Evening star., 1929-01-02
HOOVER TO SPEED
CABINET ACTION
win Begin Series of Confer
ences With Leaders on
Arrival. Here.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
u. S. S. UTAH, January 2.-Selection
of his cabinet being the next important
task ahead of him, Herbert Hoover
Immediately after his arrival in Wash
ington next Sunday plans to begin a
series of conferences with Republican
party leaders from practically all sec
tions of the country on the makeup
of his executive family.
Mr.. Hoover probably will invite to his
first conferences those congressional
leaders, who took a leading part in his
campaign. These undoubtedly will in
clude Vice President-elect, Curtis; Sen
ators Moses of New Hampshire, Borah OF
Idaho. and Sackett of Kentucky; Speak
er Longworth and Representative Tilson,
the Republican House leader, and Rep
resentativeS Newton Of Minnesota, who
was chairman of the partys national
campaign speakers bureau, and Fort OF
New Jersey, secretary Of the Republican
national committee, who was the
| Hoover floor manager at the Kansas
| City convention.
CaDlneS IS MOI Mauc Up.
The President-elect indicated clearly
today that he has not made up his MIND
on the cabinet appointments. The first
task he set for himself was his Latin
American goodwill tour and he fells
it is unnecessary to begin the cabinet
selection until he reaches the Capital
The primary purpose of Mr. Hoover's
visit to Washington is to confer With
these leaders. While there he also will
ask for q conference with President
Coolidge to make report on his obser-
vations on the goodwill tour. In add1-
ton he will formulate precise program
for his Inauguration, which he desires
to be as simple as any held in recent
years.
It is no secret that Mr.. Hoover has
found amusement In some of the stories
emanating' from Washington as to his
reason for going there. He pointed out
that his home Is there and that ne
wants to make arrangements regarding
his house and to pack his personal pc
longings before entering the Wnite
House. He also stated that, If he went
direct to Florida, 1t would put the SEN
ators and Representatives with Whom
he desires to confer at a great mcon-
venience.
It also was pointed out that every
Republican President-elect since Hayes
has visited Washington between the
time of the election and the tnaugu-
ration. Garfield, Mckinley, Taft and
Harding all did
Mr.. Hoover reiterated that he will
not discuss the legislative program OF
this Congress with any leaders, as he
would regard it highly improper for
the President-elect to interfere in any
way with legislative affairs pending
during another administration.
Fletcher Prepares Tour Record.
The historical record of the good
will tour is now in the course of prep
aration by Ambassador Fletcher, who
will file it with the State Department,
to be placed in the Governments per-
manent archives. The record will in
clude the texts of Mr.. Hoovers
speeches at Amapala, Honduras; La
Union, Salvador; Corinto, Nicaragua;
San Jose, Costa Rica; Guayaquil,
Ecuador: Lima, Peru; to the Bolivians
at Antofagasta Chile; Santiago Chile;
| Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Rio de
Janeiro, as we'll as the texts of the
addresses welcoming Hoover made by
the various South and Central Ameri-
can Presidents and foreign ministers
! In2re also VIII pc Incorporated LnS
texts of messages exchanged between
the President-elect and officials of the
Latin American republics.
Mr. Hoover has his own private rec
ords of the trip. including statistics
and voluminous data on various SUBJ
jects about the different countries he
visited, which are expected to be Of
invaluable aid to him during his ad-
| nlinistration.
The Hoover mission will disband
upon the arrival in Washington. Am
bassador Fletcher will remain in the
Capital for a few days before going to
his post at Rcme. Allan Hoover will
go back to Palo Alto. Calf, to resume
his studies at Stanford University
John r. Mott personal friend of Mr.
Hoover, who accompanied him because
Of his knowledge Of the people and
language of Syuth America, will re-
turn to his home at Les Angeles
George Barr Baker, director Of COM
munications for the mission, will re-
turn to hts New York home. Mrs
Hoover will remain in Washington with
the Prcsident-elect and will accompany
him to Florida later in the month.