Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-03

The new members of the Cabinet
are settling down Ia their work with
cenmendabfe industry over at the
Interior Department it would seem
that Secretary Fisher was an old
hand It .the@lem. instead Of man
with only a few weeks experience.
Nearly everyasix or seven days he
journeys hut to Chevy Chase, like
many another official Washingtonian.
takes round of golf. at which he is
something of an expert, and turns up
at his1desk the next morning fresh
as daisy. He has acquired mastery
of the Department organization very
rapidly and has the machinery run
ming -sinoathly,
As the Interior Department is n
Very big department, it is really more
work 10 get used to things there than
II is oyeT at the War Department.
where's Secretary Henry l.. Stimson is
just taking hold The President sent
him. off to Boston a few days ago TO
make an address before the Intercol-
onial Club and Mr.. Stimson concen-
trated his energies for few days in
getting that address. Now he is back
at Washington, working like a beaver
TO get acquainted with the details of
army administration. The general
staff is pretty nearly the whole
works at the War Department, and
while the secretary of war is superior
to the general staff. its officers have
the business pretty we'll in their own
hands.
The task of a Secretary OF War, ae-
cordingly, is to familiariZe himself
sufficiently with the work of the De-
partment to keep the army officers
from putting things over on him.
Therefore a wide-awake secretary asks
la lot OF questions when he is new at
the job and that is what Secretary
Stimson is doing. But he is a very
clever lawyer, sees the point of a case
quickly and is measuring his wits
successfully with the officers of the
general staff.
Stimson and Fisher are regarded as
accessions to Nfficial life at Washing
ton. Both ara lawyers of great abii-
ity and their selection for places in
the cabinet demonstrates anew the
Presidents preference for lawyers in
the public service. All but two of the
members of his cabinet are lawyers
Secretary of the Navy Meyer and
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. The
other seven are by no means all emf
nent lawyers. Secretary OF the Treas
ury MacVeagh was a lawyer in early
life but abandoned the profession be-
cause of i'll health and pursued a bust
ness career. Postmaster General
Hitchcock studied law at night
schools in Washington when he was
government clerk but never prac-
ticed
The Gov Woodrow Wilson presi-
dental boom is getting right big in
the eyes of Washington. The old fell
lows. who stand off to one side and
wag their heads, wonder whether the
boom is not coming too fast. Some
of them say: 1.-THE burned thing will
blow up one of these days and that
will be the end of it"
If GOV. Judson Harmon should be
the Democratic nominee, as now APP
pears very unlikely, the next presiden-
| tial campaign would be a very neigh.
borly affair. Harmon and Taft have
| been life long friends in Cincinnati
| The President knows Woodrow Wilson
very little. although he has kept NOR,
or less familiar with his career a.
president of Princeton and as govern.
or of New Jersey.
The prevalence of the Wilson tall
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