Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-11
HOUSES INFLUENCE
OVER WILSON EBBS
Colonel, on Arriving, May Find
Himself SuperfIuous-others
Have Regained Jobs
M'AD00 BOOM IS GAINING
BY CLINTON w. GILBERT
STAFF Correspondent of the Evening Publ
Ledger

benger
Washington, Oct. 11.--When Colonel
House reaches this country he will come
to Washington.
Tic will see the President. il the
Presidents condition permits of his be
ing seen. He will then go away to his
summer home in Massachusetts and
stay there. That is the prediction OF
the best informed here, who know how
thoroughly the persons who surround
the President now do not want Colonel
House on the scene.
Secretary Lansing. since Colonel
House was left marooned in England
and as result Of the Peace Conference,
has been gradually coming TO be the
real secretary of state. II Colonel
House came back and had the ear of
the President in the old way. if he
came back to take charge of things
as some reports have had it. would
Mr.. Lansing be the real secretary of
state! Hardly.
New Order Might Change
Colonel House has not the highest
opinion in the world of Mr.. Lansing s
capacity. Moreover, he has thrust Mr..
Lansing aside too often in the past to
be scrupulous about doing it again. And
there is Secretary Burleson. The
democratic politicians have Just push =
ed Burleson in corner. He is n crea =
lure OF Houses and, moreover, n warm
personal friend of Houses. Would
ne stay in corner if House came back
in charge? Hardly.
ihen there is Mr. McAdoo The sit =
uation is shaping itself so that Mr..
McAdoo will be the Democratic pomi q.
nee Tor the presidency. with Mr.. Bcr-
nard VI. baruch occupying about the
same position with respect to the new
President, if elected. that he does with
respect to Mr.. Wilson.
Colonel Houses arrival on the scene
would be untimely and inconvcnient
with respect to Mr.. McAdoo. The col
oncl would be in the way.
Welcome With Bricks
With regard to the President. the
situation is tending to take shape. Ger
tain combinations are inevitably being
made. Persons in the Senate. in the
House, in the cabinet and elsewhere are
tending TO work together. looking to
each other for at least moral support
in assuming the powers. which really
belong to them by law, necessary to
make the public business 60
The coming of House on tho scene
with authority would throw all this into
confusion. New combinations would
have to be made perhaps, which would
include House, and probably leave out
some one else equally important. Or
perhaps rival combinations would
spring up. one looking to House and
one looking elsewhere, with rival mem
bcrs in the cabinet. the House. the
Senate and all along the line. So plain
is this that man who knows the sit
uation says: IF Colonel House comes
to Washington. expecting TO stay here,
he will find a lot of people waiting
for him with bricks in their hands
and some of them will be in the White
House ITSELF
Colonel Houses coming home is
something of a mystery. The best opin-
ion here is that Colonel House comes
home unnvtcd and Of his own motion.
His affection for the President is very
strong and. in returning. he is acting
like one of the family. And the Prcsi.
dents personal feeling for the colonel
is deep. But that does not alter the
fact that. as an adviser. the colonel is
going TO find himself supcrtluous.