Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

Justice Wright of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia, who recently
sentenced Samuel Gonipers, John Mitchell
and Frank Morrison to jail for disobeying
en- injunction of the court IN the Bucks
Stove and Range company case, is in daily
receipt of threatening letters from persons
who are displeased with his action. JUS
tice Wright said today nc was amused
rather than terrified at the threats. and
has been throwing the missives into the
waste paper basket.
One letter Informed Judge Wright that
he was m%isnamed, and that his name
should be Judge Wrong" This letter
continued: Your decision in the Bucks
Stove and Range ompany case will prove
to be an unhealthy affair for you before
we are done with you. The undertaken
will have a job down your way before
many moons, and you will be the chief
mourner."
When Justice Wright showed this letter
he laughed and said: Il have not been
measured for my shroud, nor can 1 say 1
am afraid to go home in the dark"
Another writer said that he would arrive
in five days and kill Justice Wright.
When Theodore Roosevelt retires from
the presidential office on March 4 he will
have made a record for numerous cabinet
appointments. The. last cabinet meeting
he presides over, says the Boston Herald
correspondent, will be composed almost
solely of comparatively new men. There
will be but one man, Secretary Wilson,
who attended the first cabinet meeting that
Roosevelt held in the autumn Of 1901. There
will be only one other, Secretary of the
Treasury Cortelyou, who was at the cab
met table in March, 1905. when Mr.. Roose-
welt entered upon his present term,
In the seven and a half years of his
tenure Mr.. Roosevelt will have had twenty
nine different cabinet officers, but not as
many different men, for Mr.. Root has
served under him first as secretary of
war and then as secretary of state. Mr..
Cortelyou has had three cabinet positions
under Roosevelt-commerce and labor, post
office and treasury. Attorney General
Bonaparte first came into the cabinet as
secretary of the navy.
No other president has made so many
changes. There have been six secretaries
of the navy since Mr.. Roosevelt entered
the White House-Long, Morton, Moody,
Bonaparte, Metcalf and New~berry-and
five postmasters general-Smith, Payne,
Wynne, Cortelyou and Meyer. There have
been two secretaries of state-Hay and
Root. The recent announcement that Sec
rotary Root is to resign as soon as he is
elected to the senate from New York and
that Assistant Secretary of State Robert
Bacon of New York and Boston will sue
coed him, assures three secretaries of
state during President Roosevelt's time.
Mr.. Roosevelt has also had three secre-
taries of the treasury, three secretaries Of
war, three attorneys general, three secTe-
tarles of and labor and two sec
retarles OF the interior.
Grover Cleveland, the only other presi-
dent since Grants time who has served
two terms, had but twenty-three cabinet
officers. They were in two administrations,
separated by a four-year period. In each
Of his Administrations most Of the men
who came into office with him remained
at his cabinet table till the close OF the
four years for which the president had
been elected. But one OF the changes In
Mr.. Roosevelt's cabinet has been on ac-
count OF a death, and that was in the
state department.