New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
Senator, Back on Job, As.
serts Secretary of State
Won't Be Permitted to
Dictate Foreign Policy
Seizes Reins That
Aldrich Dropped
Neither Tariff nor Bonus
Legislation Possible at
This Session, He Holds
BY Carter Field

WASHINGTON, Dec 31.-The Senate.
and not the Secretary of State, is going
TO Hun the foreign policies of this gov
eminent, Senator Boies Penrose de-
clared to-day, foreshadowing what NAV
easily develop into one of the most in
teresting contests for power political
Washington has ever seen.
The Pennsylvania Senator. showing
the effects 0 his thirteen months ILL
ness plainly in his physical appear
ance, but mentally as quick and shrewd
as when he fenced with "Gumshoe Bill"
Stone and James Hamilton Lewis on
the Senate floor, gave every indication
that he expected to be the Aldrich Of
the Senate from now on.
He calmly took charge of the tariff
situation, saying that he would call a
meeting Of the Finance Committee
early next week, outl ned his agree
ment with the contention of some of
tie big business interests that no ex-
clusion wall should be made to shut
european goods out Of American mar
kets, and otherwise indicated his in
tention of keeping the helm. And the
helm, perhaps, in Senator Penrosc's
mind is not merely Of the Senate-it
IS Of the ship of state.
Il do not think" Mr. Penrose said.
that 1t matters much who is Secre-
tary Of State. Congress-especiaI
the Senate-will blaze the way in con-
nection with our foreign policies. 7
90 not think we will be satisfied to sit
back and tal;e the program of any Sec
retary of State"
Receives Report From Knox
Senator Penrose made this state.
Ment to group @ newspaper men
who had wa ted in one of the recep.
ton rooms while he was receiving from
senator Philander c. Knox, his col
league. report Of Mr.. Knoxs visit to
Marion yesterday
MIR. Penrose agrees cordially with
Senator k.ox on foreign policies. To-
ward the end of the last session of
Congress, after he had been stricken
by illness, he sent word to WASHINGTON
that he had joined the irreconciia bies
en- the peace treaty fight and wished
to be paired accordingly.
There was much interest here to-
night, therefore, in his statement that
the Senator'S would work out foreign
po icies, and had no mention of ac
cepting any plan handed down by
whoever might be Secretary Of State.
Speculation was ri e as to the out
come in view of the probable appoint
ment of Charles +. Hughes as Secre-
tary Of State, Mr.. Hughes having some
hing of reputation. acquired while
Governor of New York and while a
candidate for the Presidency, as q
stubborn fighter for whatever ideas he
may hold
The fac. is that Mr.. Penrose has
openly expressed an idea which many
Senator'S nave been holding privately
and speaking Of only behind osed
doors, lest they be branded as insur-
gents before they know definitely
whether they want to insurge or not.
The best information in shington.
however. as has been reneatedlv s ated
in The Tribune. is that Mr.. Harding in
tends to recognize the Senate lioerally.
not only by consulting with its men,
bers in working out his peace plans.
but in the actual personnel of the peace
commission itself.
Hopes of Farmers Killed
Mr.. Penrose to-day killed the last
hopes of the wheat state farmers for
emergency tariff legislation ut this ses-
sion Of Congress. While not making
any fiat statement about the bill which
has already passed the House Of Rep
resentatives and is now pending before
Mr. Penrose's committee, the Pennsyl-
vania Senator left no doubt in the
minds of his visitors that no tariff
bill would get through this session.
81 don't look with w,,ch favor upon
temporary tariff legislation" he said