Evening star., 1925-11-04

Senator Smith W. Brookhart. Re-
publican, of Iowa has asked Senator
Ernst of Kentucky, chairman of the
Senate subcommittee on elections, to
call an early meeting OF the commit
tee and formulate report on the
Brookhart -Steck contest. Brookhart
and his Democratic rival are both anx-
ious to have matters cleared up in
time for a decision by the time Con
gress assemblies in December. AS
result of the recount OF the ballots in
the Iowa senatorial election of 1924.
some $500 ballots were laid aside as
contestable votes. About $500 OF
these were originally counted for
Brookhart, and about $500 for Steck.
Nine different classes of protest are in
volved, and the ballots have now to
be classified according to literature Of
the protest applicable to each indi-
vidual vote. What the Ernst sub
committee mainly has to decide is
whether ballots evidently intended as
straight Republican ticket votes, but
on which Brookhart'S name was not
specially marked. can be credited to
him. The Hawkeye radical is conf
dent things will turn out in his favor.
Counting all protested votes for both
candidates. Brookhart figures he is 5S
ahead.
Vice President Dawes is in the midst
of a speechmaking swing which be-
gins at Indianapolis November and
winds up in New York on November
IA The Senate rules, the favorite bal
lad in the Dawes repertoire, will be
the burden of his song. Following the
engagement before the Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce, Gen. Dawes
will hold forth before the Cincinnati
Chamber of Commerce on November
g. On the evening of November the
Vice President will be the guest of the
Western College for Women at Ok
ford, Ohio. The president of that in
stitution, DR.. w. w. Boyd, was class
mate of Dawes at Marietta. Senator
Charles S. Deneen Of Illinois, who has
evidently been won over to Dawes
Senate reform cause, will accompany
him across Indiana and Ohio. The
party also will include Mrs. Dawes,
Mrs. Deneen and Mrs. Medill McCor-
mick, who is now leading the anti
World Court campaign among Repub-
lican women. Senators Watson and
Robinson will attend the Indianapolis
meeting. and Senators Willis, Fess and
Ernst have been invited to hear the
Senate flayed at Cincinnati.
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Foot ball will take DR.. William NJ.
Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture, back
to the campus of the Kansas State
Agricultural College, at Manhattan, on
November IA. That's the institution
from which President Coolidge drafted
Jardine into the cabinet. The Secretary
wants to attend the Aggies' annual big
game with the University of Nebraska.
Jardine once was a husky gridiron
warrior himself In his days at the
Agricultural College of Utah, 81 years
ago, he was a nightly fullback, slim,
dark, hard youngster, standing feet
10 inches, and weighing 165 pounds.
Jardine was not only as fleet as a
deer but brought to college the Drawn
developed during four years of COW
herding and bronco busting in the Big
Hole country, where he rode the
range. Like Herbert Hoover, Jardine
married a coed whom he met and
wooed while they were classmates. So
Mrs. Jardine will be at Manhattan
roofing for the Aggies, too.
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One of Italys distinguished journal.
lists, Signor Luigi BarZini, is in Wash
ington to report the Volpi debt mis-
sion's activities. BarZini won world
wide fame as the special correspondent
of his country's principal newspaper,
Corriere della Sierra, Of Milan, which
sent him to the Washington armament
conference in 1921. He became SO
fond of American life that he decided
to make our country his home. Three