New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-15
Hughes Will Preside at
Meeting; Sutherland and
Underwood May Serve;
Knox Possible Choice
Best Men Available
Will Be Appointed
Harding Ignores Glasses
aud Groups; No Woman
Will Be in Delegation
By Carter Field

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Two names
are absolutely certain, and two others
practically so, for the American dele
CATION to the November conference on
Armament Limitation and Pacific and
Far Eastern questions, it was learned
tonight.
The American delegation. if the final
number of delegates is five, as is now
expected, will probably consist of:
Charles E. Hughes, chairman.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
Senator Oscar W. Underwood.
Ex-senator George L. Sutherland, Of
Utah.
Senator Philander c. Knox,
toned last because it is The only one
of the five of which, according to the
best information obtainable, President
Harding is still in doubt. The Trib-
une correspondents informant asserted
that there would in all probability be
no change in the slate. but that the
President had not made a definite as
sertion about Senator Knox, although
the Pennsylvania Senator is under
serious consideration.
Lodge Not Eliminated
Some observers in Washington have
thought in the last week that Senator
Lodge had been eliminated from con-
sideration, but on the most reliable
authority the writer is informed that
there is no doubt whatever Of Mr..
Lodges appointment. The rumor that
he might be eliminated, it was ex-
planned, grew out of the fact that Sena-
tor Knox was being considered. Those
hearing this, it is said, assumed that
only one Republican Senator swould be
appointed.
AS matter Of fact, it is declared
President Harding, while he intends to
recognize the Senate literally, is not
making his appointments primarily to
give recognition to any particular
group or class, but to gst the persons
he considers will accomplish the best
results for this country and for world
peace.
There is very 1ittlc likelihood, for
eXamnle,. that woman will be appoint
ed. J., fa"t, there is not the slightest
e vectalus that one will be named, as
f.one is beng considered or has been
suggested who appealed to the Presi-
dc Mt and his advisers as being better
adapted to the purposes in view than
any one of several men, His idea is
not to appoint woman because she
is a woman, nor to appoint labor
leader because he is identified with
labor, but to consider, in weighing the
qualifications of every one considered,
Just what would be the effect of that
persons presence at the conference
table.
Hughes Expected to Preside
1t has already been announced at the
White House that Mr.. Hughes, picked
as Secretary of State for the very rea-
sons which, according to the Presi-
dents belief, will make him the biggest
individual force in the conference, Will.
be chairman or head Of the American
delegation. This was predicted in the
Trlbune's Washington dispatches long
before the White House announcement,
from the same sources of information
comes tonight. 1t was predicted later
that Mr.. Hughes would be the presid-
ing officer of the conference, which is
now obvious.
Senator Lodges selection needs no
explanation. Historians recall, how
ever, that with three Senators on the
American peace commission at Paris
after the Spanish War the treaty came
within an ace Of failing of ratification
by the upper house.
Underwood's Qualifications
Senator Underwood is the Demo
cratic leader in the Senate, but there
are other qualifications which recon-
mend him strongly to the President.
He is not on the Foreign Relations
of which Senator Hitch
cock is the ranking Democratic mem
ber There are objections in the minds.
of President Harding and his advisers
to Senator Hitchcock, however, not the
least Of which is that every one in
w ashington knows, as has been pointed
out in The Tribune from time to time,
the future of this so-called dis
armament conference is, in reality, if
the thing succeeds at all, that it will
become the Association of Nations
which Mr. Harding promised in his
speeches. Mr.. Hitchcock is
so rreconcilably attached to the Will
son League of Nations that the present
Administration cannot fit him into the
picture.
Senator Underwood is a close per-
sonal friend of the President. who ad-
mres the Alabama man not only for
his great mental ability, but for his
extraordinary success in suavely win
ming over discordant elements in stu
ations which prior to his efforts had
looked most stormy The President
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