The Washington times., 1929-01-12
WILL
" BE HIS
ENVOY
By international News Service

BY international News Service
President-elect Hoover has passed
the word to authoritative diplo-
matte circles that he is favorably
disposed toward q new effort to
bring. about American adherence. to
the World Court.
This was the assurance carried
back to New York today by Elihu.
Root. former Secretary Of State.
following his breakfast conference
Friday at Hoover's s Street home.
Root has been invited by the
council of the League Of Nations to
participate in the work Of revising
the original World Court protocol of
1920. together with all subsequent
international law promulgated by
the courts decision. His confer.
ence with Hoover, it was learned,
was devoted principally to discus
sion of Hoover's wishes az to
American policy.
Root was one of the commission of
jurists which drew up the original
protocol for the World Court. He
has since been one of the Nations
most vigorous advocates Of United
States participation.
Way Paved at Hague
He will go to The Hague to find
the way well paved, through the pre-
liminary diplomatic discussions, for
a revision of the Court law which
would virtually incorporate, for all
practical purposes, the terms of the
Senate reservations.
t.
terpretative reservations was that
which reserved to the United States
the right to reject an advisory opin-
ion of the Court on any matter in.
volving United States interests or
claims.
Winding up his first week in the
new President-elect role he has es-
tabished for himself, Hoover crap
pied with the haunting specter Of
farm-relief today in his Mayflower
Hotel headquart rs.
First on the days calling list was
Senator McNary of Oregon, CO.
author of the McNary bill.
Close behind were Chester Gray,
president of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, and Sam Thomp-
son, member of the federation ex-
ecutive committee and it's legislative
agent. These conferences with sup.
porters of the McNaryHaugen pro-
gram came but two days after q
meeting with spokesman of the Ma
tional Grange, which has vigorously
opposed the farm bureau program
for agricultural legislation.
Mellon Causes Stir
Rumblings Of the Senate insur.
gents over the news that Hoover
virtually has decided upon the re-
appointment of Andrew w. Mellon
as Secretary of the Treasury,
reVerberated throughout the Capital
today as Senator Couzens R.) Michi-
gan. one of the Senate's most con-
spicuous anti. Mellonites, paid his
first call upon the President-elect.
Senator Nye's blunt statement
yesterday that he would oppose the
reappointment of the man who has
directed the national finances since
the beginning of the Harding ad.
ministration, marked the beginning
of the first encounter between Hoov.
err and the Senate.
Washington has been long accus.
toned to menacing cross-town fire
between the Senate and White
House, but the capital finds a new
thrill of high buzz-buzz in the Sen.
ate's crossing swords with the
President-elect. despite the fact that
Melons confirmation should he be
submitted in the Hoover Cabinet is,
in the face of the existing political
situation, foregone conclusion.
Other Callers
Other callers on the crowded Sat
urday program included Senator
keyes of New Hampshire, Steiwer
of Oregon and Pine of Oklahoma.
Ogden Mills, Under Secretary Of
the Treasury. was accorded a half
hour on the morning schedule.
As his luncheon guest. Hoover
had ]. c. Penny. wealthy chain
store merchant. on whose estate ne
will live during his Florida soiourn.
beginning next week.