Evening star., 1933-01-29
ROOSEVELT ASKS
WILSON'S CABINET
TO INAUGURATION
Survivors of Last Democrat
Regime Will Be His Per-
SonaI Guests.
fETE AT White HOUSE
ALSO PLANNED FOR DAY
Twelve Expected to Accept 1nvi-
tation and Assemble for First
Time in Many Years.

The - surviving members OF the last
Democratic cabinet, men who served
during the two terms of the adminiStra-
ton of woodrow Wilson, are to re-
assemble in Washington on March 4
as the revivified forces of Democracy
unite in the inaugural Gel emonies Tor
President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Vice President-elect John Nance
Garner.
These survivors of the 10 men who
held cabinet posts will be the personal
guests of Mr.. Roosevelt for all the ac-
tivities of Inauguration day, 1t was
announced yesterday by Admiral Cary
T. Grayson. chairman OF the Roosevelt
Inaugural Committee. Personal invita-
tions from the President-elect, who
served with them as member OF the
little cabinet" in those days. will be
sent to each one of them. asking them
to reassemble here for the induction
into office of another Democratic ad-
ministration.
Expected to Accept.
If they come-and it was said 1t Is
most likely they all Wilt would be
the first time that this interesting group
of Democratic chieftains has assembled
together during the long intervening
years. Several of them still are in pub
lie life, but the others are either retired
o. engaged in their own private pur-
suits Their homes are far scattered
Some of them are being prominently
| mentioned for posts in the new cabinet
The surviving members of the Wilson
cabinet with the Offices they then oc-
cupied are:
Joshua w. Alexander, Secretary of
Commerce Newton D. Baker, Secretary
of War: Albert S. Burleson, Postmaster
of State; Josephus Daniels, Secretary of
the Navy; Carter Glass. Secretary CT
the Treasury: Thomas w. Gregory, At
Secretary of the Treasury; James C.
McReynolds, Attorney General: A.
Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General;
John Barton Payne, Secretary of the
Interior; William B. Wilson, Secretary
of Labor.
Remain in Public Life.
The Wilson cabinet members who
still are in public life are Justice Nc
Reynolds of the United States Supreme
Court; Senator Carter Glass Of Vir-
ginia, prominently mentioned as the
next Secretary of the Treasury: Sen
dlOr-eleCC MCAQOO Oh SdlllOIIlld, anu
John Barton Payne, chairman of the
American Red Cross. Another. Mr..
Baker. who is also another cabinet
possibility, is active in national emer-
gency relief work.
The members of this former cabinet
group, who, like their great leader,
Woodrow Wilson, have died, are Will
liam Jennings Bryan, Secretary of
State; Lindley M. Garrison, Secretary
Of War: David F. Houston, Secretary
of Agriculture and Secretary of the
Treasury; Franklin K. Lane, Secretary
of the Interior: Edwin T. Meredith,
Secretary of Agriculture, and William
D. Redfeld, Secretary of Commerce
Vice President Thomas r. Marshall
also is dead.
President-elect Roosevelt plans to
have the men who were in the cabinet
while he himself was member of the
little cabinet" as his personal guests
for all the activities of Inauguration
day. Special seats will be provided for
them at the Capitol and in the Court
of Honor They are to be guests, also,
according to present plans, either for
tea or dinner at the White House on
that triumphant day.