Evening star., 1920-12-31
HARDING TO REVEAL
SELECTIONS SOON
Secretaries of State and
Treasury Expected to Be
Announced First.
Rs the Associated Press.

though President-e.ect Harding Is ex-
pected to announce the names Of his
Secretary of State and Secretary Of the
advisers here believe it will be sew
eral weeks before q final decision is
made on the full membership Of the
cabinet.
In the task of picking an official
family. Mr.. Harding is proceeding
painstakingly. and he has encountered
many difficulties in fitting the right
man into the right job. Considerable
shifting about already has been neces-
sary in tentative cabinet states and
more is expected before the task is
finished. :
Having in n-mind the likelihood Of fu-
ture changes, the President-elect is
understood to be reserving one or two
Of the less important portfolios for
men he wishes to have near him. hut
who may be in danger of being crowd
ed out at the last moment.
Hertn. Nane Revived.
Mr. Harding's conferences yestsr-
day with Harry n. Daugherty and
Will H. Hays. two of the most promi-
nent leaders, of his party, threw If
INC e66ii1et. They did bring into
pfeminsnce, however. the name Of A.
L. Hert Of Kentucky, who hereto
fore has been little mentioned in
cabinet gossip. Some Of those in a
position to know, believe Mr.. Hers
President elect for some cabinet po
sitfon. although it is said the exact
portfolio still is uncertain.
Today Mr. Harding temporarily pu.
aside both the cabinet question and
the plan for an association of ma
tions and turned his attention to leg
islative problems. inclndinG the leg
islatiye program of the present ses-
sion OF Congress: His callers in
cluded Representative MondeE of
Wyoming, republican leader Of the
House; Representative Anthony Of
Kansas and Ralph H. Cameron, sem
ator-elect from Arizona.
WIZ Discard Versailles Pact,
The Senate irreconcilables had their
big inning yesterday in President
elect Harding's meeting oH minds"
and their spokesman went away from
Marion declaring unbounded conf
dence that no foundation timbers for
the new association of nations would
be taken from the covenant of Yer
sailles.
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania. once
Secretary Of State. and throughout
the treaty fight a leader of the re-
jectionists. brought to the Presidents
elect the warning of bitter opposition
should he attempt to revive the cove
nant in any form as a basis for his
new peace society.
Il am assured" said the Pennsyl-
vania senator afterward, that he has
no set idea in mind"
Mr.. Harding's conference with Mr..
70 nf
usual importance in which the Presi-t
dent-elect took up with his ranking
political advisers, Harry, NJ. Daugh-
erty and Will II. Hays, the problem
of cabinet appoint ntments- One of the
appointments foreshadowed for the
near future is that Of Secretary of
State, a place for which Charles Z.
Hughes is understood to be under
serious consideration.
A Secretary of the Treasury seems
likely to be named at the same time
and speculation for that position
gives greatest prominence to the
names Of Charles G. Dawes and John
W. Weeks.
Visit Is Significant.
other circumstances surrounding
the visit, however. clothed 1t with
neculiar significance. RumbiingS of
annrehensions have been heard more
than once in the camp OF the SEN
ate -irreconcilables as Mr.. Taft. Mr..
Hooyer and other friends of the YER
saiIles league succeeded each other
at the President-elect's council table
or publicly expressed confidence that
the Versailles covenant would be the
Foundation of a new peace plan.
Fresh from conference with his col
leagues. Mr.. Knox is understood to
have pictured to the President-elect
in graphic fashion the possibilities
of a factional fight, should the new
administration ask the Senate to ac-
cent any .ort of membership in the
league.
.Personally," said the Pennsyl
v.nia. senator, after his long talk
with Mr.. Harding, "I never credited
renorts that he would use the league
machinery as basis for the pro-
posed association. I could not imag-
mandate of the American people or
backtrack on speeches delivered dur
ing the campaign.
No Set Idea in Mind.
AFTER talking with him I am more
than ever confident that he will do
no such thing. l am assured that he
has no set idea in mind. and I am
convinced that he is going to work
out something that will be entirely
not only to the Senate.
but to the country.
In a memorandum submitted 10 the
Senator Knox sug-
rested that a declaration CT policy by
the leading nations. piedging them to
consult and cooperate IL civilization
and peace were threatened in the
XCoatinued sn Page =. CeAcua -