The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-05
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TCpAY--This is the open season for junketing, and the Capital is nearly deserted, writes Fl. K. Reynolds, Washington correspondent.

" o1>, A Dl II e'A V quiet days in the National Capital.
 After nearly two years of continu- ous activity at both ends of Pennsyl- vania avenue, the Capitol and the White House are deserted and their occupants are scattered to the four corners of the earth.
 In the chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives, mahog- any desks are gathering dust while the big corridors echo to occasional foot steps as some legislator wanders through the familiar halls trying to work up enough courage to go back home and tell his constituents why he did this or why he failed to do some thing else.
 Only few servants occupy the Executive Mansion itself, but at the White House offices a clerk or two IS on duty to handle the correspondence that comes to the President in daily flood, despite the absence of himself and his Congress.
 While President Harding is golfing in Florida (and incidentally leading a score of Washington newspaper corre- spondents a merry chase through the marshes bordering the Indian River), Secretary of State Hughes is sitting on the lid in the Capital.
 Officially and technically, he is in supreme command of all the Govern ment that remains in Washington but the Government has a happy faculty of being able to almost run itself, so the Secretary of State has little to do outside of his own department.
 The suggestion was made just be- fore the President left that Hughes would have authority to call Cabinet meeting, but the Secretary lost no time in backing out, reminding his col leagues that Robert Lansing tried that once when Woodrow Wilson was out of town and that the venture was one of the things leading up to Lansing s resignation. So there is likely to be no Cabinet meetings until the Presi- dent gets back.
 Secretary of the Treasury Mellen is also on the job and has been occupied chiefly with putting the finishing touches on the contract under when the United States is going to collect five billion dollars from Great Britain,
 The great military establishment or the United States is being command ed by Dwight F. Davis, who rose to that high position within twenty-fou" hours after President Harding trans ferred him from the War Finance Cor poration to the War Department. Sec retary Weeks is down in Florida on a vacation jaunt
 There has been very little actlvlty at the Department of Justice for many weeks, as Attorney General Daugherty has been so seriously ill that he could not leave his apartment. But with the Attorney-General actually out of town, the Governments judicial machinery has slowed down more than ever. The War Frauds Division, however, which operates almost as an independent agency, is still continuing it's investi- cations and prosecutions.
 Harry s. New, of Indiana, left the Capital almost as soon as the Ink De- gan to get dry on the commission which made him a member of Presl- dent Harding's Cabinet. Within thir- ty-six hours after he took the oath as Postmaster General he was on his way to his home in Indianapolis to attend a big reception in his honor.
 Dr. Hubert Work, who was moved from the Postoffice to the Interior De- partment to make way for Senator New, is so busy learning all about his new job that he hasn't had time to get away.
 Theodore Roosevelt is running the Navy Department while Secretary Denby attends the war games in Pan anna The trip to Panama was made on the Henderson, Denby taking along big party of Senators, Congressmen and newspapermen as his guests.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Secretary of Labor Davis are still in Washington as is Secretary ot Commerce Hoover, though Hoover plans to make trip to the West as soon as possible to check up on the development of the Colorado River basin.
 This is the open season for Con gressional junkets. Besides the Navy trip to Panama, which includes stops at a number of cities in the West In dies, there are number of Govern