Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-01-02
A Weekly Panorama of Events in the
National Capital
(Rv PETER KEEGANl

(By PETER kEEGAN)
THE administration proposal to in
crease postal rates on third and
fourth class matter has aroused the
wrath of most of the newspapers as
they would have to foot most OF the
bill. Hearings on the bill carrying
the new scale worked out by Postmas-
ter General New, have been rushed to
a close by the joint Postal Committee
of Congress so that the legislation
can be brought out in the Senate and
acted upon Immediately after the
holiday recess. The rate boosts are
calculated to bring about $68,O00,OOO
year which would be used to offset
proposed increases in the pay Of post
office employees, in accordance with
the wishes of the President, who We
toed the first pay increase bill.
GENERAL Pershing is in South
~ America as full fledged Am
bassador Plenipotentiary for the
United States, in company with other
Diplomatic Officials he represented
the government at various patriotic
celebrations of our neighbors to the
south. He was appointed an ambass-
ador to give his presence more of any
official color. Although such ap-
pointment would give him full author
itv to conclude and sign treaties he
has not ventured that far according
to reports reaching the capital.
A MOTHER California woman is
\ slated to sit in Congress. Reports
| from the Pacific coast indicate that
Republican leaders there are plan
ming to send Mrs. Julius Kahn to
Washington to fill out the uneXpired
term of her late husband, who repre-
sented California in the House OF
Representative for many years and
who as chairman Of the Military Al
fairs Committee drafted much of the
war time emergency legislation in
Guiding the draft law. Mrs. Mae Mol
an of California is now the only
woman in the lower house. She was
named to succeed to the seat of hel
husband upon his death
THE House of Foreign Affairs Com
mittee has a delicate problem or
! its hands in the resolution of Con
gressman Britten of Illinois calling
! for a conference or an international
gathering of the white nations bOr-
dering on the Pacific to discuss what
he looks upon and what used to be
considered the "yelloW PERIL mean
ing the growing power Of Japan IN
world affairs. Britten's resolution
brought the ire of the Secretary OF
| State and other administration Off
cials down on his head. With a view
to showing the japanese government
and people that the United States is
opposed to any such conference, the
Britten resolution is expected to be
brought out and acted upon adverse
ly instead of being merely Ignored
I by administration leaders in Con
gress.
REPORTS persist that Curtis vii.
bur is to retire from the Secre-
taryship of the Navy to become al
associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court. Curtis was a judge
in California when President Coolidge
brought him to Washington for the
naval portfolio and his natural bent
is the bench. He has had hectic
time in the Navy Department but
continues to hang on IN the lace Of
semi-official indications every nov
and then that his resignation is due
THE expected arrival of no infant il
Washington has been so eXten
sively advertised as that of Congress
man and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth
The local papers have exhausted ev'
cry possibility in their speculationS
concerning the forthcoming Long
worth heir, most of them deciding
that it will be boy and will resem
BILE it's distinguished grandfather, the
late Theodore Roosevelt. The LOO
year old cradle that the baby will have
ready for it has been pictured agar
and again and the papers are now Sc.
lecting a name for the child without
of course, any regard of the parents
to-be.
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