Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-01-21
SECRETA HUGHES
To QUIT MARCH 4
viii Be Succeeded by Frank
B. Kellogg, Who Is Now
Ambassador at London.

Washington. = Secretary of State
Hughes has resigned his portfolio, the
resignation TO take effect March A
next
He will be succeeded in office by
Frank B. kellogg of Minnesota, now
American ambassador to Great
Britain.
The announcement was made at the
White House in the following official
statement:
1T was announced at the White
House that Secretary of State Hughes
would retire from the cabinet on the
4th of March, in accordance with a
long-cherished plan of his, and that
his place would be taken by Ambas-
sador Kellogg, who is now the Amer
lean ambassador at London"
Hughes Letter
Secretary Hughes letter OF resigna-
ton and President CoOlidge's reply
follow:
MY Dear Mr. President:
The period of service which was in
contemplation when l took office is
now drawing to a close, and, in accord
ance with the intention l have here
tofore expressed, l big leave to tender
my resignation as secretary of state,
to take effect on March 4, 1925.
1T will then be twenty years since
I undertook public work in New York,
and during that time, with the excep-
ton of a little more than two years
after the armistice, I have been en-
gagged almost continuously in the dis
charge of public duties.
II feel that l must now ask to be re-
lieved OF official responsibility and to
be permitted to return to private life.
AS foreign affairs are perennial, l
known of no more appropriate time to
do this than at the end of the present
administration.
Permit me again to express my
deep appreciation of the confidence
you have reposed in me and of the
privilege of serving under your leader
ship. l shall have an abiding memory
of your unfailing kindness.
ASSURING you of my earnest sup
port of your administration and of my
hope that, although out of office, l
may still be able to be of service.
am, my dear Mr.. President, with high
est esteem,
Faithfully yours,
CHARLES e. HUGHES"
President Coolidge, in his reply,
dated January 10. said:
MY Dear Mr.. Secretary:
"Your favor of recent date advising
me that you have irrevocably decided
to adopt your long-cherished intention
of retiring on the 4th of March, l have
received with much regret. / can we'll
appreciate that you are personally en-
titled after twenty years of public
service, to seek some of the satisfac-
ton of private life.
But 1 cannot refrain from express
ing my feeling of personal loss at the
prospect of your retirement, and also
the loss that must inevitably ensue
when one of your ability and expert
ence goes out OF an Office which he
is so well qualified to FILL
Il realize, however, that this is in
the nature of things, and so wish to
put my emphasis on the appreciation
that l feel for your loyalty at all times
to me, your many expressions by word
and deed of a friendship on which 1
could not set too high a value, and
the exalted character and disinterested
nature of the important public service
that has come so constantly under my
observation.
81 trust you may have well-mer-
tied repose and that satisfaction which
alone can come from q consciousness
that the duties of life have been
we'll performed.
"With kindest regards, I am,
VERY cordially yours,
CALVIN COOLIDGE"