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Show I. MS I Mf FINOS, S0LLJ1 SIS Happy lmors:sion Created in Capital by Short Visit of Presidentelect GETS MUCH ADVICE, BUT ACCEPTS LITTLE Next EvaciMvo Adopts Surefooted Sure-footed Policy in D:oceed:nn r.v HARK -T l.f.lVW National PoUttrl CtompohcHW ot tba Sew Fork Evening Post. WASHINGTON, Dec 9 When Senator Sen-ator Hardlna lb" Washington on Tuesday afternoon ho had spent almost al-most forty h..nrs in the cApltol he saw a rroo.l many persona, and I the) w i told him '- '"' .l,h.!n; ",hnn" ing ftimself did mow IWenlnif than talking .About the only thing tha ho himself Initiated was moem.nt looklnK to as early action aa la rea-ionablc rea-ionablc on what fa conveniently ogled ,1. icn-guo of nattooa aueatlaa u Is, in fact the whole problem of our . Vn nlr ion,. Ho brought tW UP wltt Sterol membera of the senate, with other senators. -nd nrsed nrt.nii 1 on their Part looking to arriving at JSS ground for action Senator Harding has been himself a member, 'V4?. " , J -fiL ..ff.il.s committee and j I .at Uh It during all the seasons 33 icws can meet. URGED TO N M!- MTV This is about the only affirmative thing that Harding did, about the onlj thin? in Which ho tool; he l"Uv But ho listened to a lot Of Other things. Amon? the "WaonlaM before him by one or another or tho who called were the foUpwtag: hii, lary of atate and his secretary of th reaaurj Immediately, without iv.lt-abourthablnot iv.lt-abourthablnot as a whole. The idea of those who urged thla - ourre , S thai tho names of those two offals of-fals would carry a certain amount of ' weight with the public and would Klva business men and others Interested Inter-ested a basis upon whi. h to make their calculations for ihe future. It was urged, also, that tho,,- wo officials offi-cials should have a good deal of time before tre 4th of March in which to studv their problems and Prepart themselves for prompt action aft.-r ihev take office. To this suggestion Senator Harding gave no sign of assent as-sent or dissent H was urged to oak the committee commit-tee on finance of the senate to bein to hold meetings immediately, to: the purpose of preparing a tentative program pro-gram for revising the taxes- About This suggestion Senator Harding did nothing except to express a wholehearted whole-hearted conviction that the taxes should be revised as early as praetl-klbl6 praetl-klbl6 EXTEND PUBLIC DEBT. Incidental to this plan for revision tf,T of the taxes, Senator Harding was. If urged to give his endorsement to a i plan for funding th govt rn m ' debt a plan whi h wcild ext'T. Hfsi ' the Liberty bonds for sixty years and 1 'SB would divide the refunding laaue Into three elaseca of bonds. '' class '"'li flail free of ineomo taxes on large incomes., ffinaa another free of income taxes on mo-1 ' ', aium Incomes, and a third free of .&fl Income taxes on small Incomes Tho RH purpose of this division is. of course. 'Tm to make the new issue ns attractive M possible to different groups of In- IvtLai vestors. , , 1 Senator Harding was urged to as- 1 -crt leadership of the Republicans in 1 the present rongres . v Ihout waiting : J until March 4. He was urged to act. ' :1P as It he were the party leader and to put his shoulder behind a pro--i'jffi eram of legislation for the presont ';ffl session To this urging, apparently, i; Senator Harding showed rather mark- l-'iffl ed dissent. BTJOGET TiUAj P.R(H.IIT UP. 'f ; !;;' jlc vay urged tO make some public utterance tn the shape of endorsement m of tho budget bill, to do what he 1:5a could to press the budget bill through the present session of congreaa, except to express the hope th.n the budget ' 'M Mil would r.ass in the present seaaion, ;; ;jlgL Senator Harding did nothing about I v thSenator Harding was urged to seize rlaaBB ) 'he first occasion possible to make a I speech, or some other public utter- WT-Jal n ance, about the troubled state of busl- ". ' 45 nes. He was urged to My sometninr: tflatll bat would give comfort and asstir- gjfBf ance to those who have been harrass- rVSHH ed by the fall in prices and the slow- IH up In business. Ho wus urged to say KSH Ibat nil this is merely a normal apl- 0de ot after -war conditions, and to wM trj to focus the minds of the bualness IIbbV men of the country on the hopeful IffflBW Blgna in the situation, and to nay that K(Rgl wc have every reason for hopefulness W.:'F:3aal and every reason for knowing that the ftfljH depression is mere'y temporary, par- PaaH tlcularly. he was urged 10 aa) that EB the new adminl: trallon would be sym- M r and would originally sc. B 1 ing everything possible 1 nations r c Ity. CTEB'j A1N. PB to be BH ', luiiit-r any of Senator Harding's H I abject of cab v. l.i '.her Senator Pk' Harding himself brought un th.' aub- wmjK ject. the present writer has no knowl- B , ,i-e hut is strongly inclined to be- I lief that while Senator larding la Wm- H , - ' aelf giving much thought to these ap- (ConUnned on Page l.) Baaa Harding Makes Many Friends, Sullivan Says (Continued From Pace One. ) pointmentK. none have yet been ren- dered Quite as important and more interesting inter-esting In a human way than the matters mat-ters of politic-, and statesmanship eon-, nected with Senator lbirdlng's visit j was th personal Impression he made. He met the newspapermen', some. 60 of them, in a body. He met tho sen-; ate in a body, and he rn- :. either in- dlvldually or in croups. ,i i onsidTbh number of Republican .nni Demo-1 craflc senators .md leaders. So ,nrj as it !s possible to ninke a sTenerallza-1 tion based on so large n number of1 Individual contacts, ll is safe to s. with a good deal of warmth, that lhe1 Impression Senator Hardin" m id, was Ktremely happy Almost his chief preoccupation seemed to be, a wish to llvo up to the proprieties, to be eonslderate of others, and to let all hi acts and utterances he governed by a high-minded aspiration for what is best in taste. The impression h made was. above all, one that reflect-1 ed friendliness and consideration in him, and Inspired friendliness and. consideration In others. When he spoke in the senate I sat facing all the, senators. 1 saw no face that did not shine with kindliness Even Stnatorj I. a Kollette, whoso devotion to lndl-vldual lndl-vldual standards frequently brines him into sltuatlOQS where he stands apart from almost every other senator; even La Flollette'a countenance beamed with kindliness and approval and he put obvious enthusiasm into his applause. REGRETS LEAVING. A reasonable proportion of so brief Visit was given to things in Which his primary Interest was sentimental The dinner at the apartment of Senator Ne.v was that, as well as some other incidents more Intimately personal. Senator Harding really regrets leaving the senate. That is a bold thing to say, but it is literally true. He did not seek the presidency, and would have preferred to remain a senator. I was surprised that so few of his hearers seem to grasp the dramatic quality in the candor with which he said. In his speech to the senate. "If one could always direct his own political po-litical fortunes to his liking I should have preferred my membership here to any office a citizen may hold in this republic." I Those of us who have followed the Intimate politics of the pu-st year know that this is exactly correct as a matter of history, and that the sentiment sen-timent came from tho heart and reflected re-flected the feeling that the next president presi-dent of the I'niteij States maintained as near to his new honors as Monday. Mon-day. All in all Mr. Harding gave ihe Impression of a man who is giving up a career of comparative ease with reluctance who realizes that the pr sldehc) of. the United states is not j a glory that you enjoy, but a duty I that you live up to. He gave the ! impression of a man who Is rather regretfully giving up a career that had become familiar and easy, and taking on one which he sees as com-i com-i posed more largely of self-sacrifice, j In which the single chance on suc-cesfl suc-cesfl lies in stern and Unremitting devotion to the highest attainable standards of duty. i i Copyright, by the New York Evening Post.) on |