The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-24
LANSING RETAINS BRYAN'S POST AS
 HEAD OF CABINET
President Appoints
 Gone Johnson Chandler Anderson May Promoted to Fill Place

cause a riot in the army if there was a change in the office of Secretary of War. The Presidents great adnnf- ration for the ability and Judgment of MT. Lane was no secret in official circles. and it was generally under stood that he regarded the Secretary of the Interior measuring up to the requirements of a Secretary of State.
 It was understood early yesterday that the President would announce the appointment of Secretary of State before he started for New Hampshire on midnight train, and no doubt was felt that MT. Lansing was his selection. MT. Lansing, was with the President for a considerable time and it was said afterward that they had gone over number of matters connected with the business of the State Department When MT. Lansing left the Executive Office Building after his interview with the President several persons there offer ed their congra atulations, but he sni1- ingly declined to receive them. Last night after the formal announcement from the White House Mir. Lansing went out to dinner.
 In the two~weeks that President Wilson will be away from Washing ton Secretary Lansing will be the sen for officer of the Government on duty here. It will be mainly through him that matters of great importance will
 be communicated to the President at Cornish.
 The promotion of subordinate off, cers of the State Department to the office of Secretary of State is unus- l ual, but not unprecedented Robert 1 Bacon of New York was appointed Secretary of State to succeed Elihu
 Root when MT. Bacon was holding
 the post of Assistant Secretary in the l fA naY the very close of the Roosevelt Ad-
 rrlintstratfon. He served only thir-
 ty-six days. William R. Day of Ohio, now an Associate Justice of the 1 United States Supreme Court, was As
 sistant Secretary of State when he
 April. 1898, the beginning of the l Spanish. War, to succeed John Sher-
 man of Ohio. He served until the following September. John Hay of Ohio was Assistant Secretary of State,
 but retired from the office more than
 seventeen years before he was ap-
 pointed Secretary of State by Presf-
 dent Mckinley. According to the
 official register of the Department of
 State these are the only cases of the
 promotion of an Assistant Secretary
 or other State Department official to
 the post of Secretary of State. The government today notified all foreign governments of the appoint
 ment of MT. Lansing to be secretary
 of state. Notice was sent to all dip-
 1omatic and consular representative
 of the United States in foreign coun- l tries.
 MT. Lansing took the oath of Of 1 fee today as the successor to William J. Bryan. High officials, diplomats
 and close personal friends were on hand to witness the ceremony and 1 to extend congratulations.
 l Former Secretary Bryan returned l late last night from AshviIle, N. C.,
 but would make no comment upon 1 MT. Lansing's appointment except to
 say that he would send his congratu-
 tions today.
 Today was diplomatic day at the
 state department and representative 1 of foreign governments in Washing ton called to fe1icitate MT. Lansing ! upon his appointment.