Life — February 3, 1921 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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CABINET-MAKERS AT WORK No Cabinet Post for Sounder LIFE’S Famous Correspondent Clings to His Senate Seat (Special Correspondence.) W SHINGTON, Feb. hope that Mr. Harding will select his cabinet at an carly date, for until the appointments are made the members of earnestly the Senate simply will not settle down to the less important business before them. fills the ancy as you might find on the campus at Yale on Tap Day. I am sure I don’t know why this An air of strained expectancy chamber, just such an air of expec should be so, for every senator with the remotest chance for a cabinet job has re- peatedly declared in the public press that he would much rather remain in the Sen- ate than join the President's official fam- ily. Can it be that he is merely establish- ing an alibi? However that may be—and I trust you will understand that 1 do not say it is— SENATOR FALL HAS LATELY RETURNED FROM MARION, O10. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS you must readily recognize that with ten or so perfectly good cabinet offices wait- ing to be filled, we cannot put our minds on such everyday things as emergency tariffs, tax revision, protection of the dye industry Dill. Never having been a mother, and some years having elapsed since I was an infant, I should have found it hard under any circum or the maternity and infancy ces to follow the de- bate on the last-mentioned measure. Still, that’s the sort of nimble mind that’s ex- pected of a senator—to be able to leap from one extraordinary subject to another without understanding cither. Perhaps I was in error when I said that I hoped that Mr. Harding would soon se- lect his cabinet, for apparently he is not to have much to do with it. Senator Pen- rose has confided to me that he himself is really the man who will name the inet; and Senators Lodge, Knox, New, all, Mr. Hays, and Mr. Daugherty have all told me the same thing of themselves. You can also observe, if you should drop into the Senate during any important de- bate, little groups dotting the chamber, all engaged in the same occupation. Poindexter’s Anti-Strike bill was passed, you may remember, because none of its opponents was present to object; they were all in the cloak-room, nominating a Secretary of State. For that office—let me say in confide. ¢ that it will probably be offered to me, but I prefer to remain in the Senate—the names of Senators Lodge and Knox have been prominently mentioned, and between the two I am inclined to favor either former Hughes or Mr. Root Senator Justice Both of these gentlemen differ from me on the League, but then they wouldn't be human if they were right in everything. Senator Fall, who has lately returned from Marion, O.—as who has not?—has also been mentioned as a possible Secre- tary of State. However, his views on Mexico are such that for the sake of the peace of the country I should prefer to see him in the Department of the Inter- ior—in fact, just as far from the border as possible. For a while 1 considered accepting the Secretaryship of the Treasury. I have a seeret failing, though, which makes me ust a little uneasy about undertaking the ‘esponsibilities of that office: for the life JIM WATSON OF INDIANA HAS SUGGESTED THAT I BE POSTMASTER-GENERAL, comicbooks.com