The Washington times., 1923-04-08
VOYAGERS'
RETURN I'm
PROSPECT
HardingS Now Due and
Henderson Party EX-
pected ShOrtly-Re-
cess Gathering of
OFFICIAL CLANS Threat
ened.
BY EVELYN C. HUNT.

~ and splendid entertainment
as well as fine political
gossip will soon be the portion
of official circles in Washing
ton.
The return this weekend Of
President and Mrs. Harding and
their encourage viii start things.
The impending return about
April Is of Secretary Of the
Navy DENLY and that valiant
crew of merry junketeers who
have been travelling with him
on board the transport Hender-
SON viii bring the wave to its
foaming crest.
And on the very heels of that,
the most suspicious of the junket-
ing trfps-that Of Secretary Of
War Weeks and his official party
on the transport Grant viii sail
from New York somewhere be-
tween the goth and. 25th of April.
to be gone on jaunt that viii
include the Panama Canal, the
West Coast, Alaska, and an extra
leg across the Pacific to the
Hawaiian islands, and possibly
for some to the far-off Philip
pines.
THERE win be an unusual re-
cess situation in Washington
about the middle Of this month,
for not only win the President be
here. but with the possible ex-
ception of Attorney General
Harry NJ. Daugherty. who Ii con-
tinning his conyalescence at Ashe-
vile and goes thence to Atlantic
City, the entire Cabinet gives
Indication Of being here.
Secretary Weeks, who has been
away, has returned and win
doubtless stay until he starts on
his voyage of inspection. Secre-
tary DENLY and his fellow-voy-
ageurs viii 1have returned. Secre-
tary Of the Treasury Mellon Is
back, after an Easter vacation
In Atlantic City; DR.. Work and
Secretary Wallace. both In the
West, win be back within a week
or two, and Secretaries Davis and
Hoover and Postmaster General
New seemingly have no plans
that win take them out Of Wash
ington for more than a few days
at a time If at all. And Secre-
tary of State Hughes has been
staying very closely on the job.
Vice President Coolidge, how
ever, is remaining away from the
Capital, and Speaker Of the House
GiIlett is continuing to convalesce
from his attack Of influenza In
Southern chimes without giving
any indication Of a desire to
hurry back here.
Congress, once very anxious to
get away, has in large number
been represented since the adj
dournment on the 4th Of March.
And when the Henderson docks
here there will be quite a good
~ crowd OF Representatives and
Senators around for a period.
But the ranks Of the stayers
On are thinning out, and the re-
turn Of the Henderson junk
eteers gives promise Of reviving
the spirits Of official Washing
ton II the things already re-
Vealed In letters that have been
received, now that the homeward
Journey Is starting, may be re-
lied upon.
YESTERDAY Secretary DENLY
- and his guests attended the
inaugural ceremonies whereby
former Congressman Hora c e
Towner was installed as gov
ernor Of Porto Rico.
And In the next few days the
Henderson win be steamine
northward, bearing surprises for
Washington. The six-week trip
has been a splendid success-so
cially as well as practically
And those aboard are giving in
dicatiQn that they have lots tc
tell their friends here; the men
are writing their wives that Il
will take at least three months
to ten all about 1t.
Surprises are in store fol
many persons, too, for 1t hal
become known that a veritabls
zoo IL being housed aboard tn,
transport, its inmates to be be
slowed upon hapless Washing
ton1ans whom the voyagers de
sire to remember" Gauchy col
Ored macaws, long familiar II
the Pan-American Union Build
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