Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-10-03
A Weekly Panorama of Events in the
National Capital
(By Peter Keeganl

The promised expose of prohibition
enforcement by the Senate committee
presided over by Couzens of Michi-
gan will be held off until after the
election. The committee has starte't
its investigation of the Treasury, but
will be occupied for the next five or
six weeks with a survey of the admin
instration of the tax laws with view
to recommending changes in existing
regulations. Nothing very exciting
will come out of that.
There is no doubt in the minds of
those who are watching the political
situation in the west that something
more than naval problems caused
President Coolidge to suddenly recall
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur to
Washington from California. The
President hastened to deny that, how
ever, because he didn't want to make
it appear that there was any friction
between himself and Wilbur. The
Secretary is back at his desk in the
NAVY Department, where he is eX-
pected to remain during the rest Of
the campaign, making no speeches..
Congressional committees and spe-
cial Investigators seem to make no
headway in determining whether or
not the Government has been defraud-
ed by the duplication Of bonds IN the
Bureau of Engraving. Charles Brew
er, who made an investigation OF the
alleged duplication for President
Harding, says that bonds were fraud
ulently issued but Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon is just as emphatic
with his denials. A new inquiry OF
the scandal has been launched, but 1t
is getting nowhere.
The announcement Of Democratic
Chairman Shaver that he did not
think Davis could win if the presi-
Dental election should be held now
was received with surprise and con-
siderable pleasure in both the La Fol
lette and Coolidge camps. Shaver
meant that the election would be
thrown into Congress-. In admitting
that he did, in some respects, "let the
Cat Out VI JlG bclS, Co ~ - S'A - -
expected that pOliticals managers will
never admit anything detrimental to
themselves or their party. The belief
that an election at this time would re-
suit in a deadlock is held privately,
however, by both Republican and Pro-
gressive leaders, although they are
not 50 willing to talk about 1t as
Shaver.
Society tongue-waggers got a sur
prise this week when it was learned
that S. Parker Gilbert, former I'm
der-Secretary Of the Treasury, and
now Agent General of Preparations
in Europe, was to marry Miss Louise
Ross Todd Of Louisville, Ky. Gossip
had it that Gilbert was about to et-
feet an alliance with the Mellon Mil
lions by marrying Miss Ailsa Mellon,
daughter Of the Secretary of the
Treasury and one of the wealthiest
young women in the world.
The supreme court ruling that in
toXicants can not be sold on Amer
lean ships travelling the high seas has
resulted in at least one vessel retlr-
ing from the transatlantic trade, ac-
cording to reports to Government
shipping agencies. The old German
liner Agememnon, after striving un-
successfully for two years to compete
with the iquor-selling English ships,
has given up the ghost and put in at
Hampton Roads. The ship probably
will rot at the docks and then be sold
for junk.
Gelasio Caetani, Italian ambassa-
dor to the United States, is to follow
the Japanese ambassador, Masanao
Hanihara, into private life as a result
of the enactment Of the new Ameri-
can immigration law. Of course,
there is no exclusion of Italians as
there is for orientals, but the immi-
grafton quotas Of the South European
nations were reduced to such an eX-
tend that the Italian Foreign Office
is said to feel that Caetani did not
handle the situation skillfully enough.
The Ambassador is returning to
Washington next month from Rome
to wind up his affairs in this country.