The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-26

washington Old-Timers Unable 10
Remember Time When Executive
Entertained official Family at the
White House - Difficulties Con.
fronting Administration 70 Be
Threshed out--Huehes Reasonably
Sure Of Chief Justieeship.
Washington, Sept. &c. - President
Taft's cabinet "house party" got to-
gether this morning. The president
reached Washington after an absence
of nearly three months, and his Off
cial advisers have also been dropping
in one by one from all parts of the
country.
Secretary Dickinson is the only
member of the cabinet not on hand
to have his room assigned to him at
the White House. He is in Japan,
and the president and the other
members of the cabinet will have to
wait for a later meeting TO hear
from him.
The three.day cabinet meeting is
going to be a unique affair. Old
timers in Washington have been
scratching their heads and trying TO
recall similar instance of the pTesi-
dent taking all the members of his
official family under the roof of the
White House for a three or four
days stay, but shey say that, this is
the first time Of which they have
found any record.
The president is going to be
cramped for room in entertaining his
eight guests, but by doubling up two
Of them he will he able to make go
of It, Secretary Norton, who has
been designated as room clerk" by
'the president, declined to say what
assignments he had made. Life in
the White House COR the next three
days is going to- be pretty sharply
regulated The members of the
house party" are all expected to be
at the breakfast table by $3.50 in the
morning. There will be an informal
discussion of administration affairs
over the coffee and toast in the
morning, but the formal session of
the cabinet will not be called until
II o'clock. Each session will last un.
til about 1880 in the afternoon, when
the cabinet-makers will again gather
in the dining room to renew their
discussions at luncheon. Each after.
noon the president will try to get ex.
ercise on the golf course or by riding
horseback, and It Is likely that he
will take some members of his Off
cial family along with him on these
side excursions. Secretary Knox and
Secretary Meyer are the only two
golf players in the cabinet.
Dinner will be served at 1880 and
the evenings will be given over to
further discussion of the problems
confronting the administration. The
cabinet house party" is to be strictly
a family affair. The president does
not intend to include any outsider,
even on the dinner lists. Mr.. Taft
expects to thresh out with his ad-
visers all the difficulties of the ad-
ministration and to invite the frank
est possible discussion.
While the filling of the vacancies
on the supreme bench Is to be dis
cussed at the cabinet meetings, the
president, 1t Is known, will not com
nit himself on this matter and will
make his own decision after he has
obtained the cabinets views on the
candidates. There is mo reason at
this time for believing that anybody
stands a better chance than Governor
Hughes for the appointment for chief
justice.
Resides the question of the estab.
lishment of postal savings banks, the
effecting OF further economies in ad.
ministering the executive depart.
ments and the judicial appointments
the president and his cabinet also
will consider foreign affairs, including
the readjustment of affairs in Mica.
ragua, and the general political stu
alton. II Is in regard to the posi-
bllity OF some political development
from the cabinet meetings that Off
clal Washington is chiefly interested
at this time. The president appreci-
ates the critical situation of the par.
ty in reference TO the coming con,
gressional elections, and IL is believ,
ed here that some plan of action will
be considered and adopted at the
three-days' session.