Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
INCOMING CABINET
MSF|RST MEETING
Mbut Stimson Here for Cere.
monies, as Old Members
Prepare to Go.

13~the Associated Press.
On the eve of their induction into
Once the members Of the Hoover cab
met gathered yesterday around the
hospitable table Of their chief to greet
one another and exchange pleasantries
asIfriends-the next gathering will be
asfhlsh oficials Of the Nation.
President Coo!id9e's cabinet members,
on The other hand we're mostly making
prepS1ations to vacate their Offices and
lee Washington and devoting much
tifiiesto farewells and packing. Satur-
day night they gathered for the last
time as dinner guests Of Mr.. Coolidge
1T the White House.
Henry L. Stimson, Mr.. Hoover's Sec
rotary Of State, was the only member of
his ofncial family absent from Washing
ton. Although he has already left
Manila, where for over a year he has
been administering the Philippines, he
will not land in San Francisco until
March 20. All the other new cabinet
will participate In today's ceremonies.
Their names will be passed on by the
Senate In special session today for rat
nication and Mr.. Hoover has already in
dicated that he will call them for his
first cabinet meeting tomorrow. The
oatfls OF office probably will be ad-
ministered tomorrow morning before the
cabinet meeting. e~t
Most of Mr.. Hoover's luncheon guests
yesterday. were already previously &C.
quainted with each other and all knew
OF each others reputation. Few, how
ever. were close friends and the new
cabinet members welcomed the oppor-
t,mity yesterday Of drawing nearer to
each other and of supplementing with
personal intimacy the close working re-
lations which win be theirs in the next
years.
~ Two Members Veterans.
Andrew W. Mellon and James j.
Davis, the only two members of the
new cabinet to serve in the old. were
the veterans Of yesterdays gathering of
the incoming cabinet. Charles Francis
Adams, Arthur M. Hyde and Robert p.
Lamont are newcomers to oficial life
Ia washington, while Ray Lyman Will
bur has served here only during the
war Is chief of the conservation di-
vision OF the Food Administration.
Stimson's experience In administration
ONCE dates back as far as 1911 as Sec
rotary Of War In the Taft administra-
ton.
A wide variety Of future activities
faccd the retiring members of Mr.. Cool
1dgeS cabinet. Secretary Kellogg will
remain In ONCE as head of the foreign
department until his successor can
reach the Capital, probably about April
I. Mr. kellogg may thus still see his
1ondest ambition realized. namely. the
MITIGATION by all signatory nations of
the Kellogg treaty to renounce war.
Only four Of the ratifications of the
original signatories of the treaty have
not yet been deposited in the State De-
partment. The Polish and French rat
1ncations, however, are on the way and
the Belgian and japanese adherences
are expected here very soon.
On leaving ofice. Mr.. Kellogg, after
9 protracted vacation, win 60 back to
ST. Paul and to the practice of law
Attorney General Sargent VIII do the
same, and after serving In the highest
legal position IN the country he pro.
poses 70 return TO 1.-The big red brick
house IN LUDLOW. within easy reach Of
the plentiful truot streams Of Vermont.
European Trip Likely,
A diplomatic period In Europe is pre-
dtcted for Secretary Davis of the War
Department, who is reported as still an
xicuS 20 serve his country and whose
usefulness Is, well known to the new
President.
The farmers problem still viii remain
Secretary Jardine's chief preoccupation
after leaving ONCE. As soon as possible
ne wil take up duties here as counsel
1or the Federated Fruit & Vegetable
Secretary wilbur Of the Navy De-
partment, brother Of the next Interior
Secretary, probably will return to the
bench. One Of Mr.. Coolidge's last Of
nciA ectS was to nominate him for n
Federal tudgeship In the Pacific Coast
area. His nomination was not confirmed
BY the Senate for lack of time. but it
u confidently expected that Mr.. Hoover
VII resubmit his name Mr.. Wilbur
was chief justice of the California Su-
preme Court ct the time he was ap-
pointed to the Navy portfolio.
secretaries West and Whiting Of the
Interior and Commerce Departments
are, expected to return to Chicago and
Hoiyoke, Mass, respectively, to take up
again their private Affairs. Mr.. West is
q. lawyer and Mr.. Whiting q paper
manufacturer.
It was said yesterday that Postmaster
General News chief occupation imn1e-
diAtely on leaving ONCE will be to catch
up On his hunting and fishing after
eight years at his desk here He then
WIN return to live in Washington.
No Time to Be Wasted.
The new cabinet will waste no time
IN going to work. Even Stimson, al
though about 5000 miles from wash
angton today, already will be engaged In
further cementing American relations
with Japan at dinner to be rendered
him BY Baron Tanaka, Japanese foreign
minister, in Toxic, at which he win be
the EIest Of honor. -t.
william D. Mitchell, as solicitor gen.
eral for the last four years, is intimately
AcquAinted with his immediate duties as
the new Attorney General. James w.
Good OF Iowa, long a member Of Con-
gre1ss and for years the chairman Of the
appropriations committee, will be no
stranger to the duties and requirements
OF the Secretary Of War. Walter F.
Browns service as Assistant Secretary
Of Commerce has given him q full
knowledge Of the functioning of the
Federal Government, which will enable
him 70 settle down Immediately to his
duties as Postmaster General.
Wilbur, Hyde and Lamont are all re-
gaIded as outstanding figures in the
heldS which they will have to administer
as Secretaries of the Interior, Agricul-
cure and Commerce, respectively. Adams
repNtetion as over of the sea has as
sure4 him an enthusiastic welcome at
the Navy Department.