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Show HUGHES ACCEPTS CHIEF POST IU NEX1JIHET; Official Announcement Made By Harding of Selection for Secretary of State ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla.. Feb. 19. I Selection of Charles Evans Hughes I of New York to be secretary of state was definitely announced today by President-elect Harding. Mr. Hughea has accepted. Although President-elect Harding hns declined a challenge to a game of golf with the postmafrtershlp at Trcon-villa, Trcon-villa, S. C. as a stake. Thomas H. Pope, a Democrat and the present postmaster., was given a short lea.o on political life, It was learned today. Mr. Harding, in a letter to Louis Sherfe.ssee, who described himself as Pope's inanagar in presenting a formal for-mal challenge, wrote that "I am giving giv-ing no consideration at this time to any of the district appointments and I I take It that Mr. Pope can sit eaay I for tho present and have no worry about his situation." (It matter. But the president-elect added that "the ultimate course of tho admln-istraUon admln-istraUon is quite another matter " In refusing the Challenge Mr Harding Hard-ing said he regarded himself as a miserable golf player and was "unwilling "un-willing to have the administration basing its attitudo on my incapacity at golf." He added, however, that he liked the pojft master's "sporty Inclination" Incli-nation" and was willing to accept a match without tho stake whenever opportunity op-portunity offered. POLICIES DISCUSSED President-elect Harding laid His uncompleted cabinet slate asldo for a while today and centered his at- tentlon on policies, rather than men., His consultations during the day j concerned chiefly the two public questions ques-tions which are expected' to loom largest before tho new administration, taxation and foreluu relations. Important decisions on both of I theso questions are to be made soon after the change of government at i Washington. ASSOCIATION OF NATIONS The exact manner in which first steps are to bd taken toward forma-1 tlon of an association of nations Is i believed to have been one of the questions under discussion. Regarding u taxation policy, Mr. Harding saw Representative Fordney, of Michigan, chairman of the house ways and means committee, and author auth-or of the emergency tariff bill. Mr. Fordney urged that emergency tariff legislation be the first undertaking under-taking of tho special session to be I called after Inauguration. |