The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-29
SEE DAUCHERTY IS
 PASSWORD AT CAPITAL

HOSEFCHD HE UHEs AL MashIngton. April 29.-If you are fbal.e Toaceta iating a trip to Washington Ise IIese days to talk things over' with @ nary or Herb-meaning the Attor- i1ey General of the United States and me secretary of Commerce-you had petter come with a bankrolI and Rn=llI RleilIy or clothes, because it's likely to ueVelop into a task of more magni- tude than is generally thought.
 IT the question were asked, as it of t9' Who are the most difficult men tp see in Washington these days Lnere could be but one answer They are Harry M. Daugherty and Herbert hooVer. The peculiar problems dealt wIth py their respective departments bam tba noFoes of people here to see mem and their offices are choked at ferences"
 Daugherty Is Chosen One.
 IsaTicula1,ly is MT. Daugherty i1arddr1ven official. Due perhaps in a measure to the widespread publicity he received as the astute political lnanager for the President, and as Iaei HuGn, close to the throne" all the IeS1onS of earneSt-minded citizens "ho ltch to get on the public payroll come to 'see Harry Daugherty.'' It seems to matter little whether they want to be an ambassador, a, prohibi- Llon enforcement agent, a district at torney or a fourth assistant door Keeper in the White House-they all come to see Harry Haugherty.'' If Uhey don't want anything for them selves they come to stick in a good word for their friends, or their friends friends
 All patronage roads lead through Harry Daughertys office these days The job seekers and other callers start congregating in the little recep- ton room, just off the Attorney Gen. erals office, early in the morning some of them are there, too, late dn the evening when the Attorney Gen. erai ducks out of a side entrance for food and rest.
 Throughout the day the office is Janmed- As fast as one seat is ernptied and the lucky holder thereof put in plug for his friend John Woossiz to be Minister to Timbuctoo, it IS occupied by Jim Whatsiz, wtfo per hapS only wants to become an assist ant attorney general, or the aforesaid enforcement agent
 The Whispered Password.
 Senators and Congressmen call to take up the matter of appointments Of friends. Those of their own calI- CTS whose cases the Congressrnep consider hopeless they dispose of with a a wag of the head and a whispered Well" you'll have to see Harry Daugherty." Whereupon the number of callers in Harry Daugherty's outer
 
 All ithis is in addition to the reeu- lar work of the Attorney GeneraIship with which MT. Daugherty is endeav- bring to famiiarize himself There nave been times since March 4 when the Attorney General has literally had to duck out of the building with his secretary and retire to his house in order ito give consideration to a nent of Justice business. It was the | only way he could avoid the pap hungry callers.
 Inherits Pafmer's Pains.
 The new Attorney General also has had ito contend with those who had | grievances against the Department of | Justice under A. Mitchell Palmer and their numbers are not inconSider- | able. People call to see MT. Daugh- arty ito get pardons for friends, to | get retrials of cases lost perhaps un- fer the old regime, to get new rulings on this or that matter which affects heir business; they call on a thou sand and one subjects.
 Mir. Hoover is somewhat more for .unate in that he has not been made | he objective of the patronage drive. There are comparatively few jobs to De had in the Department of Com ng nature, and he is not considered by prospective job hunters as "cIose
 The new Secretary of Commerce,
 Hoover is House-CIeaning.
 The new Seireary of Commerce, nevertheless, has been quite as busy He lis trying to make something out | If the Department of Commerc ex- -ept a supervising agency for the Bureau of Fisheries. MT. Hoover is rying to put business into the De- ,artment of Commerce. His plans mbrace q close working lafSon be- ween the department and the direc- ors of the United States mercantile marine in order to foster and upbhiId AT1erica'S world trade
 In the working out of these plans le has consulted many business men rom all parts of the country. His nail is heavy and his time is taken ID completely.
 Hoover Sees Many.
 Outside of Secretary of State Hughes, MT. Hoover is perhaps more widely known to the general public han any other member of the Cab net And so he, too. has his callers Business men in Washington, per laps, on other business, drop in to ee him regarding world conditions with which he keeps in intimate ouch. They inquire about markets n this or that section of the globe, nd the chances for American bus ness there.
 Make no mistake about it, Harry nd Herb-meaning the Attorney ienera1 of the United States and the ecretary of Commerce, are busy gen lenen these days. The President inlself is scarcely more difficult to sec"