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Ijfc -"HIT -T J" . MF4f' -, t-i -It, -. ." 1? . 'V' hl" r - " .7- r Sw - i k CAPITAL GITY NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST AROUND THE STATE HOUSE. THE WORK OF THE LAW MAKERS Legislative Facts and Gossip News of the State Capital. . State Board's Control of Values. The senate Thursday re-commltted S. F. 28, by Fuller of Seward, which was drawn and recommended to pass in a form that would have prohibited the state board of equalization from raising or lowering valuations on property in any one county, but would have held the board to equalization merely. The action was taken on the sug gestion of King of Polk county, who proposed an amendment providing the state board may not raise or lower values except when necessary to make the assessments conform -to law with respect to uniformity of valu ation. The bill as originally drawn was favored by the democi-ats on the ground the state board has been rals- ing valuation arbitrarily. Senator King pointed out that as the Fuller bill was drawn, it might prohibit the exercise of needed changes In values as, for instance, when one county was valued in a way that would not provide equitable taxation in compari son with another. His suggestion was to confer sufficient power of change on the board to obviate this difficulty, lie declared the majority party did not want to change the law so the corporations of the state would have an excuse fcr continually lighting their assessments in court, which would be the case if the hands of the state board members were tied. The state board has never raised property anywhere in the state above figures returned by the assessors themselves, though there have been numerous raises above figures sub mitted by the county boards of cquali- zation. Unlimited Number of Employes. The senate Tuesday decided to re peal two laws hat were placed on the statutes by ex-Governor Sheldon when he was a member of the state senate. One of the laws is an act for a one-mill levy to wipe out the state debt which consists of outstand ing state warrants. The law provides for a fund to be raised by taxation to redeem outstanding state warrants. The levy made last year will be suf ficient to complete the work of wiping out this debt, which only a few years ago was $2,000,000. The other law which Mr. Sheldon placed on the statute books is one limiting the number of officers and employes of the senate to forty-nine. Prior to the Sheldon act of 1905 the statute on this subject was indefinite j as tG the number of employes. His bill made it certain. The number of employes years ago sometimes reached the one hundred mark. The democrats allege that the Sheldon act has been violated by two repub lican legislatures. Howell of Douglas Introduced a bill to repeal the statute limiting the number of employes. This was done after the present demo- cratic state senate had exceeded the limit fixed by law. The bill intro duced by Howell is S. F. No. 90. Tuesday it came up in committee of the whole and was recommended for passage. Biennial Valuation of Real Estate. The senate Friday passed Senator Fullers bill to provide for the assess ing of property every two years. The measure was passed with four nega tive votes. The present law provides that the assessment shall be every four years, by! the new measure makes provision for a valuation of all the property ta the state, beginning April 1, every two years. The Fries bill which came from the house providing for the exemption of precinct officers from election un der the primary was passed. The bill also excludes all village, township and school officers from the primary law regulations. The Randall bill for the require ment of real estate intersection of all railroads where it is deemed nec essary by the 'state railway commis sion and for the erection of platforms and track connections wherever it is feasible. The Myers bill preventing the drain ing of any lakes in the state which contain more than twenty acres was passed by the senate. The bill places the disposition of all of these lakes under the state board of Irrigation. The measure authorizing counties laving a population of from 60,000 to 100.000 population to pay $500 a year for a detective was approved by the upper house. Precinct Assessors to Be Elective. House Roll No. 214, making precinct assessors elective instead of appoin tive, was passed by the house of rep resentatives Friday afternoon, repub licans voting with the democrats for it.'' The bl-ll received 75 votes, and" none were cast in the negative. H. R. No. 215, a companion measure provid ing for the salaries of the deputies, was also passed unanimously. 70 to 0. Neither bill does away with the office of county assessor, who is still left as the official head of the taxing de partment in each county. The Noyes bill amending the fish, snd game laws, H. R. No. 224, was oasred 71 to 5. It perml-ts seining in the Platte river with a net whose neshes are not smaller than two inches in size. Game fish are not to be taken from the stream. The bill also allows an open season of two months on squirrels, which are now immune from the hunter's gun the year around. The two weeks' open season on quail is abolished, and that fowl will have the law's protection during the entire year, under the terms of this bill. Slate Formed for Sifting Committee. Hidden , beneath the mass of bills on third reading and almost lost from sight under the 125 bills on general file the house began in earnest Thurs day the huge task of clearing the blackboards. Persistent talk of a sifting committee is about the house and it is understood that the mem bers have already been chosen. The representatives refused once to ad journ and half of them protested when the session finally did close Thursday afternoon, the worried mem bers threatening for a time to go to work at 9 o'clock Friday morning. The following LSHs were passed late in the afternoon on third reading: H. R. No. 16S, by N'oyes of Cass Prohibiting from operating an auto mobile either intoxicated persons or persons under sixteen years of age. Vote: Aye 86, nay 0. H. R. No. 133. by Armstrong of Buffalo Appropriating out of the gen eral fund S50.000 for a north wing of the Kearney normal school. Vote: Aye 71. nay 20 S. F. No. 2C, by Fuller of Seward To extend the right to administer oaths to count and precinct asses sors. Vote: Aye 8:5. nay 0. S. F. No. 52. by Miller of Lancaster Defining blackmail and extortion and providing" penalties therefore. Vote: Aye 76, nay 0. S. F. No. G5, by King of Polk Re quiring clerks of the district court to transmit annually to the secretary of the state board of health certain ' statistics on divorces. Vote: Aye 74, nav S. H. R. No. 244, by McVicker of Dodge Providing for publicity of campaign contributions fifteen days before elec tion of all sums over $50. Vote: Aye, 65, nay IS. H. R. No. 17S. by Bnshee of Kim ball Relating to establishment cf boundaries of school districts in the sparsely settled part of the state. Vote: Aye 82, nay 1. House Bills Were Passed. " The effort of the lower house of the legislature to pass a law to pre vent treating in saloons lost Friday by a small majority. Indiscriminately the members voted without relation ! to n:lrf' affiliations or to the section of the state from which they came. The vote on the measure was 44 to 49. There was no discussion when the vote was taken although there had been seme debate in the com mittee of the whole. By a vote of 68 to 25 the house passed the measure to permit banks taking state money to furnish other bonds as securities rather than those of surety companies. Representative Killen's measure for the inspection of illuminating oils passed the house with but one dis senting vote. The bill provides for the methods of inspecting all oils that are used for lighting purposes and au thorizes a heavy penalty for any vio lation of the act. The house bill providing for an ap propriation for another state normal school which is to be located at Ainswortb, in Brown county, was passed. Last Day for New Bills. Tuesday was the last day for the introduction of bills in the senate. Unlik the house members, the sen ators did not show any eagerness to introduce bills. They introduced a total of sixteen during the day, less than two for each senator. The total number of bills introduced in the sen ate is 407. Two years ago the num ber in the senate was 445. The total this year in both houses is 1,022. Two years ago the total was 1,066. Lincoln Charter Bill Passes. The senate Thursday afternoon passed the Lincoln charter bill, senate file No. 250, by Miller of Lancaster. Only two members of the senate voted against It, Burnham of Howard and Besse of Webster. The bill pro vides for a commissioner system of government, with four councilmen and the mayor and an excise board as the governing bodies. New Lobbyists. As the end of the legislative session approaches new names are added to the lobby register in the office of the, secretary of state. Those who regis tered recently are R. W. McGinnis for the Northwestern railroad; R. E. Mattison and Wallace Wilson for the Nebraska Independent Telephone as sociation; Mrs. W. S. Jay. woman suffrage association; W. L. Davis, Ne braska osteopathic association. Oregon Plan Now a Law. Governor Shallenberger Thursday signed two bills, as follows: H. R. No. 1, by Humphrey of Lan caster, enacting into law the Oregon plan for the selection of United States senators. H. R. 90. by Carr of Keya Paha, compelling a commission merchant to take out a license from the food com missioner. Senate Slaps Prison Reformer. The house bill that proposed a law to make the birthday of John Howard, the prison reformer, a legal holiday in all penal and reformatory institu tions was killed in the senate Thurs day afternoon. The measure received but 7 votes. Senators Banning, Buck, Donohoe, Hatfield, Henry. Ketchum and King voting for the bill. To Get the Reward. The claims committee investigated the coal mine in southeastern Ne braska Tuesday and report that they found a mine there with a drift sunk to a distance of three hundrded feet, with a vein of coal thirty inchesthick, coal, real coal that will burn. Sev eral years ago the state offered a re ward for the discovery of coal in cer tain quantities and appropriated $4,000 for the purpose of paying it The law by which the reward was offered still exists but the appropria tion has long since lapsed. Agree Upon $20,000. At last the state of Nebraska is go ing to erect a statute in memory oi Abraham Lincoln, and the city of Lincoln may take its visitors to the state house grounds and show what has been done for the martyred presi dent The conference committee of the house and senate reported back. Thursday that they had agreed, upon an appropriation of $20,000 and the report was adopted in both houses. T2i2 bill passed the house carrying an appcrpriation of $15,000. The sen- ate raised this to $25,000. The house ; refused to stand for the raiso PRESIDENT TAFTS STRONG ADDRESS INAUGURAL DELIVERED BY NATION'S NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE. EXTRA SESSION IS PROMISED Congress Will Meet March 15 to Take Up Tariff Revision Adequate Army and Navy Urged Panama Canal Heartily Approved Southern Race Problem and Labor Legislation Discussed. Washington, Mar. 4. President 'Taft, .having been sworn in as chief executive of the nation, delivered an inaugural address that was listened to with .great interest. In part it was as follows: My Fellow Citizens: Any one who takes the oath I have just taken must feel "a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office upon which he is about to enter, or he is lacking in a proper sense of the obli gation which the oath imposes. The office of an inaugural address is to give a summary outline of the main policies of the new administra tion, so far as they can be anticipated. I have had the honor to be one of the advisers of my distinguished prede cessor, and as such, to hold up his hands In the reforms he has initiated. I should be untrue to myself, to my promises and to the declaration of the party platform upon which I am elected to office, if I did not make the maintenance and enforcement of those reforms a most important feature of my administration. They were di rected to the suppression of the law lessness and abuses of power of the great combinations of capital invested in railroads and in industrial enter prises carrying on interstate com merce. The steps which my predec- sor took and the legislation passed on his recommendation have accom plished much, have caused a general halt in the vicious policies which cre ated popular alarm, and have brought about in the business affected a much higher regard for existing law. More Legislation Needed. To render the reforms lasting, how ever, and to secure at the same time freedom from alarm on the part of those pursuing proper and progres sive business methods, further legisla tive and executive action are needed. Relief of the railroads from certain re strictions of the anti-trust law has been urged by my predecessor and will be urged by me. On the other hand, the administration is pledged to legis lation looking to a proper federal su pervision and restriction to prevent ex cessive issues of bonds and stocks by companies owning and operating inter state commerce railroads. Then, too, a reorganization of the department of justice, of the bureau of corporations in the department of commerce and labor, and of the inter state commerce commission, looking to effective co-operation of these agencies, is needed to secure a more rapid and certain enforcement of the laws affecting interstate railroads and industrial combinations. I hope to be able to submit at the first regular session of the incoming congress, in December next, definite suggestions in respect to the needed amendments to the antitrust and the Interstate commerce laws, and the changes required in the executive de partments concerned in their enforce ment. Promises Extra Session. A matter of most pressing impor tance is the revision of the tariff. In accordance with the promises of the platform upon which I was elected, I shall call congress into extra session, to meet on the fifteenth day of March, in order that consideration may be at once given to a bill revising the Ding ley act This should secure an ade quate revenue and adjust the duties in such a manner as to afford to labor and to all industries in this country, whether of the farm, mine or factory, protection by tariff equal to the dif ference between the cost of production abroad and the cost of production here, and have a provision which shall put into force, upon executive determination of certain facts, a high er or maximum tariff against those countries whose trade policy toward us equitably requires such discrimi nation. It is thought that there has been such a change in conditions since the enactment of the Dinelev art drafted on a similarly protective prin ciple, that the measure of the tariff above stated will permit the reduction of rates In certain schedules and will require the advancement of few if any. ' Money Needed for Big Projects. The putting into force of laws which shall secure the conservation of our resources, so far as they may be with in the jurisdiction of the federal gov ernment, including the most impor tant work of saving and restoring our forests, and the general Improvement of waterways, are all proper govern ment functions which must involve large expenditure if properly per formed. While some of them, like the reclamation of arid lands, are made to pay for themselves, others are of such an indirect benefit that this can not be expected of them. A perma nent improvement, like the Panama canal, should be treated as a distinct enterprise, and should be paid for by the proceeds of bonds, the Issue of which will distribute its cost between THANKSGIVING IN PARIS Have you any idea of what is the- Thanksgiving of the American resident of Paris? Let me tell you. We have turkey, with cranberry sauce. The turkey is stuffed with things which only the French tongue can define, and the cranberry sauce is usually bought in a can, ready-made, from an Eng ish factory. Still, it is real turkey, and Ae sauce is red, with real cranberry skins in it, so that we- complain not IVe are even glad and grateful, this, the present and future generations In accordance with the benefits derived. It may well be submitted to the seri ous consideration of congress whether the deepening and control of the chan nel of a great river system, like that of the Ohio or of the Mississippi, when definite and practical plans for the enterprise have been approved and determined upon, should not be pro vided for in the same way. For Army and Navy. Then, too, there are expenditures o" government absolutely necessary if our-.country is to maintain its proper place among the nations of the world, and is to exercise its proper influence in defense of its own trade interests,. in the maintenance of traditional American, policy against the coloniza tion of European monarchies in this hemisphere, and in the promotion of peace and international morality. I refer to the cost of maintaining a proper army, a proper navy and suit able fortifications upon the mainland of the United States and in its depend encies. We should have an army so organ ized, and so officered, as to be capable in time of emergency in co-operation with the national militia, and under the provisions of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force, if necessary, in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe. Our fortifications are yet in a state of only partial completeness and the number of men to man them is insuffi cient. What has been said of the army may be affirmed in even a more em phatic way of the navy. A modern navy cannot be improvisesd. It must be built and in existence when the emergency arises which calls for its use and operation. Asiatic Immigration. The admission of Asiatic immi grants who cannot be amalgamated with our population has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes, or of strict administrative regulation secured by diplomatic negotiation. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without un necessary friction and by mutual con cessions between self-respecting gov ernments. Meantime, we must take every precaution to prevent, or, fail ing that, to punish outbursts of race feeling among our people against for eigners of whatever nationality who have by our grant a treaty right to pursue lawful business here and to be protected against lawless assault or injury. This leads me to point out a serious defect in the present federal jurisdic tion which ought to be remedied at once. Having assured to other coun tries by treaty the protection of our laws for such of their subjects or citizens as we permit to come within our jurisdiction, we now leave to a state or a city, not under the control of the federal government, a duty of performing our international obliga tions in this respect. By proper legis lation we may, and ought to, place in the hands of the federal executive' the means of enforcing the treaty rights of such aliens in the courts of the fed eral government. It puts our govern ment in a pusillanimous position to make definite engagements to protect aliens and then to excuse the failure to perform those engagemnts by an explanation that the duty to keep them is in states or cities, not within our control. Monetary Laws Need Change. One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administra tion is a change of our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade, and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassments of a financial panic. The monetary com mission lately appointed is giving full consideration to existing conditions and to all proposed remedies, and will doubtless suggest one that will meet the requirements of business and of public interest. We may hope that the report will embody neither the nar row view of those who believe that the sole purpose of the new system should be to secure a large return on bank ing capital or of those who would have greater expansion of currency with little regard to provisions for its immediate redemption or ultimate se curity. There is no subject of eco nomic discussion so intricate and so likely to evoke different views and dogmatic statements as this one. The commission in studying the general in fluence of currency on business and of business on currency, have wisely extended their Investigation in Euro pean banking and monetary methods. The incoming congress should promptly fulfill the promise of the Re publican platform and pass a proper postal savings bank bill. It will not be unwise or excessive paternalism. The promise to repay by the govern ment will furnish an inducement to savings deposits which private enter prise cannot supply, and at such a low rate of interest as not to withdraw custom from existing banks. It will substantially increase the funds 'avail able for investment as capital in use ful enterprises. It will furnish the absolute security which makes the proposed scheme of government guar anty of deposits so alluring without its pernicious results. Panama Canal All Right. The Panama canal will have a most important bearing upon the trade be tween the eastern and the far western sections of our" country, and will great ly increase the facilities for transport tation between the eastern and west ern seaboard, and may possibly revo lutionize the transcontinental rates with respect to bulky merchandise. It will also have a most beneficial effect too, in spite of the fact that we are commonly all widows and orphans temporarily who assemble to eat the Thanksgiving dinner at home. Our husbands and the fathers of our chil dren are wont to grace the dinner giv en by the American club, where every man resident of Paris who is a true patriot goes bursting with a sense of gratitude because he Is a citizen of the greatest country on earth. To this to Increase the trade between the east era seaboard of the United States and the western coast of South America, and, indeed, with some of the im portant ports on the east coast of South America reached by rail from the west coast. The work on the canal is making most satisfactory progress. The type of the canal as a lock canal was fixed by congress after a full consideration of the conflicting reports of the majority and minority of the consulting board, and after the recommendation of the war depart ment and the executive upon those reports. Recent suggestion that some thing had occurred on the isthmus to make the lock type of the canal less feasible than it was supposed to be when the reports were made" and the policy determined on, led to a visit to the isthmus of a board of competent enginei-3 to examine the Gatun dam and locks which are the key of the lock type. The report of that board shows that nothing has occurred in the nature of newly revealed evi dence which should change the views once formed in the original discussion. The construction will go on under a most effective organization controlled by Col. Goethals and his fellow army engineers associated with him, and will certainly be completed early in the next administration. If not before. South and the Negroes. I look forward with hope to increas ing the already good feeling between the south and the other sections of the country. My chief purpose is not to effect a change In the electoral vote of the southern states. That is a sec ondary consideration. What I look for ward to is an increase in the tolerance of political views of all kinds and their advocacy throughout the south, and the existence of a respectable political opposition in every state; even more than this, to an increased feeling on the part of all the people in the south that this government is their govern ment, and that its officers in their states are their officers. The consideration of this question cannot, however, be complete and full without reference to the negro race, its progress and its present condition. The 13th amendment secured them freedom; the 14th amendment due process of law, protection of property and the pursuit of happiness; and the" 15th amendment attempted to secure the negro against any deprivation of the privilege to vote, because he was a negro. The 13th and 14th amend ments have been generally enforced and have secured the objects for which they were intended. While the 15th amendment has not been gener ally observed in the past it ought to be observed, and the tendency of southern legislation to-day is toward the enactment of electoral qualifica tions which shall square with that amendment. Laws for Labor's Benefit. There is one other matter to which I shall refer. It was made the subject of great controversy during the elec tion and calls for at least a passing reference now. My distinguished prede cessor has given much attention to the cause of labor, with whose struggle for better things he has shown the sin cerest sympathy. At his instance, con gress has passed the bill fixing the lia bility of Interstate carriers to their employes for injury sustained in the course of employment, abolishing the rule of fellow-servant and the common law rule as to contributory negligence. It has also passed a law fixing the compensation of government employes for injuries sustained in the employ of the government through the negli gence of the superior. It also passed a model child labor law for the Dis trict of Columbia. In previous admin istrations an arbitrary law for inter state commerce railroads and their employes, and laws for the application of safety devices to save the lives and limbs of employes of interstate rail roads had been passed. Additional legislation of this kind was passed by the outgoing congress. I wish to say that in so far as I can, I hope to promote the enactment of further legislation of this charac ter. I am strongly convinced that the government should make itself as re sponsible to employes injured in its employ aa an interstate railway cor poration is made responsible by fed eral law to its employes. Injunctions in Labor Disputes. Another labor question has arisen which has awakened the most excited discussion. That is in respect to the power of ihe federal courts to issue in junctions in industrial disputes. As to that, my convictions are fixed. Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue In junctions in labor disputes, and it would create a privileged class among the laborers and save the lawless among their number from a most need ful remedy available to all men for the protection of their business against lawless invasion. The proposition that business is not a property or pe cuniary right which can be protected by equitable injunction is utterly without foundation in precedent or reason. The proposition is usuall linked with one to make the second ary boycott lawful. Such a proposi tion is at variance with the American instinct and will find no support in my judgment when submitted to the American people. The secondary boy cott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate. The issuing of a temporary restrain ing order without notice has in sev eral instances been abused by its in considerate exercise, and to remedy this, the platform upon which I was elected recommends the formulation in a statute of the conditions under which such a temporary restrainini order ought to issue. A statute can and ought to be framed to embody the best modern practice, and can brin? me suDject so closely to the atten tion of the court as to make abuses o the process unlikely in the future! dinner are bidden each year a certain number of innocent and unsuspecting Frenchmen, who are made to consume even larger quantities of American eagle than of turkey, and who must go home sad enough, if they believe all that the speakers pf the evening tell them of how Americans are doing everything in the world that is worth doing; that any small affairs which the French may still be carrying on, we, the people of the United States, shall appropriate whenever we take the no tion. Harper's Bazar. JAC4M St. &CKIHS0M Jlf jmmam MUw" MLW'CMMMJt V. f 7m amJkS I W I I CilBn&X. 'waaamlaaair -" PRESIDENT TUFTS OFFICIAL FAMILY SKETCHES OF THE NINE EMINENT MEN FORM ING HIS CABINET. P. C KNOX HEADS THE GROUP Pennsylvanian Is Secretary of State Franklin MacVeagh, Chicago Mer chant, Holds the Treasury Portfo lioJacob M. Dickinson, Tennessee Democrat, to Manage the Army Affairs of the Agricultural Depart ment Left in James Wilson's Hands. Philander Chase Knox of Pennsyl vania, secretary of state in the cab inet of President Taft, was born at Brownsville, Pa., in 1853. He was graduated from Mount Union college, Ohio, in 1872, and three years later was admitted to the bar. During the years 1876 and 1877 he served as as sistant United States district attorney for the western district of Pennsyl vania. In the latter year he formed a law partnership with James H. Reed which still exists and which has rep resented many large corporations, in cluding the Carnegie Company. Mr. Knox entered President McKinley's cabinet as attorney general in April, 1901, serving until 1904, when he was elected United States senator from Pensylvania. The latter position he resigned to become the head of Presi dent Taft's cabinet. Wilson Retains His Place. Only one member of the Roosevelt cabinet retains his portfolio under Mr. Taft That Is James Wilson of Iowa, secretary of agriculture. So ex cellent had been his work in that posi tion that there was no serious talk of making a change. Born in Scotland in 1835, Mr. Wilson came to the United States in 1852 and three years later settled in Iowa. In 1861 he engaged in farming in Tama county. He was a member of the Iowa assembly for three sessions and speaker of the house for one session, and also was a member of the Iowa state railway commission. In 1873 he was elected to congress, serving two terms, and was sent to the national legislature again for one term in 1883. He was regent of the State university of Iowa In 1870-74, and in 1890 was made director of the agricultural ex periment station and professor of agri culture at the Iowa Agricultural col lege, Ames, la. In 1897 he became secretary of agriculture. MacVeagh for the Treasury. Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury, was born on a farm in Chester county, Pennsylvania, gradu ated from Tale in 1862 and from Columbia Law school in 1864. He be gan the practice of law In New York .city but Ill-health forced him to aban don it and in 1865 he went to Chicago and engaged in the wholesale grocery business. In this and other commer cial pursuits he has amassed a large fortune. Before entering the cabinet he disposed of his holdings in the big grocery firm and resigned as director of the Commercial National bank of Chicago. Mr. MacVeagh has always been Interested in movements for the public welfare, locally and nationally. Dickinson Is War Secretary. Jacob M. Dickinson of Tennessee and Chicago, the new secretary of war, was born In 1851 at Columbus, Miss. He graduated from the Uni versity of Nashville in 1872 and after ward studied law at Columbia college. jrrrriiJr M"" Models' Earnings. Nowadays all the leading firms of modistes employ living models. A good model can earn five to six pounds a werk, the minimum wage for a "show lady" being two pounds a week. There are some models in London who are paid as much as 10 a week, and in Paris the salary of a good model in some of the best establishments runs to 12 a week. As long as a model is young and attractive her position as such is secure enough, and often very well paid, but at 30, and sometimes be- LDojs at the University of Leipsiz and in Paris. He served several times by special commission on the supreme bench of Tennessee and was assist ant attorney general of the United States in 1895-97. Postmaster General Hitchcock. The first cabinet officer selected by Mr. Taft after his election was Frank H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts, who gave up his place as first assistant postmaster general to manage success fully the Taft presidential campaign. He has been given the office of post master general in the new cabinet. Mr. Hitchcock was born at Amherst, O., in 1867, and graduated from Har vard in 1891 and from Columbia Law school in 1S94. Since 1891 he has been a government official. Nagel Has Commerce Portfolio. Missouri has been rewarded for its switch to the Republican column by the appointment of Charles Nagel as secretary of commerce and labor. Mr. Nagel is a leading lawyer of St. Louis and the west. He was born in Texas in 1849, moved to- St. Louis when a child and graduated from the St. Louis Law school in 1873. He has been senior member of the law firm of Nagel & Kirby, professor in the St. Louis Law school and a trustee of Washington university. In 1881-82 he was a member of the Missouri house of representatives, and in 1893-97 was president of the St. Louis city coun cil. He is a member of the Repub lican national committee and for years has been an intimate friend of Mr. Taft. He was one of Mr. Roosevelt's most enthusiastic supporters. As an attorney Mr. Nagel was identified with several important cases dealing with the numerous complications in the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the then Indian territory. Navy Under Meyer's Charge. President Taft's secretary of the navy, George Von L. Meyer of Massa chusetts, has bad wide experience as a business man, legislator, diplomat and cabinet officer. He was born in Boston in 1S58 and graduated from Harvard in 1879. He then entered business and has been prominently conectcd with a number of financial and mercantile concerns. His career as a public official began in 1889, when he was elected to the Boston common council. He then served on the board of aldermen, and in 1892-96 he was & member of the Massachusetts isgisla ture, the last two years being speaker of the house. In 1900 Mr. Meyer was sent to Italy as American ambassador, and in 1905 was transferred to Rus sia. In January. 1907, President Roosevelt called him home to 'enter his cabinet as postmaster general. This portfolio he has relinquished for that of the navy. Mr. Meyer's home is Hamilton, Mass. Ballinger Secretary of Interior. After about one year's service as commissioner of the general land of fice. Richard A. Ballinger of Seattle, Wash., has entered the cabinet as secretary of the interior. He Is a native of Iowa, having been born in Boonesboro in 1S58. After attending the University of Kansas and Wash burn college at Topeka. he went to Williams college, graduating in 1884 and afterward studying law and re moving to Washington. He was United States court commissioner in 1890-92 and later was judge of the supreme court in Jefferson county. Wash. Attorney General Wickersham. George W. Wickersham, who be comes President Taft's attorney gen eral, has had the reputation of being one of the ablest lawyers in New York city. Born la Pittsburg in 1858, he studied civil engineering in Lehigh university and in 1880 graduated from the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. For two years he prac ticed law in Philadelphia. In 1884 he became associated with the law firm of Strong & Cadwalladare, to which Henry W. Taft, brother of the presi dent, belongs. . - r i-rvtnrw-iAAAAnnnjijvi nnn-a n n nn n ni fore, she is generally regarded as too old for the particular work required of her that is. showing the effect of dresses when made; but if she has ac qued a gco;I knowledge of a modiste's business she is almost certain to ob tain further and far more permanent employment with her own firm or else where London Tit-Bits. She Have you seen the evening pa per, John? He Yes, I read it through this morning. Puck.
