual
Sunday morning hour OF o'clock, for
which he felt he owed an apology.
Slight Foundation for Report.
The report printed today that as presi-
dent he would 20 10 Alaska, Mr.. Taft said,
had only the foundation that he had re-
CelNe0 an invitation Tor SuCn a Trip ana
had replied that he would hold it under
consideration. This same answer he said
likewise applied to invitations to visit
Denver and Seattle next summer. He
had not yet decided what his travelling
itinerary for the year will be except that
he will make trip through the south ard
southwest as far as Texas
An address will be delivered by Judge
Taft at the Academy of Music here to-
morrow morning under the auspices of the
University of Pennsylvania in celebration
of university day. A walking stick used
by Benjamin Franklin and by him pre-
scented to Lafayette viii be a gift to the
university by the president-eleet. After
the celebration Mr. Taft will be a guest
at the luncl con of the First troop Phila-
delphia city cavalry, and at night will at
tend the Pennsylvania university alumni
dinner. Mr.. TAFT will leave for New York
Tuesday morning.
Cabinet Forecast.
Mr. Taft admits he is making heEdway
IN the selection of a secretary of the treas
Ury, but maintains that the place is not
Yet filled. Franklin MacVeagh and Myron
T. HeTrick are two of the men under con-
sideration. With this exception the Taft
cabinet is complete and when officially
promulgated shortly before his Inaugural
ton, will be found as follows:
Secretary of state-PhilandeT c. Knox
of Pennsylvania.
Attorney generaI-George W. Wicker
sham. New York.
Secretary Of war;. NJ. Dickinson OF
Tennessee,
L Secretary of the navy-George Won L
Rfeyer of Massachusetts
Secretary of commerce and labor
Charles Nagel of Missouri.
Secretary of the interioT-R. A. Balm
ger of Washington state.
Postmaster geneTal-Frank II. Hitchcock
of Massachusetts,.
Secretary of agriculture-James Wilson
of Iowa.
l.. 1I,s-- H.
five lawyers. 1t may be stated that this
fact is not a mere coincidence, but is an
accomplishment which has been carefully
planned and striven for by the incoming
president.
!. War Upon the Trusts.
Constitutional legal restrictions on cor
porate abuses are the accomplishments he
viii strive for. In assembling his legal
cabinet, the president-elect has not lost
sight of the necessity OF obtaining men
whose beliefs on the questions to be
dealt with coincide with his own Mr..
Taft's position was clearly embodied in
his inaugural address and this document
is known to have received hearty adop-
ton and complete approval by all of the
men selected to be Mr.. Tafts cabinet ad-
Nisers.
J. N Dickinson of Tennessee, who &C
copied the war portfolio at the hands of
MIR. Taft in Cincinnati yesterday will give
up the position Of general solicitor for the
Illinois Central railway and a salary OF
$4,000 a year to become a cabinet min
lister. He is between "a and 50 years Of
age, a native of Mississippi, served three
months in the confederate army as a boy,
graduated from the University of Tennes-
see and finished his education in Ger
many. His grandfather was Phelix Grun-
dy. attorney general of the United States
his father a distinguished chancellor in
Mississippi Mr.. Dickinson has always
been a Democrat. although he is a per-
Sonal friend of President Roosevelt and
refused TO vote for Bryan.
Mrs. Dickinson is from Mississippi was
n daughter of General Overton and is re-
lated to prominent old southern families
He is the owner of the famous old Belle
Mead manor houes and immense estates
three miles out from Nashville. in which
city he began his law practice. He was
for a time judge of the supreme court of
Tennessee and was appointed by President