Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-31
HARDING TALKS WITH
 SENATE IRRECONCILABLEs

Marion, Ohio, Dec 3O.-The senate ir- reconcilables had their big inning to- day in President-elect Harding's meeting of minds and their spokesman went away from Marion declaring unbounded confidence that no foundation timbers for the ew association of nations would be taken from the covenant of Versailles.
 Senator Knox, once secretary of state and throughout the treaty fight lead- CT of the rejectionists, brought to the president-elect the warning of bitter op- position should he attempt to revive the covenant in any form as basis for his new peace society.
 q am assured" said the Pennsylva mia senator, afterwards, that he has no set idea in mind"
 MT. Harding's conference with MT. Knox dove-tailed with another of unus- ual impors sance in which the president
 elect took up with his ranking political
 advisors, Harry M Daugherty and Will
 H. Hays, the problem of cabinet appoint ments. No conclusions were revealed, but there were growing indications that the .wo party leaders had been summoned to give final opinion on two or three of the most important posts in the official i family of the Daxt administration One of the appointments foreshadowed for the near future is that of secretary of d | Hughes is understood to be under serious consideration.
 A. secretary-=-of ttife erezsiir Sy- seems I likely to be named at the same time and l speculation for that position gives great est prominence to the names of Charles | G. Dawes and John W. Weeks. Most of | the other posts will be filled later and I those close to the president-elect say that l nothing like a complete cabinet slate has yet been seriously considered.
 l Plans for the inauguration also were discussed by the President-elec and Mrs l Harding during the day with Mir. Hays l MT. Daugherty Senator Knox and off cials of the Washington inaugural com, | nittee. E. B. Mclean, chairman of the | committee, and Jess W. Smith, it's sec
 retary. laid before MT. Harding many suggestions for the ceremony, which i was said would provide for an old-tiur i inaugural celebration on a scale neve
 exceeded in the nations history.
 | MT. Knox is understood to have pic
 tured to the president-elect in graph fashion, the possibilities of a factiona fight, should the new administration asl
 the senate to accept any sort of member
 ship in the. Versailles league of nations
 Personally" said the senator after hi
 long talk, with MT. Harding, q neve credited reports that he would use tn
 league machinery as a basis for the pro l posed association. I could not imagin how he could misconstrue the mandat of the American people or bacls-track O speeches delivered during the campaign After talking with him I am nor than ever confident that he will do n such thing. I am convinced that he
 going to work out something that will b entirely satisfactory not only to the ser ate but to the country : In memorandum submitted to tt president-elect. Senator Knox suggeste
 that declaration of policy by the leaC I ing nations. pledging them to consult an l cooperate if civilization and peace wei l threatened in the future. would be sufi n cient basis for the new peace society. - proposed that such declaration be al . pended to the Knox peace resolutio s which he plans to re-introduce at u
 extra session of congress after March. e "The passage of this resolution as 1t s proposed to be amended the memora j. dunn contended, would provide a simp $ and customary method of adjusting o e relations with Germany. The declarati, s of a policy such as indicated, followed
 similar declaration by other natior $ would constitute an association of n 8. tions, bound together by a common pu g pose, that neither parchment, seali le wax, signatures nor blue ribbons cou -e make more obligatory or effective"