The Nevada County picayune., 1912-12-20


 Democratic colleagues for urging that PrSsident-elect Wilson set aside the. civil service executive order of Presi- dent Taft as soon after March as possible. A good many of the Repub- licans are willing to confess that it would have been hard blow to their l party organization if years ago all | the postmasters of the country had been removed from the field of poli- tical appointments. They say they would have resented it and that they cannot honestly complain because the Democrats now are seeking to pre- l pare to have the order rescinded. The l Republicans of course say that the postmasters ought to be kept on the l civil service list. but that this fact naturally does not prevent Democratic l resentment because the order was is- i sued just at a time to do damage to l the faithful who have been waiting 1 long for preferment
 1 For years labor has asked that new l department of government should be l created to deal alone with labor prob i lems. with q labor member in the l presidents eabilset as it's presiding 1 chief Not long before he set sail for 1 Bermuda. President-elect Wilson ex- 1 pressed desire to have a labor chief 1 in his family circle. The Republicans l in the past have not been averse to 1 the establishment of labor depart ment. The Democrats in the main seem to be for it, and so it is probable that one of the legislative acts of mo- ment of the present session will be to establish such a department and to 1 give MT Wilson the right to name an additional member of the cabinet.
 Moving Day Approaches.
 To great many people Wash i ington will not be Washington aft CT March 4. The day following the 1 inauguration, or at any rate some day not far removed from it will be moving day" for hosts of long time 1 Washington residents, calling them selves temporary residents, but hop ing that as the years went on they finally might write the adjective per manent" before the noun.
 What changes will take place in Washington in the personnel of the existing office forces? We'll. of course, ] first and foremost there is the presi- dent who must move with his family and his law library to the old home on the banks of the Ohio river. Prior 10 the day of moving from the White House Mr Taft will entertain for two days his coming successor as chief executive and the successors good wife.
 Philander Chase Knox. the secre- tary of state. on March i will give way to William Jennings Bryan pos sibly. or certainly to some other l good Democrat of the country. Mr l Knox has been in Washington in one official capacity or another for good many years. and he has q fine old i home on k street where with Mrs. 1 Knox he enterta1ns in hospitable spirit Republicans, Democrats, Pro gressive-R Republicans and Progressives alike. to say nothing of foreigners and the casual American visitors to Wash ington. It is said that Mir. Knox will move only from the state department and that he will keep his K street house for nine months year and will spend the other three months in the state of Pennsylvania which, after he had been attorney general in the Roosevelt cabinet sent him to the sen ! ate.
 MacVeaoh Will Not Depart. Franklin MacVeagh. secretary of the treasury. is the only other cabi- net officer who will not move from | Washington when some good Demo cratic hnancier takes his seat in the big building where Uncle Sam's money is kept. Two years ago next Christ mas day Mrs. Franklin MacNeagh presented her husband with house on Sixteenth street. Mir MacVeagh from the windows of his residence at the time saw the Christmas gift build ing rising stone by stone only block or two away, but he had no idea who was building 1t or who was to five in it. Finally 1t was completed and, as the children say, the secretary of tn, treasury found the new residence in | his stocking on Christmas mofnaHs with the Merry Christmas card" Of his wife attached. MT, MacVeagh. It Is understood will not return to Chi cago but will continue to live In Washington in his holiday gift house.
 Secretary of Commerce and Labor Charles Nagel will return to St. Louis to take up the practice of the law. Secretary of the Interior Walter l.. Fisher will return to Chicago to con tinue the course of court pleading and of closet counseling which he followed before Mir Taft called him to Wash iRgton.
 Attorney General George w. Wick ersham also will return to the law and probably will become member again of the old established New forE firm with which he severed his con