The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-05
JOB IN CABINET
IS Up TO BRYAN
Nebraskan Can Have Place in
Wilson's Official Family ii
He Wants 1t.
HIS is CHOICE OF LIST
President-Elect Now Waits iol
Him to Say What He
VIII Take.

Trenton. y J., January Nv lillian
Jennings Bryan will be in Presiden'
Wilson's Cabinet If alr. Wilson can in
duce him TO accept the portfolio, says
~. o. NJ" in the WASHINGTON star
Those persons who have intimated that
Ar BRYAN seeks the place and thar
his tmportunlty has embarrassed me
President to-be are wrong. The shoe
Is on the other foot. Mr.. Wilson wants
Mr. Rrvan L. be inside the breastworks
and not outside Mr.. Wilson does not
nropose to embarrass his adminlstFa-
don at the outset by offending the man
who did most 10 place MIN IN the
presidential chair. So it is up TO MI
BRYAN 70 say what place he VIII take
or if he will take any.
Another man likely 10 be in the
Cabinet is senator Obediah Gardiner
~ Maine. He is talked about for sec
retarv of Agriculture. lie was former
master of the state grange. and is sup
Dosed 10 stand well with the farmers
Cocktails secretary OF WARE
Here Is new one. How apout
Colonel Goethals for secretary 81 var .
He is the man who put the canal IN
Panama. ana Mt wilson desires the
canal opening 10 ~ one u '"O
lures OF his administration.
As Secretary OF War Colonel Goe-
,hals would be in constant touch with
the s-reat project which he has had so
close 10 his heart. But these matters
Of patronage. while interesting to the
nersons concerned. are secondary TO
other questions which the next Presi-
dent now has under constant consid-
Grafton He is more concerned JUST
AT present in framing his legislative
Motley. The impetuOus young leSls-
lative Lochinvars Just out from the
We~t. who think they are coming 10
Washington upon the assembling OF the
extra session and write their names
high on the scroll of fame. have an
other guess coming TO them They
will not get look-in-
Mr.. Wilson and Oscar Underwood and
Speaker Clark have a thorough under
standing as to what is TO be done ana
What is not to be done at the extra SEES
sion. There will be absolutely perfect
team work Of these three. The tarin
bill will be ready by the time Congress
meets in March and Will be jammed
through the House in less than thirty
DAYS.
They hope to get II out Of the Senate
by June The Republicans viii be ask
ed not to filibuster. but To aid in get
ting the agony over as soon as pos
sible. since the result is inevitable.
Tariff to Have Right os Way.
Appointments to office may be lit
tie slow pending the tariff legislation
of course. this statement is made with
all delicacy and is far from intlmatlns
that the new President intends 10
hold M" anybody. However, YOU get
me-" don't yoUc
All the budding statesmen Will in
froduce bills to their hearts content.
but they will not get anywhere Oscar
Underwood and Champ Clark viii
WELD the blue pencil which NJ. Wilson
will hand them and mark nothing do
ing on the backs of the bills -whlch
the new men Will offer.
Coming back 10 Cabinet gossip W.
find thsit Josephus Daniels and Albert
Rurleson and y. Mitchell Palmer are
still on the slate There was deInur
against Nj Palmer as Attorney Cen
eral on account OF his youth. until u
was suggested that in the long run the
Attorney General IS the President :
lawyer 20 do what the President wants
and that AZ a matter of fact the Pres
:dent himself viii dictate the policy OF
the Department 81 Justice.
II is going ?. be "a whirlwind al
-ntnistration. Things will start annoy
snS al noon March {. and there VIII be
something doing every moment