The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-12-10
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington, Dec. o. Especial. j
Cabinet makers-not including Wood
row Wilson, who has made no guesses
are much concerned about two places
secretary Of the treasury and attor-
ney general. Two mighty big western
Democrats able to fill the bill, living
in states which gave Wilson good ma
torities, are wanted for these two
places 1t does not matter so much
about the treasury, but there must be
man in the department Of justice who
| will carry out the ideas Of Democracy
and Mr. Wilson particularly i'll regard
to trusts and trust prosecution.
"Guiit is personal" once remarked
Governor Wilson, speaking Of corpora
lions that violated the law There has
been a clamor- for criminal prosecu-
ton Of those who have violated trust
laws. The criminal trusts" has been
| q favorite expression among Demo
Gratis for a number of years.
Put them in jaip' shouted Ben Till
| man in the days when he was at the
| zenith OF his power Quotations from
others who shared in bringing about
the recent victory need not be made
for it Is sufficient to know that Wig
orous attorney general is needed to go
at the trusts after the 4th Of March.
States Broken.
A great many cabinet states have
been made and broken, but it is no
ticed that when the pieces are gathered
up a number OF names are found ready
for a new slate. william J. Bryan,
Josephus Daniels of North Carolina. A.
Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania and
Albert Burleson of Texas are always
considered as sure possibilities. or
these Palmer is the only man who Is
not likely to accept
A Committee Revolution.
II that idea of giving only one good
committee place to each senator until
eyery other member Of the senate had
been cared for should be carried out tt
would mean revolution in committee
| ASSIGNMENTS. The old idea has been
for men Of long service in the senate
to hog everything they could get, and
then some.
In many cases a senator has kept
everything he could get at the expense
Of his state, keeping his colleague out
Of good positions because he held so
many himself AS a matter of fact, 1t
is a shame that one man should hold
80 many good places.
Well Fixed Senators.
There are several senators who are
particularly well fixed at the present
time. Warren is a member Of five i'm
portant committees and chairman OF
appropriations; Lodge is member of
I've good committees, including finance
and foreign relations: McCumber Is a
member Of four good committees, in
GLIDING finance and foreign relations;
Smoot Is a member of FIVE important
committees, including finance and ap-
preparations; Bacon has three fmpor-
tant committees, Culberson three, Till
man three, Stone three, Borah four,
Perkins Ave, and several other sena-
tors are almost equally we'll fixed.
These seniors. will not give up their
good places without struggle.
How They Beat Sweet.
Congressman Ned Sweet thought he
had a sure thing in a Michigan district,
b,lf his opponent knew the temper of
the people pretty well. In an unguard-
ed moment Sweet expressed bis opin
ion Of William ]. Bryan. It's all right
to have an opinion Of Bryan, but not
very safe to give it publicity, but that
Is what the reporter to whom Sweet
talked did, and Sweets opponent print
ed Il in the form of a circular and
placed 1t In the hands Of every Demo-
crat In the district. NoS there are
Bryan Democrats everywhere. and
especially. In Michigan. Enough OF
them voted against Sweet to defeat
him.
After the Publishers.
There have been many Official utter
ances during the past four years an
tagonist1c to publishers. In fact, off,
eial documents are full of them. The
latest il the brief of the solicitor gen
eral in defending the Barnhart law.
which regulates publishers. He says
9OOcD, COO people pay tribute of $7O.-
600 600 every year to $4,000 publishers.
He alludes to second class mail rates,
never seeming to consider that the
reading public gets the benefit of the
reduced rates in many publications.
For several years there has been the
strongest kind of an effort to increase
the second class postage and make all
publishers pay higher Gate than has
been in force since 1879.
Republican onookers.
/ Among the Republican onlookers aft
er the 4th of March will be John ".
Dwight Of New York Dwight did not
suffer defeat at the last election, When
every thing was nice and shipshape in
his district he. declined te run again.
He says that he will devote his time IN
p0ijtlcs to watching the Deniot0ats