The Washington herald., 1921-01-19
Wives of Voyagers Not
Included-Are to
Join Later.
LIST OF GUESTS
is GIVEN OUT
Fall, Weeks, Fletcher and
Others on Ten-Day
Excursion.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE
President-elect HardinE's house
boat party of the coast Of Florida
is 70 be an exclusive STAFF" affair.
Neither Mrs. Harding nor Mrs.
Frelinghuysen. wife Of Mr.. Hard
ing's host, will be a member Of Il.
was informed tonight that In
addition to the President elect and
Senator FrelinEhuysen. the only
voyagers in the Victoria will be
Senator Albert B. Fall, Of New
Mexico; former Ambassador Henry
P. Fletcher, OF Pennsylvania: Harry
NJ. Daugherty, prospective Postmas-
ter General; former Senator John
w. Weeks. Of Massachusetts,, and
Senator Albert b. Cummins. OF Iowa
In additio nto those political ssso-
ciates and friends. the house boat
party will include either HardinE'S
personal physician from Marion, DR..
c. Z. Sawyer, or Senator FrelinC-
huysen's physician from New York.
DR.. Ely. The young United States
secret service operative now in at
tendance on the President-eIect.
Walter C. Ferguson, also will be
aboard. 'Fergy," as he Is known at
the White House, was one OF Presi-
dent Wilson's bOdygusrd In France
Wives Come Later.
Mrs. Harding and Mrs. FreIinE-
huysen are expected to Join the
Florida recreation-seek after the
house-bost excursion. now planned
to last ten days or a fortnight. ~
over. By that time the President
elect will be ready for shore diver.
sions, principally golf. in the neigh
borhoOd of St Augustine. Senator
Frelinghuysen and Fletcher long
have been members OF the Harding
golf cabinet" in Washington.
The personnel Of the house-Boat
party, Of course, was not determined
until the President-elect had passed
upon Z In one important respect
the makeup Is siEnifcant-the In
ciusion Of Senator Fail and our for
mer Ambassador 70 Mexico. Mr.
Fletcher. Mr.. Harding Is anxious,
on the eve OF taking offfice, 10 ac-
quaint himself with the most up
to-date authorities We have on Mex
icSn affairs. Mr.. Fletcher was our
last Ambassador at Mexico City and
Senator Fall was occupied during
most Of last summer making minute
investigation Of Mexican conditions
on the border.
Consider Business. Too.
Fletcher, too. can give the Pres
ident-eleCt a faithful closeup Of
the new President Of Mexico, Senor
AlvSro Obregon. II was at the then
American Ambassadors instiEStion
that ObreEon visited the United
States a couple OF years ago and
obtained an extensive birdseye view
OF American events and conditions.
Besides Mexico, Harding hopes 70
derive from Senator Fail and Fletch-
er a general survey Of Jstin-Amer-
lean affairs. For some time rumOrs
have been current in Washington
that the PreEident-eleCt has FletCn-
er in mind for the Mexican Am
bassadorship. He is known 20 hold
the former envoy in high esteem
and it is regarded certain in we'll
informed Republican quarters that
Fletcher is slated for high dipIo-
matte honors somewhere under the
new administration. He was ia con-
suItation Yesterday with Senators
Knox, Penrose and Lodge
Cunmins' Name Enters.
The name Of Senator Cummius
hitherto has not figured consnicu-
oUsly in the list of minds" poIiti-
czI and otherwise with y-hCr1 the
President-ele is in conference. II
may be Mr. Harding wants to con-
suit the senior Senator from Iowa
about railroad and ccrollary mat
ters consequent upon Mr.. Cummins'
cosUthorship OF the new railroad
Law. The Iowan. too, Unquestion-
ably will be consulted about the
much-coveted secretaryship Of aEri-
culture. Henry c. Wallace. from
the Hswkeye State, still leads ths
van, but his selection is being hoo
ly opposed by interest Of all kinds
Iowa has another candidate for
-the "dirt-farmership" portfolio in
the person Of Dean Ames Of the
State Agricultural College. In
Florida, and prospeCtively while the
FrelinEhUysen hoUsebost is dodC-
ing slligators in Indian River, the
thorny problem Of which cabinet
berth-war, treasury or navy-Johu
w. Weeks is TO land will be deh-
nitely settled.
The FrelinghUysen party Will
leave Washington Thursday morn
ing and be Joined by the President
elect and his suite at St Augustine
on Saturday.