Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-13
PRESIDENT TAFT
WILL MEET NEW
WAR SECRETARY
To Hold Conference With Secre-
tary DickinsOn's Successor
During Jersey Trip.

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 13.-The
resignation of Jacob NJ. Dickinson. of
Tennessee, as secretary. of wal and the
appointment of Henry l.. Stimson. of
New York, as his successor having
been amounted, all efforts will be
made to arrange for the change in de-
partment heads as soon as possible.
President Taft will confer with the
new appointee either tonight or tomor-
row on his trip to Newark. The new
secretary will probably be sworn in
upon the return of President Taft -,
this city Monday.
In the letters exchanged between the
President and Secretary Dickinson no
reason other than that of pressing pri-
waite affairs is given for the secre-
tary's retirement. The President will
confer with Stimson in Newark today
or tomorrow. but the new secretary Of
war will not be sworn in until the re-
turn of the President to the capital IN
Monday.
Dickinson will go to his -lneSsee
home Immediately upon the qualifica-
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devote his ttention to business and
Will not return to the practise of law
in which he was engaged when Presi-
dent Taft appointed him secretary of
war in arch, 1909. He is the second
member of Taft's cabinet to retire to
private life, Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger having severed his connec-
ton with the Presidents official fam
ily univ n few months ago.
MiIlington Assistant Treasurer.
CONFIDENT with the announcement Of
Dickinson's retirement came that of
the appointment of c. S. Ellington,
of H%erkimer, N. Y, to be assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
York. 1Stimson was the Roosevelt can
didate for governor. while Millington
was a former member of the House
from the Twenty-seventf. New York
district, and is a close lend of Vice
President Sherman and other leaders
of the Old Guard In the State, having
succeeded Sherman in the House when
the latter became Nice-President.
Unofacialy Washington discussed
| with relish the resignation of the Sec
rotary of war. Unof1cially also there
we're those who found other reasons
than that given in his letter.
Dickinson is a Democrat. His pres
ence in the cabinet of a Republican
President has not been looked Upon
with favor by some of Taft's political
advisers, who we're of the opinion that
the office of secretary of war should
be held by some one of the Presidents
own party, and who also pointed out
that Dickinson might prove a source
OF embarrassment when the 1912 pres
idential campaign begins. Naturally
Dickinson also found the discussion in
the cabinet of party measures often a
personal embarrassment.
Selects New Secretary.
The President moved swiftly when
he found that he had to select a new
secretary of war. On Wednesday night
| Secretary Hilles was dispatched to
New York post-haste. He met Stimson
the next day, but Stimson wished to
consult with his father, who was then
on the Atlantic bound for Europe.
Hilles came back to Washington and
Stimson resorted to the wireless. His
fathers answer advising him to accept
came yesterday, and late yesterday
afternoon he called up the White
House on the long-distance phone and
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| second secretary of war.
The appointment of Stimson will give
New York two members of the cabinet.
Attorney-General Wickersham be ng a
resident of that State.
Stimson was born in New York on
September p, 1867. He was gradu-
ated from Yale in 1888 and from Har-
ward Law School In 1890. He was as
ISOLATED with Senator Root. of New
York, In the practise of law, and in
1905 was appointed United States at
torney for the southern district of New
York. He resigned that position after
three years service, but became spe-
cial counsel for the government in the
prosecution of the sugar trust. As
counsel in that case he Won the admir-
alton of Attorney-G General Wickersham
and Taft.
Dickinson was born in Mississippi.
spent most of his life in Tennessee,
and was appointed TO the cabinet from
Chicago. He is so years old In the
Civil War he served with the Missis-
sippi Volunteers. He was educated at
the University of Nashville, the Uni
versity of Leipzig. Saxony, and the
Sorbonne, Paris. He was sworn in as
secretary OF war March IL, 1900, pre-
viously having been general counse OF
the Illinois Central railroad, with Of
fees in Chicago.
Secretary Dickinson's Letter.
Secretary D~ickinson's letter of res
ignation. which was dated April 2s,
read:
Dear Mr.. President--As my affairs
have recently so changed as to require
my personal attention in Tennessee, /
herewith tender my resignation as Sec
rotary of Far, to take effect as soon
as may be compatible with the public
interest. I :annot express to you how