Evening star., 1913-03-05
NAMES HIS CABINET
Wilson's Selections Promptly
Confirmed by Senate.
GATHER AT WHITE HOUSE
Informal Conference Followed by
Visits to Their Departments.
MEET CHIEFS OF BUREAUS
Secretary Bryan Gets Lost and Has
to Be Piloted to the State
Department.

President Wilson this afternoon sen; To
the Senate the names of the men who are
TO be his cabinet advisers for the next
four years
The list is follows:
William Jennings Bryan OF Nebraska
To be Secretary of State.
William Gibbs McAdoo Of New York TO
be Secretary of the Treasury.
1.indleN NJ. Garrison OF New Jersey to
ne Secretary Of War.
James Clark McReynolds of Tennessee
20 be Attorney General.
Albert Sidney Bureson Of Texas TO be
Postmaster General
Josephus Da niels OF North Carolina 10
be Secretary OF the Navy
Franklin knight Lane of California to
be Secretary OF the Interior.
David Franklin Houston of Missouri TO
be Secretary Of Agriculture
William c. Redfeld of New York to be
Secretary of Commerce
William Bauchop Wilson OF Pennsy-
vania 10 be Secretary of Labor.
The nominations OF members Of the
cabinet were all confirmed in executive
session this afternoon, as was the nomi-
nation of Interstate Commerce Commits
sioner Clark. Marbles nomination for
Interstate, Commerce Commissioner was
referred to committee
Meet at White House.
All those named assembled at the White
| House this morning at 10 O'Clock, for
their first meeting. which was an in
! formal one
The gathering lasted less than an hour
| and was sort OF coming together of
| President Wilson's official family, for the
! purpose of greeting him and one another
! in their new capacities.
I'VE Were inst finding out how the ma
chinery goes round" Secretary Lane said,
after the meeting.
| I'VE had little talk and everything
went as smoothly as OIL Postmaster
| General Bureson said.
+, ooh. we can't say a word was Secre-
1 tary Redfields contribution TO the lack
i of information.
] At least two members of the cabinet
We're close friends of Theodore Roosevelt.
! Mr.. Lane was appointed by Roosevelt as a
member of the interstate commerce COM
| mission. and the two men We're on close
! terms.
Repudiated as a Democrat
/ MI. McReyNOluS, the new Attorney cell
eral. was named assistant attorney gen.
eral Of the Department Of Justice by
| Roosevelt. One faction of the Tennessee
democrats at that time repudiated him as
| democrat and declared him to be a re-
publican. He retired from the position
OF assistant attorney general some years
| ago t. become the special counsel for the
Department of Justice in Standard Oil and
other cases He was the principal gov
ernment figure i'll the American Tobacco
trust cases.
Shortly after II o'clock Mr.. Bryan went
over to the State Department from the
White House Apparently he was not
familiar with the location OF the office
where he will spend the next four years
OF his official life. for he hesitated after
leaving the White House and sta; ted for
the Navy Department but was inter-
cepted by one of the state Department
messengers and guided to that depart
ment.
Greeted by Secretary Knox.
M BRYAN was warmly greeted by Sec
retary Knox who after exchanging
few words with him, sent for the assist
ant secretaries and the heads of the va
rious bureaus of the State Department.
whom h. introduced TO the incoming Sec
retary
Mr. Daniels who Is to be Secretary of
the Nayy. was escorted from the White
House Offices to The Navy Department by
Lieut.. Commander Palmer, Secretary
Meyers naval aid. Mr.. Meyer greeted
| his successor plea sanity and also intro
duced TO him his naval aids and the heads
| of the naval bureaus.
! A similar scene was soon in progress at
| the War Department. where Secretary
Stimson was engaged in making his sue
| cessor. Mr.. Garrison. acquainted with AS
| sistant Secretary Oliver, the officers of
the general staff and those in charge Of
| the great m litary bureaus.
! Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, in accordance
with the army regulations, will continue
! to discharge the duties of chief of staff
until the close OF today's business Then,
automatically. he will be elieved from
that detail, and Maj. Gen. Wotherspoon
| the assistant chief of staff, will act as
| chief until President Wilson makes a
permanen designation.