The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
Office of Secretary of State
Goes to Bryan.
U. S. SENATORS ARE BARRED
He Feels That He Needs Them
Where They Are.
BurIeson of Texas to Succeed
Tama Jim Wilson.

Washington, D. c., Jan. u.-Presi-
dent-elect Wilson has practically made
up his mind as to the men he will invite
to serve as members of his cabinet
Probably no man who has been
elected to the presidency has confused
his visitors to his selections moro
than has Mr.. Wilson. Dozens OF Dem
ocratic senators and members of the
house have seen the president elect.
With most OF them he has discussed the
qualifications of various men who have
been proposed as members of his Off
cial family. They have left him with
a vague notion only as to the Identity
of those upon whom his choice finally
will rest
The consensus Of opinion of the men
with whom the president-elect has
talked Is that the following will be ap-
pointed by Mr.. Wilson to the positions
Indicated:
Persons Selected.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, of
Nebraska, secretary of state.
WILLIAM M'ADOO, of New York.
secretary of war
A. MITCHELL PALMER, of Penn
sylvania, attorney general.
LOUIS BRANDEIS, of Massachusetts,,
secretary of commerce.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS, of North Car
olina, postmaster general.
ALBERT S. BURLESON, of Texas,
secretary OF agriculture.
There are four cabinet offices as to
the chiefs of which the politicians de-
cline to speculate. These are the secre-
taries of the interior department, the
navy department, the treasury depart
ment, and the new department of labor
which will be created perhaps before
March f.
Public Land States Protest.
With respect to the interior depart
ment Mr. Wilson has announced that
he will not appoint to this position a
man from a public lands state.
The Democratic senators from these
states have protested against such a
decision, claiming, in view of the great
questions their commonvVealths have
pending before the department, it Is of
the utmost Importance that the man at
it's head should be equipped with per-
sonai knowledge of the conditions he
must pass upon.
A man from any other section might
easily make mistakes which would do
harm instead of good to. the people
actually affected before he had in
formed himself thoroughly as to their
situat ton.
Mr.. Wilson has refused to heed these
protests. however. so that 1t is believed
there are eliminated from considera-
tion ex-Gov. Hawley, of Idaho; ex-Gov-
Osborn, of Wyoming; Gov. Norris, OF
Montana; Col. r. A. Rogers, of Okla
homa; Judge King and ]. H. Teal, OF
Oregon; ex-May' James B. Phelan, Of
San Francisco; Gov. Hunt, of Arizona,
and Clay Tallman. of Nevada.
John Barton Payne Mentioned.
In his more recent conferences with
Democratic politicians Mr.. Wilson has
not discussed the secretaryship of state,
leaving it to be inferred that the selec-
ton of Mr.. Bryan is final.
1A-S~ a.
cuss timber for the other cabinet Of
fees Although II seems to be regarded
as almost certain that Representative
Palmer will be named as attorney gen.
eral, the president-elect has been WILL
ing to talk of other men for this place.
In this connection friends of John Bar
ton Payne, of Chicago, have presented
his qualifications.
Mr.. Wilson has announced he win not
invite any United States senator to sit
in his cabinet. The same holds good
with respect to certain leaders of the
house, such as Representative Under
wood, of Alabama. Mr.. Wilson fully
realizes If he is to obtain the Iegisla-
ton he will advocate he must have the
support of the strong men in both
branches of congress. This considera~
ton is less important as regards the
house because of the overwhelming
Democratic majority in that chamber,
which fact is accountable for his WILL
ingness to name congressman PaImer
and Burleson-
For Progressives in Party.
The Democrats expect to have a ma
jority of four in the senate, hut fric-
ton is bound to arise between the pro-
gressives and the reactionaries. and Mr..
Wilson DOES not care to take from the
ranks of the former such leaders as
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, Gore of Okla
homa, and O'Gorman of New York.
1t is the prediction of the Progress
sive senators who have visited Mr..
Wilson that he will stand by them as
against the reactionaries.
1t has been decided that the presi-
elect shall take no part in the organiza-
ton of the senate. He has given ap-
proval to the harmony program which
has been arranged and which calls for
the election of committee on commit
tees, the service of a majority leader
for a term of two years only, snd the
organization of a steering COMMITTEES
which will determine what legislation
II ~, ra and what its character