New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
Woods, Weeks,
Root Talked of
For Cabinet
General Mentioned for War
Portfolio and Two Elk.
Senators Are in Line for
Secretary of State
Wallace for Agriculture
hno~ Also Considered:
Wadsworth Discussed as
Successor to Daniels

The personnel of Prcsidcnt-elect
Hatding's Cabinet was one OF the chief
SUBJECTS Tor speculation yesterday,
since, unlike four years ago. there was
nothing IN the beated election returns
10 give any one much concern, so far as
the national result is affected.
Among the names mentioned BY COS
sip for the Harding Cabinet are Eli],u
Root, viii II. Hays, Henry Cabot Lodge.
ex-senator George Sutherland, Charles
Evans HUGHES. Harry ~ Daugherty.
ex-senator John ". Weeks, General
Leonard Wood. General John j. Perish
ing, Herbert c. Hoover, John T. King,
Senator James ". Wadsworth ir.
George W. Wickcrsham. Governor
Frank O. Lowden. Philander G.. krox,
James Duncan, vice president Amcri-
can Federation Of Labor; Henry G..
Wallace and Walter L. Brown.
There also is belief that Senator
Harding will appoint a woman in his
Cabinet, probably at the head Of the
new department OF public welfare.
which he has been advocating. There
mas been no mention OF any woman'e
name in this connection.
,,,i IL - very generally believed that
EIlhu Root, who has already filled two
Nahlnet posts, those of State and War.
viii be offered the most desirable place
CT all, that Of Secretary Of State. Rcp,,b
iloans pointed ont that his enormous
prestige abroad and his advocacy Of the
world court, fitting in as it does with
Senator Harding's speeches during the
campaign, would make his selection
happy one.
:, e. Ex- Senator George Sutherland, of
Utah. and Senator Philander C.. Knox.
Of Pennsylvania, also arc mentioned for
TINS PORTFOLIO Mr.. Knox mas been in
the cabinets of three Presidents. Nc
kinlcy. Roosevelt and Taft. having been
Attorney General and Secretary of
state. He has been twice Senator,
and was member Of the Foreign Rela-
tons Committee with Harding during
the long battle over the peace treaty.
Sutherland Strong Possibility
Senator Sutherland was member of
the Foreign Relations Committee when
ne was IN the Senate, and was generally
regarded as being one Of the ablest men
in Congress. His ability was recop-
nized by Harding early in the cam
paign, and he went to Marion and made
all of the trips up to the very last one
with the Harding special train. He
left to make few speeches in Utah
just before election.
There is little doub; that Sutherland
VIII be in the Cabinet, but there is
more weight Of opinon behind the idea
of his being made Attorney General
than Secretary of State Ha c u dis
tinguished lawyer and is now president
Of the American Bar Association.
With Root for Secretary Of State
and Sutherland for Attorney General
generally agreed upon By ~ossin. ex-
Senator John Wingate Weeks. Of Mas
sachusotts, is Just as unanimously
picked out as Harding's probable choice
for Secretary Of the Navy. Weeks is
graduate of Annapolis, but is not en-
barrassed by being classed az d naval
officer, the usual theory being that the
War and Navy departments should be
headed by civilians.
Weeks Interested in NAVY
Weeks served IN the naval militia
during the Spanish War, but he has had
a long experience IN business and poll
tics since then. As a Senator hc was
not member Of the Naval Commjttce
simply because it is not traditional to
allow any one state to have two men
on the same committee. and Senator
Lodge was at that time virtually dom
lnant force on the Naval Committee
OF which he was the rankin., Repuhli-
can member.
Although not q member of the com
mlt'ee, Senator Weeks always took the
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