New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
Root May Be
Cabinet Head.
Not Hughes
1ntimation Is Made, That
Latter May Be Shifted
to Attorney Generals
Portfolio in Final List
None of Ten Posts
Definitely Filled

A 4 1A1Cu
Place Possible for Mel.
lon by Making Dawes
Head of Reserve Board
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan. a.
On board President-elect Hardinr's
train en- route to ST. Augustine, Fla.
(by The Associated Press).-Indica-
tions multiplied to-day, while Presi-
dent-elect Harding was speeding to
Florida for a brief vacation, that the
whole problem of his Cabinet was still
IN state of fiux, and that final deci-
slons on every one of the ten Cabinet
PLACES must be. reached during Mr.,
Harding's stay in Florida.
1t was said authoritativelv that such
tenders of Cabinet places as the Presi-
dent-elect has made are conditional
ana that many elements of the situa-
tlon remain to be harmonized before
there can be actual selections.
Strong Pressure for Root
The latest suggestion heard among
those close to Mr.. Harding is that
Charles Evans Hughes, generally re-
garded as leading possibility for sec-
retary Of State, might be offered tb.
Attorney Generalship instead and tha
me state portfolio might be given to
Emu Root, whose friends are under
stood to be bringing strong pressure
to bear in his behalf. e''1'
From Staff Correspondent
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Jan 21 ION
Board President-elect Hardino,s Tro;n
en- route to St. Augustine. Fla. .9.--The
resignation of w. P. G. Harding az
mead OF the Federal Reserve Board is
expected to simplify President-elect
hardlng,s Cabinet-making task. The
81 suggestion has been made to Senator
nnaroing ng That by. appointing Charles G.
Dawes, OF illinois, to the boards gov
ernorsnip he would clear the way for
burgh, to be Secretary of the Treasury.
). The responsibilities of the head Of
the Federal Reserve Board are nearly
as great as those of the Secretary of
the Treasury. 1t is believed that SEN
ators who have declared thew would
ft1ght the confirmation of Mr.. Dawes Fl
he should be appointed Secretary of
the Treasury could be persuaded not
10 oppose his appointment to head of
the Federal Reserve Board. - -
Penrose Backs Mellon
Senator Boies Penrose, of Pennsyl.
yania, who Is anxious to have Mr..
Mellon made Secretary of the Treasury
might be expected, if Mr.. MELONS, ap-
polntment was secured, to support Mr.
Dawes for the other post. But tha,
would leave Illinois unrepresented in
the Cabinet unless Senator Harding
should succeed in convincing former
Governor Frank o. Lowden that it is
his duty to accept the Navy Depart
ment portfolio.
If Mr.: Lowden comes into the Cab
met it is probable that A. T. Hert, of
Kentucky, will stay out, although not
from choice: Mr.. Lowden and Mr.
Hert both have been considered a.
heads of the Navy Department, to the
exclusion of other candidates. But
both were considered also for the Com
merce Department, and for this post
Mr.. Hert has several formidable rivals
including Herbert Hoover.
President-elect Harding passed a
thoroughly busy day on his train dur
ing the ride across Kentucky and Ten
nessee, and so did his secretary,
George B. Christian jr., and two ste
nographers. At Oakdale, Tennessee
mountain town where engines were
changed, Mr.. Harding bareheaded,
emerged for a breath of air. Bal
ancing himself gracefully on rail. he
MN 1EoA e. E.
then descended to greet slouch- hated
native. This man said:
"1've seed you down yere afore, dur
ing the campaign"
"Well," replied the President-elect,
"you won't hold that against me, will
you7"
= "Me? I voted for you. and you car
ried the state"
His Mind on Golf
Then, gazing off into the brown hills,
Mr.. Harding wondered how it would
feel to drive a golf ball over an
eighteen-hole course in such terrain,
and was interrupted by blast from
the engine as the train started, so that
lie had to scramble aboard.
Mr.. Harding is travelling In the pri-
vate car Superb, the same one that
jumped the track in West Virginia dur
ing the campaign and then bumped
oyer the ties of a slender, high trestle
that spanned swift hill stream.
Mr.. Harding reached Chattanooga
about o'clock this afternoon and was
due to reach St. Augustine in the fore
noon tomorrow.
At Chattanooga, where there was a
ten-minute stop, Mr.. Harding had q
chat with Senator Newell Sanders, who
has the backing Of many Southern Re-
publican leaders for a place in the
Cabinet. A crowd Of several hundred
people, many of them passengers on
the train, crowded about Mr.. Harding
on the station platform to shake his
hand.
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