The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-17

True. there had been some talk
that Mr.. Hughes might resign at
some future date. And on election
night a knowing newspaper man,
VINO had been closely affiliated with
the Republican National Commlttee'
did tell me that he thought the
SECRETARY Of State would retire at
the beginning of President Cool-
idee's new term He went ON Iuf-
Their to prophesy that Mr.. Hughes
would eventually return to the 81
prerne Bench, possibly as ChlSL Jus
tice vice Chief Justice Taft, VINO
was rumored to be in 'bad health
and anxious to retire. But apparent
ly nobody was prepared Ior the
Secretary's acton at the time tnaI
it actually came.
Indeed, on the very day the news
was made pubic one OF the group
of Washington newspaper CORE
spondents who is best up on what
is going on behind the scenes
printed powerful piece" in winch
he dwelt upon how the static condl-
tions in official life were boring
those who looked upon washington
as a sort of political three-r1ng CIR,
cua Coolidge and no cnanSe'
he prophesied, will supplant the
familiar slogan, Keep cool WIN
CooIidge." Whereupon there came
. change which is the 1oreruhner
of so MANY other changes thar. the
,1re5iction is being freely made that
onlv Secretary Mellon and Secrs.
+.ry Hoover. with Secretary OF
Labor Davis, probably, since MS
resienation has been WITHDRAWN
Iii remain OF the old guard IN the
Cabinet when the Fourth Oh Marcn
Is past. lite axc;to-
n,ent came the news OF G. Bas-
comb Slemp'S resignation as
tary to the President ana OF the
anpointment to the place OF COZ
FRESHMAN Everett Sanders, the man
who almost got the Vice Presloen-
tial nomination. at Cleveland.
.sWhy KeIIoggs" Is Fruitful
Tonic Of Speculation Today.
THE news that Frank B. Kellogg.
- present our ambassador at the
Court of St James, had been select
n TO succeed Mr.. Hughes as Secre-
tary of State was coupled with the
news of the latter's resignation AND
on the same day the name or Charles
Beecher Warren. sometime our am
bassador to Japan, was sent 60 the
senate as nominee for the post OF
ATTORNEY General. left vacant by the
appointment OF the incumbent, Har-
Ian r. Stone, to the Supreme Bencn.
So speculation-a favorite pafior
game in Washington-as to these
appofntments was cut short. We
can talk, however, and we
are talking wherever two or three
are gathered together, about
why Mr.. Houghton is to go to Lon
don-and, above all, about why
Kellogg?'-about who is to succeed
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on
the Supreme Bench, should he re-
tire in March, as is recurrently ru-
Tnored-and about whether there
really is any truth in the gossip to
the effect that Chief Justice Taft is
going out.
So. far-as / can find out, he has
made absolutely no move toward
retirement; and he certainly doesn't
look as though he were ill-ruddy
OF skin. bright of eye and wearing
continually that genial smile which
makes him look in his robes, to
quote William Allen Whites fam
Gus smile, like "a baby arch
angel in a, barrel But the story
persists that he is a'weary and
longs for the elm Swallowed quiet
Of New Haven.
Just now the Chief Justice is
confiding to his intimates that he
will be ten times a grandfather
before summer. He already has
eight grandchildren and the stork
is now lowering over the home OF
one of his sons-Pm not quite sure
which one-as well as the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Frederick
Johnson Manning. Doctor and
Mrs. Manning have but just re-
turned to their home in New
Haven-he's on the faculty at Yale
after a holiday visit to the Tafts
In Washington-but that as Mr..
Kipling says, is another story.
Solicitor General Beck Was
Popular Choice for London.
The Solicitor General, James 81.
Beck, was undoubtedly the popular
choice for ambassador to Great
Britain-if talk over the tea cups
be any criterion. He is so
eminentIy fitted to the job by
birth, training and natural endow-
ments. And he has such a charm
ing wife. Washington would be
loath to lose Mrs. Beck, but she is
Just the type of woman we like to