Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04
PUT UP TO BRYAN
Place for Him in Wilson Cabi-
net if He Will Accept.
NOT SEEKING PORTFOLIO
Incoming President Tenders Ap-
pointment Without Conditions.
OTHERS UNDER CONSIDERATION
Gardiner of Maine and Col. Goethals
Among the Possibilities.
Tariff Program.
NOT SEEKING PORTFOLIO
OTHERS UNDER CONSIDERATION

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
TRENTON. n. J.. January 4.-Willianl
Jennings Bryan will be in President Will
sons cabinet if Mr.. Wilson can induce
him to accept the portfolio. Those per-
sons who have intmated that Mr.. Bryan
seeks the place an dthas his importantly
has embarrassed the PreSidentto-be are
wrong. The shoe is on the other foot
Mr.. Wilson wants Mr.. Bryan to be inside
the breastworks and not outside. Mr..
Wilson does not propose to embarrass his
administration at the outset by offending
the man who did most to place him in
the presidential chair. So it is up to Mr.
Bryan to say what place he will take, OF
if he will take any.
Another man likely to be in the cabi-
net is Senator Obediah Gardiner OF
Maine He is talked about for Secretary
'of Agriculture. He was former master
of the state grange, and is supposed to
stand well with the farmers.
Goethals Secretary of War?
Here is a new one How about Col
Goethals for Secretary of War? He is
the man who put the canal in Panama,
and Mr.. Wilson desires the canal opening
to be one of the features of his admins
tration. AS Secretary of War Col
Goethals would he in constant touch with
the great project which he has had Sc
close to his heart. But these matters OF
patronage, while interesting to the per-
sons concerned. are secondary to other
questions which the next President now
has under constant consideration. He is
more concerned just at present in framing
his legislative policy. The impetuOus
young legislative Lochinvars just out
from the west who think they are COM
ing to Washington upon the assembling
OF the extra session and write their
names high on the scroll of fame have
another guess coming to them. They will
not get a look-in.
Mr.. Wilson and Oscar Underwood and
Speaker Clark have u thorough UNDER
standing sas to What is to be done and
what is not to be done at the extra ses-
sion. There will be absolutely perfect
team work of these three. The tariff bill
will be ready by the time Congress meets
in March and will be jammed through
the House In less than thirty days
They hope to get 1t out of the Senate
not to filibuster, but to aid in getting
the agony over as soon as possible, since
the result is inevitable.
Tariff to Have Right of Way.
Appointments to Office may be a little
slow pending the tariff legislation OF
course. this statement is made with all
delicacy and is far from intimatng that
the new President intends to hold up
anybody. However. you get me- don't t
you?
All the budding statesmen will intro
duce bills to their hearts content but
they will not get anywhere Oscar Tn
derwood and Champ Clark will WELD the
blue pencil which Mr. Wilson will hand
them. and mark Nothing doing on the
backs of the bills which the new men
will offer.
Coming back to cabinet gossip. we find
that Josephus Daniels and Albert Burle-
son and A. Mitchell Palmer are still on
the slate. There was demur against
Mr.. Palmer as Attorney General on ac-
count of his youth until 1t was suggested
that in the long run the Attorney Gen
eral is the Presidents lawyer to do what
the President wants, and that as a mat
ter of fact the President himself will die
tate the policy of the Department of JUS
tice
1t is going to be a whrlwind admins
tration. Things will start a-mOving al
noon March 4. and there will be some
thing doing every moment. n. q. NJ