The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-08
BY MARK SULLIVAN
National Political Correspondent or tho
Intelligcncer and New York
Evening Post.


Intelligcncer and New YORK
Evening Post.
Especial Dispatch TO The IntelIgencer
Washington, Jan. If any honE as
sumes that Harding out OF all ne Has
heard from his recently ended come
ence with best minds" is going To make
4 distilled essence, so 10 speak, anu 'i''t'
distilled essence is going 70 be ltardinS :
programme with regard 10 the League
Of Nations such an assumption Is very
wide OF the mark.
have talked with many. perhaps
most, OF the important persons VINO
have discussed with Harding his plan
fer an assoc,tion Of nations as Tar'a-
ton or substitutes for the League OF
Nations. On the basis OF this informal
ton. ! think i, is safr TO say that all
that Harding has in mind is this. He
- making plan.
Tho plan will not go into details.
Harding does not intend that II shall.
60 into details. II Is merely n set or
principlcS so TO speak, and he intends
~ restrict il to that. This plan he Will
disclose at his inaugural address on
March T.
Within n week after March 4. he
will put certain machinery IN motion.
As to what this machinery as, Senator
Harding has made no greater disclosure
Of details than ne has mad" Of his plan
for tho League Of Nations. | assume
this machinery Will consist OF COM
mission to negotiate with the leading
IA rionS OF urope. -
That IS all that Harding has IN mind.
So much for that.
Let us now consider the forces At work
st.tF,N
antagonistic 10 Harding.
The first thing TO remember Is that
Harding can not make or can NOT r"ut
through any plan whatever affecting
foreign rotations except by ana with
the consent OF the Senate" So far as
that Is concerned. It would =" con-
trary to everything We know OF Hard
ing II. he should try to combat the
provocative Of the Senate. II is very
decidedly 70 be believed that whatever
nlan Harding puts out will first have
been shown to the Senate and will
have the assent oc that body. Tie VIII
attempt nothing until l." = fIrs; sat
isHcd IT can be put through The will
Of the Senate IS tho rne1 sure or what
Harding can nut through.
The difference between Harding and
Wilson IS what Wilson CHnCc'vr! a UlaD
and then attempted to ~ tN2t plan
through against the SCna'"'> Will VII
son tried 70 get the ruhli" back Of him.
anil with that public ba2k;ra; tried ="
beat thc Senate down.
Harding is not likely 70 30 anythink
like that. Certainly not IN the early
stages Of his administration Hard
ing Is much moro likely t. conciiatc
the Senate. to find ont bow far tho
Senate Is willing to go. and thcr aHnr;
that as IN" MAXIMUM "C his own plan
Senate Anti-Leaguo.
Let us thew see what tho new Senate
Is likely 10 do
The now Senate IS avcrwhe'min-Iy
about foreign affairs is most likely t.
he determined ny the Republican ma Tor
ity. Thep REVEALING drift Of that IicNuh-
liCan majority IS markedly anti-'oawua
The Republican majority !n the new
Senate. IN all probability. warn tive time
comes will hold n caucus on tins sub
ject. Indeed, I suspect that Informal
caucuSeS are already being held by a
group OF Senators. who. think. are
likely 70 be dominant on this subject
shut out all noises from any siccp!ng
room. 1t "a . small instrument. h."
says. and is operated by being attached
10 an electric light socket We trust
that Mr.. Maxim will. be entirely sue
Cesstul, for such an invention would he
4 blessing to humanity.