Evening star., 1925-03-05
Two Cabinet Officers Induct-
ed SimpIy-Both Confer
With Coolidge.
FORMER STATE CHIEF
TO VISIT IN BERMUDA
New Agriculture Department
Head Has Not Picked Assistant.
Receptions Held.
Two new members OF the Coolidge

Two new members OF the Coolidge
cabinet took Office today.
Frank B. Kellogg OF Minnesota,
formerly American Amba assador to the
Court OF st. James, and william NJ
Jardine, president of the Kansas
State College of Agriculture, were
sworn in as Secretary of State and
Secretary of Agriculture, respective
ly, and Immediately entered upon the
duties of their new Offices.
Both Mr.. Kellogg and Mr.. Jardine
held informal receptions at their Of
fces after the ceremony of oath
taking was completed Mr.. Kellogg
TOOK the oath in the presence OF a
group of members of the Minnesota
delegation in Congress. visitors to
Washington from Minnesota, the
State from which he was appointed
and department officials.
Pen Gift to Minneapolis.
With uplifted hand Mr.. Kellogg
promised to support and defend the
Constitution of the United States
against all enemies. foreign and do
mestic; to well and faithfully dis
charge" the duties of the ONCE on
which he was about to enter. and
added that he took this obligation
freely. without any mental lreserva-
tlon or purpose of evasion"
Justice Butler was the first to con-
gratulate the new Secretary and was
Followed in turn by Mr. Hughes and
most or the other officials present
In addition to Mrs. Kellogg, the Sec
retary's sister. Mrs. Austin, and his
niece, Miss Claire Otis, attended the
ceremony. At its conclusion Allen j.
Furlow of Minneapolis asked for and
was given the pen with which Secre-
tary Kellogg signed the oath Of
once and said he would give Ii TO his
home city for preservation. Charles
Evans Hughes, the retiring Secretary
OF State, posed with Mr.. Kellogg for
camera men. and few moments
aterward left the State Department
Building to complete preparations for
sailing Saturday for Bermuda.
JardIne Gets wrong Hat.
Mr.. Jardine. whose inauguration as
Secretary of Agriculture was held up
Tor nearly an hour after the scheduled
time, conferred with the President
just before he was formally inducted
into office. In his haste to be on time
at his office, he left the White House
so hurriedly he took away with him
some callers hat in place OF his own
ana mad to retrace his steps, after he
had reached the White House gates.
to make an exchange.
Mr. Kellogg went to the white
House a short time after he had TAX
en- over the post of Secretary of State
his conference with the President
lasting for more than half an hour.
A1terward he said it concerned State
Department affairs, but would COM
ment no further.
Mr.. Jardine was sworn in by r. NJ
Reese. chief clerk of the Department
Oh Asrlcuiture. In the presence of
members OF the Kansas delegation in
congress, friends from his home
state and officials of the department.
He made no speech after the ccre-
mony, but conducted an informal re-
ception in his office.
Asked whether he had decided on
an Assistant Secretary of AgricuI-
ture, Mr.. Jardine said he had not dis
cussed the matter with the President
The name of c. W. Creel, director of
agricultural extension work at the
University of Nevada, has been men
toned for the post
One Post Not Filled.
The only one of the 10 cabinet posts
not filled is at the Department of Jus
tice. The nomination of Charles
Beecher Warren of Michigan to be
Attorney General has been held up in
the Senate. In the interim. since last
Monday. when Harlan Fiske Stone re-
signed as Attorney General to be sworn
in the same day as associate justice
of the Supreme Court of the United
States, Solicitor General James NJ
Beck has been acting Attorney Gen.
eral.
All cabinet officers who had previ-
ously been sworn in under President
Coolidge continued their tenure of Of
fee without the formaIity of taking a
new oath.