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Show ' UTN'GTON. Junc 26. Attor- ' ' -'I If Afv-(?encrfll Knox In going from 'MlCn W ?S Cabinet to the Senate em-.5ED em-.5ED ' ' H 'Its a remarkable change H i mken plac regarding the ! blt ""nf So Senate. In times pnat . ' rablrC hfen resarded as a promotion '! 11 b" Snale to tho Cabinet Now flSS reverse. It Is very scl- J Rl??' will relinquish a. place ?3S nateSeniei-the Cabinet Tho f l3thf'unce of tho Kind as that of U5t nstanC nn ond there Is a story ! nT he Tanner In which the illDlfi f "we Ohio statesman was Induced 'UWf the Senate to Hnnna and 5V 7 Prenn.er.hlp In McKlnley". m I UW th- p a nne manipulation of 3J iit c3 nd only tho ilrm convlc-1 convlc-1 1 0h,,Pn n rid of Sherman that he I ", b defeated at the expiration of ! f tern Induced him to malce the W Sherman felt that he would 1 Mffbe succeeded by a Democrat or I flth, uLa would be strong enough to 1 ?E in a Republican legislature. W dffeat !'"), 111 ,tl wouid be better to 31 ff f'oii t h i career In the Cabinet I wlnd ,S a a defeated Senator, lli- was oSe Instance In the pre-Ther pre-Ther iinlfltratlon. President Cleve-flllu Cleve-flllu 0. Carlisle to give liM fSt in the Senate tb become Plow of the Treasury. Carlisle BM Kvc preferred to remain In the Hf f1 'E very reluctantly aero ae-ro fi' the Place in the Cabinet, and a 7 ?f2on the ground that an invitation mJ ?im the President under such clrcum- i virtually was a command, and 555 j S man had the right to refuse . wf p!?tr chief any service that was Dhflflf i 5,hfn his power This Is very high ; IZni and probably was used to -l S that Mr Carlisle seriously ob-) ob-) ftH.'. ffl to leaving the Senate. These ' 5 instances .Illustrate the fact that ).: Oft .j SnaSS Prefer seats in the upper i kmw 1 National Congress to a ' Sin the President's onlcinl family s 1 in the years gone by. when it was ! -f Minsldored a promotion, such men as - '1 i welter. flny. Calhoun. Cass. Seward h ' I rd Chase, all men of Presidential size. A'r"i i ind leaders In their States and in the 1 ! tr.ale gave up their places to accept P-A I Cabinet positions. Seward and Chase. ' It Is well known, relinquished seats In l' 4 1 the Senate With great reluctance, and ' : 4 ? ro doubt each felt that it was a duly 'l iheyowed' to the new Requbllcan ad-.'' ad-.'' ministration entering upon such a peril- - r cus time for the country. In after years radft' Blaine- Teller, Freltnghuyscn, and u'ji'i V.'lndom left tho Senate to go to the 3I1C1W 5 Cabinet, and in his llrst administration .- cip.-ebnd took Bayard. Garland and Lamar from the Senate. At least two. SSttjH i BAyard and Garland, regretted their ' I " jtep. but Lamar was promoted to tho Supreme bench. Both Presidents Harrison and 7lc-"' 7lc-"' Klnley desired to obtain men from the ',fl( S4nat for their Cabinets, and It is S known that Allison. Hale. Aldrlch, ' ) Hoar, Spooner. Cullom, Lodge and fome others have had offers of proml-' proml-' :V nni Cabinet places, some from both '-i'l i administrations These men, with ca-' ca-' 'j 5 rfers of usefulness before them in the "i J; Senate, would, not give up their places, fj j and It has been commonly understood j to bi anything but a promotion to leave " the Senate for a Cabinet place. On. tin - other hand, some men have left the s Cabinet to go into the Senate. Proctor '"4 ;t of Vermont Is one who left the Cabinet -7 T direct for tho Senate, while others have .i If bien elected to the Senate after serving 4 In the Cabinet. i It Is not strange that men prefer the fate to a place In the Cabinet. Out jj of each two years there Is at least ?- twelve months" vacation for a Senator . At the close of each short session of 1 I t'ongrcss It Is nine months before an- other session convenes, and the long i ) fs!on does not often occupy more than 'I Jx or eight months. In fact, the Sena- i tors have more than half of their time f i "ofTuly. This is not the case with a ; Cabinet ofllcer, although a great many e cdnslderable leisure, but they are , , not the men who accomplish results. i A member of the Cabinet who attends to his duty, and who Is able to leave a ! record, must attend strictly to the busl-1 busl-1 i c8 of his department. The business fm i fne federal government, unlike that onefflslatlon. cannot be postponed, and In it' ; aCnblret ofTlcer Is obliged to attend to UCI 1 ' as lnev ariBc. It is work all , I (l,me 11,113 cven members of the Cab- tjnet who take vacations must be in loach with the situation in Washington 'subjects r aCt b" lhany imPrtat Another reason why1 the Cabinet Is -Lu lmPrtant as It was in years y 15 that as the eo eminent be-,rno,r.e be-,rno,r.e centralized Cabinet onicers re not allowed tp take positive action on important questions As they did In w?T3t' Buness centers at the iWWte Houac. The- clerical force at the pi'lvl"; uH?use has be,?n trebled, and f"- hrormUalncss ls attended to there that 1 5 W y n.ever reacbed the President. :' $ aKnj ArthU1, ws the last man that ' ' :SAC ,any ereat authority to bin jo i' -4S "en ""'e'"3- was his plan to Sl Bnrf much Jualncss In the depart-f depart-f Sk.m Pf lm' nnd llold hI oncers v Lb, for the conduct of the busl-Sl busl-Sl ClevPi,?11' 'nnlng with the first - ?Eelan? atlrninlstration, there has .! :f the vm. Cency to centralize around t4 ilpwi ftf M Huac a11 the Important bus- ?'.8 of the Federal government. .yrf it ' f.JtinW me," ln thc cabinet who were ri Sc?&i 'he.n, PesdeU Roosevelt Ime PrriHrcfldoelU McKlnley. At that ' V thTre9,iaenl Roosevelt Invited all of W I K hn"uCarry oul President IcKln- - 3 manv L ,lcl08, Gradually, however. only s!1iTnJbers dronPed out, and now ,''.A?.H lUlry.Hay' Secretary Hitch-?S Hitch-?S PtcuUtio et;retary W,lson remain. The 1$ h the onfv h cretary Wilson will be Ken. maln wIth President Roosc- (-1 I'QcntYhn lha'8 f'ouncl 11 "ecessary I Mm In ff l lhcrc WM a movement on 'Man0finnnl Kraduates. The story I - 4penC n"mhc'-oa courtmnrtlal cases i f a lari S ltiln tno nast two years, -iBrmy Ifr fv, XZa Yh0 entered the 'Jw wS inS thc SanlHl1 war. by ap-"gjj ap-"gjj 2 "..ro.m clvl1 "c. There was a rtlF' ut moii or mC llew men at thftt me, 31: roluntSL ,v, 'Cm WCr,c taken fro,n the Um roow or in h,, ae.rved eUhcr ns State If ralfed for tc.niI'orary rcSlments Wm ltls truo ff,, CC " th0 PhlllPPlnes. lruo tlut most of the cases that . ' have recently been brought out have touched the men who were not graduates gradu-ates of TVcst Point. This might Very well occur, as the nntural tendency of the Military Academy training Is to make men belter officers, and jealous of their own reputation as well as the reputation of the army. It Is a credit to tho MUllm-y Academy that It turns out men if that character. At the same time It ls only natural. Tho Went Point education begins with thc would-be officers as b'oyp. and they receive four years' Instructions in everything that tends to make a man care for his profession, for his uniform and for tho honor of the service he rep-resontti. rep-resontti. This s Instilled into them nt a time whn they are more receptive than In after years. Naturnlly it would be strange If the West Pointer was less liable to "go wrong" than a man who has not had early military training. How absurd the story about a cabal against ofllcers not from West Point is shown In the fact that the lust Com-mander-Genoral of the army was not a West Point graduate; neither was tho First or Second Lleutenant-Gcncral under un-der the new genernl staff system, nor are any of the present Major-Genernls, save one. graduates of Wpbi PolnL It is also n fact Hint unless something happens to change the course of events and prevent promotion by &onlorliy, there will not be a Wept Point graduate nt tho head of the nrmy for more than a quarter of a century to come. It Is hardly to be expected wLth this condition condi-tion of affairs that the West Pointers have a cabal or any power to expel from thc army those who are not graduates of the academy. Some of the West Point men looking at the possibilities of promotion to the grand prize, think that they have not received the consideration con-sideration due them as trained military men. Thlsstory of a West Point organization organiza-tion against those appointed from civil Ilfc-i ls on a par with a story that was circulated a little after the close of the Spanish war. At that time nearly the same condition thnt exists now In regard to the possibilities of West Point men reaching the highest command prevailed, pre-vailed, and It waB related by some over-zealous over-zealous advocate of West Point that the "volunteere," being men who had not gone through the academy, were going to control affairs. It was said that President McKlnley, a volunteer; Gen. Miles, a volunteer; Gen. Alger, a volunteer; volun-teer; Gen. Corbln, a volunteer, and Gen. Shatter, a volunteer, all having served In the Civil war, and none having been a graduate of West Point, met and had a little dinner nnd drank a toast, "Down With West Point." Of course, nnybody that knew the genial and suave and politic McKinley Is perfectly aware that nothing of the kind ever occurred. Nor was Alger likely to say anything or encourage en-courage anything of that kind. Moreover, More-over, tho three oflicers named had been associated with West Point graduates for many yearsvand had not imbibed any such prejudices as was alleged. The recent warm political contest that occurred in the district represented by James D. Kichardson of Tennessee, is In marked contrast to the manner In which nominations have been previously made. After Richardson had served eight or ten years In Congress, conventions were never held. A Congressional committee was authorized to make the nomination. It met every two years, nominated Mr Richardson, tilled any vacancies on the committee, and that was all there was to it. Thc- nomination was satisfactory to the people of the district, and no one ever complained. It Is believed that If Jltrt Richardson desired to remain In Congress he never would have been troubled, as no one thought of contesting contest-ing the seat as long as he desired to retain re-tain thc place. Although HlchardBon did not take an active part In the House during the last session, and has practically practi-cally given up politics to attend to the work devolving upon him as tho highest Mason ln the United States, he has not lost Interest In politics. The chances nre that he will be at St. Louis as much Interested ln the Democratic National convention as -almost any other man. He was the permanent chairman of the last Democratic National convention at Kansas city. There Is a man In Gcneseo, 111., Dr. L. A. Ferry, who has watche1 the rise of Gen. Adna R. Chaffee with a great deal of Interest. Way back ln 1SC1 two young men enlisted In company K. Second cavalry. One wis L. A. Ferry and the other A. R Chaffee. Ferry, telling how things came about, said that he himself was a big Elx-footer and stood around, assigned to certain duties which did not bring him n close touch with the ofllcers, ofll-cers, Chaffee "a little, red-headed fellow,' fel-low,' was ever active and waB assigned to first one thing and then another. Ferry was drilling a squad, while Chaffee Chaf-fee became a Sergeant, then First Sergeant, and then a commission was given him, and he continued to go on until he reached the highest grade In the army. Dr. Ferry never did get higher than a private, although he served all through the war and did good work. When his enlistment expired he retired to civil life and entered the medical profession, where he has remained re-mained ever since. Before the clos of Secretary Hay's term he will probably find himself in quite a number of controversies regarding regard-ing his lotest move to establish in every part of the world tho Idea that the United States Is; America. When he was Minister to England he always used the term "American Embassy." and ln his latest act, which makes all seals and all stationery bear the words "American Embassy." "American Legation," or "American Consulate " he will probably again arouse the Indignation of our Canadian and South American neighbors. neigh-bors. The Canadians claim they arc as much Americans as the residents of the United States, and so do the Mexicans, Brazilians, Venezuelans and Argentines At the same time In all foreiga countries coun-tries United States cit!;:ene are regarded as Americans, while citizens of these other countries arc usually designated by the name of thc country from which they come There is no way to prevent pre-vent the United States claiming the name American, and some such word Is necessary to designate our people. Por-haps Por-haps the time may come when It will be decreed that we use the American language lan-guage Instead of the English. Secretary Hay's successor would hardly feel like reversing any act that he hoo taken, especially us United States citizens me perfectly willing to assume the responsibility for American citizenship. Speaking of Hay's successor, suc-cessor, possibly John C. Spooner may be Secretary of State ln tho next administration. adminis-tration. If he desired to close his political po-litical career, cr If he considered that the Slate department offered a possibility possi-bility for advancement to tho Presidency Presi-dency In 1908, Spooner might accent tho place. He has given a great deal of attention at-tention to foreign affairs since he has been In the Sennte the Inst time. And If Hay Is dctormlned to leave the Cabinet Cabi-net Spooneu will, no doubt, be urged to take the place. In view of the proml-, proml-, nonce that Spooner now hoe In the Senate, Sen-ate, his positions on Important committees, commit-tees, and the liking he has for Senatorial Sena-torial duties, It would be strange to fee him leave the Senate for the Cabinet But many strange things happen In politics. ARTHUR W. DUNN. |