Show r F Washington Observations By FREDERIC WILLIAIM WILE I. I Written for The Telegram W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON July 24 AmerI Ameri r can Innocents abroad this summer sumner in the largest numbers on record are responsible for buying the bumper bumper bum bum- per crop of passports passport so far issued by the state department For Eor the fiscal year ended June 30 1926 Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- Kelloggs Kellogg's John Hancock i was affixed to passports P Which is far and away the peak peal figure During the first six months of this year alone of Uncle Sams Sam's parchments were issued or roundly 2500 more than were Is Issued Issued Issued Is- Is sued during the same period in 1925 Passports are an extremely neat lit littie little lit lit- tle tie source of revenue for the gov gov- They cost 10 apiece which means that In the business year rear recently ended the state ae- ae turned over to the the treasury That's enough to pay the salaries of the secretary of state of all of our thirteen th foreign ambassadors ambassadors am- am of the higher t t nate officials of the state department department department depart- depart I ment and of our odd forty-odd foreign ministers with a considerable sum 5 left lert over for the consular salaries r included in the foreign service pay pay- roll Dawes t to Have Fishing V Vacation a Vice President Dawes is going to have a fishing vacation too It will occupy him and Mrs Dawes for the first two weeks of or August f and be spent at the luxurious i camp of Colonel A. A E. E Humphre Humphreys Hum Hum- s Denver oil man capitalist I st st. t and philanthropist The camp is situated eight miles from Wagon Wheel Gap in the southwestern western corner curner curner cur cur- ner of Colorado It consists of more than acres surrounded on three sides by the Rio Grande national national national na na- na- na forest sorest Wild game and fish I are plentiful Jl on the estate and Inthe in inthe inthe I the forest reserves adjoining it Two large artificial a lakes built by the vice presidents president's host and stocked with fish from hatcheries also constructed constructed constructed con con- and maintained by Colonel Humphreys are within the camp The colonel as president of the Izaak Walton alton club of Colorado has bas always been deeply interested in fishing and outdoor activities When Dawes tires of catching fish at the Humphreys camp he can pan golf galt bathe in outdoor pools practice on a rifle range and otherwise disport himself himself himself him him- self without leaving the estates estate's bor bor- ders Quay Boasted of f Campaign Expense I Theres There's an timer old-timer on Capitol Hill nIl who says Matt att Quay UnIted United United Unit Unit- ed States senator from Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania anla uninterruptedly from 1887 to 1905 wouldn't have batted an eye at current Keystone slush fund revelations Quay used to boast this veteran authority asserts that he never spent less than a million million million mil mil- lion on his successive election cam cain So appear history do does doea as repeat itself W. W E. E Humphrey Big EBig Game punter William E. E Humphrey federal trade commissioner oughtn't to have any hesitation about going up against the wild beasts of the monopoly monopoly monopoly mo mo- mo- mo jungle for in private life hes he's long been fame das a big game hunter He is a member of the Boone and Crockett club lub founded found found- ed by Theodore Roosevelt and composed exclusively of or well-known well sportsmen who have achieved outstanding outstanding out out- standing success with the rifle or with the rod and reel Humphrey has hunted all over North America America Amer ArTier ica lea from Alaska to Panama and has felled many fine tine specimens of ot mountain sheep and bear The latter flourishes in Alaska The Tl federal trade commissioner who h is spending the summer In Seattle plans to bag his annual catch catch- of big salmon He considers consid consid- ers salmon fishing in the Northwest Northwest North orth west the king of the piscatorial sports Humphre a Hoos Hoosier er by birth and his literary weaknesses Include a passion for hunting and detective stories Albanian Joins Diplomatic Corp Arrival at Washington of M. M Faik Falk the first minister to be ac accredited accredited accredited ac- ac credited to the United States from Albania brings the number of heads of missions diplomatically established here to fifty We have had a minister at Tirana the capital of Albania for more than a year He Ho Is Charles C. C Hart of Minnesota l former Washington newspaper man Albania Is governed governed governed gov gov- erne erne-d by a council of regents It was admitted to the league of nations nations nations na na- na- na a as a power on December 17 1920 It has a population population population pop pop- of less than They comprise the most unique economic unit in the world Each individual individual individual ual family provides for Its own needs Cameron Denies All Filibustering Senator Ralph M. M Cameron Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican of Arizona denies vehemently vehemently vehemently that he filibustered either on his own account or at organization organization organization behest on tire the last day th the senate was in session His panegyric ric nc on Grand canyon dam dani sites Cameron avows and avers was purely and simply to draw the senates senate's senates senate's senates senate's sen sen- ates ate's attention to them and he held I the floor for no other reason reason so so the sheriff ex-sheriff of Coconino county and the blazer of the Bright Angel trail asserts The press gallery from Its lis and looking post received another impression sion of Cameron's Camerons Camerons Cameron's Cam Cani- eron's oratorical marathon It was driven home when saw Senators Butler Watson alson and other G. G O. O P. P stalwarts rush over to Camerons Cameron's desk and warmly felicitate feud felici tate him Irim on his feat Forester Is White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House Pinch Hitter Rudolph Forster executive clerk lot Of the White House is fulfilling for forthe forthe forthe the twenty-ninth twenty successive summer summer sum sum- mer mar the honored task of pinch pinch- hitting for the president of the United States Stales Hes He's been doing it without a break every year since William Villiam McKinley was chief magistrate magistrate magistrate magis magis- of the republic All executive executive executive tive business that drifts dritS in o and through the White House nowadays sifts through thorough Forster's hands Much of it is transacted by him without I reference to White Pine camp for Ii practice has made him perfect and the confidence of all his chiefs chiefs In Including including in- in eluding that of Calvin Coolidge al always always always al- al ways has been per cent comple com com- e. e If It I. Rudolph ever evey made a break It Isn't of record Nor is it anywhere set down that he ever spilled a state secret though the news neW's sleuths of Washington long since g gave ve trim Irim a medal of honor as the personification of good fellow fellow- ship Tourists Continue To T Throng rong Capital Although its distinguished denizens deni deni- zens senators zens-senators senators and representatives have have taken wings from Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington the capitol buzzes with life Tourists continue to throng it and the guides are still till h happy The public restaurants of senate senate- and house wings are doing almost as much business as during the height of ot the session A few members of both boUr branches linger on on during the summer or drift In for occasional occasional occa occa- sojourns at Washington ashington Former Former Former For For- mer members of congress many of or whom live here like to drop in at atthe atthe atthe the capitol They retain as exes all the old privileges with respect to the ibe use of the libraries restaurants restaurants restaurants rants and cloak rooms Theres There's a celebrated lame duck an sena ex tor now In high administration po position position position po- po who religiously renounces the privilege of the floor he once trod He says They kicked me me out and Im I'm going to stay out Copyright 1926 |