Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-23

, over But ] am none the less distress ed. shall not allow our intimate per sonal relations to deprive me of the pleasure of saying that in my judg- ment the country has never had an abler. d more resourceful and yet, prudent, a more uniformly, efficient secretary of tte treasury: and l say this remembering the able, devoted and distinguished men who preceded you. l have kept your letter a number of days in order to suggest if l could. some other solution of your difficulty than the one you have not felt obliged to resort to. But have not been able to think of any. l cannot ask you to make further sacrifices, serious as the loss of the government will be in your retirement. l accept your resignation, therefore, to take effect upon the ap- pointment of a successor. because in justice to you ] must.
 'I also for the same reason accept your resignation as director general of railroads, to take effect, as you suggest, on the first of January, next( or when your successor is appointed. The whole world admires, l am sure, as do. the skill and executive cap city with which you handled the great and complex problem of the unified administration of the railways under the stress of war uses, and will re- gret, as l do, to see you leave that post just as the crest of it's difficulty is passed.
 For the distinguished, disinterest- ed, and altogether admirtble service you have rendered the country in both posts, and especially for the way in which you have guided the treas ury through all the perplexities and problems of transitional financial conditions and of the financing of war which has been without precedent alike in kind and in scope. thank you with sense of gratiture that comes from the very bottom of my heart.
 Gratefully and affectionately yours,
 WOODROW WILSON"
 It is entirely probable that the President May fill separately the of- fices of Secretary of the Treasury and Director General of Railroads. There was nothing official tonight on which to base statement of who might be under consideration for Secretary of the Treasury. On pre-
 
 Mir. McAdOo was discussed, John Skeleton Williams. Comptroller of the Currency. and w. P. G. Harding, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, have most generally been mentiontd. Paul Warburg, formerly member, of the reserve board, and q prominent New York banker, and Russell G. Leffingwell, assistant sec retary of the treasury. also are reck- oned among the possibilities.
 President Wilson is not required to choose the new director general of railroads from among the cabinet members and it is possible that the place may go to some one associated with Mr. McAdoo in the railroad ad- ministration. If the place should go. to some member of thc'l cs Secretary Baker, of the a ment, Postmaster C.. g. and Secretary l Department, Q D cred. no more than tho or.
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