The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-28
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AIDES SAFE
INJ0BS
By EARL GOODWIN

CQ1y C1TeG CaDlI16G O11ICcIS-
Secretaries Hull, Wallace and
Morgenthau-will be reappointed
if the Roosevelt Administration
Is returned to power in the No
vember election. This Is the
story going around in the inside
political circles.
At the same time, the insiders
add:
"Of course, Postmaster Gen
eral Farley viii be reappOinted
IL he wants to remain In the
Cabinet, but he may not want
to remain"
This prediction finds support
even among some of the Cabinet
members themselves.
No Changes Now
For the time being there Is ex-
pected no change in the Cabinet,
nor among the Presidents aides
in the National Emergency Coun-
Gil. There will probably be no
appointment to succeed the late
Henry Latrobe Roosevelt. assist
ant Secretary Of the Navy, nor
any other appointments which
have the slightest political tinge.
The Presidents aides ask:
whats the use? The Gov
eminent is getting along o. X.
Why stir up the POLITICAL fac
lions which are always active
when q Presidential appoint
ment is to be nader"
Insiders are betting that Sec
rotary of Interior and PWA Ad-
miniStrator Ickes will definitely
not be. q member. of a second
Roosevelt Cabinet. In some in
stances the wish is father to
the thought.
The reason is that while Secre-
tary IckeS has done a conSpicu'
ously good job, according to Ad-
miniStration insiders, he has kept
the Administration in q ferment
over his habit of trying to take in
more and more territory in his
already huge department.
Rows With Hopkins
Secretary Ickes' constant bel
ligerency against Harry Hopkins
and the Works Progress Admins
tration is now so ingrained that it
is looked upon as an irremovable
blemish. Mr.. Hopkins considers
that Secretary Ickes would have
the same belligerent attitude to-
ward anyone at the head OF the
WPA organization and does not
put up his fists every time Mr..
Ickes comes within range.
At the same time, Harry Hop
kins fatty told the President he
would resign if Mr.. Ickes and his
high-powered publicity organiza-
ton took the commanding position
in the distribution of relief. That
preceded the Presidents appoint
ment of Frank Walker, NEG head,
and MeSsrs. Ickes and Hopkins
to administer relief. The row
was very hot at that time. Presi.
dent Roosevelt, exaSperated, en-.
deavored to place an outstanding
New Deal supporter in position
of supreme command over relief
policies. He offered the post to
j. M. Patterson, New York pub
Usher, who declined.
Secretary Ickes' value to the
Presidential campaign now start
ing is a high one, according to
members of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee. There are few
slap-bang orators in the Presi-
dents Cabinet, but Secretary
1ckes is a phrase-maker and a
fighter. Even those Cabinet Of
ficers who are far from friendly
to him declare he is a strong man
on the platform. It is understood
that President Roosevelt admires
him deeply and feels that the pub
lie works program has been ad-
n1inistered with conspicuously
small amount of graft, but will not
reappoint him to the Cabinet.
Other Cabinet officers point out
that Secretary IckeS managed to
get Puerto Rico away from the
War Department, took the Bureau
Of Mines away from the Depart.
ment Of Commerce and wants all
conservation policies to be put un'
der the Department Of Interior, a
desire which is protested grimly
by Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace. Secretary Ickes believes the
Department of Interior should be
renamed the Department Of Con.
servation and Works, but he is
getting little support from other
Administration leaders, who see in
this plan a danger of the newly
formed department grabbing off
all the engineering work Of the
Army and Navy, much of the
Post Office work and a good bit
of the Treasury's duties. Depart