New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

Assembly for two terms, and it is possible
that this experience forms the background
for his generally accepted ambition to be
Speaker of the House in Congress. Wash
ington circles have more and more con-
ceded the strong possibility Of his captur-
ing the place III the next Republican Con-
grcss, but a transfer to the Senate would
Of course block the road Of that ambition.
At any rate it is generally understood
that Lenroot in the Senate would effec
lively offset for both domestic and for
eign purposes the suggestive influence of
La Toilette.
Lenroot is a youthful appearing man
he was born in Superior, Wis, in 1869
with a full head Of brownish hair, parted
on one side His face is thin ard alert,
and in its lines and planes suggests his
Scandinavian parentagc. There is even
at moments a suggested resemblance to
La Toilette, although there is little that is
so pugnacious about Lenroot, nor is he
SO intense. He speaks with sharp en-
phasis in debate, and is a good deal like
successful but unassuming Middle West
ern lawyer.
OUTRAGE leaders have their eye on
~ the Wisconsin situation, because their
poll of the Senate has not left them en-
tirely satisfied. The latest figures show
that suffrage will be two votes short in
the Senate. Lenroot voted for suffrage
in the House and now may have an op-
portunity to vote again in the Senate if
the appointment materializes before the
suffrage vote. The New Jersey appontee,
if he is favorable to suffrage, will bring
the vote to its necessary strength. Suf-
frage leaders profess to have no notion
of who this may be, knowing the New Jer-
sey appointment will be a personal one by
Governor Edge.
The Democratic party is now consol-
dating the gains it made when the House
adopted suffrage, even against the vote of
Southern Democrats. The national
executive committee of the party recently
passed resolution calling for favorable
action on suffrage in the Senate. A.
Mitchell Palmer has announced to the
women that this resolution must be re-
garded as "an official expression of the
Democratic party through the only organ
ization which can speak for it between
national conventions"
! However, it is generally believed in
Washington that suffrage will not 20 to a
vote until the Democrats have succeeded
IN converting more Of their number. A
large Republican affirmation of the ex-
tended vote in the Senate, opposed to a.
weak Democratic "aye," would not be ia
vorabe to Democratic hopes for appeal to
the women, it is understood, and delay is
expected until the Democrats are in shape
to make a better showing.
i
N1ASH1NGTON society notes have a
'~av of turning up the past that is
more than ever surprising at the present
moment when Washington is so busilv
's.-,s~e.~,' N manufacturing history. The
years are not so many that Lieutenant
General Nelson A. Miles stood large in
the public eye. Since his retirement he
has resided part Of the time in Wash
lngton, but succeeding events have cast
so black a shadow that his name has al
-'ODN DNNii iO'oC III VIC )eiluIUTd. \TeNoral
Miles. who will be seventy-nine Years old
IN August, returned to WASHINGTON ear]v
this week.
Washington has in its cosmopolitan So
'clety groups Of persons who make Wash
lngton their home a part of the wear.
Thomas f. Ryan has an impressive white
stone house at the head of Connecticut
Avenue. Mrs. Marshall Field lives in a
rather sugary Moorish house on Sixteenth
Street. Mrs. Perry Belmont has a large
and costly home occupying an entire
triangle of ground on New Hampshire
Avenue.
Mrs. Marshall Field entertained few
days ago, and had as her chief guests the
Vlce-President and Mrs. Marshall and
Earl Reading and Lady Reading. Near
the Marshall Field home is the home OF
Breckenridge Long, Third Assistant Sec.
retary of State, where the British Mis-.
sion was housed on its first visit to Wash.
lngton 1t is large, outstanding strpct.
ure, with rather an institutional air
about it,