The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-26
Bryan, McAdoo, Burleson
and Daniels Are Tipped
For Official Family.
JOB FOR COCKTAILS ?
Reported Builder of Panama
Canal May Be the Next
Secretary of War.
(National News Association

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-WOOdrOW
Wilson definitely has decided upon
four members of his Cabinet, it was
stated positively in congressional
quarters closely identified with the in
coming Administration. The slate is
as follows:
Secretary of State, William J. Bryan,
of Nebraska.
Secretary of the Treasury, William
G. McAdoo, of New York.
Postmaster-General, Albert S. Burle-
son, of Texas.
Secretary of the Navy, Josephus
Daniels, of North Carolina.
The foregoing names and positions
are said to have advanced entirely be-
yond the stage of conjecture or gossip,
and become finalities in the forthcom
ing Cabinet list. DINER places in the
Cabinet are said to be reasonably set
tied, with the exception of the porto
folios Of War and Agriculture.
Palmer Is Eliminated.
The name of Representative A.
Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania,
which has been prominently mention
ed in connection with the AttorneyGen-
eralship, now is definitely eliminated.
1t appears that a Cabinet position was
rendered to Mr.. Palmer and declined
the expectation being that he would
remain in the House of Representa-
tives to be in sense the personal
representative of Mr.. Wilson in the
important legislation about to be for
mulated.
This plan was carried into partial
execution late yesterday, when the an
nouncement of Representative Burle-
son that he would resign the position
of Chairman Of the Democratic House
caucus at an early day was coupled
with the announcement by House lead
ers that Mr. Palmer would succeed as
Chairman of the caucus.
Other names which have been prom
inently mentioned for the Attorney
Generalship, but which are now
definitely eliminated from this or other
Cabinet portfolios. are Chancellor
tative Henry, of Texas.
"Due To Own Wishes"
Chancellor Walker was highly re-
garded and it probably is due to his
own wishes that his name is no longer
considered.
The determination of Representative
Burleson for the Postmaster General
ship had the natural effect of eliminat
ing Mr.. Henry's name from further
considerations he being also from
Texas.
Inf rv,aa fi0v, fro nfh nf GOV
assurances that Colonel George w.
Goethals, Chief Engineer and Chair
man of the Panama Canal Commission,
is under consideration for Secretary
of War.
Some close friends of the incoming
administration have felt that lawyer
should be chosen as head of the War
Department in view of the legal ques-
lions involved, relating to the Panama
Canal, the Philippines and other inn
portant matters, and they point to the
kind of lawyers who have headed the
Department., such as Root, Taft, Dick
inson and Stimson.
Colonel Goethal's familiarity with
the Panama Canal, it is declared. how
ever, has given him prominence in con-
sideration for this portfolio.
Mr.. McAdoo in the recent campaign
was a prominent figure and was in
charge of the Democratic forces much
of the time during the illness of Nat
ional Chairman McCoombs.
Built New York Tunnels.
He has been associate with some of
the foremost business operations in
American history, including the build
ing of the so-called McAdoo tunnels
under the Hudson River in New York
Josephus Daniels of Raleigh, N. c.,
has long been Democratic National
Committeeman from his state. He is
the editor of the Raleigh News and
observer. In the last Cleveland ad-
ministration, Mr. Daniels was in Wash
ington as Chief Clerk and Appointment
Clerk of the Interior Department
under Hoke Smith, now Senator from
Georgia.
Representative Burleson, of Austin,
Texas, has served nearly Is years in
Congress, having been first elected to
the Fifty-sixth Congress and he was
reelected to the Sixty-third Congress
g.