The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-21
Nv MARK SULLIVAN.

Spcci:.! dispatch TO The ln;c!i!scHcer.
Washington, y. G., Jan. "0.-lt -
cutie true that Harding. starting
South. leaves sullea senate behind
him. Some Of them are more than SUI
len. they are threatening. Among them
selves they occasionally say, and would
Ike 10 have the newspapers say pun
,.cry what they themselves are not b"!d
enough 10 say publicly. namely. that
tr.v have "brukcn the. back Of on"
,,rs Sidcnt and can break the back OF
anuthcr."
But. viewed in calm judgment. they
aren't really as heiligcTrnt as that. IL
there is = fight between Harding ana
the senate. Harding can win il II" wants
Ia. In fact. the very position the H'H-
.,o-s take iuS, now marks III. measure
Of IN" subjection To which Harding mas
:lrerdy brought them. IN" scntt"rS say
they don't want Hughes for secretary
Of state: they s.y they want Root But
when they say 'hcy want Root they
have already progressed " long distance
III Harding. direction.
Two mun'hS ago. thu senators flout"d
the ra,nr 81 Root aHi threatened re-
bcl!iun II Harding should consider him.
The states first choice for secretary
of state was Lodge. Watcher Lodge
wanted ii himself is 4 Tact who's" only
home IS within that S"II-contiinrd
senator's skull. Some uf the other SEN
ntorS say Lodge did want IL. and many
Of them say Lodge wanted at least the
honor &C being invited. LuGS" had just
finished = hard t~ Yeas 81 lighting
within we fi,id II foreign relations.
and that the office OF secretary or state
should DO offered To one who had n"
part In that fighting is bitter disap-
po.Mtmcnt to the senators.
they wanted Knox.
NaXt 10 Lodge. practically all OF the
gtrunGh irrecouclahc senator's, and
some OF the others AS we'll. wanted
kuov. Next to Knox hey wanted Il
thlrd man from their own membership.
Albert Fall. Of New Mexico. That iuty
seem absurd 10 cars outside the senate.
1t Is true, nevertheless. That Fall has
rn public reputation that would coin
d, mend him 70. this office and no cN-
pcriencc th"t would equip him for II
makes no difference. He was one Of the
senator's. he was OH thcir committee on
fore. IN relations. and that was enough
for his fellow senator's The very sena-
tors who are now complaining bitterly
against II" appointment 0! Hughes.
hrcuusr, they say. ne has had no en-
pcrl"nc" with European affairs. TAIL u
see the humor Of their suggestion in the
next breath that il would be perfectly
acceptable 10 take Senator Fall. from
The wilds Of New Mexico. and put him
in charge of our European rotations.
Hughes Too Big a Man.
II the senate could not have one of
these three. their next choice WAS and
is David Jayne Hi. TIiil has an adr-
oual. equipment OF experience and
kuOw!cdg" but the thing that COM
iutndcd him to thc senators waS the
fact that h" =. as they express IL. "A
man who will take orders" That is the
whole burden Of their su!lenuesS about
Hughes They know that Hughes will
work out his own policies. nat Is
SHOCK - the senate theory OF our for
c!En affairs. They think our foreign
relations should be managed by the
SENATE and that the secretary OF state
should merely carry into effect the
policies that the senate lays down. The
chairman ot the senate committee OH
foreign affairs has been quoted rs
saying Tat of Cour$" lie would expect
the next secretary Of state 10 work
with him as comfortably as he would
expect the secretary Of his. own COM
:nittce to work with him Senator
PrnroSc Expressed tho same thing pub
Iirly and with decided excess OF CON
C!dence when he said, Il do no. think
il matters much who is secretary OF
state Congrrss-eSpeciaily tho senate
will blaze the way in connection with
our foreign policies. ] do not think We
viii he satisfied 70 st back and take
fhc programme OF any secretary OF
state"
Hughes is not expected 20 conform