Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-27
WASHINGTON AFFAIRS
Especial to The BulIetinl

dozen members of the house were in thelr seats, when acting Speaker Walsh of Massachusetts rapped the house to order, for the gentlemen's agreement not to transact business that required a quorum had been taken very literally by the worn out congressman who had served faith fully throughout the hottest summer Washington has experienced for many years.
 Speaker Gi1lett extended his vacation till October 1st but in his absence se- lected Walsh of Massachusetts to pre- side, so the leadership was kept within the borders of New England. Perfume tory meetings of the house will cotninue till about Oct 9th by which time routine work will be resumed.
 Over in the senate the reconvening of congress is more animated. The feature of the opening session was bitter speech by Senator Harrison of Mississip- pi who assailed the republican party as a whole and President Harding and the republican members of the senate in par ticular. Mir. Harrison waved his long arms high in the air and roared accusa- tions of inefficiency and worse. across the middle aisle that separates the sheep from the goats, according to political es- innate. He glared at Senator Lodge, who sat just across the aisle, his head resting on his hands, and on whom the fiery words of the Missifsippia1 seem ed to fall unheeded- When MT. Harrison exhausted his generous supply of con- demuation for the opposite political party he begun a eulogy on Senator Under wood, democratic floor leader, who up to that minute had been sitting beside MT. Harrison in the front row. MT. Un- derwood must have been forwarned of what was coming his way, for he slipped out of his chair aIsl vanished through the door of the democratic cloak room, just at the moment MT. Harrison begun to sing his praises. But MT. Underwood 1 is such a genuine faYo.ite among repub- lican leaders and enjoys their respect and 1 personal friendship to such an extent that not member of the opposition broke ill to dispute the extravagant claims made 1 for his ability tried to drag. him down | from the exhaulted plane on which Mir. l Harrison had placed him.
 Senator PonrOse locked like a shadow i of his former self as he rose to report out the tax bill. His huge frame is GOV l cred with sagging flesh; his face is pale l and drawn but through the physical wreckage that has followed his severe i illness, the old spirit of defiance and i determination shines out with the same 1 old light.
 i Its a safe guess that the Pennsylvania i senator won't yield q jot of his leader 1 ship to another as long as he remains 1 in the senate His own legs won't carry l him through the long marble corridors i So he resorts to 6 wheel chair and is 1 brought to the senate chamber entrance from which he walks to his accustomed seat in the front row.
 ] Senator Braudegee dealt q death blow ] to the rumor that the so-calIed innre- ! concilables of the senate would unite in fighting to 8 finish the acceptance of the l German treaty sent 10 the senate this i week by the president. MT. Brandegee ] framed a reservation that met the favor ! of the foreign relations committee of | which he is q member, and the treaty 1 is before the senate with that reser- sNation attached In a brief talk with your correspondent Senator Brandegee said T am entirely satisfied with the 1 treaty as # now stands modified and ] fully approve its acceptance by the Sen- ate 1t is understood that Senator Bo- rah alone, of the irreconcilaDles will op- pose the treaty in it's present form. Women connected with various poIitic-
 al organizations are iubilant over the de-
 csion Of President Harding 10 set apart
 Arnsitice day as holiday. wItn the
 conference for limitation open here. The believe it is due to the untirfng
 
 throughout the country will be thrown open that day and that in many. of them 3 message from the president will be read calling attention to the significance
 and great importance of the day.
 Large delegations of women have re
 gently called at the White House te
 urge the president to insist on Interna-
 ticHal disarmament and have come away
 satisfied that he will hold fast to the DO
 sitioa he has already taken.
 Miss Katherine Luddington of Connec
 tcut has been prominent in these inter
 views with the president and in com. i nenting on Q visit to the White Houst l this week said Our interview witt l President Harding was extremely inte i resting and he gave us much more hope than we dared expect. He made 1t clea , that he had given favorable considera 1 ton to many of the plans we had sug
 gested and said he expected -definit, and substantial results from the confer ence, as he expressed it."
 The wonlen who were InstruuEen tal
 in securing a place in the Capital build
 ing for the statue in honor Of suffrag4 , 1 pioneers are greatly pleased over tn
 change of position made this week, in tn
 big three figure statue presented u congress last winter.
 , This marble groupe depicts Susan E
 nthOny, Elizabeth Cady Stanton an
 Lucretia Mott. IL was dedicated in tn rotunda on the main floor, but by order : of the library committee, who mad tn ? authority, it was at once removed to tn ! ground floor of the building. Now it ha . has been put in a conspicuous place di rectly under the dome. While it is no
 more than fifty feet from it's origina 1 placing, it has suddenly become tell 1 ing feature instead of being relegated t
 an obscure corner. as was its fate aft
 ddication. This week, however, the Ii
 brary committee, of which Senate
 Brandegee of Connecticut is chairman . consented to have the group placed i
 it's present position much to the grat
 fication of the women who had charg [ | of the matter.
 The Japanese embassy has leased u,
 old James G. Blaine mansion for it's de
 egation to the coming conference. Thi e house has remarkable social histor ,t and is one of the show places of tn
 capital. It was built by Blaine (
 Maine and later occupied by the Letter ,- and Westinghouse, and under its roc o some of the most gorgeous social affair
 of the city have taken place. Later
 was used as an officers club. but ha
 made one of the most up to date res T dances in the city.
 Except for the very briefest vacation 0 Senators Brandegee and Mclean hay
 spent the entire summer here Workin
 with their important committees The ,o did not even take advanage of he l. days recess which ended this week h1