The Washington times., 1921-02-22
'DENBY SLATED
FOR NAVY POST
Harding Has Virtually Selected
Ex-Congressman From Michi-
gan as Daniels Successor.
GEORGE r. HOLMES.
International News Service.


ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Feb. o.
President-elect Harding has virtual
ly selected Edwin Denby, ex-Con-
gresham from Michigan, and Q
prominent Detroit Republican, to be
Secretary of the Navy in his Cabinet,
| it was learned here today.
Denby's appointment, if finally
will completet he Hard
ing Cabinet, with the possible excep-
ton Of the labor portfolio.
President-elect Harding has prac-
tically completed his four months
deliberations on his Cabinet and. IL
necessary. he could announce today
the names OF the ten men who will
begin to function as his chief ad-
visers on March 1.
While only two of these men have
been definitely and officially an
nounced-Charles Il. Hughes for Sec
retary of State, and Harry NJ. Daugh-
erty for Attorney General--it was in
| dicated today by those close to the
President-elect that the naval and
commerce portfolios concerning which
a great deal OF uncertainty has
existed have both been decided npon.
Herbert Hoover, IL Is believed. will
be the next Secretary Of Commerce.
There is today uncertainty regard
ing only one place in the Harding
Cabinet, according to the close ad-
visers of the President-elect. That
Is in the Labor Department. For
this post 1t Is believed that the
choice has narrowed down to two
men-James J. Davis, former labor
leader and now head of the Royal
Order of Moose, and James Duncan,
an official of the American Fedora
ton of Labor and present head of
The Granite Cutters International
Union. Chances are said to favor
Davis ultimately getting the plum,
although the latter's friends are un-
ceasing in their efforts to secure his
appointment.
BAR SOUTHERN REPRESENTATIVE
One of the developments of the
clearing up OF the Cabinet situation
has been to make II virtually ain
that there will be no distinct South
ern representative in the Cabinet.
Alvin Tobias Hart national COM
mitteeman from Kentucky, who was
naval appointment after the IsowGen
withdrawal, has been finally ell li-
mated.
1t is believed certain also that & Ar
Southern men. particularly fos :"
Senator Newell Sanders, of North T.
olina, have been definitely ri O.. cd.
They may be taken care Of in passing
out the smaller patronage plums, IF
which there will be a great number
early in the new Administration. be-
cause OF the necessity for creating
an entirely Few Shipping Board and
filling four places at least on the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Harry NJ. Daugherty, the new At
torney General, whom Senator Hard
ing warmly praised yesterday, figur-
ed largely in the final Cabinet confer
cnces. He has been in more or less
constant conference with the Presi-
dent-elect.
When he arrived in st. Augustine
none of the Cabinet had been pub
licly announced, and at least three
places were actually untitled. When
he left today to return North two
members of the Cabinet had been
given to the public and the other
places. excepting possibly Labor, had
been filled.
Although Herbert Hoover has fig
ured in Cabinet speculation practi-
cally ever since November ., II is un'
derstood that the former food direc-
tor was not actually and finally Dc
cided upon and the necessary tcle-
gram dispatched until last night
His Cabinet worries mainly behind
him, Senator Harding today observed
the 1S9th anniversary of George Wash
ington's Birthday by participating in
the ceremonies attending the unveil-
ing of a historical tablet at Fort
Marion here. The fort is one of the
chief historical landmarks OF this
section, dating back to Spanish oc-
cupation. The tablet is being pre-
sented to the State of Florida by the
Colonial Danes OF America.
Today is also the 2s3d anniversary
of the purchase of the Floridas from
Spain by the United states.