| Show r Washington Observations II I WASHINGTON D. D C. C Dc Dc-c. 11 11 Calvin Coolidge being a man of or few tew words it to is legitimate to conclude conclude conclude con con- clude that he lays ays as paramount stress upon those sul subjects to which n now w and then he gives verbal attention That applies particularly J to those annual reports re reports re- re ports on the state of the union Im known wn as pre presidential messages to congress Measured by toy the I yardstick of the language he lavishes lav lav- upon current Issues it is res easy to deduce from the communication com com- mu just sent to Capitol Mil hill which h of them Mr Coolidge considers to be out In front Farm teller relief easily comes first T To it the president devotes three and a aalt half alt of the 20 pages of Ms llis mes mes- sage sage Economy and tax ta reduction follow rollow with two an and anda 1 a half halt pages Foreign relations also claim a couple of pages Altogether the latest Coolidge encyclical ranges over ver 24 24 different major topics The president Is 9 a L past master In disposing disposing disposing dis dis- posing posing- of or even the biggest problems problems problems lems with epigrammatic terseness terse terse- ness nes This weeks week's message is more than ordinarily characteristic in that respect t The lame lance duck session of or congress congress congress con con- gress is always q n mixture of joy and sadness for lor Its participants In both houses It Is hea heavily healY lY tinged wilt remorse for men who have been relegated reles to private ate life Ufe by unappreciative and andare andare andare are spending in most cases their farewell seasons In Washington Externally External an atmosphere of or all pervading jollity prevailed pre when senators and representatives who hadn't seen one another since the summer adjournment met again on their re respective ec e floors BaCkI Back Bark Backslapping slapping elbow greasing gracing glad- glad I handing and shoulder clasping proceeded proceeded pro pro- ad y p Republicans Democrats and Progressives mangled mingled mingled min man gl-ed gl and fraternized like the members mem mem- hers boers of or a a. college fraternity assembled as- as assembled as as- bed for a reunion After all such scenes typify the finer side elde ot of American politics Only in rare instances instance are arc party controversies even when the dregs of defeat In recent elections have e been tasted ted carried ratTled Into mens men's personal persona relations rela rela- That is especially the situation situation situation sit sit- In the nations nation's most exclusive exclusive II sive she club clu officially designated tire the senate of or the United States I Nobody In contemporary history j has accomplished a fL more rapid I Iback back from Elba P performance nce than David Ignatius Walsh Democrat of ot Massachusetts He lie bade goodbye goodbye goodbye good good- bye to trio the senate on March 4 1925 and here he is ba back k again in December 1926 an 1926 an Interval of ofa a 1 bare 21 months When hen Smith W W. Brookhart of Iowa again adorns the senate scene his return will mark marl an almost equally rapid rome back The rabble was ousted at tire the end o 0 of the winter of or 1925 He will be doing business at the old Id stand In December 1927 provided that a special session doesn't bring him hete here before then Once again there are two to in the senate sen sen- ate they ate they ar are respectively from Montana and Massachusetts Al- Al hough there is a pair of or 1 Welsh the list listor of or senatorial ladles adles will vill contain no Mrs M Mr Walsh sh The Montanan Is a a. errand widower and the conqueror of V William liam M. M 01 Butler Is apparently an Invincible bachelor Not many members of congress may resume t annual duties at Wa Washington with wilh the flattering flatter fatter flattering ing slogan Reelected wit r without ut op opposition position attached to their cre cre- Wisconsin's two noble Romans Romans Representatives Representatives Henry Allen Alien Cooper and John M. M Nelson lson pillars of or the La Follette church church- have that distinction On November November November Novem Novem- ber 2 both of them were returned to the house by grateful districts in which no rival candidates stood against them Mr MI Cooper was reelected reelected reelected re- re elected to his seventeenth seventeenth- term although he did not sit In the sixty-sixth sixty congress He Ire is the father of the house closely pursued pursued pursued pur pur- sued for that honor by Representatives Representatives Representatives Represent Represent- Butler of Pennsylvania and Haugen of or Iowa both R Representative Jack Jacl Garner r of or Texas is the Democratic dad daddy Iy of or orthe the lower branch with 13 terms including the one In which Ire Jre will wUl sit next year to his credit cre Overheard O In the distinguished strangers' strangers gallery of 01 the senate on De-cem De December ber 6 when the clerk cleric was vas reading Senator resolution resolution resolution tion for investigation of or Senator Gould of or Maine What has congress con con- gress ess to do with the Mills Hall murder case he The query was caused aused by the circumstance that Ness Kern e w Brunswick Bs Canada not New jersey was mentioned as the lo locality io- io in which which- Mr Goulds Gould's al alleged alleged alleged al- al moral turpitude took place The fact that the senate Is asked to probe an alt episode ode that occurred beyond the borders of or the United States prompts the wit of that body Senator George Goorge H II Moses of or New Hamp Hampshire hire to suggest that the case ought to be sent to the league of nations on I Ithe William C. C Deming president o othe of the civil service commission opines 1 in the language of or the old time printer that the preparation and passing of or civil service examinations examinations examinations examina examina- is not all aU fat tat Out of ot different kinds of or examinations held last year many were of or course comparatively easy while others were difficult technical and some unique Among the latter Is la the announcement of or an examination nation for tor bolometric assistant at atthe atthe atthe the Smithsonian astrophysical oh- oh Briefly a Isan is isan isan an electrical instrument for Cor measuring measuring mea mea- suring minute quantities quantities' of or radiant ra radIant radiant ra- ra diant heat Such a test Mr Deming observes Is is enough to tomake tomake make malc an any one see stars Edward N. N Hurley of ot Chicago Is la the latest time one-time member of or orthe the Wilson administration to succumb suc sue cumb to memoir writing The shrewd manufacturer and financier r who was wal wartime chairman of ot th the United States shipping board and president of the emergency fleet corporation has written what Its forthcoming publishers rs depict as the Inside story of ot the war Mr Ir Hurley's Hu revelations will appear first as a newspaper serial and later as liR a book He has never nevel v f 4 ed ed into literature before etore The Ch c c oan is one of the three Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- members of ot the world war foreign debt commission which made mad II this years year's funding settlements settlements settlements settle settle- ments with our European debtors S r Tsuneo Matsudaira Jat the Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese ambassador at Washington tn chooses the annual dinner of ot fire Ure Japan Society of or New York for tor re recurring recurring recurring re- re pronouncements on the subject of or Japanese American relations re- re lations The accomplished Nipponese Nipponese Nipponese Nip Nip- ponese diplomat so delivered himself himself him him- self this week Among the things he ie discussed was the system of i interchanged visits between American American Amer- Amer ican can and Japanese schoolboys re recently recently re- re Inaugurated and according to Mr Matsudaira destined to become be be become come regular institutions The ambassador also referred to another another another an an- other channel of or popular diplo diplo- diplomacy macy the mac sending of ot dolls doUs by American children to their unseen unseen unseen un seen friends In far off Japan De Dealing with more serious subjects sub- sub Mr Matsudaira took occasion occa occa- occasion sion slon to explain Japans Japan's new land laws aws lIe He declared that these permit permit per per- mit all foreigners even from California Cal Cal- al- al which debars bars Japanese landownership land landownership landownership ownership there to own real es estate estate estate es- es tate in Nippon on equal terms Cop Copyright 1926 a |
