The Mankato free press., 1921-03-11
RESUME FORMER LABORSI
PLANS OF THE RETIRING
CABINET OFFICERS
Well-knoWn Lawyers Largely
Predominated In Outgoing
. Contingent
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l

washington, March 4.-M0st or the
cabinet officers who retired today will
resume the work they gave up to be-
come members of Woodrow Wilson's
| official family. One or two Of them
however. have not yet made definite
plans for the future. Lawyers pre-.
dominated in the outgoing cabinet
numbering six. There also were two
publishers and one college professor
cambridge Colby, who retires af'
ter one years service as secretary oi
state, will form law partnership
with formed President Wilson. with
offices in Washington and New York
Newton d. Baker will turn from the
direction of the war department. tC
the practice Of law in his home, town
Of Cleveland. He has had five years
service as secretary Of war and also
has served as chairman of the federal
Power Commission and the Council
Of National Defense.
Palmer Resumes Law Practice.
A Mitchell Palmer, retiring atttor-
ney general, will resume his law
practice with offices in his home city
),
| ington. He will retain his home in
Pennsylvania, but will reside in Wash
ington considerable portion of each
year, and will have as his law part
ners three lawyers who have beer
closely associated with him in his
public work: Frank Davis Jr., for
merly as assistant attorney general
Robert r. Scott and Seiforde NJ. Stell
wagen.
Josephus Daniels, one of the fou,
| Wilson cabinet officers who remained
on the job full eight years, will leave
tomorrow for Raleigh, North Carolina
to resume his duties as editor and
| publisher of the Raleigh News and
Observer. The former naval secre-
| tary will arrive home Sunday morn
ing and say his first act will be to
go to church and repent of all my
| sins" He announces as his motto
charity to all and malice toward
! none"
Houston Has Not, Made Plans.
David +. Houston, former secretary
OF the Treasury has not made definite
plans for the future, but has several
offers under consideration. He was q
university professor before entering
the cabinet in 1913 as secretary OF
agriculture but has not decided whe
ther he will return to educationa
work or enter the commercial field
He has been head of the treasury fol
year and also member of the fed
eral reserve board, chairman of the
board for vocational education and 9
member of the council of national de
| tense.
John Barton Payne, who has beer
secretary of the interior for a year
plans to make his home in Washing
ton. but will devote some of his time
to the Chicago park project in which
he was moving spirit before he was
called to Washington early in the wal
as general counsel for the. shipping
board emergency fleet corporation He
also has been member of the fedora
power commission and director gen.
| eral of railroads.
Burleson Goes Back to Texas.
Albert Sydney Burleson will gc
back to Austin, Texas, to practice law
and to look after his private interest.
there after eight years as Postmas
ter General.
Edwin T. Meredith, who succeeded
Mr.. Houston as secretary of agricul
ture year ago, will return to De!
MONIES to look after his farm maga
zine and other interests He also has
been member of the federal powel
1 commission. -
Joshua w. Alexander, after two
years senvice as secretary of lcom
merce, will go to his old home at Gal
Titan, Missouri, to resume the practice
of law and, as he says, to do little
farming on the side"
| William B. Wilson of the origina
| Wilson cabinet officers has accepted
an appointment to the Internationa
Joint Commission which has to gc
with disputes arising between the
United States and Canada. The sal.
ary is $500 yearly. =