The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-03-06

Newspaper men Tor q gO0Q many
! years have been very much in EVIL.
dence in the treasury department as
assistant secretaries. Two former
Washington correspondents are now
assistant secretaries of the treasury
and it is possible that one OF them at
any rate will continue to hold his job
Why These Places Are Desirable.
The assistant secretaryships are
much sought for, especially In the
treasury department, for they are con-
sidered stepping stones to fine busi.
ness positions in private life after a
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'3 private secretary, now has a
high salaried position In New York
city, and the same general prosper
ity n 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-
trelnely lucky, but only less lucky
will be those who enter on similar
positions in the department OF COM
merce and labor and of the interior.
and of the postofilce department
where assistant secretaries are known
as assistant postmasters-g general
The encouragement 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 defen9 them In court. An untrain.
ed assistant to the attorney-general
has hard time of 1t 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 court. The president
never has had very much to say about
the appointment of assistants to the
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
senator's do not see how they can aid
the administrations 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 its
way in the committees and on the
floor.
The question of today is. will the
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?
1t is said today that there will be
about thirty progressives In the eau
cuses pledged to abide by TIC Wilson
will" This is more than party ma
iority. and II the conservative Demo- |
Gratis agree to abide by the caucus !
decisions In all things. it seems GER
tain that the Democratic party will |
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.
May Make Kern Floor Leader.
One of the questions which must |
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 majority in his behalf. All OF
the progressive Democrats in the SEN
ate. it is said, are not fixed in their
TO vote against the Vir.
ginia senator. They probably will |
wait to learn II 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-
ganjzation fight to the extent OF try. |
ing to prevent Mr.. Martin and Mr. |
Simmons and some others OF the con.
sentative old guard from keeping their |
ranking committee positions. |
they will have trouble to make the
fight good, for there are good many |
Democrats in the senate |
who think that seniority ought to
count and that 1t would do no harm |
to make some OF the senior conserva.
tives chairmen OF committees, provid. |
ing the rest Of the committee member
ship is finely progressive"
The extent of the trouble which the
Democrats may have in caucus, there.
fore, probably will hinge upon the ex-
tremes to which they attempt to go.
tected from the winds that do blow