Evening star., 1924-05-08

Brown University, at Providence,
will bestow an honorary degree OF
LII D. on Masanao Hanihara, Japa-
nese ambassador to the United States,
on June IS. The distinction is not
without significance at the present
moment 1t takes on added interest
from the fact that Brown is Secretary
Hughes alma mater, which made him
a doctor Of laws in 1906. The famous
Rhode Island University prides itself
upon the fact that no fewer than
three celebrated American Secreta-
ries Of State were graduated from
there-Richard Olney. John Hay and
Charles Evans Hughes Ambassador
Hanihara hopes the diplomatic stu
alton win permit him to receive his
in absentta- He has been invited to
deliver the annual commencement
luncheon address, -.
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Nicholas Murray Butler is rumor's
latest candidate for the Republican
vice presidential nomination The
suggestion Is current in New York
at the hands OF the president of Co
lumbia University. Buffers recent
assault on the eighteenth amendment
it appears to be thought makes him
so outstanding q liberal" on the
prohibition issue that he would adorn
a ticket overweighted at the top with
conservatism. DR.. Buffers friends
say he is not a candidate now, but
might change his mind when he sees
how the wind is blowing on Lake
Erie in June. 1t would not be the
first time that Butler was In sight
of the vice presidency. When James
S Sherman, TaftS running mate, died
in October 1912, leaving Republican
electors to vote for whom they pleas
ed, several electors in western states
voted for Butler. He was New York s
favorite son at the Chicago conven-
,tion in 1920, polling Ssk votes
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Champ Clark's rulings as Speaker OF
the House are being invoked IN con-
nection with the pending controversy
over Japanese exclusion The ques-
tion has arisen as to whether a con-
ference committee celebrating over
bills passed. respectively, by House
and Senate is empowered to fix an
entirely new date for enforcement, or
must fi- upon a date between two
differing dates in the House and Sem
ate bills The House immigration bill
would make japanese exclusion effec-
tive July 1, 1924. The Senate bill
called for endorsement Immediately
ing to the Champ Clark ruling, which
has always ranked as precedent, q
conference committee cannot decide
upon an entirely, now date, but must
reach a compromise as between the
periods over which House and Senate
differ,
How third-party preferences are
running Is indicated by the straw
vote which the National Farmer
r.abor-Progressive" organization is
taking, in anticipation of it's con-
vention at St Paul on June II. One
poll, said to be typical of the gen
Borah, lis; Norris, ia; Amos Pinchot,
50: wheeler, 40; Brookhart, 4S; Ship
stead, Is; Frazier, u.s.. Victor MUIR
dock, r1e; Ladd, 6; Hopkins, 8; Walsh
(Montana3, a.
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This observer has been getting
some kindly remonstrances in con-
nection with his habit of occasionally
referring to the President as Cool
idge," and now and then as CAL" or
even as cautious Cal" or silent
Cal" There is no reason to suppose
that the President himself, objects
to such familiarities. Some men con-
sider 1t a distinction to be publicly
referred to exclusively by their sur
names: 1t carries the suggestion that
they arc so celebrated that they no
need identification. After the
British army began distinguishing
itself on the western, front the late
lord Northciffe posted -up-a notice
in his newspaper offices reading: "The
field narshal of the British armies
in France should no longer be re-
ferred to- in our news or editorial
columns as Sir Douglas Haig, He is