The Washington times., 1923-03-11
FENCE INTENDING TO
OCCUPY ATTENTION
OF SOME SENATORS
Many Remain at Home,
Despite Lure
of Europe.

summer. there are a few-some
lame ducks and some not-who
propose to remain at home. Sen
ator John sharp williams mas
gone down to his Mississippi home
where he can listen to the mock
ing birds. and Senator MedilI Nc.
Cormick is heading out to Chi
cago, where he hopes to make the
knocking birds-the voting kind
listen to him.
There's a hot mayoralty cam
paign on there. Incidentally, he
will undoubtedly look well to his
fences lest he find himself in the
lame duck class two years hence.
Mrs. Mccormick. just back from
New York, is remaining on here
for the present, but il there's any
campaigning to be done. / suspect
she'll be mixed up in it sooner or
later. Mark Hanna's daughter is
. born politician.
Senator Capper, too, proposes to
spend almost the entire recess at
home getting acquainted with
Kansas and Kansans again in an
ticipatiOn of next years cam
paign. And Senator Morris Shep.
pard will look to his fences down
In Texas. Senator and Mrs. IT.
vine Lenroot are bound for Cali
fornia and Hawaii, but they will
so via Wisconsin and viii spend
some time in their home there.
Senator Borah is still trying TO
decide between Idaho and Senator
Ladd's proposed junket to Russia
ITO see the real Russia as guests
Of the Soviet government. Sounds
interesting If true! But so far no
body seems to know very much
about it.
Then. there's Seantor Gilbert n.
Hitchcock, who now writes ..ex''
before his Senatorial title and who
expects to act as Washington cor.
respondent Of his Omaha newspa-
per for a time IL not permanently.
SUPPOSE you have seen, BY
the way, that former Senator
Pomerene. one Of the most re-
GREETED Of the lame ducks from
the last election. has entered a
Cleveland law firm and that con-
sequently the Pomerenes will live
in Cleveland on their return from
their present sojourn in South
America.
Their home has been in Canton,
Ohio, that probably is not
good place for man,
who has been so long in Uncle
Sans service that he has hal
little time to lay up riches on
earth, to make up for lost time
and build up a profitable law
practice in few minutes. There
has been some hope that the
President would find some perIna-
nent job for Pomerene and keep
him in Washington. Good luck
to them wherever they settle!
Senator and Mrs. David A.
Reed gave up their suite at the
Willard when Congress adjourned
and sailed for a short trip to
Bermuda. They propose to go
abroad little later when their
school closes, SO they
can take her over. travel with
her for month or so and then
her at one of the inter-
nationally famous French schools,
for a year or so Of finishing" be-
fore she is presented to society.
SENATOR AND MRS. GEORGE
WHARTON PEPPER have
gone to their home near Phila.
delphia. Senator Pepper will keep
his office here open, and come
down occasionally, but Mrs. Pep.
per, well as she got along last
season with Washington sum-
mer, is well satisfied not to have
to do it again. Last season Sen.
ator Pepper played tennis quite
early in the morning
on the White House courts, and
Mrs. Pepper played up at Hen.
derson Castle, and enjoyed the
swimming pool UP there ire
Just before Congress
adjourned the Peppers were
plunged into mourning, and prob.
ably were just as well pleased
that there would be no social
demands upon them of an official
nature for some months to come.
Senator Peppers stepfather, who
ia always been very close to
Shem, and to whom the family
were devoted, died in Atlantic
City after years of failing health
and weeks Of really serious illness.
Mrs. Pepper is well pleased to
De at home, in touch with the
church work to which she is de.
voted. Mrs. Basil Gordon told
me the other day that Mrs. Pep
per often stayed the whole day
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