Show I A Precarious Theory I I fJ ORN OHN W. W GRIGGS of Paterson N. N J. J attorney gene gen 1 U J eral emI daring during the McKinley a administration ministration has issued a statement that informal cabinet conferences were Common during the McKinley regime He says Tho rho cabinet Is m merely roly an Informal bony body of or department heads acting as advisers to tho the President and to each other Under President McKinley I rem remember man many In th- th formal forma cabinet conferences at somo cf ct which the President was present and at others not Tho The cabinet members met to to consider various matters and to advise each other It to mo me that Secretary Lansing Lansing- no more exceeded ded his authority or usurped nl any powers In calling the tho cabinet together tos than an ordinary ordinal citizen who calls half haIt a dozen men In conference to ask their advice nd In 1900 when President M MCKinley was onaS standing for re-election re ho spent some Borne time In hl his home homo in Canton Ohio but during his Absence tho the cabinet members conferred almost dally daily It was wa during during tho the Boxer troubles yet thero was no protest from rom tho the President or even intimation that tho the informal conferences were objectionable to him It seems incredible that a n. Pr President would announce announce a a theory thery that if he be is incapacitated no conferences of his cabinet ar arc f to tobe be held no questions arising are to ro receive consideration p or action and that the government itself mu t remain headless supine and aud inoperative yet ct such implication of or President Wilsons Wilson's letter to Secretary Secretary Sec See Lansing in which he says No one but tho the President President Pres- Pres ident has tho the right to summon tho the heads beads of the executive executive executive tive departments into conference t IT s this theory is correct the tile sooner a n. law is passed pr providing a new method of summoning summoning- the cabinet into conference during the disability of a President tho the better bet bet- a ter No private enterprise co could Id follow such a policy S and c expect ct to survive e and certainly a Dr nation of ofa a a hundred hundred hun- hun dred and t ten n millions cannot sustain it iad Lawrence says Secret a ry Lansing play played d the rc rote of an obedient servant And since lie he was paid f for hia his services the account is pro probably a ly consi considered closed he pro prohibition bitio commissioner says Utah is 05 per percent cent for or the drys Now the wets will want to know where the other 5 per cent is situated owners will endeavor to make Utah the center of 1 their industry The slate state seal alone make it it ita a matter of f natural ral selection l |