Norwich bulletin., 1922-01-24
WASHINGTON AFFAIRS
(speclal to The Rulletinl

to urge favorable report on a pending measure few days ago was the first time acfaief justice had taken such step and 1t drew a crowd. The taking over of Fort Nathan Hale and Lighthouse Point, which are within the city limits of N1w Haven, was the bait that drew the chief iustics from customary sechlson
 Mir Taft entered the committee room alone and moment later Congressman John 0. Tflson of New Haven presented him to the military affairs committee as my most distinguished constituent" to which the chief justice made humorous response. After Mr. Taft had smiled his way into the good graces of the commit tee he urged them to regard with favor preservation ct not only the forts and reservations in question, but all such that have historic value. The few dollars added to the United States treasury by sale are of no consequence compared to the historic vaiae of many reservations no longer needed for military purposes and I believe they should become available to interested localities said he. Mir. Taft described Nathan Hal5 as 'the symbol of youthful patriotism and martyrdcun."
 After Mir. Taft left the room the meeting took on tine form of an intimate and friend ly "tafk-over of early American heroes
 
 There wasn't hint of the usual form and kserfunotory hearing that occur daily. Members of the committee leaned back in their chairs and chatted with witnesses about their far back school days when Nathan Hale was held up for their ardent admiration. "Wqnys have made Hale my hero ever since I was Is years old" re- marked Chairman Kahn, leaning back in his chair at the head of the long commit tee table T can go you three years bet ter.' remarked George Seynore, who bought and is occupying the Hale birth place in Coventry. T made him my hero when was only F years old" "Hum," remarked Frank Green, another commit tee man and wae is apparently to be the uncontested candidate fer election to the senate from Vermont, T told my boy when he entered Yale that just to look out every day at that statue of Nathan Hale was an education in itself" Hull of Iowa re- marked that the Hulls and the Hales hal the same ancestors" and so it ran along till it vas apparent that the Hale park vii not be sold for commercial purposes | Moreover it is a good omen for other local tiles where diay.sal of historic reservation have been recommended by the secretary of war, for the military affairs commit i tee is evidently intensely patriotic and will sympathize with the effort to make l such landmarks of early patriotism. Mrs | Minor, president general OF the D. A. R., | urged preservation of all such historic sr und, saying such preservation was one | of the chief purposes Of the organza- | ton of which she is the head.
 If you are a militant suTraglst-watch yo-r step! Miss Elsie Hill of Connecti- cut is now figuring in the top of the re- cent "Cu i'd Dart list. For it n.cw de- veiops that this extremely militant suffra 1 g;st, daughter of the late Congressman E3benezer Hill, was secretly marriel ir Chicago on Dec. 24th to Prof. Levitt of l North Dakota. But Mrs. Levitt is cqie ot the women nr-st active in putting througi 1 the proposed constitutional amendment termittisg married woman to retain til.il maiden name and select separate donici!e 50 she still calls herself Elsie Hill, an has shunted the professor back to hi. North Dakota c-dlege while Sne remainr here working for the pa asage of complete equal rights. Mrs. Hil-Levitt remarked that she and her husband planned to talk a vacation next summer and spend it to gether in Connecticut. Mrs Elsie is stil !; proudly wearing her prison pin showinr
 she was one of the White House picket |. who were jailed for creating disturbance
 in front of the executive mansion. An.
 
 Dan Ci-rid, but two other White Hous : pickets have entered the lists within tn last few months. Doris Stevens marie, l Dudley Field Maine theday after hls di lvorce from the first Mrs Malone wa granted; and little Betty Gram a ros checked pocket edition of miitan-
 whose child1ike voice and ingenue name made Ter selected to win over bIg and az gTessiye opponents. has not only jus 2 married. but has settled down" to dc mestic fife. No mere causes for me" sh : is quoted as saying but the other tw n pickets still cling to the work they hay
 carried 6fl for a number of years.
 There is movement on foot in con gress st D speed up legislation by a get te
 gether between senate and house end en z the session by June first or possibly earie. U When that date comes congress will haj I have been in cntinuous session for nnor q than one year, and republican leader 0 believe 1t best for the country to try el 4 the new legislation rather than continu q to heap new measure on it's head
 t An innovation will hegin rfis week by - meeting of the leaders of both branches q congress to talk over a program and ma V out a course of republican action It hs
 been suggested that when the bills tn;
 require joint action are out of the wa
 congress shall adjourn and later t1 a president call an extra session of the SCI n ate to consider and act on pending trec ' ties, instead of holding the house he
 through that discnssion The house has I ., part to play in treaties, The l5residei Il and the senate alone having power E make and ratify treaties.
 t The next big fight In the hous. will
 on the anti-lynchis1g bill. It is the irol
 of fate that just as the Oklahcma, del 'n gation including Miss Robertson the on Is Wcman member of congress. was req, ,d to make speeches denouncing the measu
 not as unconstitutional but unnecessar
 that lynchng should should take pla in the capital of Oklahoma as harpen : :. this week. The most sensational event iu the discussion thus far was when Go ia gressrnan Hersey, republican, If Mair
 made speech against the bill, whi
 wen for hdrn a tribute from every democr si- present, and in which only republic ,,- joined. The one exception was Parker in New Jersey. It happened like this.
 the close of the Hersey speech, whi
 vigorously denounced interference In or matters of southern states, the entire de
 ocratlc side, led by members fro mthe II called lynchiEg states, rose and applaud or till Hersey took his seat And they I
 only applauded but sent out some h1s
 rebel yells. But except Parker of N lis Jersey mot one republican jeined in he demonstration, but sat with folded arr re That does not mean that some republics
 Will not vote against the bill but it d.
 mean that did not approve Hersey's |; - ing so active part in helping along ''' lynch state cause But Hersey stood ne ground claiming he bill is useless and I old constitutional.
 Col John O Trean ..-x.-x.x,