Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-14
Digest Of News
AT Washington
By HARRY HUNT

by t1A6h1 HUM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14:-The
igan is to become the senatorial nut
cracker.
Not cracker of jokes-please do
not misunderstand! But, instead, a
cracker of thick-shell craniums, in
order to admit more light of reason
and fact.
"It's odd. but it's fact" Couzens
remarked the other day as we were
riding from the senate Office building
to the capitol in the government
monorail underground trolley, in
stalled solely to save senators the
labor of walking, that the average
legislator is not open to reason on
the subject of public ownership,
Say public ownership to him
and he draws into his she'll. He can't
be coaxed out. The thing I should
most like to do would be to crack
that shell. I'm getting together
lot of facts and figures that I hope
will form a club heavy enough for
the job. For sooner or later that
shell will have to be cracked. He'll
have to face facts. And the sooner
the better"
1t didn't occur to me at the time,
but I'm going to suggest to Couzens
the next time we meet that he pro-
pose to the senate that the private
senatorial car line be turned over to
private interests to operate at
profit. Couzens' reactioa do btless
would be to demand why a free gov
ernnent car line for senators is good
if government rail lines for taxpay-
ers who would pay fare and freight,
is unthinkable and socialistic.
Bureau chiefs trying to save pro-
posed appropriations for their own
divisions almost invariably suggest
to General Lord, director of the bud
get, that the amount needed can
easily be saved by cutting down the
appropriation for someone else.
They're like the Scot who was
dying in a hospital" Lord says.
Before l de- he told the nurse,
I want to hear once more the music
Of the bagpipes.'
$50 they sent for the pipers, and
they came to the hospital and skirled
some stirring tunes for their stricken
countryman. The Scot imm ediately
chirked up. He got we'll.
But all the other patients died"
John T. Adams, Republican ma
tional chairman, has sailed for Egypt
and the Holy Land. He expects to
visit the tomb of King Tutankhamen,
5000 years deceased.
Pat Harrison, Democratic senator
from Mississippi, suggests that John
may be studying styles in tombs,
preparatory to a G. o. P. burial in
1924.
Senator Caraway, Arkansas, also
"a Democrat. takes a different view.
He's seeking new and novel ideas
so as to make his party really pro-
gressive,' says Caraway. ANY idea
as recent as 1900 B. c., however,
might be too radical and revolution
ary for the Republicans"
Knute Nelson, grizzled senatorial
Thor, was eighty years old on
Grounding Day, February 2.
King Haakon of Norway, where
Nelson was born, sent him a radio
message IF good greetings.
Harry Caugherty, attorney gener-
al, sent him a box of choice chew
ing tobacco.
He appreciated the message. but
he enjoyed the box of plug.
At a recent hearing before the
Judiciary Committee, Of which Mel
son is chairman, he borrowed a
chew from Daugherty, having ex-
hausted his supply. He told Daugt-
erty later it was the = st he had ever
tried. And Daugherty, always
thoughtful, remembered Knute's
taste when his birthday rolled
round.
AS hard chewer, Nelson is now
undisputed Washington champion.
His only runnerup in recent years
was the late Chief Justice White.