Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-26
4 APPEAR CERTAIN
OF CABINET POSTS.
Report That Bryan, McAdoo
Daniels and Burleson Are
Chosen Confirmed.
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four portfolios would be distributed
among them.
Should the Senate pass and Presi-
dent Taft sign the bill creating de-
partment of labor with an officer in
the Cabinet, the President-elect
would have one additional cabinet
officer to appoint.
Secretary Fishers name has been
mentioned as & POSSIBLE cabinet hold
over. but i; is now stated that neither
he nor any ether member of the pres
ent cabinet will remain. 1t will be a
new cabinet from top to bottom.
Mr.. McAdoo has been a strong Tip"
for Secretary OF the Treasury for
two weeks. The President-elect was
reported indisposed to pick his Secre-
tary of the Treasury from New York.
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., are reported to
have acquired much of Mr.. McAdoo's
interest in the Hudson tubes, so sup
posedly he stands without financial
Affiliations that could possibly en-
barrass a Secretary of the Treasury.
No person is eligible for that high
office who is engaged in trade or
commerce. A. T. Stewart was unable
on this account to enter Grant 8
Cabinet, and Franklin MaeVeigh dis
posed of his wholesale grocery bust
ness in Chicago before he took from
the President the keys of the money
vaults.
Information from other sources
gave assurances that Colonel George
w Geothals, chief engineer and
chairman of the Panama Canal Com
mission, is under consideration for
Secretary of War.
The President ELECT is being urged
to name man for Secretary of War
strong lawyer, capable to deal
with the large problems surrounding
the Philippines, Panama Canal and
the conservation of water power
The conservation issue was centred
in the War Department in cases like
the Coosa River and the Connecticut
River Dam bills, and the assignment
of Mr.. Brandeis to the War Depart
ment would probably be commended
by conservationists. among whom he
is a leader.
New England members believe Obe-
diah Gardiner of Maine, mentioned
for Secretary of Agriculture, is out of
the equation. The name of Charles
William Dabney, president of the
University of Cincinnati, is now more
associated with the agricultural port
folio.
Mr.. Palmers decision not to enter
the Cabinet might leave Pennsylvania
but Representative
William B. Wilson, of Pennsylvania,
has been strongly endorsed by Union
Labor for. Secretary of Labor as soon
as the bill creating a separate de-
partment of labor is passed.
Talk of a cabinet place for Louis
D. Brandeis, the, Boston lawyer, was
revived in more than a casual way.
1t was thought that the most likely
place for Mr.. Brandeis was in the
department of commerce and labor.
1t was said that nothing definite
had been determined upon the at
torney- generalship, but that the man
most prominent in the President
elects consideration was a Democrat
who had done some antitrust work.
His name was not mentioned, but 1t
was said not to be former Solicitor
General Frederick w. Lehman.
1t was also stated here today with
a great degree of positiveness that
Mr.. Burleson, who has been selected
for postmaster general, is the only
member of Congress who will be in
the new cabinet. This dfsposes of
many possibilities.