Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-03-12

any rate will continue to hold his job.
| Why These Places Are Desirable.
The assistant secretaryships are
treasury department. for they are con-
sidered stepping stones to fine bust
ness positions in private life after
| change of administration has retired
an incumbent from Office. Charles d.
Norton, who was an assistant secre-
tary OF the treasury and later Mr..
Taft's private secretary, now has
high salaried position in New York
city. and the same general prosper
ity in business life has met nearly all
the former assistant secretaries of the
treasury. The training which they
get in the department, directing as
they do customs matters, revenue
matters and public building matters,
is considered admiral preparation for
executive position In big business con-
Germs.
The men who get the positions OF
assistant secretaries in the treasury
department will be considered ex-
tremely lucky, but only less lucky
will be those who enter on similar
positions in the department of COM
MERGE and labor and of the interior,
and of the postof1ce department
where assistant secretaries are known
as assistant postmasters- general.
Attorney Generals Task.
The attorney general has to enter
suits against great corporations which
violate the interstate commerce law,
and of course he has other suits of va
rious natures. The great corporations
are rich and they employ the best
legal talent which money can secure
to defend them in court. An untrain-
ed assistant to the attOrney-genera
has a hard time of it when he goes
up against lawyers who know business
from A to z, and know all the tech
nicalities which ever have been de-
pended upon to win any kind of case
in any kind Of a court. The president
never has had very much to say about
the appointment of assistants to the
attorney general.
The ambassadorial positions which
Mr. Wilson must fill can go only to
rich men, and it Is said he is exceed
ingly sorry that such is the case, for
he knows a number of men already in
+ the service who he would like to pro-
mote but promotion for them is said
to be impossible because they have
not the means to support "the Office
and the dignity Of the ambassadors
rank.
Plan for Harmony in Senate.
In the United States senate the
Democrats will hold series OF
caucuses to try to get the major
ity party in that body lined up in
behalf of the new administration
policies Apparently the Democratic
senators do not see how they can aid
the administrators endeavors with
out making advance efforts to line up
"a Wilson majority" in the senate and
through it make sure that what Mr..
Wilson wants to obtain will have It's
way in the committees and on the
floor
The question of today is, will the
conservative Democrats, knowing that
their progressive brethren are to be
in the majority in the caucuses, bind
themselves to be governed by all that
the party gathering may decide upon?
It is said today that there will be
about thirty progressives in the eau
cuses pledged to abide by the Wilson
will" This is more than a party ma
iority, and if the conservative Demo
Gratis agree to abide by the caucus
decisions in all things, it seems GER
tain that the Democratic party win
have real harmony in the upper house
for some time to come at least. Con-
cord may be the part Of the Demo
Gratis in the senate, therefore on all
subjects except perhaps the tariff.
Nc one apparently believes that the
caucuses are going to attempt to bind
a Democratic majority in the senate
to fixed program on the tariff. 1t is
simply the truth of the news" to say
that some of the progressive Demo
cratic senators are not in entire ac-
cord with others of their progressive
party brethren on the schedules.
May Make Kern Floor Leader.
One of the questions which must
be settled in advance of the extra
session is whether or not the present
senate Democratic floor leader. Sen
ator Martin of Virginia will be chosen
for the same position 1t is known
that some of the progressive Demo
cratic senators wish to- have the lead
ership given to John w Kern of In
diana, and it may be that they can
get a majority in his behalf. All Of
the progressive Democrats in the SEN
ate, it is said, are not fixed in their
determination to vote against the Vir-
ginia senator. They probably will
wait to learn if Mr. Wilson desires
the unhorsing of the present leader
before they make up their minds def
initely as to the course they will pur-
sue.
If the Democrats carry their re-or-
ganization fight to the extent of try