Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-22
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Cabinet Changes and the Policy OF
Going While the Going Is
GoOf-McCOrmick and
Palmer ambitions
Washington. ID. G., Jan. %.

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ATTORNEY GENERAL GREGORY.
Of the Presidents Cabinet to throw up
'he sponge. lie assigned 'pecuniarN respon.
sihlIitN' as reason for quitting. Whereas
fuinor mas given Mr. McAdoo variety OF
positions and salaries the latter running
up 10 as hlgh as million dollars year,
II mas Deen asserted that Mr. Gregory was
gong mo the OIL business at salary or
e-o'oo" year. Mr.. Gregory mad seen his
solcltor general, former Congressman John
W. Davis, OF West Virginia advanced to
the hlsh post OF ambassador to Great
brItan ana probably felt the pinch OF a
SI-oOo salary under the existing high cost
or hNlng at the capital. Like former Con-
gresham j. Harry Covington. whom Presi.
dent Wilson made the Chief Justice of the
supreme Court of the District of Columbia
alter ms signal service in framing anu.
trust avs. he. too. concluded to get out
"Wh.e the gong was good Corington
vas an Easton, Maryland, lawyer. who had
graduated from the University of Pennsyl.
Nania, where he listened to George S. Ora.
ham lecture ON law. but after few
years as Chief Justice he saw his opening
OF It,
NION that the Attorney General retires
with no special record for prosecuting
the trusts that were to have been crushed
under the present Administration and with
a growing demand for the repeal Of many
lnPuisitorial and restrictive laws enacted
before and during the war, gossip as 70
what Mr.. Wilson will do about it is general.
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! y. Ml'htH fainer and William \. Glas.
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| able for the succession. Glasgow came
irom Virginia ana locating in Philadelphia,
won an carry reputation as trust buster.
hehlS Democrat or the McCormick.Pa''
h'r-hodhd Morr!sGeorge W. Norris group
oi reol SdhI|e's' he mas been fairly close 10
IN" Administration. During the recent alb.
"re\!ated inquiry INTO the reasons for
the Si""VOoooo relief fund for distribution
| IN Europe. Mt Glasgow was the principal
Hoover witness. His statement before the
Rules Committee was about all the infor.
nation Congress had. while the President
and former Ambassador White began to
cable from Paris.
DALMEtS claim upon the attorney gem
eralship Is stronger than that OF Glas-
| COWS. lie was Wilson bulldog" in the
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