Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-22
MARK SULLIVAN REVIEWS THE
PROBABILITIES OF APPOINTMENT
TO SECRETARY OF STATE
Position Seems to Lie Between Root and Hughes,
With Senate Leaning to Hill
or Root

to have the newspapers say puonciy
what they themselves are not bold
enough TO say publicly, namely that
they have broken the back of one
president, and can break thooack OIL
another.
But viewed in calm judgment, they
aren't really as belligerent as that, If
there is a fight between Harding and
the Senate, Harding can win II ne
wants to, in fact the very position the
Senators take just now marks the
measure OF the subjection to which
Harding has already brought them
The senators say they don't want
Hughes for Secretary of State, they
say they want Root, but when they say
they want Root, they have already
progressed a long distance in Hard
ing's direction.
Two months ago the senators houteo
the naIne of Root and threatened re-
bellion if Harding should consider him.
The senate first choice for Secretary
of State was Lodge, Whether Lodge
wanted 1t himself is a fact whose only
homo is within that self-contaired sem
ator's skuyy Some of the other sem
ator's skull. Some of the other SEN
of them say Lodge wanted, at least,
the honor of being invited. Lodge had
Just finished a hard two years of light
ing within the field of foreign reia-
tions, and that the Office of Secretary
of State should have been offered to
one who had no part in that lighting
is bitter disappointment to the SEN
ators.
Next to Lodge. practically all of the
strongly irreconcilable senators, and
some of the others as well, wanted
Knox: next TO Knox they wanted a
third from their own membership. AL
bert Fail of New Mexico. That may
seem absurd to ears outside the SEN
atcI it is true nevertheless.
That Fall has no public reputation
that would recommend him for this
office and no experience that would
equip him for it makes no difference
He was ono of the senators, he was on
their committee on foreign relations
and that was enough for his fellow
senators. Tho very senators who arc
now complaining bitterly against the
appointment of Hughes. because they
say he has had no experience with
European affairs. fail to see the hu-
NOR of their suggestion in the next
breath that 1t would be perfectly ac-
ceptabie to tako Senator Fall from the
charge of our European relationn-
II the senate could not have one of
these three their next choice was and
is David Jayno Hill. Hin has an ad-
equate equipment of experience and
knowledge. but the thing that most
commended him to the senators was
tho fact that ho Is, as they express it
man who will take orders. That
liz tho whole burden of their sullonneSs
about Hughes. they know that Hughes
will work out his own policies. That
ia n shock to the ,enato theory of tho
foreign affairs. They think our for
cign relations should be managed by
the senate and that tho Secretary OF
State should merely carry into effect
the policies that the senate lays down.
Tho chairman OF the senate commit
tee on foreign affairs has been quoted
s3ying of course he would expect
tho next Secretary of State to work
with him as comfortably as he would
expect tic secretary of his own COM
mittee to work with him.
Senator Pcnrose expressed the same
thing publicly and with decided eI-
cess OF confidence when he said Il do
not think It matters much who is Sec
rotary of State. Congress. especially
tho senate. will blaze the way in con
nection with our foreign policies. do
not think We will bo satisfied to sit
back and take tho program OF any
Secretary OF State"
Hughes is not expected to conform
to that theory. Hughes will go on the
principle that the senate has the same
power over foreign affairs as 1t has
over postmasters, the power of ratify-
ing or confirming what the executive
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