Evening star., 1932-12-28
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

The full story of the Roosevelt yacht
ing trip scheduled for February has yet
to be revealed Vincent Astors mag
nificent transatlantic yacht. the Nour-
mahal, will be the floating home of the
President-elect according to reports as
yet unconfrmed but widely circulated in
New York. 1t is announced that the
yacht will touch at no port, SO that
Mr.. Roosevelt may have complete rest,
completely beyond the reach of hand
shakers, the press. the photographer
and. most Of all, beyond the reach OF
inportuning politicians. That is all
very fine, but the burning question is
who will be aboard? For it is likely to
be upon the Astor yacht that the nnal
decisions will be reached on the cabi-
net, on appointments to other key po-
sitions in the government at home and
aboard, and the programs to be enun-
ciated in the inaugural message. That
at least Is the present assumption
Col. Louis Howe and the other Roose-
welt secretaries will be on board at the
elbow of their chief-that much is
taken for granted, but how about Chair
man Farley and Bob Jackson Of New
Hampshire and Bernard M. Baruch and
Prof Moley and others of the brain
trust" and Joe Kennedy, son-in-law OF
MdyUl TIlLSCl dlu VI 4OotOAl, OAAC
of the financial angels Of Roosevelt'S
pre-nomination campaign and an i'm
portant figure since then behind the
scenes in the Roosevelt councils? It
Is safe to say that no guest list will be
scanned with so much curiosity and no
incident o. the present Winter will give
rise to SO much political speculation.
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met recently penciled out on the back
of an envelope by one OF the smart
Democratic politicians reputedly high
In the confidence of the President-elect.
It represents no more than this gen.
tleman's solution of the cabinet picture
puzzle contest now in progress-hiS
guess Of the final outcome. But the list
ic highly ingenious and some of the
names will bear watching:
Agriculture - Arthur Mullen NE
braska)
Commerce C. Ritchie MARY
lanO.
Interior George W. Dern Utah).
Justice-Joseph E. Davies (Wiscon-
SIM.
Labor-Frances E. Perkins New
York;.
Navy-Jotn S. Cohen (Georgia).
1oot OAACC- -ooAiiCo a. Toilcy \NcW
York;.
State-Norman H. Davis (Tennessee)
Treasury-Carter Glass (Virginia).
War-Peter Q. Gerry (Rhode Island)
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The same commentator who compiled
the Roosevelt cabinet list in the pre-
ceding paragraph disposed of John w.
Davis by assigning to him the ambassa-
dorship at London; disposed Of Bernard
NJ. Baruch by putting him at the head
OF the r. F. c. Newton D. Baker Of
Ohio was assigned a place on the Su-
rreme Court and Gov. Byrd of Virginia
and AL Smith were envisaged as sitting
in the Senate of the United States.
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There has been considerable specula-
tion as to what passed between Justice
Branoeis of the Supreme Court and
Gov. Roosevelt on the several occasions
when the two men have met in recent
months. Neither has made any dis
tenable hypotheses. One is that Prof.
Felix Frankfurter Of Harvard was the
topic, either in the terms of place on
the Supreme bench or in the cabinet.
Another is that there was talk in more
general terms Of prospective changes in
the Supreme Court during the next four
years. Several members of the court are
passed on nearing the retirement and
the expectation is general that Presi-
dent Roosevelt will have the privilege
of naming two or more Supreme Court
justices. A third theory is thai the
President-elect and Justice Brandeis
talked about the application of the
eighteenth amendment to alcoholic
beverages Intoxicating In fact"
(3.2 per cent beer? and related ques-