Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-15
HOOVER TO Defer
D. c. APPOINTMENTS
Wants More Time to Study
MateriaI-DaWes to Head
General List.

President Hoover, after sending hi;
message to the special session of Con-
gress tomorrow, will almost immediatel,
submit a list of nominees for ofiices ir
| the Federal Government, but the latter
will not include his appointments to the
! Supreme Court of the District Of Co.
lumbia and the vacant place on the
Public Utilities Commission Of the Dis
| trict.
The name of former Vice President
Charles Dawes of Illinois, who has beer
selected by the President for appoint
! ment to the Court of st. James in Lon
/ don. will head the list. With two ex-
| ceptions the remainder of the names tC
be sent to the Senate tomorrow will he
those of appointees to major positions
since the Senate recessed March 4 last
about 30 postmasters and several already
announced in the press.
Aides Are on List.
Prominent among the recess appoint
ments which will be sent to the Senate
are: P. j. Hurley, to be Assistant Sec
retary of War; Trubee Dawson, to be
Assistant Secretary of War, in charge
Of aviation; Ernest L. Jahncke, to be
Assistant Secretary OF the Navy; D. C.
ingalls,, to be Assistant Secretary oi
the Navy, in charge of aviation, and
former Senator Dixon of Montana tc
be Assistant Secretary of Interior.
It was said at the White House today
that the President Is not ready at thi;
time to make any announcements re-
garding the appointment of an associate
justice of the Supreme Court of the
District Of Columbia or a successor tC
Col. Harrison Brand on the Distric'
Public Utilities Commission. He was
represented as wanting more time tc
consider available material before max
ing choices for these two posts. This
also is trie in the case of the assistant
secretaries he must appoint shortly fol
the State Department, the Treasury
Department and the Department ot
Commerce, as well as three assistant
postmasters general. and the several
assistant attorneys general.
|, It was revealed at the White Houst
today that the President is casting
about for successor to David H. Biail
of North Carolina as commissioner oi
internal revenue. 1t was said Commits
sioner Blair is anxious to retire to pri.
vate life principally because OF poo
health.
Lucas Being Considered,
While there has been no intimation a
| the White House as to a successor Il
Mr.. Blair, it is known that Robert H
Lucas of Kentucky is among those tt
| be considered.
Mr.. Lucas at present Is collector O
| internal revenue for the Kentucky dis
trict, and is being backed for this pro
motion by, j. Matt Chiffon, Republican
national committeeman for Kentucky
| Mr.. Chiffon has an engagement with
| the President this afternoon.
Joseph X. Meyer, at present chair
| man of the special advisory COMMITTEES
| of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, i
| known to be among those being con
sidered, but it is thought that his beins
Pennsylvania, the home State Of tn.
Secretary of the Treasury. will not hell
his chances.
1t has developed that the so-callet
Southern section Is claiming this bit o
patronage, and besides Kentucky, Wes
| Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee and Nortl
| the place.
National Committeeman Chiffon ais.
is endeavoring to get for Kentucky tn
solicitor generalship, made vacant by tn
elevation of William d. Mitchell to tn
attorney generalship.
He is urging appointment of Charlie
/. Dalton, a Federal district Judge, TO
solicitor general
Porto Rico Post May Figure.
| While the White House was noncom
initial as to the nature of the two ney
| appointments to be sent with the batcl
of nominations tomorrow. it was init
mated that one of these is for the va
cant place on the Board Of Mediation
There was no confirmation at the Whit,
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