New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-11
WILSON FILLS OFFICES;
BRYAN KEEPS CHIEF AID
First Assistant Secretary OF
State Changes Plans for
European Trip.
BERTH FOR DANIEL c. ROPER
south Carolina Man Appointed
First Assistant Postmaster
General and Elk Gov. Dock
cry Third Assistant.

tNNasnincton March 1O-Thc exodus Of
Republican oficeholGers is on i'm earnest.
Numerous Democrats received appoint
iheuts to-day 1t the hands OF President
Wilson and his Cabinet. The distribution
OF patronage served to whet the appetite
Of the hungry and more heads are expect
cd 90 fan without delay
Nominations sent to the Senate by Pres
idvut Wilson included:
First Assistant Postmaster General
Daniel c. Roper Of South Carolina.
Third Assistant Postmaster General.
Alexander NJ. Dockery. of Missouri
'Tourth Assistant Postmaster General.
James ! Biakeslee. Of Pennsylvania.
.Tnited States Judge. District of Porto
Rico. Peter j. Hamilton. Of Alabama.
commissioner of Labor Statistics.
Charles =. Neil of the District of Column
ida
E Il. Smith. of Texas. for twenty-five
years a well known Washington and Bal
timore newspaper man, was appointed
confidential clerk To Postmaster General
EurleSOn
Byron r. Newton of New York. for
merry of The New York Herald. was
appointed private secretary to Secretary
McAdoo of the Treasury Department.
Heads Of the two scientific bureaus OF
the Department Of Commerce DR.. otto
H. Tittman. Of the Coast and Geodetic
Survey. and Or Samuel W. Stratton of
the Bureau of Standards have been adj
vised ny Secretary Redfeld that they are
L. retain their positions.
tfn of
Department Of Commerce and Labor has
rcsiencd 20 60 to Wilmington. Del
At the request of Secretary Bryan
Huntington Wilson. the Assistant Secre-
tary of State. has cancelled reservations
10 sail for Europe and Will remain at the
department for tho present Formal an
nouncemcnt Of Mr.. Wilson's changed
ulans was made late to-day. No one AT
the department would discuss the assist
ant secrctaryshp. but 1t Is known that
MIR. Wilson is anxious 10 surrender the
office as soon as possible.
10 is expected that the nomination OF
state Senator Franklin ID. Roosevelt OF
New York. 10 be Assistant Secretary OF
The navy. To succeed Beekman Winthrop.
viii be sent 10 the Senate tomorrow.
Recommendations for diplomatic dp-
continents came to-day TO both President
Wilson and secretary Bryan. Thomas
Nelson Page was urged as Ambassador
to Germany. Joseph e. Willard was pre-
scented for Minister TO Belgium. William
Gonzales. ,f columbia, :. g., for Minis
fe.-to cuba. and.P. A. Stovall. OF Savan-
i'ah ia for Minister to Switzerland
/, Benton Mcmillan. cN-G0vcrnor of Ten
,,es>ee and eN-Representatve IN Con-
,.ress. was brought ont to-day a. Likely
.sclectiou for Ambassador 10 Mexico, IN
:succession 10 Henry Lane Wilson Mn.
,McMHan is in The city. IT is said he de
.cIined "a European post
I Dr Beverly T. Galloway, chief OF the
bureau Of Plant Industry. was persist
;ent.y mentioned to-day as candidate for
Assistant Secretary of the Department al
.Agriculturc. Or. Galloway has been IN
,ihe department more than twenty-five
Years. II was said that he was foremost
,among those whom President Wilson was
,considerinp. and his friends declared his
nomination probably would 30 TO the
,Senatc tomorrow.