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Show PEDFIELD TO QUIT CABINET. President Accepts Resignation to Take Effect November 1. Washington William C. Redfield, of Brooklyn, N. Y"., secretary of commerce com-merce in President Wilson's cabinet since the beginning of the Democratic administration in 1913, has resigned announcing that he was returning to private business. President Wilson has accepted the resignation, to he effective November 1. There was no official hint given with the announcement as to who would be chosen to take the portfolio. Mr. Itedfield denied that his resignation resig-nation was the result of friction between be-tween himself and other administration officials. "My resignation," he said, "is not the result of any quarrel, disagreement, disagree-ment, chagrin or any other unpleasant occurrence, but is caused solely and entirely by my desire to return to business busi-ness and give my attention once more to my personal affairs, which for more than eight years have been subordinated subordi-nated to the' public interests." |