Show I J WILL ENTER THE CABINEt JAMES R GARFIELD TO GET MET CALFS PLACE Secretary of Department of Commerce and Labor to Retire and Son of Former President Is Slated for the Post Washington Tho next change In the cabinet will be the retirement of Victor H Mctcatf of the department of commerce and labor This IB the prediction of a man who stands clone enough In the confidence con-fidence of President Roosevelt to give the statement the fullest measure of credibility James R Garfield will probably succeed suc-ceed Secretary Motcnlf giving up his present place as commlslsoner of corporations cor-porations This Is the present pro gramme It Is no news that President Hoose velt entertains a very high opinion of Comrnlslsoner Garfield Ho has been much Impressed and pleased by tho laKors work In collecting facts In regard re-gard to the beef trust and the Standard Stand-ard Oil trust In fact he credits half the success of Attorney General Moodys prosecutions to the start they received by the data gathered under un-der the careful and assiduous Mr Garfield Garfield was born In October 1866 In the houso at Mentor that became famous as the mecca of political pilgrims pil-grims during the presidential campaign cam-paign of 1880 Ho was therefore 16 years old when his father President Garfield died In September 1881 A story they still relate at the White House deals with the use of a fountain foun-tain basin as a swimming pool by tho Garfield boys and a party of their chums on a hot summer night That exorcise was followed by a function In tho east room It was an Indian war dance It all happened on an evening even-ing when tho chief magistrate of the nation was absent from home Like his father Garfield began Wfl political career as a member of the Ohio state senate Then he became a member of the United States civil service commission When the bureau bu-reau of corporations of the department of labor was created Garfield was placed at tho head of it by President Roosevelt Garflelds elevation to the cabinet would make him the third son of a 1 i 0 tit fl I I ° a JAMES R GARFIELD The Work of the Commissioner of Corporations Has Pleased the President president to receive that distinction The first was John Quincy Adams who was secretary of state under Monroe Adams also served in tho house and senate and a term as president pres-ident Robert Todd Lincoln served as secretary sec-retary of war during the Arthur Ar-thur administrations He was afterward after-ward minister to England and Is now president of the Pullman company and lives in Chicago |