Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-03-11

Inc assistant secretaryships are
much sought for, especially in the
treasury department, for they are con.
sidered stepping stones to fine bust
ness positions in private life after q
change OF administration has retired
an incumbent from office Charles D
Norton, who was an assistant secre-
tary OF the treasury and later Mr.
Tafts private secretary, now has a
nigh salaried position in New York
city. and the same general prosper
ity In business life has met nearly all
ne 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
VIII be those who enter on similar
positions in the department of COM
merce and labor and of the interior,
and of the postoftice department
where assistant secretaries are known
as assistant postmasters- general
Attorney Generals Task.
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
20 defend them in court An untrain-
ed assistant to the attorney-general
has hard time of it when he gees
up against lawyers who know business
from A to 2. 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-gener
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 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 ambassador
rank.
Plan for Harmony in Senate.
In the United States senate the
Democrats will hold a series of
caucuses to try TO get the major.
ity party in that body lined up in
| behalf Of the new administration S
policies. Apparently the Democratic
senators do not see how they can aid
the administration 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
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?
1t 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 party ma.
| jority, and if 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.
No one apparently believes that the
caucuses are going to attempt to bind
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 &C
cord with others of their progressive
| party brethren on the schedules.
WAY mdNC NCTH FlOOT LSduCFs
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 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
initeiy as to the course they will pur.
sue.
If the Democrats carry their re-or-
ganization fight to the extent of try
ing to prevent Mr.. Martin and Mr.
Simmons and some others of the con
servative old guard from keeping their
present ranking committee positions.
they will have trouble to make the
fight good, for there are a good many
progressive Democrats. in the senate
who think that seniority ought to
count and that it would do no harm
to make some of the senior conserva-
tives chairmen of committees, provid-
ing the rest of the committee member
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.
Before He Lost His Hair.
why is it that bald-headed man
always carries a pocket comb?" asks
Luke McLuke. Maybe to comb his
whiskers and maybe to remind him