Show W ASI WASHINGTON LETTER ri r. I LI n iv ms HI A Ij Jt I e. DIPLOMAT MANY ltV THE LOW DOWN LO I X O FROM IROM IROMA FROMA InO A I ii H HO EY Nfl NKA el riter WASHINGTON April 10 ni- ni in the Senate dates back at least 70 years ears and ab abl further lOde Hero Is 18 a n diverting eiting account of or oran an Incident In a filibuster taken from a I. I Washington newspaper in 1858 During Du ring tho the protracted session of the thC Senate last lat week Senator Clark having Ing the floor loor said If It it be the pleasure of tho the Senate to adjourn now flOW it 11 would be very agreeable ble to me inc I havo ha vo had nothing to eat cat since S o'clock neither bread nor anything thing else elEe But Dut the Senate wouldn't ad adjourn ad ad- adjourn journ and ho he proceeded till 8 Vi 4 o'clock when during an explanation explanation tion by Mr rr Green having spoken more than 3 hours and a half he ailed a a ailed himself of at the opportunity opportunity to Indulge In that beverage which cheers but not inebriates inebriates' with wills accompanying muffins and sandwiches which o ga his desk tho the social aspect of ot a n cozy COZ tea- tea table Tho The honorable senator retain retain- retained ed his right to the floor loor with witha a cup of or tea ten In one ono hand and a huge hugo sandwich In the tho other The Tho scene was novel but a 0 12 hours fast had created an alt Inexorable le stomach By tho the call of ot the yeas easan and an nays he was DS afforded ample time to finish his repast The months month's prize for diplomacy acy ac seems to go to M M. it Paul Clau- Clau Claudel Claudel del the new French Trench ambassador It If I the facts are ns os stated The story is that Ambassador Claudel Cloudel who did not his credentials to President Coolidge Coo lid go until the unusually long period of or two weeks wee Its had elapsed was dc- dc dela la cd by the tho State Department which having ha looked over the lit little lit lit- little littie tle tie speech which tho the ambassador had prepared asked l him to put something In about the tho Trench French debt Hence the tIle delay The Tho speech as lU finally made mado didn't Ignore the debt But if Ir anyone could l havo have been boon more diplomatic than was M. M 1 Claudel when ho Ito first drafted tho speech without any reference to I the debt that person has las not been suggested for tho the months month's prize Nothing can save sa this country or or Nicaragua Nicaragua front from a large crop of experts on tho the Icar aguan situation in the next n Con- Con Congre gre s Heretofore Her Senator Hiram of Connecticut has been the tho leading expert who vio based his knowledge on contact with Latin- Latin American countries Now v ham will havo o plenty of or rivals Not oot because senators and con con- congressmen gressmen Are men are visiting Nicaragua On Ois the contrary they are keep keep- keeping keeping ing away from front that country as from front a pes pest t house But there are hordes of at our national legislators who have gone down Into the tho Caribbean Some Sometime Sometime Sometime time ago it was reported that a n congressional party of ot 83 had en en- entered entered entered Haiti Halt Cuba Panama Costa Rica mea Porto Rico and other little countries have all been Invaded In Mexico l shared the immunity ol or of Nicaragua from such visits And Ani the Mexican and NIcaraguan situ altu- are aro the most Important in our foreign relations with the rest resl of or this hemisphere But nut the fact that the tho congressmen didn't get to 0 either cither of these countries wont won't deter dellI them Item from posing as ex ex- experts experts |