Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-15
SLEMP TO RETIRE;
EVERETT SANDERS
TOBE SUCCESSOR
Indiana Representative Will
Become Presidents Secre-
tary on March d.
NEW AIDE TO EXECUTIVE
WAS ACTIVE IN CAMPAIGN
Resigning Official to Practice Law.
With Coolidge Since He
Entered White House.

c. Bascom Slemp will retire March 4
as secretary to President Coolidge and
be succeeded by Representative Everett
Sanders of Indiana. The decision of
Mr. Slemp, who has been secretary
to Mr.. Coolidge since he entered the
White House, became known today
after he had returned from a trip to
New York.
Representative Sanders will retire
from the House March 4, not having
been candidate for reelection. He
was director of the Republican Ma
tional Committees speakers bureau
during the campaign, and is mem
ber of the House steering committee.
SIemp Issues Statement.
Secretary slemp this afternoon is
sued the following formal statement
on his coming retirement:
My voluntary retirement from
Congress two years ago after l5
years OF service was actuated by a
desire to return TO private life. When
President Coolidge was called to the
executive office. | was invited to be-
come Secretary to the President, and
did SO because of conviction that
there was an opportunity to help in
carrying forward the policies to
which he was devoted and as to
which my own convictions ran en-
tirely parallel to his.
When l came to the White House
II was with expectation and under
standing that my service here was
not to continue so long as to inter-
feTe with plans | had made for re-
turning to the profession of the law.
With the overwhelming election of
President Coolidge it has seemed that
there was no further occasion for de-
laying these plans. | have, therefore.
indicated to the Pre- sident my desire
to be relieved at an early date, and he
has consented
viii Remain Ina Washington.
'Purzuant to arrangements WHICH
were under consideration before
came to the White House. | shall be-
come a member OF the law firm OF
Good, ChiIds. PoDb & WescUtt of Chi
cAgo and Washington. Mr. James w.
Good, head of the firm. is an old
friend with whom I was long asso-
ciated during my congressional serv-
ice. Mr.. Good retired from the House
when he was chairman of the com
mittee on appropriations and chair
man OF the committee on the budg t.
Our service together on the Gppropri-
ations committee led to an intimacy
which naturally resulted in the asso-
citation which has now taken form. l
shall have charge OF the Washington
Office of this firm.
Il shall leave the White House
with many regrets because of the
personal attachment which | felt for
the President and his family, and also
by reason of my keen sympathy for
the policies which he is SO effectively
carrying forward. To have had the
privilege of so close and happy asso-
citation with him, and some modest
part in the furtherancc of his high
aims will also be a profound salts
faction to me-
it was the understanding when the
name of Mr.. Sanders was proposed for
the vice presidential domination at
the Cleveland national convention in
Cleveland last June that he would be
entirely acceptable to the President.
Candidacy Not Pressed.
His name was not pressed there,
however when opposition developed
in the Indiana delegation. This was
said to have been due to the political
situation in Indiana, and the same
considerations. it is understood, do
q"
now selected.
Ia the successor to Mr.. Slemp the
President will have as secretary a
man similarly equipped in his knowI-
edge of congressional ma atters, as Mr.
Sanders is rounding cut eight years
as member of the House. He will
be 45 years old March s.
SIemp Feels Work Done.
Mr.. Slemp feels that as the Presi-
dent now has formed several avenues
of approach to Congress, the work
for which he was primarily selected
as presidential secretary has been
completed. In his opinion another
the election. In the selection of
solid Coolidge delegations from
the South to the Cleveland con-
Vention, some of his friends ex-
rected him TO be given a prominent
place by President Coolidge in the
campaign organization, but william
NJ. Butler of Massachusetts was made
national chairman and Mr.. Slemp
placed on the advisory committee-a
body that, so far as known, never was
called together during the campa ign.
Chairman Butler and Mr.. Slemp
had some differences of opinion dur
ing the Cleveland convention, and the
resignation of the Secretary imme-
diately after the convention was
narrowly averted by the President
Some of those close to Mr.. Slemp
urge that he be given a cabinet
place, even if it were necessary for
the President to ask some member
of the official family inherited from
the Harding administration toNretirc
Mr.. Coolidge, however, decided moi
10 request any mem ber of the cabinet
To leave, and the two vacancies that
have developed since the election
were in departments to which men
with particular training had to be
appointed.
1t is understood that as late as
Tuesday Mr.. Coolidge personally re-
quested each member of the present
cabinet to remain at his post and in
each case the member assured the
President that if such was his desire
it would be met Thus the door
finally was closed to cabinet ap-
pointment at this time for Mr. Slemp.
The possibility remains that the
retiring presidential secretary may
yet be given an appointment TO
diplomatic post of sufficient import
ance to make il promotion from his
present office, although Mr. Slemp's
intention throughout his considera-
ton of the question of retiring has