The National tribune., 1910-06-30

be followed that no serious errors may
/, be made. There are many skeptics
about the wisdom of postal savings
banks. anyway and should there be
such haste or lack of oversight that
would lead to disaster the whole sys-
tenn would suffer and popular preJu-
| dice be created against the establish
ment of postal banks.
The more important business of the
Treasury Department will be transact
ed from Dublin N H, this Summer.
Secretary MacVeagh plans to spend
most of his time there. as he did last
Summer. He has a large farm and a
beautiful residence there, which he has
occupied for a portion of every sum-
mer during the last 10 years. He has
his Secretary there, and matters of
pressing Importance are forwarded him
| from Washington. Occasionally he will
make a trip down to Beverly for con-
ference with President Taft. 1t is not
I likely that Mr.. MacVeagh will return
to Washington much before Oct. 1, and
perhaps not till quite a month after
| that.
One other member of the Cabinet,
Secretary of State Knox, also has a
fine farm and Summer residence. He
| is already trellking to Valley Forge.
where he plans to spend most of the
Summer. 1t is only a few hours ride
from Washington, but Secretary Knox
will come here only for xlay or two
at a time till we'll along into the Au-
tumn. Almost every day a bag of De-
partment mail will be sent to him at
Valley Forge, and he will decide upon
these matters there. The Department
lis within telephone call of Valley
Forge. The Secretary will probably
make at least one visit to Beverly dur
ing the Summer to talk things over
with the President.
The Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
Secretary Nagel, of the Department
of Commerce and Labor. also plans to
spend several weeks this Summer at
Marion Mass, where he has a cottage
in which the members of his family
already are installed He will give a
lot of attention this Summer and Au-
tumn to National politics. for he is one
of the ablest politicians in the Cabinet
He will keep close eye upon the Sit
uation in his home State of Missouri
where there is to be a big battle be-
tween the Democrats and Republicans
over the election of Congressman and
a Legislature that will have the choice
of a United States Senator to succeed
William Warner.
He has considerable important work
to inaugurate in his Department. now
one of the most comprehensive and
largest under the Government. This
work includes the Inauguration of a
new Lighthouse Board and the placing
of civilians in charge not only of the
Board, but of the inspection in the
several districts. Mr.. Nagel, too. will
be within close call of Beverly, and will
visit there frequently on political as
well as departmental business. In short,
President Taft will be able to have
meeting of four or five members of his
Cabinet on short notice any time dur
ing the establishment of the Summer
Capital at Beverly Secretary of the
Navy George Won L. Meyer has already
gone to his home at Hamilton, Mass,
where he will remain till well into Oc
tober. Naval affairs of pressing impOr-
tance will be forwarded to him there,
He is only a half dozen miles away
from the President, and can be sum-
moned for golf game or for a Cabinet
meeting in few minutes. Attorney
General Wickersham will spend most
of the Summer at his residence on Long
Island, and he, too, will be within easy
reach of Beverly. Wickersham, Mac
Veagh. Nagel and Meyer would make
a fairly respectable Cabinet meeting.
especially if it were called while some
other member of the Cabinet happened
to be visiting at Beverly
Secretary BalIinger.
Secretary RaIlinger will be absent in
the West again a considerable time this
Summer. The operations of his De-
partment have to do almost entirely
with the West The recess will prob
ably be more welcome 10 him than to
any other member of the Cabinet The
constant attacks upon his administra-
ton. led by ex-Forester Pinchot and
other prominent conservationists. wctrld
unnerve the average man. These and
the Congressional investigation of the
Winter have naturally demoralized the
conduct of his Department and he will
probably seek to get back upon good,
stable basis during the Summer. There
is no small task ahead in attending to
the details of an issue of $40, 600. 900 of
Treasury certificates to pay for work
upon divers irrigation projects now well
under way. This will necessitate
vast deal of inquiry and of prepara-
ton which comes under the Secretary's
supervision.
The reports of his intended resigna-
ton from the Cabinet have been less
frequent of late. 1t is not believed that
he will resign, if at all. before the Con-
gressional joint committee renders its
report. a.
Uncle Tama Jim" Wilson. the Sec
retary of Agriculture, will spend much
of the Summer in Washington. He is
not much of a Summer traveler, be-
yond an occasional jaunt out to get
into touch with the farmers and to
make few speeches to them. He
usually takes a vacation of about a
month in his home State of Iowa.
Of course, the members of the Cabi-
net do not really transact much busi-
ness when they are out of town for
the Summer. The volume of transac-'
tions is much smaller than some peo-
pie might infer from the statements in
that connection. But Summer is now
the official playtime, and in view of the
fact that Congress was here most of
last Summer and the usual Summer
recess was curtailed by two or three
months there will be an effort to make
up for it now.