Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-25

Prediction Is here ventured that the
Hoover cabinet will be full of surprises,
virtually from top to bottom. The
country need not be astonished IL the
majority of its personnel consists of
names hardly mentioned in the guess
ing contest now rampant. The prompt
ness with which Dwight w. Morrow
took himself out of the running, imme-
diately the dopesters began to take
definite liberties with his name, Is a
straw showing how the Hoover wind Is
blowing. From the outset nobody has
been touted for cabinet honors with
more persistency than the Ambassador
to Mexico. Mr.. Hoover Is an uncom-
monty ambitious man. He Is also adj
dicted to programs of his own and a
fondness for having them carried out
by persons of his own choosing. He is
entitled to an administration that Is
burdened with neither the assets nor
the liabilities of its predecessors. The
Californian, by all the rules of the game,
has a clean slate coming to him. The
one President Hoover presents to the
country on March Is likely to be found
at least 90 per cent of original construc-
ton, If not 100 per cent.
NJ X
When Is an executive session of the
United States Senate an executive
session? The answer is, hardly ever.
The other day the upper house con-
firmed Roy o. West of Illinois as Sec
rotary of the Interior after a prolonged
| fight against him. The proceedings were
"executive"-that is, behind closed
| doors. but within "a hours the detailed
secret" vote by which West was con-
f1rmed became public property. It could
only have leaked out through some
Senator's kindness to newspaper man.
No press gallery rules were violated. It
| was only breach of the Senate'S own
rules that was committed. Proceedings
| in executive session never remain execu-
tive very long. It is the exception, and
not the rule, when they are kept secret.
! Senators are obliging, as we'll as talka-
| tive, and the occupants of the press gal
lery are professionally in receptive
mood.
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Mr.. Setsuzo Sawada, counselor of the
japanese embassy since 1925, Is leaving
| Washington for tour Of duty in the
| foreign Office at Toxic. A convert to
| Quakerism while youth in Japan, Mr..
Sawada has been attending the same
Friends meeting as President-elect
| Hoover during the past few years. The
| young Nippon diplomat enjoys the spe-
cial friendship of Emperor Hirohito,
| whom he once accompanied on a trip
around the world. SaWada was host
| last year at dinner In honor of dele
| gates to the International Radio Con-
! ference in Washington. Mr.. Hoover,
then Secretary of Commerce, sat on his
| right. The Japanese said he studied up
TENaI OF IF fSvN akx q
| could keep on talking to Hoover, because
| he'd heard that the Commerce chief
wasn't very long on table conversation.
| To his amazement Mr.. Sawada diScov-
| cred that Hoover was so chatty and en-
tertaining that the diplomat seldom
f. found 1t necessary to put in a word
edgeWise.
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About the busiest man in Washing
ton these days is Clayton F. Moore, clerk
Of the ways and means committee of
the House of Representatives. It is his
duty to welcome, shepherd and mollify
the throngS of tariff seeking patriots
who want their place in the sun under
, the forthcoming Hawley-Smoot act.
! This is Moore'S second successive ex-
| perience on the job. He was clerk of
ways and means as far back as 1919,
and weathered the drive which resulted
in the enactment Of the Fordney-
McCumber law in 1922. Mr. Moore is
the eldest son of former Representative
j. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia
one time mayor of that city, and ac-
companied his father to Washington as
| private secretary 20 years ago. No man
knows the tariff ropes better than he
does. He calls tariff making lone of the
most intricate and fascinating functions
of the legislative arm of the Govern
ment." The ways and means committee
room in the House Office Building dur