The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-23
TAFT WILL SPEND NEXT
SUMMER AT BEVERLY
Lease Is Taken on the Evans Cottage for Another
Season'-.Boston People Linger
by the Sea.

for discussion. Some State Depart
ment business of moment was disposed
of, especially pertaining to the reor-
ganization of the Far Eastern Bureau,
the establishment of the South Amer
lean Bureau, and several appointments,
such as that of Henry NJ. Hoyt, of
Pennsylvania, to be the State Depart
ment Counselor.
Mr.. Hoyt's selection for that office
which has just been created--is
noteworthy item. He is a Pennsyl-
vanian of high character and ability,
who was classmate of President Taft
at Yale, and who served as solicitor
of the Department of Justice under
several Attorneys General, one of them
Mr.. Knox. Incidentally, it might be
mentioned that Mr.. Taft's first Fed
eral office at Washington was that of
solicitor of the Department of Justice.
Mr.. Knox was very anxious to have
Mr.. Hoyt in the Department of State
with him, and plan was framed of
authorizing the establishment of the
office of Under Secretary of State,
which Mr.. Hoyt was to have had. The
House of representatives, however, de-
INJURED and the scheme fell through.
In the meantime there was a vacancy
on the United States circuit bench for
the district which comprises Pennsyl-
vania. Mr.. Hoyt was offered the place,
but declined it, which gave rise to
report, probably with some foundation,
that he was destined before the end
of President Taft IS administration for
the Supreme bench.
In his new office of State Depart
ment counselor, Mr. Hoyt's first task
of moment will be the framing of the
new japanese trade treaty to take the
place of the Gne that expires in about
two years. He will be paid from a
fund of 100000, which Congress voted
for the support of the Far Eastern
Bureau. The reorganization of that
bureau is a part of President Taft s
comprehensive scheme for encouraging
trade and good will between the United
States and the Orient.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
paid still another visit to the President.
fitting out to Burgess Point in a fleet
automobile and returning with ap-
proval of his plans to reorganize much
fthe work of the Postoffice Depart
ment. That is very important, because
the Postofice Department has disbursed
vast sums of government money in re-
cent years, as the charges go, with some
extravaganza, and Congress has been
disposed to step in and show it's hand.
But it is difficult for Congress to cur
tail expenditures for the postal service
is very close to the people, who prefer
to have what they want, no matter what
the cost. If Postmaster General Hitch
cock can make the service self sustain
ing, which he claims to be feasible, he
will accomplish what none of his more
recent predecessors have been able to
do. For which reason his plans to re-
duce the cost of administering the reg
istry system, the rural free delivery
service, and to restrict the abuses of
the franking privilege and that sort of
thing will be followed closely by OBJ
servant citizens.
Almost any hour nowadays, Secre-
tary Ballinger is looked for on flying
visit to Beverly. His arrival promises
TO make quite as much of a thrill at
the summer capital as that of any
other cabinet officer this season. He
has dashed from the West to Washing
ton, announced that he intends to "kill
a few snakes and given evidence of
his intention to deal vigorously with
his critics in the country toward the
setting sun. The President has been
utterly silent about the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy which has been
waged SO violently in the West but
Beverly has reason to believe that the
President is with BalIinger.
In any event the President will I'M
doubtedly hear a detailed account from
his Secretary of the Interior about the
warfare in the West regarding conser-
walton policies. The report will have
something to do not only with the
water power trust and national forests,
which latter come under the Depart
ment of Agriculture and are of interest
to the Department of the Interior be-
cause it has charge of public lands
from which national forests are organ
lied. but about the Reclamation Ser
vice. That comes directly under Sec
rotary Ballinger's supervision and the
controversy over the government s ad-
ministration of its irrigation projects
has really been very lively, in fact live
lier than any other branch of the
controversy growing out of Secretary
Ballinger's administration of his de-
partment. But it has not been so well
advertised as the Pinchot controversy
and accordingly the general public
knows less about it.
From his visit to Beverly Secretary
Ballinger, having informed the Presi-
dent in detail what the western situa-
ton is regarding conservasian policies,
will hurry back to the .Yest to com
plete his tour of inspection and obser-
walton of enterprises which the Interior
Department has in charge there. He
| expects to have that task rounded out
in time to meet the President as soon
as the latter reaches Denver and TO
travel with him through the Northwest.
As plans stand now the President is
| going to have pretty big cabinet CON
| tingent with him as he journeys be
yond the Mississippi. Some one Of five
or six members of the cabinet is to
travel with him at some stage Of his
long journey and nearly all IF them
will be gathered at FL Paso. Texas, on