Evening star., 1924-06-22
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

now compromise faVor1te son"
candidate for the presid ency fire.
quently advised young men in the
diplomatic service who sought his
advice to get out of that service
and into something that was not
blind alley. This was because he
felt 1t was an injustice to them
selves and their families when they
could not afford it.
He told the House foreign affairs
committee about this and explained
his own experiences where it cost
MIN three times his salary as am
bassador to represent his country
even during a period of unusual
economy. He said he paid as rent
about $4,000, and had the rate of ex
cat caange i IN his favor. He lived un-
ostentation, and had l been a multi
millionaire l would not at that par
ticular time have indulged in the
silehtest ostentation; the British peo-
all distressed. still had the wounds
on thelr person and were bowed down
with financial difficulty, and any man
who could have made a display at
tnat time would have made himself
unpopular; it was eminently a time
Tor conse rvation and quietude-but
with All that living as ! was, count
ing the expense of myself and fam
ny, which is small, 1t cost me roughly
three times my salary every year
between S50,0o0 and 100000 / do not
believe that anybody could possibly
nave done it decently with any less
expenditure"
Former Ambassador Davis nointed
out that his establishment in Lon
don was more modest than that Of
any other ambassador there, / ONLY
did the entertaining which was in
olspensa bic to return the courtesies
which / officially received OF course.
you cannot always take and never
give. You must entertain the Off.
clals or the government who enter
tain you to be recognized as on a
friendly footing with them"
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Apropos of the fist fight between
Senator Joseph T. Robinson of
Arkansas. mentioned as a Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, and DR.
James F. Mitchell. nationally known
as surgeon. on the links of the ex-
elusive Chevy Chase Club. it is re-
called that when Vice President
Hobart presided over the United
States Senate for the first time he
referred to senator's as ''the gentle
man from Tennessee" or "the gentle
the senator claimed as his domiciIe.
During lull in debate, Senator
Smith of New Jersey made his way
to the presiding officer and whispered
to him that he was committing a
grievous error in referring to mem
bers of the dignified and august body
as gentlemen"
You should not refer to a senator
as gentleman" Senator Smith ad-
ViSed.
why not" the Vice President de-
manded. Aren't they gentlemen ?"
well" Senator Smith hesitated.
TT has been the custom to refer to
them as senators and not gentlemen"
Great changes have come over the
national House of RepreS natives
since Representative Isaac r. Sher-
wood, now approaching his eighty
ninth birthday, the oldest man who
ever sat in Congress, and who is
candidate for reelection, first came
here as a legislator. eight years after
the civil war. There were then in
the House eighty-five soldiers of the
civil war. including eight major gem
erals of distinguished service, where
today there is not a single one, save
Gen. Sherwood himself There were
then only thirty-seven stars in our
flag and only 243 members of the
House, where today there are 435.
The first visit that Mr.. Sherwood
ever made to Washington was in
February, 1859. when he heard the
eliminating. fierce and malignant de-
bate in the Senate on the Cuban bill.
He heard that startling and revolu-
tionary utterance Of Robert Toombs
of Georgia that he aimed to call the
roll of his slaves under the shadow
of the Bunker Hill Monument. He
then saw Jefferson Davis and a dozen
other southern members, out of the
sixty-six then comprising the Sem
ate. who never returned after the
war. 1t was thirteen years later that
Sherwood entered Congress.
In this land of political and re-
Iigious freedom, whose very Consti-
tuition was ordained and eSta blished
to secure the blessing of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity. we find
ants now peutioning the federal gov
ernment for aid in ending ancient
rites and cruel customs under which
they are held as slaves.
DR.. Hubert Work, Secretary Of the
Interior, has received this very hu-
man document fom progressive
Pueblo Indians. who have been edu-
Gated in modern schools and who say:
That we love our homes, our towns
and villages, and our people, and our
Christian God more, and we are sorry
that some of the Pueblo officials are
cruel toward many of us and try to
under
alleged ancient customs and in this
we know that they are not sincere,
but use these means to punish and
persecute US for secret reasons be-
cause of our refusal to take part in
secret and unchriStian dances, etc.
Chief Justice Taft spends his sum-
mer vacations each year at Murray
Bay, Canada, and according to a
story told by Louis Ludlow, veteran
Washington correspondent in his
book of memoirs Form Cornfeld to
Press Gallery" nearly every fall
when he packs up his belongings to
return to the states he is asked to
bestow a pair of his cast-off trousers
on a woman of that vicinity.
1t Is explained that the woman's
husband operates a sail boat, and
that, being generous to a fault
Mr.. Taft never fails to respond
The last time the request was made
his curiosity got the upper hand and
he ventured to inquire: MY good
woman, you are welcome to the
trousers, but what can you do with
them"
do with themT she answered. 'I
can do plenty. With one leg I make
a suit for my boy Julius. With the
other leg I make suit for my odder
boy, Louie. My old man Pedro takes
the rest of the pants and makes a
sail for his boat"
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