Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-18

That first test vote in the Senate on
| the attempt to pass the postal pay
bill over the presidential veto shows
! that Calvin Coolidge, like Woodrow
Wilson, also has "a little group of
wilful men" on his hands. There
were thirteen Republicans among
| them. With the exception of Cou-
zens of Michigan, johnson of Cali
! fornia and Howell and Norris of Ne
| braska, all of them ranked as recent
ly as November as Coolidge men.
Two were reelected to the Sneate, in
addition to their own merits, on the
Coolidge tidal wave that swept their
states-Edge of New Jersey and Nc
Nary of Oregon. The others-Cum
minis of Iowa, Jones of Washington,
Mckinley of Illinois, Reed of Penn
sylvania. Shortridge of California,
Stanfield of Oregon and Wadsworth
Of New York-do not deny Coolidge
allie giance, either. In most cases
their alibi for hostility to the Presi-
dent on the postal bill is entangling
campaign pledges.
X X y x
Appointment of Col. Joseph w. Nc
Intosh of Illinois as controller of
the currency, calls attention to the
fact that Illinois has had something
of mortgage on that job in our
day and generation. During the past
thirty years five controllers have
come from the Prairie state. James
H. Eckles of Illinois was controller
in 1893, during the second Cleveland
administration. Charles G. Dawes
succeeded him when Mckinley took
office in 1897. William B. Ridgely,
| another Illinoisan, was controller
under President Taft, and Henry NJ.
of
appointed to the post by President
Harding in 1923. Now President
Coolidge goes to the commonwealth
of Lincoln and Grant for another
| guardian of our paper money. COL
Mcintosh was for many years an Of
! fetal of the Armour Packing Com
pany at Chicago. Since 1920 ne mas
been director of finance of the Ship
ping Board and Emergency Fleet
Corporation. He saw active war
service in France, Italy and the Bal
| kans in 1917 and 1918.
At the White House this week in
quirers about the state of the Navy
were advised by President Coolidge to
read a speech on the subject made
| by Senator Hale of Maine last May.
Hale Is chairman of the Senate COM
mittee on naval affairs. Probably
| with the exception of people who
have an incurable habit of reading
| the Congressional Record, the speech
attracted the attention OF very few
persons Members of Congress long
have complained that many important
utterances on Capitol Hill fail to
catch the public eye and ear. When
Warren G.. Harding, as President
elect, visited the press gallery OF the
| Senate in the Winter of 1919-1920, he
| mentioned 1.-The best speech I ever
| made'-on the League of Nations, In
| September, 1919-and lar1ented that
nobody dignified it with notice.
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Eugene Meyer, jr, managing director
| Of the War Finance Corporation, is a
Treasury official who believes in prac-
| ticing what the Treasury breaches.
He loads himself down every day with
| a pocketful of the 1924 silver dollars
which Mr. MELONS department is try
| ing to popularize, and puts them in
| circulation. The rural northwest is
absorbing Wholesale lots of the glis-
| tening new cartwheels. A trial ship
ment of 100000 was sent to the Fed
eral Reserve Bank at Minneapolis the
other day, and two duplicate orders
have meantime been sent in from
! there.
| Students OF Calvin Coolidge's lit
| erary style detect a conspicuous par
! TALLY on his part for ALTERATION,