The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-03-14

sationaI charges OF misconduct and
incompetency including not only the
secretary but Clifford Pinchot. the
former chief forester. and other on.
cials Of the interior ofice.
Secretary Of War Dickinson is now
explaining to a senate committee his
side Of the issue. growing out OF the
charge that he has given q monopoly
to the Pacific Mail Steamship com
pany In the carrying trade between
Panama and ports on the Pacific
coast. The original arrangement gave
the steamship company seventy per
cent Of the rate. when they shipped
through freight to the Atlantic coast
by the Panama railroad it gave
the company the privilege Of buying
coal at Panama at cost The protest
against this privilege recently has
prompted the secretary to promise
similar fayors to a proposed compet-
ing line to the Pacific mail.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
been charged by members OF congress
with using his Office simply for poll
tical ends the efficiency Of the postal
service having deteriorated in conse-
quence.
Secretary Of the Treasury Mcyeagh
has been attacked for promoting the
Chicago packers proposition TO have
the ten cent per pound tax on colored
reduced to fraction Of
a cent.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer is in
trouble over his naval personal prop
osltion. He has been accused in sery-
Ice publications and by officers Of the
navy of attempting to build up the
power OF the social set in the naval
to the detriment Of the
best interests of the navy.
Secretary of State Knox, as a re-
suit of his endeayors to force upon |
China and the interested powers the
light of New York capitalists to build /
certain railroads in the Orient, has
,een charged with using the influence
# his Office and his department to
lromote the financial business Of ].
Morgan and his associates.
Secretary OF Agriculture Wilson, by
he ultra pure food enthusiasts. is be-
ng attacked for his defense OF the
Ise OF benzoate Of soda as a food
He has also become in
-olyed in the Ballinger-Pinchot con-
-roversy, having been called as a
witness before the investigating COM
nittee.
Attorney General Wickersham has
,een bitterly assailed by the republi-
an progressives. They charge that
is railroad rate bill, which proposes
to the present interstate
commerce law, viii undo all the good
by former President
in curbing the railroads.
They also charge that the attorney
,eneral has used his moral influence
o prevent possible prosecution of the
lig men in the sugar trust as eli
max TO the sugar trust frauds in New
Tork- Anu-Ballinger republicans are
lso claiming that the attorney gen
raj suppressed and presented facts
D distorted conditions to the presi-
ent when theh Ballinger-Glavis-Pin-
hot case was before him.
President Taft, with the members
I his cabinet, the target of republi-
ans who are fighting his administra-
on and of the democrats, is care
lilly watching the situation and is
,yally supporting each member. He
unruffled by the charges, having
nplicit confidence in the integrity of
ne men he has chosen TO aid him in
laking his administration success.
either do the cabinet members show
gns of worry. Secretary Ballinger,
ay in and day out, is one of the most
neerful officials in Washington. Post
laster General Hitchcock, the sea-
,ned politician is amused THE
lueal of the opposition" said an in
mate of the postmaster general,
when it comes in the form of charges
music to Mr.. IIiteheoek's ears"