The Holly chieftain., 1913-03-14
MEMBERS OF PRES. WILSON'S CABINET
Brief Sketches Of the Advisers Of the New
President Who Have Been Confirmed
by the Senate
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

western newspaper mon news service
Washington, March 6.-President
Wilson yesterday sent to the Senate
the names of the following as mem
bers of the cabinet, sand they were
confirmed:
~ WILL!AM JENNINGS BRYAN. of
%inkiAM Se'ss'ary e. af State of New
LiNpLEY NJ GARKIsoN. OF New
sex 5AMEs seeSe!RTs MeREYSokps. St MsI of rennes-
REPREsENTATIVE ALBERT BUR-
Lesson. of Texas. Postmaster Cen
JosEPHUs DANIELS, of North
car9lins; sx Secretary Of the Navy
DAVID F. HOUSTON, of Missouri,
sefTstsFy Il Asrisvisure; gTfVh WILLIAM
REDFIELD. Of New York, Secretary
REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM B.
WILSON. of Pennsylvania, Secretary
of Labor.
Mr.. eryan's Career.
William J. Bryan has been 80 much
in the public eye for good many
years that sketch of his career
seems almost superfluous. Born in
Salem, ILL.,. in 1860, he was graduated
with highest honors from Illinois col
iege at Jacksonville in 1881 and re-
ceived his masters degree in 1884.
In 1883 he was given the degree OF
LII. B. by Union College of-Law, Chi
cago. After practicing law in jack
sonyille and Lincoln, Neb., he served
as member of Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses. Having writ
ten the silver plank" for the Demo-
cratic national convention of 1896 and
made sensational speech, he was
nominated for President, but was de-
feated by William Mckinley. Nomi-
mated again in 1900, he was again
beaten by Mckinley, and then estab-
lished the Commoner and made a tour
of the world. Nominated a third time
in 1908, he was defeated by w. H.
Taft
MeAdoo, the Tunnel Builder.
William Gibbs McAdoo, though a
lawyer by profession, is known to
most people as the builder of the
great system of railway tunnels of
New York city. He was born near
Marietta, Ca. In 1863 and was edu-
Gated at the University of Tennessee.
In 1885 he was admitted to the bar,
and the same year he married Sarah
Houston Fleming of Chattanooga. He
entered the practice of law in New
York in 1892, and since 1901 has been
interested chiefly in tunnel construc-
tion there. He is president of the
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Com
pany.
Lindley M. Garrison.
The selection of Lindley M. Garri-
son, vioe-chancellor of New Jersey, to
be secretary of war is in line with
President Wilson's idea that the hold
er Of that position should be a man
Of unusual executive ability. He is a
close friend of Mr.. Wilson. Mr.. Gar
rison was born in Camden, N. j., No
vember 2s, 1864. He is son Of Rev.
Joseph F. Garrison. an Episcopal cler-
gyman, and a brother of Justice
Charles G. Garrison of the New Jef-
sey Supreme Court. He was appoint
ed to the chancery court in June, 1904,
and reappointed by Chancellor NAH
Ion Pitney, now a justice Of the Unit
ed States Supreme Court, in 1911. for
term of seven years.
James c. McReynolds.
In picking James Clark McReynolds
for the position of attorney general.
Mr.. Wilson selected man who has
had lot of experience as trust
buster" He is native OF Elktop,
KY, where he was born in 1862, and
q graduate of Vanderbilt university
and the law school of the University
of Virginia. From 1903 to 1907 he
was assistant attorney general of the
United States. He then returned 10