Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-03
TAFT SATISFIED
WITH CABINET
There Is Little Likelihood
That He Will Make Changes.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington, Jan. 3.-Ispecial.]-For
some reason there have been from the
beginning Of President Taft's admins
tration constant rumors of cabinet
changes. The newspaper men have
ject than any other. They have con-
stAntly made changes which the presi-
dent has not confirmed. In R~oosevelt's
administration a cabinet change was
a good guess, for he was constantly
making changes, but Taft Is not 30
accommodating.
Suggestions are made from time to
time to the president that he ought to
get this or that man into his cabinet
or get rid OF this, that or the other
member OF his official family. He gen
orally receives these suggestions with
a quizzicaI expression and will then
saTcastically ask, $50 you would like
to remodel my cabinet for meY"
That generally floors the best OF
them, and no man hearing that ques-
ton again ventures the sugges-
ton that MI. Taft should make
changes In his cabinet.
While 1t Is possible that there may
be cabinet changes, the present indi-
cations are that the president is very
well satisfied, and while that satisfac-
ton lasts there Is little prospect Of
such changes.
Rivals For Chlle's Trade.
When we get u Panama canal
completed we will find that Argentina
has made a bid for the trade of Chile,
which we expect to take through the
tsthmus. TO the transcontinental roads
already built u enterprising South
American nelghbor is just about to add
two more, which will cross the Andes
and have terminals on the Pacific.
They seem to be doing things In the
south as well as In the north.
A Cry For Help.
The suggestion that each member OF
congress be provided with an as
sistant will not be adopted any more
quickly than the recent effort to In
crease the clerk hire above $1,000 a
year. 1t ia true that few congressman
obtain men ab that salary who are
equal to the task OF representing them
before cabinet officers and other high
officials.
There is a vast difference in secre-
taries as In everything else. For the
most part the average secretary OF a
d@representatxa-B a good
s2o4 me- never gets out OF
ONCE, but there are men in con-
gress whs have such expert assistants
that they never 30 lee a department
pr look after any details whatever re-
lating to their congressional work.
Such secretaries, however, get more
than the $4,000 allowed a senator's
clerk or the $500 allowed a repre-
sentative for clerk hire.
Miss Taft In the Social Swim.
No other young lady, not even Alice
Roosevelt, has been 30 feted, dined
and danced as Miss Helen Taft the
young daughter of the president who
made her debut early in the s
Alice Roosevelt received as many
invitations, but she confined her social
reign as a debutante to a smaller and
more exclusive set. She~d did not know
as many young girls MS Miss Taft, nor
was she 10 willing to accommodate
them by becoming the magnet at en-
tertainments they gave.
3d. 49, a. l n~1<1n1pa that
.Miss Taft was the guest of honor"
etc, and many q young girl and even
the older women of Washington have
made their parties a success on &C
rount Of the presence of the daughter
| Of the president.
Miss Taft Is really popular in her
| own right and would be well liked
| even ii she were not surrounded by
the glamour of her fathers position.
Our Little Troubles.
Out In the Philippines there is q
| bugaboo about Japanese arms being
| concealed In great number to be used
against our government when oppor-
tmnity offers.
| 0pWu III hSAiSo AiuCiiSah AhtSi
| ests are threatened from time to time
and there Is danger that some of oui
| citizens may be victims of a revolu
Honary mob.
: Having taken upon ourselves the con
troll of the finances OF santo Domingo
| we are naturally concerned about ths
outbreak between that country ant
Haiti.
Then there are the earthquake reports
from Panama. which give ~uneasines'
about the safety Of the canal for one
violent quake would destroy nearl,
everything the government has don,
On the tsthmus.
Not Far Senator CulIors,
"Well, there IL one thing settled re
marked Senator Cullom earnestly to
friend as he laid down a paper con
tanning accounts of the killing OF man,
nremen IN different cities. I'm not be
come a fireman when l retire from thi
Job" He Ia now eighty-four years oil,
ana Is the oldest man In either nous
Of congress.
Some OF the news" OF your imm,
diats, neighborhood may be found |
the want ads. today.