Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-13
PRESIDENT ENDS
MEETINGS Of
HISCABINET
wilson Adopts Policy of Individual
CoasuItation With His Secre-
taries to Save Time.

SHTNGTON, Oct. 13.-In the
av months President Wilson
quietly abolished a custom as
r IGNORED as that which has led
--edeCessors to send their mes
s5-s to Congress in writing,
4 mas discarded the custom Of
s- r0aing his Cabinet officers into
hos. regularly recurring conferences
.--.~ IS Cabinet meetings.
Pres dent Wilson's Cabinet has not
net since July %. Meantime the
cabinet. as a body constituted TO
r-eI with the President and with
o-a another on matters pertaining to
common policy and to the executive
5ana rtments. has practically ceased
70 exist.
-ab.uet officers have become mere
q. the heads of executive departments
20 as summoned into consultation by
.-. President on matters within their
av. yailiwicks or individually on the
DEMONSTRATIONS policies whenever
w- Wilson sees fit.
vi rails elapsed period, when the
Pres dent was facing many of the
rass important problems that his Ad-
mal'ration will be called upon 10
handle Mr.. Wilson has been content
p. shoulder the full responsibility for
executive action.
Decides on Own Course.
0t course, Secretary Bryan was
consulted when the Mexican policy
vas aeing formulated and Mr.. Nc
Adoo when the currency bill was be-
a- aunched, but the President APP
mreutly decided on his course in
these matters without summoning all
os his official family to the Cabinet
room for purposes Of common coun-
sel
Furthe1nore. it was learned to-day
-hat the President has no intention of
resuming in the immediate future the
regular biweelSly Cabinet sittings
When President Wilson announced
mis- decision last April TO read his
,ariT revision, message to a joint ses-
sion Of the House and Senate many
here we're deeply interested in the
passing Of a custom that had been
handed down since the days of
Thomas Jefferson.
soon after Mr. Wilson went to the
Presidents room on the Senate side
Of the Capitol to confer with mem
bsrs Of the upper House on the tariff
and patronage matters. This second
move, although, like the first, based
On examples in the early days Of the
republic. was almost as widely dis
aussed as the first
The most improbable predictions as
70 the Presidents future. .rQprse in
tre conduct of his office aid not, how
ever. contemplate the breaking of any
Preoedents that had been established
back of Thomas Jeffersons days in
the White House.
The Age of the Custom.
The custom of holding regular Cab
met meetings began with the swear
ing in Of three Secretaries and the
Attorney General, whose offices were
created by Congress in the early days
Of President Washington's first term
The custom has fourished since
then and no one apparently dreamed
that this, ike the other two customs
was to take its place in the closet Of
rsst-on things which President Wilson
has established in promoting his new
IDEAS in the administration of eXecu-
tive affairs at Washington.
In the early part Of July the Wilson
'abinet failed to assemble twice on
the Tuesday and Friday set apart for
these meetings at the White House
on one occasion Secretary Bryan
vas absent from the Capital and on
The other the President himself was
IF Cornish. \. H, on brief vacation
After his return the regular biweekly
meetings were held until July %.
Inquiries at the White House in
me week succeeding this date
brought the information that the
President found it convenient to CON
Ter with the members Of the Cabinet
singly on matters relating to their
apartments.
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