The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-01-11
SECRETARY FALL
TO QUIT CABINET
Says Affairs in New Mexico De-
mand His Attention and
Denies Friction Is Cause.
INTENDS TO PRACTICE LAW
Transfer of Secretary Hoover to Post
Rumored-New, Kellogg, MondeIl
and Carmi Thompson Also
Mentioned for Vacancy.

Washington. - The White House
confirmed that Secretary Of the In
terror Albert B. Fall will leave Presi-
dent Harding's Cabinet March next.
A three-cornered fight is already on
! to succeed him with Representative
| Mondell of Wyoming, Senator Poin-
dexter of Washington and Senator
New Of Indiana as active candidates
for the place. There were intima-
lions that the President would find a
way out of the difficulty of choos-
ing from among his three friends by
| listening to advice that is being given
to transfer Secretary of Commerce
Hoover to the Interior Department
and selecting julius Barnes, president
Of the United States Chamber Of
Commerce, to succeed Hoover
Both at the White House and at
Secretary Falls Office it was ex-
| planned the retirement is due to the
call of private business and it is de-
MED it is the result of feuds within
| the Cabinet resulting from the strug-
| gle between Secretaries Fall and Wal
lace over the Alaskan problem and
| policies of conservation growing out
Of the Presidents reorganization
| scheme. The President, it was ex-
planned, has the greatest confidence
and highest regard for Mr.. Fall and
| only recently desired to appoint him
Associate Justice of the Supreme
| Court.
While Secretary Fall disclaims the
| existence of personal wrangle with
| the Secretary of Agriculture, he ad-
mits they are far apart as to con-
servation policies and differ radically
relative to Alaska.
Secretary Fall has been more init
mate with the President than any
other member of the Cabinet, but it is
known he has never been happy in
| the place. At the outset of the or
ganization of the administration he
| preferred to be Secretary of State
and is understood to have objected to
the administration policies relative
| to Mexico.
The Fall resignation, the second
break in President Harding's Cabinet,
the first being the resignation of VIII
H. Hays as Postmaster General, re-
newed gossip of further Cabinet
changes.
The two other Cabinet officers who
are expected to withdraw within the
year are Attorney General Daugherty
and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon.
According to some of Senator Falls
| friends in Washington, the retiring
Secretary of the Interior will follow
! Franklin p. Lane, who became vice
president Of the Panaman Petroleum
! and Transport Company, and became
associated with one Of the country's
| largest oil concerns.
This report is to the effect Mr.
| Fall will become counsel for the Do
heny interests, who are largely inter-
ested in the Mexican oil field. Secre-
tary Fall has long been recognized as
| possessing detailed knowledge of
Mexican law. His duties would Ell
able him to pass most of his time in
New Mexico, where his ranching in
| terests are located.
A. B. Fall resigned as United States
| Senator from New Mexico to enter
the Cabinet when Mr.. Harding be-
came President. He had served in
the Senate since 1912. Previous to
that he had served in the New Mexico
Legislature, was a member of the
state Supreme Court, and twice
served as Attorney General.
Mr.. Fall is a native of Kentucky.
He was school teacher in his early
! days. He became interested in farm
| ing and the cattle business soon after
| going to New Mexico and now has a
large ranch at Three Rivers, N. NJ.