Woodruff County news., 1909-02-25
TAFT CABINET
 COMPLETED
THE TREAS SURY PORTFOLIO STILL IN THE BALANCE, WITH HERRICK AND MACVEAGH
 BEING CONSIDERED.
FIVE LAWYERS IN THE LIST
J. M. Dickinson, Tennesseean, to Suc- ceed Luke Wright, Tennesseean,
 in Department of War.

Philadelphia-A conference took place between the president-elect and Frank H. Hitchcock, who came here at the request of MT. Taft. Frank B. Kellogg was also visitor.
 The report printed that as the pres ident he would go to Alaska, MT. Taft said, had only the foundation that he had received an invitation for such a trip and had replied that he would hold 1t under consideration. This same answer, he said, likewise ap- piled to incilantions to visit Denver and Seattle next summer. He has not yet decided what his travelling itinerary for the year will be, except that he will make a trip through the South and Southwest as far as Texas.
 An address will De delivered by Judge Taft at the Academy of Music here under the auspices of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania in celebra- tion of the University Day. The ex- ercises will take place in the morn ing. A walking stick used by Benja-
 
 to Lafayette, will be a gift to the university by the president-elect. Af- ter the celebration MT. Taft will be the guest at luncheon of the first troop, Philadelphia city cavalry, and at night will attend the Pennsylvania University Alumni dinner.
 MT. Taft admits he is making head way in the selection of a secretary of the treasury, but maintains the place is not yet filled. Franklin MacVeagh and Myron T. Herrick are two of the men under consideration. With this plete and when officially promulgat- ed shortly before his inauguration will be found as follows:
 Secretary of State-Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania.
 Attorney General-George Wicker sham of New York.
 Secretary of War-J. M. Dickinson of Tennessee.
 Secretary of Commerce and Labor Charles Nagle of Missouri.
 OSCISIdIy Ol luc 1NdN y-GSOISS NO1 L. Meyers of Massachusetts.
 Secretary of the Interior-R. A. Bal finger of Washington.
 Postmaster General-Frank H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts.
 Secretary of Agriculture-James Wilson of Iowa.
 It will be observed that in this list are five lawyers, of whom Mir. Taft believes there are none in the coun- try better. It may be stated that this fact is not mere coincidence, but is an accomplishment which has been carefully planned and striven for by the incoming president and bears a most important relation to what he believes to be the important work of his administration.
 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 coincidence with his own Mir. Taft's position has been clearly em- bodied in his inaugural address and this document is known to have re- ceived hearty adoption and complete approval by all of the men selected to be MT. Tafts cabinet advisers. J. M. Dickinson of Tennessee, who accepted the war portfolio at the hands of MT. Taft, will give up the position of general solicitor for the Illinois Central Railway system, and salary of $95,OOO a year to become a cabinet minister. He is between 54 and 55 years of age, a native of Mississippi, served three months in the Confederate army as boy, grad uated from the University of Tennes- see and finished his education in Ger many. His grandfather was Phelix Grundy. attorney general of the Uni | ted States.
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