Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-05
FATE OF A NEGRO
ASP|RANT TOOFFICE
IN HANDS OF BALL
He and Other Senators to Pass
Upon Important Pending
Nomination.
ALL EYES NOW ON DU POINT

Special Dispatch From Every Evenihg's
Washington Correspondent
Washington, Oct. 5.-Scnator Ball
of Delaware, chairman of the District
~ Columbia committee, and Senator
Canpcr OF Kansas, a member OF that
committee. In conference with Pres
ident Harding. Il is believed, discussed
the nomination of Henry Lincoln
Johnson. negro Republican National
Committeeman from c ,rgia, to be
recorder of deeds for the District OF
Columbia. This nomination has been
pending for several months. Senator
Capper is a member of a sub-commit-
tee 20 pass en- the nomination.
Whatever may have been the con-
clusions reached at the conference
with the President, ii is not expected
that a report on the nomination will
be made for some time, as Senator
Jones OF Washington, chairman of
the subcommittee, is out of the city
and will not return for some time.
Senator Ban and Senator Capper
declined to discuss their conference
with the President.
Coming of Senator du Pont-
The people Of Delaware will be sur
prised at the accuracy of a Chicago
special 90 the Philadelphia Record
which undertakes to tell about Sena-
tor T. Coleman du Pont, who happened
TO be in Chicago en- route Home, and
which says: 1T. Coleman du Pont
Is in Chicago, on his way from Colo
RADIO to Washington to be sworn in as
United States Senator from Delaware
He has been a potential candidate
for the place ever since his famous
deadlocked fight with Gas Addicks, ia
1905, which resulted in q draw and
loft Delaware without a Senator for
many months.
"du Pout was reticent today as tc
public affairs. He said he had been
hunting. aid doesn't know what is go
ing on. politically or otherwise. How
ever. he said he intends to be a real
senator and that he expects TO be 6
candidate to succeed himself in 1922
Much interest is manifested in the
announced coming of Senator t. Cole
man du Pont, who be it understood /:
nsf merely a prospective Senator. bu
who is a bona fide member of the Unit
ed States Senate, having been swori
IN as such in an orderly and digniiie'
manner following his elevation TO tha
position weeks ago. just previous Il
his trip TO the West. His prospective
return 10 Washington, with a view o
taking up the duties of his office. i
looked forward TO with interest, no
only by members of his own party bu
by Democrats as well. There Is es
pecial concern manifested in his com
ing by those who are interested il
Delaware affairs. for everybody is anx
ious 10 know what attitude the jun
ior Senator from that State viii as
sumo in the disposition of a numbe
OF important matters pertaining L
his state.
People Are Wondering
People ara wondering what par
Senator Ball and Representativ
Layton will play in the distribution O
Federal patronage when Senator d
Pont gets into a swinging" way as
senator and exercises his prerogativ
10 indorse or oppose an aspirant fo
Office. It is, conceded that it will b
an interesting situation when the thre
Delaware representatives in the Fec
cral Congress meet in a triangula
conflict for supremacy.