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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
