The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-05-26
Friends Say He Will Quit
If Department Loses
Two Bureaus.
THREAT is MADE
BY FARM EDITORS
Republicans Told Such
Change Means Dire
Political Results.

II President Harding accepts and
sends to Congress recommendations
of the government reorganization
commission transferring the Bureau
Of Roads and the Bureau of Forest
ry to the Department Of the In
terror and the Bureau of Markets
to the Department of Commerce.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry C.
Wallace, his associates declare, will
resign from the cabinet in protest.
Officials of agriculture and farm
organization who are mobilizing
here to fight the recommendations
declared to be incorporated in the
reorganization report now in the
hands of the President. asserted
yesterday that they have assurances
from Secretary Wallace's closest
friends that he will not wait for
Congress to act on TIE proposals
to cut up the Department of Ag-
riculture, but will submit his res
ignation as an emphatic demon
stration of his opposition to the
plan and as part of the organized
effort to induce Congress not to
permit the transfers.
Harding Favors Change.
Secretary Wallace has made nc
public statement regarding the
recommendations, but he is known
to have protested vigorously to the
President against the transfer OF
the roads. forestry and market:
bureaus to other departments, but
has not been summoned by the
President as yet for a final con-
ference on this phase of the re
organization committees report
President Harding is understood
to be in favor of the transfers
Yesterday Samuel Adams, of Vir
ginia, president of the Agriculture
| Editors Association and editor o
the American Fruit Grower. callet
at the White House seeking al
audience with the President to pro
test against the proposed change
| in the Department OF AEricultur
on behalf of the Agricultural Edi
| tors Association. He did not Sc
1.-The President, but conferred will
| Secretary Christian, who told hin
| to submit his protests in writinI
and that they would be called t,
the Presidents attention.
Talked to wallace.
The Agricultural Editors Asso
ciation" said Mr.. Adams yester
day. lat recent meeting in Chi
| caCo adopted resolutions protestin!
against the plan to cut the De
partment of Agriculture to piece
! C,Nhy hA
test to President Harding. I hav
been in Washington several day
looking into the situation. ! hav
talked to the heads Of the agri
culture bureau and to Secretar
Wallace himself. and there is
! general impression that the admin
istration is favorably inclined t
the recommendations of the reor
ganization commission. Heads o
| all the farm organizations are co
operating in the effort to preven
such a contamination.
"I have also talked with John 7
Adams. chairman of the Repuhli
can National Committee. ] told hii
that II such a program should h.
submitted to Congress by the ad
ministration. to say nothing of tn
possibility of its enactment. quite
number of seats in Congress woul'
change political complexion. MI
Adams said he would have the mat
ter looked into.
Want Him to Resign.
1T is the opinion of our ,associa
ton and we so stated in our reso
luton that if the protest agains
this change is unheeded that tn
Secretary of Agriculture should re
sign
Mr.. Adams was asked IL he knew
of Secretary Wallace's intentions
He said he thought he did. but tina
he had no right or authority L
discuss them. From other source
il has been learned that Secretar,
Wallace would have no ALTERNATIVE
but resignation Il the Presiden
should send the plan to Congress
as It would be forwarded in tn
face of his unyielding opposition.