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FRACTIONAL WAR |S LIKELY UNLESS
 HARDING FORMS NEW kNOX
Le a d CT Of Rejectionists Graphically Pictures Re- suits Should President Elect Accept Any Mem- bership In League
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 &MARION. Ohio, Dec. sO.-The sen- ate irreconcilables had their big in- ming today in President -elect Hard ings meeting of minds" and their spokesman went away from Marion declaring unbounded confidence that no foundation timbers for the new as sociation of nations would be taken from the covenant of Versailles.
 Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, once secretary of state and throughout the treaty fight a leader of the rejection ists. brought to the president elect the warning of bitter opposition should he attempt to revive the covenant in any form as a basis for his new peace so- ciety.
 T am assured" said the Pennsyl- vania senator afterwards. that he has no set idea in mind"
 Cabinet Personnel Considered
 MT. Harding's conference with Mir. Knox dovetailed with another of un- usual importance in which the presi- dent-elect took up with his ranking political advisers, Harry M. Daugh- erty and Will H. Hays. the problem of cabinet appointments. No conclu- sions were revealed but there were in dications that the two party leaders had been summoned to give a final opinion on two or three of the most important posts in the official family of the next administration. One of the appointments foreshadowed for the near future is that of secretary of state, place for which Charles Evans Hughes is understood to be under se rious 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 c. Daws and John w Weeks Most of the other posts will be filled later and those close to Mir. Harding say that nothing like complete cab met state has yet been serious con- sidered.
 Plans for the inauguration also were discussed by the president-elect and Mrs. Harding during the day with Mir. Hays, Mir Daugherty Senator Knox and officials of the Washington inaugural committee. F. B. Mclean, chairman of the committee. and Jess w. smith, its secretary, laid before Mir. Harding many suggestions for the ceremony. which it was said would provide for an old time inaugural celebration on a scale never exceeded in the nations history
 Senator Knox is chairman of the congressional committee. participating in arrangements for the inauguration and it was partially to discuss that subject that he came to Marion. Ht also was one of those long ago selected by Mir. Harding as a conferee on the association of nations plan and tn, confidence reposed in his judgment by the president-elect has led to frequen mention of his name as a possible head of the state department
 New FactionaI Fight Threatens.
 Other circumstances surroundins the visit, however. clothed it with pc culiar significance. Rumblings of ap prehensions have been heard nor, than once in the camp of the senat irreconcilables, as MT. Taft, Mir. Hoov CT and other friends of the Versatile league succeeded one another at in president-elects council table or pub licly expressed confidence that tn Versailles covenant would be the foun Ration of a new peace plan.
 Fresh from conferences with his col leagues, MT. Knox is understood f have pictured to the president elect i graphic fashion the possibilities of new factional fight should the ne' administration ask the senate to ac cept any sort of membership in tn league.
 Personally" said the Pennsylvani senator after his talk with Mir Hard ing. "I never credited reports that h would use the league machinery as basis for the proposed association. could not imagine how he could mis construe the mandate of the America people of back-tr on speeches dC livered during the campaign.
 After talking with him l am mol than ever confident that he will do I such thing. I am assured that he hS no set idea in mind and l am COT vinced that he is going to work ol something that will be entirely sati factory not only to the senate but tho country"
 Tn a memorandum submitted Senator Harding, Senator Knox SUI Cested that a declaration of policy the leading nations, pledging them consult and cooperate if civilizati' and peace were threatened in the f ture would be sufficient basis for t new peace society.e
 Knox Will Relntroduce Resolution
 tJe proposed that such declarat ti' hA appended to the Knox peace res lution, which he plans to reintrodu at the extra session of congress aft March 4.
 The purposes of this resolution we set forth at length in the memoranda In Continued on Page TwO)