The Mena weekly star., 1921-03-03
GOES IN
 l TO THE CABINET
1arId Relief Director Win Be Given
 Commanding Position in Bureau Harding Quits Business Program
 to Pay Visit to Jacksonville.

t. Augustine, Fla, Feb. 25. Presi- |<nt-elect Harding's selection of Her. IN Hoover to be secretary of com zerce in the coming administration |aally was confirmed by Mir Harding znay after series of developments Eat at one time Aseemed likely to 2ad to cancellation of the appoint &nt.
 Nr. Harding announced that he had 4und himself in perfect accord" Sth the policies urged by Mr. Hoover $ condition to his entering the cab aet and that the entire incident had lsen closed with a definite acceptance spm the former food administrator.
 At the same time the president-elect |ftually confirmed also the selection x Henry Wallace, of Iowa, to be sec Stary of agriculture. The selection 4 Mir. Wallace has been well known 5f some time, altho previously Mr.
 Birding declined to discuss it. Kinder the circumstances, Mir. Hoov- # will enter the cabinet with an un- |znal status. So far as is known Dc. no other member has outlined a <partment policy in detail as a con- Hion of accepting his portfolio. It Expected the result of Mir. Harding's #eptanee of the terms laid down by # former food administrator will be &t the latter in a commanding posi- kn, so far as the reorganization of & department is concerned. With developments moving toward 4al confirmation of his tentative cab n slate, President-elect Harding &k a holiday from cabinet making & motored to Jacksonville for a visit 3 courtesy. He will return tonight. Hln Jacksonville today MT. Harding Hs to be a guest of the city at a 4blic luncheon early in the afternoon " was to spend several hours after Hrd at a Masonic meeting. He will &ke no formal address.
 Question Is Closed. *Ir. Harding broke his silence re- *rding Mir. Hoover after repeated #orts had been made without result secure confirmation of the state Hnt issued by the former food ad- Illustrator in New York last night. n formal statement was issued here. II Harding simply saying that the #aole question had been closed sat &aetorily
 Asked about the condition laid 9wn by Mir Hoover, which included Rdorsement by Mir. Harding of #aile policy for reorganization of N commerce department, the presi- tht-eiect: We are in perfect Hord as to what the department aght to be made. ] would not want Il Hoover or any other secretary to K denaFtmcnt unless he inte1aed do tnings with it."
 N ie added that he saw nothing out of Il ordinary about the case except the Hoileity given it. Every other pros E tive cabinet app0intee. he said Hd discussed with him the matter of Emanent department policies. Hoover Beuis Him. 4 Has any other Laid down stipula- fns as Mir. Hoover has? he was Aked
 Il don't like the form of your ques- kn was the reply. "lswouldn't call la atlpuldtiohs.
 Harding expressed surprise that H Hoover had made a statement on H subject in New York last night. he president-elect said he had in- Faed to announce the appointment Pe today but this prospective seere-l 4y had acted entirely within his Exiieges in taking the initiative Elh9 reference to Dr. Wallace's ap- ointment came in reply to a chance Restion relative to an article by the 'Wa editor recently published onI |lcies he might pursue a secretary agriculture.
 Il Unless there shali be some un- eked for development was Mr. Frding's only comment, q have a Tong suspicion that Mir. Wallace will serving in that capacity 
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