Evening star., 1924-12-06
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM FILE

William NJ. Butler, President Cool
idge's viceroy on Capitol Hill. fits as
naturally into the Senate picture as
missing fragment in a Jigsaw puZ-
zle. In the first place, he looks the
part His hair is almost snow-white,
betokening dignity and ripe expert
ence. His mien is serious and his
person we'll groomed. Lawyer and
business man, Butler combines the
qualities that ought to make him an
uncommonly useful legislator. AS to
his political acumen, the fact that
he is a graduate, magnum cum laude,
of the Murray Crane school of Mas
sachusetts politics speaks for itself.
Senator Butler, be It said in passing,
is manifestly a man of courage. He
has introduced the derby hat style
| in the Senate, where hitherto nothing
but fedoras, with accentuated broad
brims, have held undisputed sway.
DR.. Edwin A. Alderman, president
OF the University of Virginia, who
will be the orator of the day at the
Woodrow Wilson memorial which
Congress will hold on December Is,
is one Of the great scholars Of the
South. His history Of North Caro-
lima (of which he Is native son)
and various works on the spirit
| and 'idealism' of the Southland are
classics In cultured Dixieland. DR..
Alderman Is famed as a public speak
er. too. and his friends predict that
his Forthcoming panegyric on Wilson
will be notable effort. 1t will be
the third time within the cotempo-
rary era that Congress has held a
| joint session in honor Of a departed
! President-Reosevelt and Harding
having been similarly honored. 1t
will be the first time that proceed
ings. were ever broadcast by radio
Also the list of official participants
never before included 1.-The General of
the Armies" a place made especially
for Gen. Pershing because he was the
war Presidents -chiet
| In the field. Pershing will not be
back from Peru in time for the com
memoration.
| There's no more popular organi-
! Zation man in the whole Republican
| party than Pat" Sullivan, national
| committeeman, from Wyoming. He
| is high in the esteem OF leaders just
| now for having helped materially
to avert defeat for Senator War
! rem on November 4, in the face of
what at one time seemed invincible
odds. Pat" came to America from
| his native Ireland when a lad OF
II. When he landed at Castle Gar
| den, headed for some point West
| he didn't much care which or where
| he told the man behind the window a,
| the railroad ticket Office that he
| wanted to travel as far as his
money would take him. ALLOWING
enough for meals while you're get.
ting there" the ticket seller said
."you can go as far as Green River
| wyo." The young Irishman said
That's good enough for me-" And tc
1 Green River, sure enough, he went
I! He's stayed there ever since, and Is
now q wealthy sheep rancher and
| X k-$
President Coolidge's trip to Chi.
cago as an ordinary railway pas.
! senrer revives interest in the travel.
I ing allowance which Uncle Sam
makes to his Chief Executive. I,
| was in March, 1907, during the las
| year OF the Roosevelt administra
| ton, that Congress appropriated
"for travelling expenses of the Presi.
dent of the United States, to be ex.
i pended at his discretion and account
ed for by his certificate solely, $25,
0oe." A year or two later Congress
raised the salary Of the Presiden