Evening star., 1925-01-11

duties of this life have been well
performed.
with kindest regards, l am very
cordially yours,
CALVIN COOLIDGE"
Like Mr.. Hughes, Mr.. Kellogg is q
lawyer of wide reputation, who gain
ed public recognition as a trust prose
cutor under Taft and later served as
a Senator from Minnesota In the
Senate he displayed particular ben;
for foreign affairs and was a member
of the group of mild reservation"
Republicans in the fight over the
League of Nations. He was an init
| mate personal friend of President
Harding, and not long after Mr.. Hard
ing's death was appointed by Mr..
Coolidge to the Court of St James
after he had been defeated for re-
election to the Senate.
To Re-enter Law Firm.
Mr.. Hughes expects to re-enter the
New York law firm of Hughes,
Rounds, Sherman & Dwight Except
for few brief intervals. sandwiched
between his years of public effort as
Governor of New York, associate
justice of the Supreme Court. special
Government prosecutor, Republican
nominee for the presidency and Secre-
tary of State, he has not engaged
actively in his profession since 1905
His services often have been sought
by clients of such standing that he
felt keenly the financial sacrifice of
continuance in public office
In addition, there recently have
peen evidences of growing irritation
between the Secretary and those SEN
ators of his party who have disagreed
with him on questions of foreign
policy During the last session of
congress he differed vigorously with
Republcan Senate leaders over jap
ehese exclusion. With the accession
of Senator Borah to the chairman
ship of the foreign relations commit
tee the titular Senate leadership is
OUT OF harmony with Mr. Hughes
policy on several issues, predominate
~ the question of Russian recoe-
, nition
Cabinet Astonished.
10 all outward appearances. at
least. President Coolidge never has
disagreed seriously with the Secre-
tary on any policy, foreign or domes
TIC, and the prophecy of official Wash
lngton has been that the unrest in
lne senate would only make the Chief
Executive more determined to back
up Mr. Hughes and keep him in the
CABINET If he could. Even some mem
oers or the cabinet expressed aston
lshment when they heard last nfsht
| that their colleague had made an ir-
reVocable decision TO retire.
Drlef statement addressed TO
state Department officials was left bv
MT. hughes at his office when he de-
| parted for Atlanta. 1t merely re-
| peated the language of his letter to
the PRESIDENT, declaring that he felt
he had the right before old age over
| TOOK him, to enjoy once more the life
OF private citizen. His retirement
March 4 will complete exactly four
years as Secretary of State and will
see lin within almost month of his
sixty-third birthday. His health is
| unusually vigorous for a man of hfs,
years.
| All Issues Settled
The Secretary's trip to Atlanta
probably will keep him away from the
| Capital until next Wednesday or
! Thursday. There are comparatiyelv
few questions of outstanding impor-
tance now pending before the Depart
] ment and Mr.. Hughes expects to clear
| away as many of them as possible be-
fore he turns over his desk TO his sue
| cessor.
One of the questions which the
retiring Secretary had hoped in vain
would assume a more definite char
acter before he announced his retire
| ment is the negotiation of a war
debt settlement with France. 1t was
an incident connected with these dis
cussions which recently started, per-
haps, the most persistent of the ru-
mors revived last night by those who
sought to go beyond the official an
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