Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-08
President-EI
 Harding'Busy Man
Talked With Party Leaders About. League of Nations, Cabinet and Other Prob lems- Sent Card to White House.

Washington, Dec 7.=Presidelt-elect Harding concluded today his two-day visit to Washington with another success sion of conferences in which he talked with his party assocIates about the league of nations. the selection of cabinet and other problems confronting him in the building of his administration.
 The president-elect did Tot call on President Wilson but en route to the sta tion to- board his special train for Marion, O., he stopped at the White House to leave his card and that of Mrs. Harding. All of those with whom the president elect conferred today preserved silence re- garding tie details of the discussions. and MT. Harding himself said the conversa- tiops were strictly of a confidential na- ture. rH He repeated his statement of yes terday that he was seeking by direct per- sonaI Consultation to frame an adninis- trative policy behind which everyone could unite. s --1
 | In his search for information and ad- vice about the leagre the president-elect summoned republican senators of the IT, reconcilable and of the mild reservation groups alike, and it is understood he told | them he wanted suggestions from every i quarter. Without submitting any concrete plan of his own. he Is said to have asked plainly what sort of international agree
 men teacn of his conferees would support | The discussion of cabinet selections had a wider scope, several of his most trusted friends undertaking to canvass the situa- tion in separate conferences at various
 places throughout the e. tai. Harry M. Daugherty of Ohio, who was his pre-
 convention manager, was one of the most
 active in this task, seeing various mem-
 bers of the senate and house in MT.
 Harding's office wkile the president elect
 was occupied with his own string of call
 CTS at the residence of Edward B. Mo
 Lean, his host.
 Former Senator John W. Weeks oi
 Massachusetts, who, like Mir Daugherty
 has been prominen. mentioned as i
 likely candidate for Cabinet honors, alsC saw several pfcmiI ent republican leaders
 after ne had talked to MT. Harding. 4
 third who perform ed a similar mission , was Senator Fall of New Mexico, whos' activities brought his name into fresl Iprorihence as a pos sible secretary in thu official family of the next president. Among those who called on Mir. Eard ing during the d.y were Senator's Spence r of Missouri and Kellogg of Minnesota both of whom were included in the groul
 of mild reservation .sts; Senator Johnson |, of California. a leader of the erreconcil ] ables, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts . the republican senate leader, and Sena t tors Shoot of Utah, Calder of New York : Norris of Nebraska and Ph DDS of Col . orado.
 Discussions of patronage, however, wa s understood to have been forbidden at tn 5 various conferences, several of the sena e tors who saw the president-elect quotin
 him as saying that it was ''too early" t
 consider appointments of ambassadors c
 of other officials.
 The president-elect remained at the Me E ! Lean residence all day, disappointing
 swarm of callers who congregated at hi " office in the senate flee building. Nl Leaving here on a special train at Al r. D., m., Mir and Mrs. Harding will reac IS their home in Marion tomorrow mornin o- after an absence of nearly month, mos eel of which has been devoted to their vaca St tion trip to Texas and Panama. They T, not expect to return here until Inaugurs y tion day.