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* * * * * - * * THE NEW CABINET. * *3 * .1. * *S * * Philander C. Knox. Philander Chase Knox, who will be Mr. Taft's secretary of state, reenters the cabinet after five years in the United States senate, to wrhich he was appointed in June, 1904, to fill the va cancy caused by the death of Matthew M. Quay. Like most of his colleagues in the new cabinet, Mr. Knox is a }awyer and first came into national promihemee as attorney general in Mr. MCKinley's first cabinet, when he sue cessfufly prosecuted the Northern Se cmrities case. Mr. Knox is 56 yea.rs old, having been born in Brownsville, P&, May 6, 1853. After graduating from Mount Union college at Alli anve, 0., the began the study of law in Pittsburg and three years later was admitted to -he bar in that city. * When Mr. Knox was only 24 years of age he was appointed assistant United States district attorney for the Western district of Pennsylvania. After a shwrt -term in this office, how ever, he resigned and entered private pratiee with James H. Reed, under the firn name of Knox & Reed. The firm became counsel for many large interests and it is said that Mr. Knox ihas received some of the largest fees ever paid in Wis-country. Duing the Homestead riots in 1892 -he was coun sel for the Carnegie Steel company amd dieeted the legal end of that fa mos -labor disturbance. Wihen in 1901 Mr. MeKinley appointed him at torney general, Mr. Knox's participa tion in the Homestead affair caused some opposition on the paxt of labor organizations to his confiMation. As attorney general, Mr. Knox not oWy prosecuted to a successful issue the government's suit against the Northern Seenrites company, but condted the ease against the so aled beef trust, with the result that that combination was desolved by the final decree of the United States su preme court. Mr. Knox has been cre dited also with having prepared .and carred through the Panama .canal parebaiose in 1903.tIt was shortly safter the ooniel'usion of the Panama pur chase that Mr. Knox was appointed to the United States senate by Gov. Pennypeeker to fill the vacaney caus ed by the death of Senator Quay, and afterwards he was elected.by the leg islatus for the full term expiring in March,'1911. It was at Mount Union col.lege that Maj. MecKinley fitt became acquaint ed with young Knox. Mr. McKinley was at that 'time prosecuting attorney of Stark county, anid the aequaintance begun wbgn they we're.both young fin ally ripened into The frendsbip of lat er years, and culmninate'd in the Pen nsylvanian 's entry into the second McKin'ley eabinet. It has always been understood that President McKinley s6ngh't to indtce Mr. Knox to accept the altorney generatship in his first eabinet, butt the offer was declined on the plea of private interests. Mr. Knox is entitled 'to twice write the de gree of LL. D.. after his name, both tUhe University of Pennsylvania and Yale university having conferred that honor upon inm. -Eichard A. Ballinger. Four States uray claim a proprie tary interest in Richard A. Belinger, the new secretary of the interior. He is a native of Iowa, having been born in Boonsiboro in 1859; after practic ,ing law in Illinois for 'a while he re moved to Alabama, and in 1889 he be e ame a resident of Port Townsend in Wahintonu, State' The next year he was appointed United States commrs sio.ner at Port Townseni and later Swas elected judge of ti.ie superior count of Jefferson iunty. Five years ago Mr. Rallinger as elected mayor of Seattle, and when his term dis may or expired P-resident Roosevelt ap pointed him com!missi'oner of the gen eral land office. As a practitioner at the bar Mr. Ballinger made 'a specie;lty of the ad miiiralty a.nd maritime law, and his position as commissioner of the gen eral land office gave him a wide know edge of 'the land laws and other im Sportant problems which will fall un der his jurisdiction es secretary of the .interior. Mr. Ballinger's fatther studied law in the office of Abraham Lincoln, and his ancestors on both sides participat ed in the war of thre Revolution and the war of 1812. He was prepared for college in the public schools and is a graduate of Willi-ams college, class of '84. He is the author of "Bailinger on Community Property" and of "BaTinger's Annotated Codes and Statute of Washington.'' Mr. Ballinger is a Republican State comn mnitteeman for the State of Washing ton. and wais a member of the advis orv conumnittee during tee last eua paign. Ja.cob M. Dickinson. Jacob McGavock Dickinson, the -w emmear o war, is the Southern niember (f .'resident Taft*; cabiet. A Mississi1ppia by birth, he is a citi zen of Tennessee and as a Cleveland Democrat supported Mr. Taft for the presidency. Probably his most nota ble public service was as counsel for the United States in the Alaskan boandary ease before the arbitration tribunal in London in 1103. He was an assi;tant attorney general of the United States diring Cleveland's ad ministra.tion, and has been general counsel for the Illinois Central Rail road company for some years. spend ing most of his time in Chicago, wihere the general offices of that coi pany are located. Mr. Dickinson is 58 years old, ha-ving been born in Co lumbus, Miss., in 1851. He is a gra duate of the University of Nashville, from which school he has a degree as master of arts, and he studied law at the University of Leipzig, and in Par is. He is president of th-e American Bar association, and belongs to the Chicago club, the Onwentsia and the Iroquois clubs, all of 0hicago. Mr. Dickinson is t:he owner of the famous Bell Meade stock farm in Nashville. George von Lengerke Meyer. George von Lengerke Meyer, who goes from the postmaster general's of flee to the navy department, was brought into the cabinet in February, 1907, to .s-ceeed postmaster general Cortelyou. He was at that time am bassador to St. Petersburg, to which post he had been transferred from Rome, where he diad served five years as ambassador. Mr. Meyer is a na tive of Boston, in which city he was born in 1858. After graduating from Harvard he entered the employ of a oommlesin firm, and some years later became a member of the firm of Lin der & Meyer, East India merchants, which had been established by his father. He is an officer or director in many large manufacturing and finan cial -wneerns, and has always been ac tire in polities, having been a mem ber of the Boston common council, an alderman, a member of the State legislature, serving as speaker of the lower house for three consecutive years. Mr. Meyer was selected a member of the Republican national oommittee in. 1899, and on McKin ley's election he was made ambassa dor to Italy. He is a member of the Athletic, the Somerset and St. Bo tolph ckbs of Boston, and among oth er business offices is president of the Ames Plow company anLd a director of the Old Colony Trast company and the Amoskeag Manufacturing com pany. Mr. Meyer is .a sportsman and an anglier, and is known as a crack shot. George W. Wickersham. New York's representative in the new cabinet is George W. Wicker sham, who becomes attorney general. Mr. Wickersham is a member of the law firm in which President Taft's brother, Henry W. Taft, is a partner, and he is known as an expert in rail road law. Afith'ough a resident of Newv York city, Mfr. Wickersham is a native -of Pennsylvania, having been born in Pit*tsbu,rg in 1858. He first took eivil engineering at Lehigh uni vesity, but later entered -the law schoolt of the University of Pennsyl vania, from which he holds the degree of baichelor of laws. He immediately entered practice in Philadelphiaj but later went to New York and associat ed hiimnseDf with the firm of Chamber lain, Carter & Hornblower. A year later the bec.ame managing clerk of the firm of Strong & Cadwalader, of which President Taft's brother is a member, and eventually was taken in to partnership. Mr. Wickersham is counsel for a la.1re number of corporations, among them the Interborough railroad, and as attorney for' the railroads in the famous Chicago Tra:etion case -eame into eonsi.derablie prominence. He is fond of travel, usually spending a por tion of the year abroa)d and is a de voted equesitrain. He has a country residence at Cedarhurst, Long Island, and also a home in New York ci'ty. Charles Nagel. Oharles Nagel of St. Louis, the new seretary of comnmerce and labor, is better known among lawyers and edu eators 'than -to the public at large, al though he 'served as a member of the Missouri house of representatives and is a member of the Republican na tional committee. He 'is a native Westerner, having been born in Colo rada county, Texas, in 1849. He comes of professional ancestors, his father, Dr. Herman Nagel, being one of a family of four brothers of whom t.hree are physicians and his maternal grandfather and great-grandfather were clergymen. In the heightof the Civil war the pronounced union senti ments of Dr. Nagel .compelled him to remove from Texas to St. Louis. He're Charles Nagel soon entered the St. Louis 'high sehool. Graduating from there .he took a. two years' course in th St. Louis Law school and then wenlt to the University of Berl~in. where he took a special course ini law andl pol-itical eeanomy. Reinurning jo St. Louis in 1873 he was~ admitted1 to the har and 50oon too1k anF : ct ive part in mrunicipal affairs. In addition to . State le2iSla ture, he was fo. four years president of the city council of St. Louis. Although he has taken -n active part in politics and has an extended law practice, he has found time to give much attention to edaea tional matters. He fills -a professor ship in the St. Louis Lake school; is a member of the board of trutees of the publie library, of the board of trustees in the St. Louis Law schooi is a mnmber of the board of control of the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts. Mr. Nagel, as the Missouri member of t:he Republican national committee, served during the recent campaign as a member of the executive committee and was in charge of the Western headquarters. Socially, he has been aetive in his native city, being a mem ber of the University .club, the Com mercial club; tihe St. Louis club, the Round Table and Country clubs, and also of the Metropolitan club in Was;hington city. Frank H. Hitchcock. Although the youngest member of the new cabinet, Frank H. Hithecock, Mr. Taft's postmaster general, is probably better known to the general public than any of his colleagues by reason of the prominence he obtained as chairman of the Republican nation al committee in the recent campaign. Mr. Hitchcock is only 42 years of age, and since ie left school has been in the employ of the government. He is a native of Ohio, but reoeived his education in Massaehusettts, to which State his pairents removed while he was quiite young.* Graiaduating from Harvard in 1891, he obtained a clerk ship in the department of agriculture. La.ter Seeretary Wilson made him chief of the -division of foreign mark ets, and w1hen the department of com merce and labor was organized he was made its first chief clerk. In Mr. Roosevelt's first campaign he was made assistant secretary to the Re publican national committee, and was later appointed first assistant post master general. He resigned that position when the Taft eampaign was opened to take charge of Mr. Taft's interests. Subsequently he was elect ed chairman of the Republican na tional committee, which post he still holds. During ibis first years as a government elerk in Washington Mr. Hitehcoek found time to take a law coarse at Columbian wniversity, and on graduation was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and three years later was admitted to practice before the supreme court of the Unit ed States. Among other associations he is a member of thre American Economic association, the American Statistieal association and the Ameri can Association for the Advance ment of Science. Mr. Hitchoek is a haebelor. James Wilson. If Secretary Wilson continues to hold the agricultural portfolio until next November he will 'have broken the record for continuous cabinet ser vice, which is now held by Albert Gal atin, secretary of the treasury, whlo served 12 years, eight months and 25 days. Seeretar'y Wilson was appoint ed at the outset of the McKinley ad ministration. He was born in Ayr shire, Scothand, in 1835, and at thre age of 17 was brought to this country by his parents. He was educated in in the public schools~ of Iowa and at Iowa college. He engaged in farm inz -and, entering State politics, was a member of the 12t1h, 13th and 14th assenblies of Iowa, being elected speaker of the assembly in his last term. He served three terms in con gress. In the Forty-eighth congress his seat was contested and t.he oppon ents of Gen. Grant, who was then nearing 'his end at Mount McGregor, uses the seating contest for a filibus ter to defeat the Grant retirement bill. Mr. Willson saved the measure by resigning on the stipulation that the Grant bill should be immediately passed. Franklin MacVeagh. Franklin MaeVeagh, merchant, who will be the next secretary of the treas ury, was born on a farm near Phoen ixville, Chester county, Pennsylv:ania. He w"s graduated from Yale as B. A. in 1862, and from Columbia Law school, New York, in 1864, and began practice with his brother, Wayne MaeVeagh, but ,his health failing, he abandoned law and went West. Short lv afterward 'he establish1ed in Chi.ea go tile wholesale grocery house of Franklin MacVeagh & Co., which for many years has been one of the larg et in the country, and from which it i.s reporte'd he has only recently re sined. He is also a director of the Commercial National bank and ot-her Chicago corporations. Mr. MacVeagh is distinguished in Chicago not only as a most successful merchant, but especially for his active work in behalf of civic progress and reform. He became president of the Citizens' A.ssociation of Chicago in 1874, and continued to hold the office several yearsV afterwar~d, malkingu it the instrument for mnany import ant poitical reformis. At theC headh of the bureau of ceharities he added greatly Ito the effectiveness of that organiza STATEMENT. - The Commercial Bank of Newberry, S. C., con densed from report to State Bank Examiner Novem ber 27. 1908. RESOURCES. Loans.... ... ........................... $268,751 87 Furniture and fixtures...................... .. 3,116 93 Overdrafts ................................... 12,645 6o Cash and due from banks...................... ioi,i8i 65 $385,696 05 LIABILITIES. Capital stock............................. $50,000 o0 Profits less expenses taxes paid ................ 54,677 53 Dividends unpaid. ................ .........1,277 00 Cashier's Checks.............................. 255 00 Re-discounts ........... ................ .... 15,000 00 Deposits Individual................... $261,000.03 Banks............ .......... 3,486.49-$264,486-52 $385,696 05 The Commercial Bank, NEWBERRY, S. c. JNO. M. KINARD, 0. B. MAYER, J. Y. McFALL, President. Vice-President. - Cashier. T HIS- BANK. WANTS YOUR BUSINESS. We confess it. On the other hand, we know we are justi fiedin asking your patronage. We offer you every facility found in a modern institution. Open an account with TIE EXCH ANGE BANK ON JANUA RY 1 ST. We Pay 4 Per Cent. Interest in Our Sayings Department.. J D. DAVENPORT, E. R. H IPP, President. . -V. Prdsident. M. L. SPEARMAN, Cashier. YOUR BANKING! THE NEWBERRY SAVINGS BANK. Capital $50,000 - - - Surplus $30,000 . 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