New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Harding Awaits
Wood for. Talk
On Island Post
presidens-Elect Declared Fa-
yorabIc to Sending Gen
eral TO Philippines, but
I.atter's View Is Unknown
Hughes Also Is Expected
Formal Tender of Secre-
iaryship To Be Made and
Disarmament Discussed
Frcu. q star Correspondent

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Feb. ls.-
Major General Leonard Wood was ex-
peeted TO arrive here before morning
Tor heart-to-heart chat with Presi-
oent-elect Harding concerning the part
he is to play in the Harding Admins
ration. Lately it has become known
.hat Mr.. Harding leans favorably to
suggestions that he offer to make the
distinguished army officer Governor
General Of the Philippines.
1t is not known here how General
Wood would receive such an offer, but
lhere can be no doubt that he can
% to the Philippines if he wants to go
there Mr., Harding, it is believed,
would be entirely delighted to solve
50 easily the question of what to do
with General Wood. For weeks his
mail has been filled with letters from
correspondents urging him to take
General Wood into his Cabinet. The
only other individual who has been
recommended to the President-elect on
any such spontaneous and wholesale
scale is Herbert Hoover, and Hoover
Is the President-eIect's present choice
or Secretary of Commerce.
Hughes Also Expected
Charles Evans Hughes, who is slated
to be Secretary of State, also was ex-
Fscted to arrive for lengthy confer
ence tomorrow with the President
elect. The principal purpose of the
visit, it is said, is to enable Mr.. Har-
ding to make formal tender to the
former Supreme Court justice of the
portfolio of State.
One of the important questions to be
discussed by them is Mr.. Harding's
stand on disarmament conference pro-
possls. In making it clear to inter
viewers to-day that he does not pro-
pose to call the nations of the earth
into q disarmament conference, the
President-eiect pointed out that his
own plan for world association en-
braced disarmament, and he said he
preferred, naturally, to have it come
about through the perfection of this
plan. IF that should fail, he explained,
he would then be glad to consider
other means of effecting partial dis
armament.
Representative Joseph W. Fordney,
author of the Fordney emergency tariff
bill, had talk with the President-ele
today. Mr.. Fordney said he had taken
advantage of q lull in Washington to
come to St. Augustine and discuss with
the President-elect the necessity of
emergency tariff legislation.
Kahn Discusses Taxation
Importers, said Representative Ford
ney, knowing that scientifically
framed tar If law would inevitably fol-
low upon the heels of the Republican
yictory. were re- hing huge stocks of
goods into the s1untry. The country
needs the revenue that should accrue
from tariff on these imports. That
was the reason for the Fordney bill"
Otto H. Kahn, of New York, came
with Mr., Fordney, and discussed taxa
don problems with the President-elect.
oonAoor Albert Cummins, of Iowa,
arrived to-day. He is the President
elects guide in railroad matters, and
they are expected to take up with some
Of the railroad executives who are
staying here the question of the pres
ant national wage agreement which the
railroads wish TO annul.