Evening star., 1923-10-26
Ex-senator to Assume Post
ShortIy-CIose Friend of
Late President.
MANY PROBLEMS AWAIT
ARRIVAL In ENGLAND
Reparations, Prohibition and Open
Door in Tangier Present Heavy
Burden for Ambassador.

States senator from Minnesota, has
been selected for American ambassa-
dor to London.
He will succeed George Harvey.
who recently resigned, and the ap-
pointment is expected to become eff
fective in the near future
Mr.. Kellogg, who was one of the
little coterie of personal friends who
| accompanied the late President Hard
ing on most of his trips away from
washington and was a frequent guest
at the White House during the Hard
Ing administration, is a lawyer by
profession. During the single term
ne served in the Senate he devoted
| considerable attention to foreign af-
fairs. was a leader of the mild res
erVatlonists' in the Versailles treaty
fight and served as member of the
foreign relations committee.
Beaten BY shipstead.
In the 1922 campaign he was re-
nominated for the Senate by the re-
| publicans. but failed or reelection
In the sweep Of the farmer-Iabor
party which sent Henrik Shipstead
to the Senate from Minnesota by
majority of more than $4,000 over
his nearest opponent.
The newly selected ambassador is
sixty-six years old. and is a native
OF Potsdam. New York. He studied
law at Rochester, Mimi, after his
parents had removed to that state;
was admitted to the bar in 1878, and
soon afterward entered upon a long
career of public service He was for
three years city attorney of Roches-
ter. served later as county attorney,
and then rose to national prominence
| as special counsel for the federal
government in its antitrust suits
during the Taft administration.
Among the proceedings of this char
! acter he prosecuted We're those
against the Standard Oil Company
and the Union Pacific-Southern Pa
cific railroad merger.
Although Ambassador Harvey said
the other day that he would leave
the London post with his desk
tain to find heavy burdens awaiting
him. OF first Importance among the
negotiations in which he will have
part stands the reparations diff
Guilty. Ambassador Harvey is retiring
at time when there has been a
revival of the efforts to induce the
United States to participate in some
plan for the adjustment of the repa-
rations tangle.
Dry Question Unsettled.
Whether the plans of settlement
proposed by the British prime minis
ter meets with success or not, Mr..
Kellogg will have much to do before
final working out of the problem
is possible.
In the event conference is called,
or an economic commission created
to determine Germany's capacity to
pay reparations. the American am
bassador at London is sure to find
himself involved in many delicate
negotiations.
Second among the questions Mr.
Kellogg will be compelled to take up
is that of the reciprocal treaty agree
ments proposed by Secretary Hughes
to deal with prohibition enforcement.
At this time, SO far as the United
States government knows, the British
position on that proposal remains to
be determined by the imperial con-
ference, to which the foreign office
referred 1t for a decision as to policy.
Should Great Britain assent to be-
come party to the treaty suggested
by Mr.. Hughes, negotiations of that
pact would be done largely through
the American embassy in London.
Tnng1er Question Pending.
Another question pending between
the United States and Great Britain
is determination of the status of Tan
gier under the act of Algeciras. The
United States recently communicated
to London and other European capi-
tails an outline of its views, in which
the fiat statement was made that the
open door policy must govern final in
ternational conclusions as to Tangier
The London embassy. under the
new ambassador. probably also will
have to deal with some phases of the
Lincheng bandit outrage settlement
in China. Although the diplomatic
corps in Peking is handling these ne
gottations directly. the governments
represented in the corps have a close
ly related interest in the negotiations
and continuously are interchanging
views on the matter.
Born In 1856.
Mr.. Kellogg, the son of the late Asa
Farnsworth and Abigail (BillinEs)
Kellogg, was born December %, 1856.
His forbears were prominently
identified in colonial New England
life. his earliest parental ancestor be-
ing Lieut.. Joseph Kellogg, who came
from Great Leighs, England, in 1861,
and settled in Pennington, Conn.
His early boyhood was spent on a
farm of his father, a pioneer of Min
nesota. There for several years he
worked in the fields. He left the farm
in 1875, and commenced the study of
law at Rochester, MINI. Here he was
admitted to the bar three years later
and Immediately took up its practice.
Soon afterward he won a place in the
rank of the leading lawyers of his
judicial district.
An important change in his pro-
fessional career occurred in 1887,
when Senator Cushman K. Davis in
vited him to come to. st. Paul and
become a partner with himself and
c. A. Severance. He accepted, and the
relation was maintained until the
death of the senator.
Headed Bar Association.
He was president of the American
Bar Association for the year 1872
1913, and at its annual meeting held
September 1, 1913, at Montreal, he
delivered the annual address on the
treaty-making power, which COM
manded wide and favorable consider.
alton. This meeting was a notable