The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-04-08
NEW CABINET is
Still PLEASING
WASHINGTON LIKES THE MEN
EVEN IF THEIR POLICIES
MAY NOT SATISFY.

(Mail Special to The Advcrtiscr.)

10y Efncst ". NAIkcT.
(Muil Special to The Advcrtiser.)
WASHINGTON, Mar. 24.-Many eyes
are upon the cabinet. 1t was only nat
ural that for while attention should be
focused upon the new President. But |
the novelty of that wore away as opin
ions were formulated and lookerston
sought details as to the new adminstra-
tion. Consequently just now il is some-
what the turn of the cabinet to undergo
scrutiny.
Members of the official family. have
been Industrious at their desks. The say
ing now goes around Washington that
Mr.. Wilson is one of the hardest working
of Presidents. With all that, he puts
plenty of work upon the members of his
cabinet and they have been bending to it
ever since March 4. Some of them want
ed to get away TO arrange their private
affairs, because of the brief notice they
had of nomination to high office. Secre.
tary Of State Bryan is in the west on one
of these winding piniy affairs trips, al
though ostensibly his main object was to
attend a birthday dinner at Lincoln.
Escaping Job chasers. ...' -.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo flies,
to New York every week end, wearied
with the importunities of oficeseekers.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels has gone
to his North Carolinia home to attend to.
private business and to be present at a
dinner given by his fellow citizens. Sec
retary of War Garrison has had to make
a little incursion to his New Jersey home.
and Secretary of Agriculture Houston
has been going away to st. Louis. ,..r
The good opinion of the cabinet grows,
There may not be many great men in the
list, as the term of greatness is under.
stood. But all Of them seem to be sensi-
BILE men. thoroughly in accord with Pr',si-
dent Wilson IS ideas. They are carefully.
mastering their respective tasks, inquir-,
ing and aseertaining, making, haste
slowly but surely. There have been no
freak performances, such as might have
been expected in bringing ten men ,tc
new duties. Washington" has no laugh
on any of them. No ridiculous incidents
about the manner in which these men
carry themselves or take to their duties
are privately circulating around the town.
''size up well.
Every man of the cabinet seems to be
gaining and holding the respect of the
big official force in his own department
That is important. In every department
there are scores of seasoned officials, who
know its business from top to bottom
and who have seen cabinet officials come
and go. They have seen inefficient men
and efficient men in that category and
are wont to ''size up7 new comers rig
idly. Views are not publicly expressed, /,
of course, but the impression made by a
new cabinet official upon his own depart
ment during the first few weeks of his
incumhency is duly recorded by the sub
ordinates, big and little. 1t affects the
morale of the force. The amount and
character of the work to be done is de
termined thereby to a degree. Just now
in every one of the nine departments
(thc department of labor is not organ
ized YETI the chiefs and the subchiefs
and the clerks talk in the most friendly
manner of their cabinet members. The
terrors of n Democratic administration
have been minimized to MANY of these
employees, who, all told, are over 10000
in the District of columbia. Stories have
circulated locally for years that Demo.
cratic administration meant dire economy
and devastation at the seat of govern.
ment These have been told and rctold
so much that very many clerks have come
to believe them, particularly the younger
generation. The foundation, of course,
is the curtailments in appropriate ,nS
which Democrats have generally enforced
and which do affect the amount of money
expended in the city Of Washington.
A Regular Kamaaina.
Three or four members of the cabinet
were very well known here. Bryan had
heen in Washington so frequently that
there was little strange about his re.
appearance in town as permanent re,
sidcnt. 1t did take some time, however,
to become accustomed to the idea of
Bryan as secretary of state. Mr.. BRYAN
seems TO have become accustomed to
the office more quickly than Washington
has become accustomed to its new sec
retary of state. But Postmaster Gen.
eral Burleson, of Texas, made the trans.
ter from seat in congress without af-
fecting local folk materially and there
was Franklin X. Lane, who quit his of.
fee in the Interstate Commerce Build.
ing on F street and moved down a
couple of blocks to the Interior Depart.
ment Building.
None of the cabinet officials has yet
turned anything upside down although,
during this first month of March, there
has been considerable action in the de.
partments as whole. The state de-
partmcnt has done lot of things, but
it is worth while noticing that most of
these have eventuated from the Pres
'dent's office. For instance, the state
ment about our policy in South ana Cen
trail America pertained to the work of
the state department, but it was an
nounced from President Wilson Is office.
Likewise the statement of policy about
China. 1t was entirely proper that
President Wilson should handle those
matters in person, as he did. but after
consultation with Secretary Bryan. And
the other day when Assistant Secretary
of State Huntington Wilson got the
"hot foot for writing an offensive
letter to President Wilson, the "hot
foot"' came from the President rather
than from Secretary Bryan, who was
out of town.
War Secretary Liked.
The inside talk about the cabinet is
especially friendly to Secretary of War
L. NJ. Garrison. This Is all the more
noteworthy, because it took consider
ablo time to got his number. - He
came TO town without any NatinnaI ran