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Show How the Cabinet Has Grown. It is understood . that President Roosevelt, in his message at the opening open-ing of congress, will urge that body to create a department of mines, with its head a membcr 'of the cabinet. A bill for that purpose is tp be introduced on the first day of the session. Only four persons the heads of the state, tre.is- j ury and war departments and the at- i torney general sat . down .at President J Washington's table. A secretary of the i navy came in John Adams' time, the postmaster general -was advanced to cabinet grade in Jackson's days, and a j secretary of the interior came in Tay- lor's presidency. Thse seven officials constituted the president's official ad- j visors until long after the civil war. A secretary of agriculture was created in the latter pait of Cleveland's first I term, and u secretary of commerce and j labor came two years ago. Thus the j cabinet, which started with four members mem-bers eleven and a half decades ago. has been increased to nine. If Roosevelt gets a secretary of mining he will have obtained two new cabinet departments, which will mc-an that he has broken the presidential record in a new place. Leslie's Weekly. |