Show becomes secretary of state in a few days oyster bay L thuly official announcement was made h ere today that ellhu root had been appointed secretary of state announcement was made on authority of president roosevelt in the following statement given out by secretary loeb elihu root has accepted the ten dar by the president of the united states of secretary of state he will lake the oath of office in a couple of weeks but it will necessarily be gome little time before he closes up Us business affairs he will not go to washington permanently until gome time in september president roosevelt is much gratified at mr roots acceptance and ia deeply sensible of the personal sacrifices made by mr root in again taking upon himself the burdens and duties of a member of the cabinet the decision of mr root was reached finally on the presidents special train during the return of the presidential party from cleveland for personal reasons entertained both by IBS president and by mr root it was deemi advisable not to announce the decision publicly until the president had returned to sagamore hill it iras determined therefore that tha official statement of the presidents fender and mr roots decision to accept it would be made today it Is the intention of alo as sume the duties of secretary of state practically at once although it will be perhaps two weeks before he formally will take the oath of office his professional fess ional interests are so large that he will have to devote considerable tine to make a satisfactory arrangement of them before he goes to washington to take permanent charge of the state department when he takes active charge of the department he will give up entirely bis law practice |