The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-06
IT'S EASY TO SEE
CAPITAL CHANGE
But Governmental Transi-
ton Will Not Be an
Affair of a Day
OILING NEW MACHINE
Harding's Assistants at Their
Desks Familiarizing Them
selves With Duties
By GEORGE HOLMES.
n. 4. staff Correspondent.

l. y. g. staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March with
The business OF government again in
republican hands after eight tu-
uul.uous years OF democracy, a new
president and the new heads OF ten
great governmental departments
settled down today to get the feel OF
.hg rDlns.
In only thing in the nature Of
s Rrystion from President Harding
to his aides has been thai they
famiNarizc themselves as quickly as
possible with the machinery OF their
departments In order that there may
h. % quick recovery from the tenn
porary confusion occasioned by the
SHIFT 0f administration.
New Cabinet on job.
Every member Of the new cabinet
today was at his desk getting an
initial grasp on affairs.
Recovery from the governmental
transition viii not be immediate. 1t
will take days and perhaps weeks
for matters to get down to the
smooth running order desired by the
new president. At the white house
Itself the great iron gates standing
nyiuugly open for the first time in
four years President II ar d / n x
planned 60 see "A Number OF people
and later In the day attend the me-
/ mortal service 10 the late Champ
n Clark whose body lies in state and
4 Hourned by all Washington, in the
y house Of representatives where he
l worked and ruled SO many years.
President Harding was at his desk
shortly after o'clock this morning.
l.. gvaUf f,u pninnfca In ahnHi Ia ~
his father and other relatives about
the executive offices and then went
TO work.
White House Gates Open.
The most striking evidence that
there has been "A new deal in Wash
mEton was seen at the white house.
Pedestrians passing along Pennsyl-
yania avenue stopped and gazed
curiously at the open gaes. Gone
were the uniformed policemen that
for the last four years have perched
In their little sentry boxes by the
gates and barred all those who
I sought admission, The iron gates
. were swung inward and unguarded.
4 h.biting the first faint flushes of
spring were likewise unguarded ex-
A cept for tho casual police protection
that is given any public domain.
u Inaugural visitors who still
ihrongod the capital IN considera bic
A numbers, today strolled through the
a open gates and about the grounds
II at will. 1t was an unusual sight for
n Washington.
y Starting next week there will be
\ an almost solid month of comforting
and planning between republican
A leaders now In control OF all
90 4. a.
h time IN eight years. The special
4 session OF the new congress will not
be called until the executive and
legislative branches of the govern
ment can formulate some sort OF a
, program on which to start working
during the next few weeks Presi-
dent Harding will have almost con.
slant conferences with leaders Of the
mouse and senate, and when these
nave developed something tangible
ne Will issue a call for a special
session II things go smoothly the
4 siN'y-sevcnth congress will convene
u around April 4.
4 Many Big Jobs To FIJI.
II More pressing than the legislative
n program In its demand for immedi.
"A ate ac'ion is the task confronting
n the new president of making mum.
II = OF highly important appoint.
IA tniS. The most urgent OF these
"A az some ambassadors, the creation
a an entirely new shipping board
n W seven members, and the fillinr
n ol Tour vacancies on the Interstate
commerce commission. Officially
n mere was no shipping board today
"a me board died "A natural d'ath a
n noon March 4. President HARDING
rag managed, despite his cabne
n u"nel.Nes to give considerabl,
"A CONSIDERATION to these appointment
n tor me last four weeks. and 1t is be
q HtNed he has already tentativel,
81 e.eeled most of the members
yeoFge Chahberlain of Oregon
"A utmoerai who retired yesterday a
sohdlog Us one Of them.
one o' the first diplomatic ap
VI pom'mrnis expected to be an
n g1n'cd Toy the white house is tina
+. t AMBASSADOR TO Great Britain
q SnoasSador Davis is soon to sail 10
,itohe, leaving American representa-
"oa IN caro- Of charge d affaires
n Iossip has linked the name o
b IT Harvey with the '1' appoint
E in, PRESIDENT Harding took with hin
nv NV M' white house a veritable del
or recommendation concern
sS ines" appointments. They com
I'm ,, every conceivable source an,
,,nn'''n every conceivab BILE Job. Tn
go or u"win gthrough these pre-
,s nr IN itself a task of no smal