The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
BY CHARLES NICHOLSON

WASHINGTON. Dec. 20.-In the
savory smoke of sausages and pancakes.
the differences between the President
and the Old Guard are being dlssl-
pated one BY one Peace is the order
Of til day,. and if the senate will alb
stain from passing the postal-pay IN.
crease over the Presidents veto all Will
be forgiven and forgotten.
The White House breakfasts are ac-
complishing wonders even Couzens has
been invited. and now people are won
dering how far he will go in the inter
nal revenue investigation that only
few months ago convulsed washington
when the Michigan senator engaged
Frank Heney to investigate Secretary
Mellon and the treasury head notified
President Coolidge that nobody would
be willing to be responsible for that de-
partment if such things were permitted.
La Toilette Men Silent .
The La Toilette senators who were
read out of the Republican party and
Hiram johnson, whose silence during
the campaign made the Presidents retl-
cence sound like Senator Helms daily
comment on Wall street, have not yet
been asked. but anything may happen.
johnson, incidentally, has never recov-
cred from his campaign dumbness. Will
liam M. Butler. who has made one
speech-"I move to adjourn since his
advent in the senate. is four words
ahead of the senior senator from Call
fornia. Another apostle of suppression Is
Brookhart of Iowa. who got in with a
ma iority of less than 500 votes and is
threatened with a contest by Steck, his
democratic opponent with his fate de-
pendent on hostile majority decision
as to whether certain arrow marks
pointing to Steck's name on the ballot
were means of identification which
voided the ballots or merely expressed
the intention of the voter.
Most of the republicans voted for the
democrat to punish Brookhart for de-
manding that Dawes get off the repub-
lican ticket and indicating that Mr.
Coolidge might as well make the sug-
gested withdrawal unanimous. And
most of the democrats voted for the re-
publican because Steck defended
Daucherty as means of attacking
Brookhart at the very time that John
w, Davis was making the ex-attroney
general the text of his orations. Con
seauently it has been the general belief
that when the senate committe got to
the contest it would find that some hun
dreds of guileless Iowa voters have
merely copied from newspaper the IL
Illustrated method of scratching Brook
hart and otherwise voting straight re-
publican ballot.
RawsOn Backs BrOolkhart
Now there appears to be some doubt
about this. National Committeeman
Charlie Rawson of Des Moines, who was
senator for little while-filling out
the unexpired term when Kenyon let
his ennui with the upper house of con-
gress tempt him to take a federal
iudgeship- been down here and is
reported to be urging that, after all,
near-republican is less of liability to
the administration than a democrat
Perhaps it may also have been pre-
sented that Brookhart, crushed under
the burden of his tutlawry, was show
ing signs of contrition, and the superior
value of a strayed sheep returning may
have also been stressed At all events
the belief that the skids were creased
for Brookhart is waning, and it is now
questioned whether contest will be
considered at ALL
As to the why of it, Iowa has a
theory. Mr.. Rawson, like all others who
have had taste of the senate, would