Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-02-18 | Page 1 | Cabinet Choosing Absorbs Interest of New Executive

Cabinet Choosing Absorbs Interest Of New Executive Roosevelt Turns Serenely to Task of Making Final Decisions on Men to Compose Group of Aides (Br atoawtatatot Praaat President-elect Roosevelt In New York today went serenely se-renely about retting his cabinet Into final shapo for announcement, an-nouncement, without taking notice of the numbers of recurring: recur-ring: reports as to who was to be what. In Democratic quarters there and at Washington, speculation swirled on, but lacked any absolute assurances at to accuracy. Taking a consensus of reports, however, there seemed to be more indications that th final lineup would be something like this: POSSIBLE LINKUP ' Secretary of l tat Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee. Treasury Possibly Senator Glass of Virginia wUl accept; If not, then William Wil-liam H. Woodin of New York up for consideration. War Former Governor Dern of Utah. Attorney general Senator Walsh of Montana. Postmaster general Jam A. Farley of New York. Navy Senator Swanson of Virginia, Vir-ginia, should Glass decline treasury. Interior Possibly John B. Elliott of California; Senator Cutting ot New Mexico having decided he prefers th senate. Agriculture Henry A. Wallace of Iowa. Commerce Several possibilities being be-ing weighed. Labor Miss France Perking of Nw York. , WASHINGTON Fab. II (AtSenator (AtSen-ator Branson Cutting (R., N. M ), wss unaersto) among his friends on Caa- itol hill today to havdclined the I portfolio ot secretary of th interior in the Roosevelt admlnlstrstion. I Returning to his senatorial duties i todsy after a train-conference with p th presidentelect yesterday, he him- 'Ceaunaes ftf T Twel ' CABINET TASK DRAWSEFFORTS (Ceatlaue Presa Pas One) self refused to comment on th rumor ru-mor linking hia nam with th cabinet His friends feel that he prefers that any statement on the subject should! come from the president-elect DECLINES TO CONFEB Of the other two seqstors who conferred con-ferred yesterdsy with Mr. Roosevelt, Senator Hull ol Tennessee declined to affirm ar deny that h had accepted tAe pott of secretary of state; and Senator Glass of Virginia waa understood under-stood at the capitol to be making ready to tell th president-elect by Monday finally whether h will take the treasury secretaryship. Cutting, a Republican, baa restricted restrict-ed his comment as to th cabinet to th remark that "on should be highly high-ly honored" to b considered as I csb-inel csb-inel possibility. Frtend ol the young New Mexico Independent who supported Mr. Roosevelt in the cempsign, ssid they felt that he thought he could be of greater service in th senste thsn in the cabinet All such questions elicited from Cutting only e smiling taciturnity and compUta absence of comment.