volve upon them. before the fourth day of March next following, then the President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constii disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of votes a President shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from t highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quor the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators. majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice, But no perso stitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice dent of the United States. ARTICLE XIII.-(Proposed by Congress February 1, 1865; ratificati‹ nounced by Secretary of State, December 16, 1885.) Sec Amendments Fol- Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as lowing Civil War. ishment for crime, whereof the party shall have bee: convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any subject to their jurisdiction Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legis ARTICLE XIV.-(Proposed by Congress June 16, 1866; ratification announ Secretary of State, July 25, 1868.) Section 1. All persons born or naturalized United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, no any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process o nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Sec. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states acc to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each sta cluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representati Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the lature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being t one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state. Sec. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elec President or Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the states, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath as member of gress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state Legis] or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or ald or comfort to the enemies thereof; but Congress may, by a vote of two-thi each house, remove such disability. (Note.-On June 7, 1898, President McKinley approved of an act of Congress declared that "the disabilities imposed by Section 3, Fourteenth Amendment Constitution, heretofore incurred, are hereby removed.") Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in sup ing the insurrection or rebellion shall not be questioned. But neither the States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid surrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or ema tion of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and Sec. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislatio provisions of this article. ARTICLE XV.-(Proposed by Congress February 27, 1869; ratification anno by Secretary of State, March 30, 1870.) Section 1. The right of the citizens United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or b state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legisl THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION LAW. The Presidential_succession is fixed by Chapter 1 of the acts of the 49th gress, first session. In case of the removal, death, resignation or inability of bot President and Vice-President, then the Secretary of State shall act as President the disability of the President or Vice-President is removed or a President is el If there be no Secretary of State, then the Secretary of the Treasury will act, an remainder of the order of succession is as follows: The Secretary of War. Att General, Postmaster General, Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of the Interior. Acting President must, upon taking office, convene Congress, if not at the time i sion, in extraordinary session, giving twenty days' notice. This act applies on such Cabinet officers as shall have been appointed by the advice and consent Senate, and are eligible under the Constitution to the Presidency The act of Congress raising the Department of Agriculture to the rank execuijve department and giving its head a seat in the President's Cabinet and th creating the Department of Commerce and Labor were both passed subsequently Presidential succession act. By intention or inadvertence Congress did not exten provisions of the succession act to these two additional Cabinet officers. There warrant for considering the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Com and Labor as in the line of succession. But no judicial interpretation has yet made of the provisions of the succession law and of the acts creating the eight ninth executive departinents. RESIDENT. THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. THE EXECUTIVE. WILLIAM H. TAFT, of Ohio ......JAMES S. SHERMAN, of New York ECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT. .....FRED W. CARPENTER, of California THE CABINET. ECRETARY OF STATE. ECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. ECRETARY OF WAR.. TTORNEY GENERAL.. OSTMASTER GENERAL.. ECRETARY OF THE NAVY. ....... PHILANDER C. KNOX, of Pennsylvania .FRANKLIN MACVEAGH, of Illinois .JACOB M. DICKINSON, of Tennessee ..GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM, of New York .FRANK H. HITCHCOCK, of Massachusetts ..GEORGE VON L. MEYER, of Massachusetts ECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR... .RICHARD A. BALLINGER, of Washington ECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. ..JAMES WILSON, of Iowa ECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.. ..CHARLES NAGEL, of Missouri [The salary of the President is $75,000 a year; the salary of the Vice-President id of each of the members of the Cabinet is $12,000 a year, except the salary of e Secretary of State, which, until March 4, 1911, is $8,000 a year; the Secretary the President receives $6,000 a year.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE. ECRETARY OF STATE.. ECOND ASSISTANT SECRETARY. PHILANDER C. KNOX (1909), Penn., $8,000 Assistant Solicitors-William C. Dennis 1906), Ind.; Joshua R. Clark, jr. (1907), tah; C. F. Wilson (1909), D. C., $3,000. Chief Clerk-William McNeir (1909), lich.. $3,000. Chief of Diplomatic Bureau-Sidney Y. mith (1897). D. C., $2.250. Chief of Consular Bureau-Herbert C. Chief of Bureau of Indexes and Archives Chief of Bureau of Rolls and Library-- TREASURY DEPARTMENT. ECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.... .FRANKLIN MACVEAGH (1909), Ill., $12,000 SSISTANT SECRETARY. SISTANT SECRETARY...... SISTANT SECRETARY. ...CHARLES D. HILLES (1909), N. Y., $5,000 JAMES F. CURTIS (1909), Mass., $5,000 Chief Clerk-Walter W. Ludlow (1905), inn., $3,000. How CHARLES DYER NORTON (1909), 111., $5,000 Chief of Division of Appointmentsharles Lyman (1898), Conn., $2.750. Controller-Robert J. Tracewell (1897), d.. $5,500. Assistant Controller - Leander itchell (1897), Ind., $4.500. P. Auditor for State Department-Caleb - Layton (1906). Del., $4,000. Auditor for Treasury Department-Will- Auditor for Postoffice Department- Auditor for Interior Department-How- Controller of the Currency-Lawrence O. Murray (1908), Ill., $5,000. Deputy Controller of the CurrencyWillis J. Fowler (1908), Ind., $3,000. Commissioner of Internal RevenueRoyal E. Cabell (1909), Va., $6,000. Deputy Commissioners of Internal Revenue-Robert Williams, jr. (1899), La., $4,000; J. C. Wheeler (1900), Mich., $3,600. Director of the Mint-A. Platt Andrew (1909), Mass., $4,500. Chief of Secret Service Division-John E. Wilkie (1897), Ill., $4,000. Assistant Chief of Secret Service Division-W. H. Moran (1907), D. C., $3.000. Surgeon General of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service-Walter Wyman (1891). Mo., $5,000. Supervising Architect-James K, Taylor (1897), Penn., $5,000. Director Bureau of Engraving and Printing-Joseph E. Ralph (1908), Ill., $5,000. General Superintendent of Lifesaving Service-S. I. Kimball (1878), Me., $4,500. Assistant General Superintendent-Oliver M. Maxam (1905), D. C., $2.500. De Vries (1900), Cal., presiden Board of General Appraisers-Marion lain (1308), Iowa; each $9,000. COMMISSIONS. BATTLEFIELD PARK Gettysburg sioners, Cornelius Cadle, Ala.; Ja Ashcraft, Ky. Basil Duke, Ky pensation. $250 a month. Vicksburg National Military Commissioners, William T. Rigby Louis Guion, La.; James G. Evere compensation, $300 a month. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. ATTORNEY GENERAL..........GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM (1909), N. Y., ASSISTANT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL..WADE H. ELLIS (1908), Ohi SOLICITOR GENERAL.. LLOYD W. BOWERS (1909), Ill. Solicitor, Department of Comme Tre Chief Clerk-Orin J. Field (1903) $3,000. Law Clerk and Examiner of R. T. Strickland (1907), N. Y., $ POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT. POSTMASTER GENERAL.... Chief Clerk-Richard P. Covert (1909), Wis.. $3,000. Superintendent of Foreign Mails-Basil Miles (1908), Penn., $3,000. Superintendent of Money Order System -Edward F. Kimball (1903), Mass., $3.500. Superintendent of System of Postal Finance Harry H. Thompson (1906), $2.250. Superintendent of Registry SystemC. Howard Buckler (1906). D. C., $2,500. Superintendent Rural Delivery ServiceW. R. Spilman (1903). Kan., $3.000. General Superintendent of Railway Mail Service Alex. Grant (1907), Mich., $4,000. PETER V. DE GRAW (1905), Penn Superintendent of Dead Letter James R. Young (1905), Penn., $2, Superintendent of Railway Ad -Joseph Stewart (1907), Mo., $3, Supt. Division of Classificatio wood M. Bacon (1903), Mich., $2, Superintendent City Delivery S Ervin H. Thorpe (1903), Vt., $3,00 General Supt. Salaries and All -C. M. Waters (1903). Col., $4,000 Chief Postoffice Inspector-W1 Vickery (1904), D. C., $4,000. NAVY DEPARTMENT. CRETARY OF THE NAVY. .GEORGE VON L. MEYER (1909), Mass., $12,000 Bureau. vigation.. BUREAU Name: CHIEFS AND DEPARTMENTAL OFFICERS. Rear Admiral R. F. Nicholson..... Date appointed. ...Dec. 2, 1909 .Aug. 1, 1904 uipment. dnance. dicine and Surgery ipplies and Accounts. eam Engineering..... nstruction and Repair. rds and Docks.. Rear Admiral Wm. S. Cowles (retired)..Jan. 23, 1906 .. Chief Constructor Washington L. Capps. Nov. 1, 1903 ... Civil Engineer Richard C. Hollyday.... Mar. 26, 1907 ds to the Secretary-Rear Admiral William Swift, material; Rear Admiral William P. Potter, personnel; Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright, fleet operations; Captain Aaron Ward, inspection. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. CRETARY OF THE INTERIOR..RICHARD A. BALLINGER (1909), Wash., $12,000 Chief Clerk-Clement S. Ucker (1909), io. $3,000. Commissioner of General Land Office-red Dennett (1908), N. D., $5,000. Assistant Commissioner-Samuel roudfit (1908), Iowa, $3,500. Commissioner of Pensions-James venport (1909), N. H. V. L. First Deputy Commissioner - Leander Second Deputy Commissioner--Leverett Commissioner of Patents-Edward B. DEPARTMENT ECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE..... OF AGRICULTURE. ..JAMES WILSON (1897), Iowa, $12,000 ......WILLETT M. HAYES (1904), Minn., $5,000 Chief of Bureau of Soils-Milton Whitney (1894), Md., $3,500. Chief Clerk-Sylvester R. Burch (1903), n., $2,500. Solicitor-George P. McCabe (1908), D. $4,500. Chief of Weather Bureau-Willis L. pore (1895), Ohio, $6,000. Chief of Bureau of Animal Industry- Chief of Bureau of Plant Industry-B. Chief of Bureau of Forestry-Gifford Chief of Bureau of Chemistry-Harvey - Wiley (1853), Ind., $5,000. CRETARY OF COMMERCE AND Chief Clerk-Frank H. Bowen (1905), Chief of Bureau of Entomology-L. O. Chief of Bureau of Biological Survey- $12,000 $5,000 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. Commissioner of Corporations-Herbert Commissioner General of Immigration Superintendent U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey-O. H. Tittman (1900), Mo., $6,000. Chief of the Bureau of Statistics-Oscar P. Austin (1898), D. C., $4,000. Chief of the Bureau of ManufacturesJohn M. Carson (1905), Penn., $4,000. Lighthouse Board-President, Secretary of Commerce and Labor; chairman, Rear Admiral Adolph Marix, U. S. N.; mem bers, Colonel Walter S. Franklin, U. A.; Colonel William T. Rossell, U. S. Henry S. Pritchett, Rear Admiral E suth Niles, U. S. N.; Major James Cavanaugh, U. S. A.; Captain W. Caperton, U. S. N., na val secreta Colonel Thomas L. Casey, U. S. engineer secretary. *INDEPENDENT COMMISSIONS AND OFFICES. Interstate Commerce Commission. Commissioners-Martin A. Knapp (1891), N. Y., chairman; Judson C. Clements (1892), Ga.; Charles A. Prouty (1896), Vt.; Francis M. Cockrell (1905), Mo.; Franklin K. Lane (1906), Cal.; Edward E. Clark (1906), Iowa; James S. Harlan (1906), Ill.; each, $10,000. Secretary-Edward A. Moseley (1887), Mass., $5,000. Civil Service Commission. Commissioners-John C. Black (1904), Ill., $4,500; John A. McIlhenny (1906), La.; William S. Washburn (1909), N. Y.; each, $4,000. Chief Examiner (1908), Vt.. $3,000. George R. Wales Secretary-John T. Doyle (1880), N. Y., $2,500. Tariff Board. Commissioners (appointed by President without specific terms, c pensation fixed by him)-Henry C. ery (1909), Conn.; James B. Reyn (1909), Mass.; Alvin H. Sanders (19 Ill. Government Printing Office. Public Printer-Samuel Deputy Public Printer-Henry T. B (1907), Md., $3,600. Library of Congress. Librarian - Herbert Putnam (1 Mass., $6,000. Assistant Librarian-Appleton Griffin (1908), D. C., $4,000. THE UNITED STATES ARMY. P. The actual strength of the army on June 30, 1909, including the Porto Rico R ment and the Philippine Scouts was 4,232 officers and 77,341 enlisted men-t 81,573. There were lost to the army in the year ended June 30, 1909, 167 officers: 26,564 enlisted men. There were two enlisted men of the regular army and enlisted man of the Philippine Scouts killed in action, and one man of the reg army fatally wounded in the year ended June 30, 1909. There were in the F Rico Regiment on June 20, 1909, 24 officers and 551 enlisted men, and in the Ph pine Scouts 160 officers an1 5,586 enlisted men. The Hospital Corps (Medical partment) contains 3,461 enlisted men not included in the above totals. GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMY. Major General Thomas H. Be Marcus D. Cronin, 25th Infantry. William Chamberlaine, Coast Artiller Joseph P. Tracy, Coast Artillery. Johnson Hagood, Coast Artillery. Thomas E. Merrill, 1st Field Artillery ARMY WAR COLLEGE. Brigadier General William W. Wotherspoon, president; Major H. D. Todd, secre For Philippine and Panama Canal Strip Commissions, see under "Insular pendencies." |