The Ward County independent., 1921-09-08

after the enactment Of tariff and rev.
enue legislation IN dthe situation may
take on q more favorable aspect by
the time it is next before the Senate.
Senator McCumber, shortly after the
vote had been taken on the recon-
initial Of the bill, took the floor and
announced that the soldiers bill would
be reported ut . later date and that
It would be passed in time to take
effect at the time specified in the bill
as it was then reported !. !.
On the surface it would appear that
President Harding had forgotten that
q vacancy exists upon the Federal
bench in North Dakota. Recomme1-
dations by the North Dakota Sen.
ators, and counter recommendation
filed by the state bar association. have
been at the White House for months
but as yet not q word has come from
the Department of Justice to relieve
the existing tension.
Attempts to gain information upon
the matter have been without avail
and while rumor has its own dark
suggestions to offer, nothing really
serves to throw light upon the true
status quo. So far as is known both
Senators are still standing pat upon
their original recommendations. Mr..
McCumber has said that his support
had been promised to Andrew Miller,
of Bismarck, and that his recommend
dation so filed will stand. Mr.. Ladd,
forever a Lacquer, having pledged
his influence in favor of Seth Rich
ardson, of Fargo, continues to hold
out for his fellow townsman. The
opposition that both names aroused
in North Dakota evidently remains un-
changed and it begins to look as tho
the mixup has the administration
scratching its head:
S. J. Doyle, U. S. Marshall and
Colonel NJ. A. Hildreth, U. s. District
Attorney, both of whom designations
have been requested from Washington
are both still in office. Joe Doyle
told Mr.. Daugherty, the Attorney
General, that Democrats in office
never resign and seldom die" His
health is said to be very good. Col.
Hildreth, in his reply, talked of i'm
portant matters of state that demand
ed his attention. And he still seems
to be concerned with the public well
fare. In the meantime two other
good men are waiting with bated
breath and lots of other people are
wondering. The axe may fall and
again it may not but it is interesting
to speculate about it just the same.
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| Most of the members of Congress
have left for their homes and the rest
are mostly busy in their Offices OF
engrossed in committee work. But
Congressman Manuel Herrick, of Ok.
lahoma, is doing neither and is hav'
ing the time Of his life.
Herrick has been called many things
including political accident. Nor
man Hapgood labels him a "crank'
and let's it go at that but to people
about the Capitol he is good for s
laugh or two a day. Representative
Herrick came to Washington well her
aided but for time he was silen
and seemed doomed to oblivion. Their
he started beauty contest and tn
fun began. In form letter sen
out to the city's beautiful the Con
gresham offered himself as the .priz'
to the lucky lady to win his favor
from rather an extensive field select
ed from newspaper portraits. He ad
vertised himself as zone Of the very
few pure men extant and with tn.
practical certainty Of being Presi
dent"
Since then he has been very much ir
the public eye. One Washington
paper devoted whole page Of its
Sunday edition to the escapades o1
the gentleman from Oklahoma. HI
has had row with one of his land.
ladies over the latter's daughter anc
been chased out of his own office by
the irate husband of one Of his beau.
ty entrants who welded an ugly UNI.
brella. In the meantime the Con
gressman 'goes on collecting evidence
for his plea to be presented to the
House in favor of "anti-beauty show
legislation, scorning the unfavorable
publicity that is coming his way with
the retort that "it is just the work
of the interests" who are opposing
his bill.
Herrick has retained the services Of
Washington detective agency .tt
trail along in the rear for minor de.
tails which he frequently passes ovel
and smiles at threatened libel suits
PARKER LA MOORE.