Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-03-15 | Page 1 | Cabinet Position without Head as Lawmakers Delay

CABINET POSITION WITHOUT HEAD AS LAWMAKERS DELAY WASHINGTON, March 15 The state department today was technically without a heacf. Frank L. Polk, who has acted as secretary since the resignation resigna-tion of Robert Lansing, resumed resum-ed his duties as under-secretary, law officers of the department having held that he could not serve as secretary ad interim for more than 30 days. Senate foreign relations committee com-mittee members considering the nomination of Bainbridge Colby Col-by to be head of the state department de-partment say that under the wartime Overman act President Wilson can assign to some other official the secretary's duties and consequently delay in act-J-ypQJhrJfalbyls- .nomination .nomina-tion shouicl not "embarrass the department.