POLITICS IN AMERICA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 11, 14 January 1925, Page 5

POLITICS IN AMERICA.

I MR. HUGHES' RESIGNATION. I WASHINGTON", January 12. I Political ohserver* here predict that tlip resignation of Mr. C. ' K. Hllßhes, Secretary of Stntn. will mark Hip dawn of a new cm of political lulininietrution in this country. They believe the President. Mr. Calvin Coolidge., will personally lead tho Government and navigate the State as far as possible, uncontrolled by the factions in Congress. leading Senators were taken completely by surprise by the announcement of Mr. Hughes' resignation, and the appointment of Mr. F. B. Kellofirr to succeed him. Contrary to all precedent, the Semite had not been consulted : by the President. Gossips are tryinc to discover some secret, motive behind the unexpected lesijjnation, but so far nothing authoritative has conic to light. A theory is that Mr. Hushes is ambitious to contest the Presidency in 1928, and wishes to devote the next four years to making money out of his law practice in order to fill his campaign chest. I It is said that Mr. Coolidge desires to cut himself free from Senatorial entanglements. He is now following his own course in public affairs, and at tho same time leaving Congress to a great \ extent untroubled by his advice. — (Reuter.) MR. EELLOGG'S SUCCESSOR. MR. A. B. HOUGHTON. (Received 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON', January 13. Mr. Alanson Bijrelow Houghton (United States Ambassador to Germany) will succeed Mr. P. B. Kellogg at the Court of St. James. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) i . I I Mr. Iloughton was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, took his B.A. degree at Harvard, and post graduate, course at Gettingen. Berlin, and Paris. He became! a manufacturer of plass, and president ■ of the Corning Glass Works and vice-; president of the Kphraim (reck Coal and I'oke Company. lie resigned his seat in Confrress to become Ambassador and Plenipotentiary to Germany in 1922. '