The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-08
HARDING PRESENTS
FIRST NOMINATIONS
APPEARS BEFORE
SENATE TO READ NAMES
Entire List Of Cabinet Officers Con
frmed in Short Order.--Re-
wives Precedent

Washington, March 4.-Pres dent
Harding presented hi; cabinet nomi-
nations to the senate today in person
and they were confrmcd by that body
in less than ten miaute5. The presj-
dent later signed he commissions CT
his ten official advisers, who will en-
ter tomorrow upon thair new duties,
succeeding the men who served Wood
row Wilson.
/! in appearing before the senate IN
executive session the new chief exec
ut:ve revived custom inaugurated
by George Washington but n disuse
since the day of Thomas Jefferson.
He explained that daring his admins
tration he wished to maintain close
and amicable relations" with the leg
islative branch and for that reason
had appeared personally to present
his cabinet selections.
! Presentation of the nominations
was the first official act of the incom-
ing president and occurred within less
/ than an hour after he had taken the
! oath of office. He had discussed the
! question with senate leaders before
i his inauguration and when he con-
cluded his inaugural address the SEN
ate assembled.
While a quorum was being obtain
ed Mr.. Harding waited in his room off
the senate chamber. During the wait
; he came to the door for minute TO
smile greetings to newspaper CORES
pondents in the corridor. He had
scarcely reentered the room before
! the arrival of Senators Lodge Of Mas
| sachusetts and Underwood OF Ala
/ bama, the republican and democratic
leaders who had been appointed by
Vice President Coolidge to MORN the
president that the senate was ready to
receive communications from him.
On Familiar Ground
! Mr.. Harding said he desired to pre-
sent his message in person and was
escorted into the chamber, the doors
to which previously had been closed
with all spectators and newspaper
men excluded. The president was es-
corted across the familiar room where
he served six years before his call to
the higher office and to a place on
the rostrum beside Mr.. Coolidge.
Facing his former colleagues, the
president spoke for perhaps five min
utes in happy, cordial vein and then
read the nominations from a card
which he held in his hand. He asked
for early action, in order, he said,
that there might be no hiatus in the
governments affairs.
! Starting with Senator A. B. Fall Of
! New Mexico-a courtesy because OF
/ his senate membership-the senate
went through the list and confirmed
all, one by one. No objection was
raised, all committees to which the
nominations ordinarily would have
/ been referred having been polled in
! advance.
The cabinet officers as confirmed
were:
Secretary of state, Charles Evans
Hughes, New York.
! SECRETARY of treasury, Andrew W.
! Mellon, Pennsylvania.
Secretary of war, John w. Weeks,
Massachusetts.
Secretary of navy, Edwin Denby,
Michigan.
Secretary of interior, Albert B.
Fall, New Mexico.
Secretary of agriculture, Henry C.
Wallace, Iowa.
Secretary of commerce, Herbert
Hoover, California.
Attorney general, Harry NJ. Daugh-
erty, Ohio.
Postmaster general, Will H. Hays,
Indiana.
Secretary of labor, James ]. Davis,
; Pennsylvania.
! Mellon Takes Oath
E! One of the new officials, Mr.. Mel
lon, was sworn in soon after his nom
Browne spent Sunday in Columbia.