New-York tribune., 1921-02-23
Plan Is to Stifle Opposi-
ton of Knox and Pen
rose by Appointment
of Mellon to Treasury
Cabinet Slate Now
Reported Complete
O'Connor, Head of Long
shoremen, Asks Union
Man as Labor Secretary
By Boyden r. Sparkes

> /. "A OG u y line, I Ia, ED. -.
Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney
General designate in the Harding
Cabinet, started northward to-day
on what is understood to be one of
the most delicate fixing" misSiorrs
of his career in politics, President
elect Harding, it was reported here,
had intrhsted Mr.. Daugherty with
the task Of persuading Senators
Penrose and Knox to forget their
opposition to the appointment of
Herbert c. Hoover to be Secretary
Of Commerce in exchange for the ap-
pointment of Andrew W. Mellon, of
Pittsburgh, to be Secretary of the
Treasury.
The Mellon appointment is very
close to the hearts of Penrose and
Knox. 1t is said here that Mr.. Har-
ding has withheld a definite tender
to the Pittsburgh banker in order to
have trading point with the Penn
syivania Senators.
All day long at intervals efforts
were being made to get Mr.. Hoover.
who is in New York, on the tele-
phone. In this connection it was
said that had it not been for the
wire-crippling storm that had swept
over the northern part of the United
States President-elect Harding's
Cabinet would have been completed
to-day.
Two Places Still Undecided
As matters stood to- night Mr. Har-
ding was reported undecided on both
Navy and Labor. The man under con
sideration for the Navy portfolio was
said to be Edwin DENLY, of Detroit.
former Representative in Congress
George Edmond Foss, of Illinois. for
mer chairman Of the House Committee
en- Naval Affairs and big navy man.
was also reported to be uncer con-
sideration.
Mr.. Harding declined to give any.
inkling as to his favorite for this post
There are thirty or forty men on ny
~
the men suggested to him in the last
few days were Senator Miles Poin-
dexter, of Washington, and former
Governor r. Livingston Beeckman OF
Rhode Island. Mr. Beeckman, it is
understood. is not seeking the Navy
Secretaryship, but prefers a diplomatic
appointment to South America.
T. V. O'Connor, president of the
International Longshoremen's Union,
departed for the North on the same
train that carried Mr.. Daugherty, Mr.,
O'Connor wants to be Secretary of
Labor, but he has told Mr.. Harding
that he isn't so anxious for the place
for himself as he was to be assured
that union labor man would be ap-
Harding told him this morning that
he had not reached decision hut still
had four men under consideration.
Four for Labor Portfolio
These four men, it is said, are: Mr.
O'Conuor, James Duncan. of the Gran
ite Cutters Union; Representative john
Nolan, a California naolder, and James
J. Davis, millionaire and head OF the
Loyal Order of Moose. Davis is said
to be in the picture more as threat
TO Penrose and Knox as to the Penn
sylvania Cabinet representative than
as a serious contender for the Labor
post.
Mr.. Harding, when asked for infor-
nation about the Cabinet this morning
related several anecdotes of other
Presidents and their efforts to
create Cabinets. The point TO most Of
these was to illustrate the tendency TO
delay completing the list of advisers
until the last minute
The President elect was asked il
Henry Fletcher was going to be made
II fyd Eac ar c,f
that he had told Mr. Hughes during
their conference here last week that
he would appoint as Under Secretary
Of State whoever MIR. Hughes wanted
Senator Harding added: mir. YlugheA
thinks very well of Mr., Fletcher"
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Feb. % (Bv
The Associated Press president
elect Harding has reached a tentative
decision on every place in his Cabinet,
and unless there are last-minute
changes the official circle Of tne next
Administration will be composed o.
these men.
Secretary of state-Charlss Evan.
Hughes, of Kew York, foriGer Cover
nor, justice Of the Supreme Court ana
Republican nominee for the Presi-
dency.
Mellon of Wealthy Family
Secretary OF the Treasury-Andrsw
w. Mellon, of Pennsylvania, banker
and inancier, member Of family re
puted to be among the weslthiest in
this country.
Secretary Of War--John W. Weeks
Of Massachusetts. FORE" Yaited STATE
Senator and IN 1916 d cs-oiSat6 10
the Presidential nomination
Attorney General Harry NJ Daus
erty, Of Ohio, who managed the pre-
convention campaign resulting in NJ
Harding's nomination
Postmaster General-Wili II. Hays
Of Indiana. chairman of the Republican
National Committee.
Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby
of Michigan, a former member of Con
gress, who has served as an enlista6
man in both che navy and Marine
Corps.
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