The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-19
FAVOR WOOD
AS SUCCESSOR
TO WILL HAYS
Entire Indiana Congressional
Delegation Ready to En-
dorse Dean Of Hoosier Law
makers if He Will Consent.
new DENIES RUM0R
PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU

PAILAp'lM NEWS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-If Will r.
Wood, who represents the Tenth Indi-
ana district in congress, will say the
word, the entire Indiana congressional
delegation, including the two senators,
will endorse him to President Hard
ing for appointment as postmaster
general to succeed Will II. Hays, it is
understood. Friends of Representa-
tive Wood say that he would accept
the appointment should the president
tender it. to him, but it is doubtful if
he Will make any active effort to Sc
cure it.
Wood is the dean of the Indiana
delegation in the house of representa-
tives. He began his congressional ca
reer March 4, 1915, and he is gener
ally regarded as one of the ablest
men in the lower house He is a
member of the aIl-powerful appropria-
tions committee, and membership on
that committee carries more influence
and prestige than the chairmanship
of any committee, with the exception
of the appropriations Craftsmanship.
Before he came to congress Mr.. Wood
served four terms in the Indiana leg
islature, being twice president pro
tempore and four times Republican
leader of the senate.
Wood Likely Man
1t is generally believed that if
| President Harding decides to appoint
another Indiana man to the cabinet
his selection will be Will r. Wood
! The rumor still persists in Wash
| ington that Senator Harry S. New
/ iy1ri1l low &c. ac,t.A
| eral and that Representative Wood
will be appointed by Governor Nc
| Cray to serve News unexpired term
! in the senate, but this report has been
emphatically denied by Senator New.
| Friends of Senator New assert he
has not the slightest intention of with
! drawing his candidacy for reelection
! to the senate, and they point to the
! fact that he left Washington for IN
dianapolis today for the purpose of
opening his senatorial campaign. 1t
! is understood that he intends to make
thorough canvass of the state be-
/ fore he returns to washington
| One of the orders promulgated by
the postoffice department shortly be-
fore the resignation of Will r. Hays as
postmaster general, requiring all new
| ly appointed postmasters of second,
third and fourth class offices to at
| tend a school of instruction at some
centrally located point in each state,
promises to receive al airing before
congress as soon as members of con-
gress learn that postmasters attending
such schools will have to pay their
own expenses.
The order in question received con-
siderable publicity at the time it was
issued, but it made no mention of the
fact during the proposed two weeks OF
instruction postmasters in attendance
would be expected to Gefray expenses
out of their own pockets. That inter
esting detail became known this week
however, when one of the officials oi
the postoffice department stated that
the government would not pay the ex
: penses of student postmasters.
Appointees Will Howl.
In every state the majority of post
offices are third and fourth class, the
salaries of the postmasters ranging
from $1,000 to $4,000 per year, and the
, prediction has been made that wheT
the newly appointed postmasters
affected by the order learn that they
are expected to spend two weeks a
schools of instruction and meet the
! expense out of their modest income:
they will unite in a chorus of protes
that will rock the foundations of tn,
house and senate office buildings il
Washington.
Under anticipated congressional fir,
the school for postmasters" orde
would probably join in the depart
/ ments official wastebasket anothe
recently well advertised Hays edict
. fingerprinting of postal savings banks
. 6epositors. 1t appears that in sew
j. eral places throughout the countr,
; postal savings depositors objected s.
: strenuously to having imprints of the1
fingers made that the department sool
: decided that the order had more pull
! licity than practical value, so it wa
: amended to make "finger-printiug
L optional with the depositors.