Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-08-08
A Weekly Panorama of Events in the
National Capital
(By Peter Keegan)

(By Peter Keegan)
With no outstanding events to en-
gage it's interest, Washington has
been all excited about the disappear
ance-again-of President Coolidge's
Cat. Tige, who is well-known to those
who visit the White House regularly,
strayed away several months ago and
was brought back after the news of
his disappearance had been broad
casted along the eastern seaboard by
radio. He Immediately became per-
sonage and his photograph appeared
in all the papers, while cartoonists
used him as the subject for their pic
lures. Now Tige has gone again, and
the President says that as far as he
is concerned, the cat can stay away,
in view of the fact that he does not
appreciate living in the Executive
Mansion.
Brigadier General Frank T. Hines,
Director of the United States Veter-
ans Bureau, is willing to forgive and
forget. Thomas l.. Deaver, young
ex-soldier who thought that he was
getting a square deal from the gov
ernment in the matter of compensa
ton, beat up on the Director. Hines
was laid up for two weeks, but now
announces that no charges will be
filed against Deavor and that the
young mans case will be given
prompt and thorough attention by
bureau officials.
Startling statements to the effect
that at least a thousand aliens are
smuggled into the United States each
day of the year has aroused Depart
ment of Labor officials to more stren-
uous efforts to stop this brand of
bootlegging. Special officers are to
be stationed along the Mexican and
Canadian borders, augmented by air
patrols, to head off the aliens as they
come sneaking in. Lack of sufficient
agents has been the chief cause of the
failure of the Labor Department to
stop this illegal immigration into the
United States.
Senator Jim Watson of Indiana
has come back to Washington with
the estimate that President Coolidge
will not fail to have plurality in the
election. AS a member of the Re-
publican Senatorial Campaign Com
mittee, Watson gathered his infor-
nation in the course of the work of
the committee in helping Senators
keep their seats on Capitol Hill. The
Indiana Senator figures that Cool
idge's plurality will be around twenty
votes, with Senator LaFollette in sec
ond place and John w. Davis, third.
If, says Watson, Coolidge does not
win out in the electoral college, he
thinks Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska
the Democratic vice-presidential NOM
inee, will be the next President.
The past few weeks have been
marked by more intensive American
participation in European affairs.
Both Secretary of State Hughes and
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
have been in London in conference
with Prime Ministers of France, Eng
land and Italy, while Ambassador
Kellogg has take prominent part in
the allied conference, which is work.
ing out a scheme to put the Dawes
reparations plan into operation. Two
speeches have been made in London
by Hughes on political and economic
problems and his promise of Ameri-
can aid in the restoration of Europe
has received the hearty and official
o. K. of President Coolidge.
Senator LaFollette's presidential
campaign is booming along now, fol-
lowing the selection of Senator Bur-
ton K. Wheeler as his running mate
and the naming of the committee
which will have direct change of the
drive for votes from members of both
old parties. 1t has now been deter
mined that the LaFollette campaign
will not be limited to the agricultural
states of the middle west, but will be
waged from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific.
Democratic headquarters here are
in charge of Clement L. Shaver of
West Virginia, the Original Davis
man." who is slated to succeed Cor
dell Hull of Tennessee as Chairman
of the National Committee. Hull is
still chairman officially, but he has
stopper back to let Shaver take up the
reins.
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