Evening star., 1925-05-04

There has never been a case of
mortality in Congress marked by so
strange circumstances as those con
nected with the recent death of Rep
resentatiVe Arthur B. Williams of
Michigan. Mr.. Williams is the third
Congressman in succession from the
same district 10 die before serving in
the Congress to which he was elected.
William II. F'rankhauser was elected
from the district of the we'll known
Battle Creek Kalamazoo constituency
in November, 1920. He passed away
in May, 1921, before he could enter
the Sixty seventh Congress. John NJ.
G. Smith. who had represented the
district in the House for many years
and voluntarily retired was recalled
To fill his old place, but died in March,
1928, prior to the opening of the
SiXty-eighth Congress, TO which he
had been elected. Arthur B. Williams
was thereupon elected to fill the un-
expired Smith term in June, 1928. In
November, 1924, Mr.. Williams was re-
elected, to sit in the SiXty-ninth Con-
gress, and now, seven months before
it will assemble, he, too, has Joined
the permanent majority.
Representative Williams was one
of the co-authors of the Capper-
Williams marketing bill. He refused
10-year contract at $4,000 year
to remain at the head of the Postum
Cereal Co, preferring public ca
reer.
There's no more significant sign of
the political times in Washington
than the chumminess which has
sprung up between Secretary Kellogg
and Senator Borah. 1t may alter the
whole face of our international policy.
II seems to be a case of once Sen
ator, always a Senator, and FRANK b.
Kellogg, in consequence, is likely TO
trot in harness with the foreign re-
lationS committee of the Senate more
handily than any of his cotemporary
predecessors. The new chairman or
that committee and the new Secretary
of State were colleagues on the COM
mittee practically throughout Kel-
loggs senatorial career. They did not
see eye to eye on the League of Ma
tions. no more than they today agree
on the paramount issue of recogniZ-
ing Soviet Russia. But friends they
have always been, and friends they
remain. Borah comes and goes at
the State Department nowadays as
he has not done for IL years. The
heartiness which marks his confer
ences with Kellogg is bound to faclll-
tate a harmonious WORKING dITdHSe-
ment between the administration and
the Senate.
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Former Gov. Charles W. Bryan of
Nebraska, who may be remembered
as the late Democratic candidate for
the Vice Presidency, is about to fol
low in some more footsteps of his dis
tinguished brother, William Jennings,
and mount the chautauqua platform.
He has obtained a lucrative contract
for the coming Summer, and will in
wade the tents on June /. Brother
Charles" has the avowed, though the
not yet proclaimed, purpose of run
ming for Governor of Nebraska again
next year. The chautauqua cam
paign is designed to keep him in the
national limelight, with an eye on an
other term in the State House at Lin
coin. The little brother of the peer
less one" is going to eschew high
browed issues like taxation, the World
| Court and agriculture relief when
next he assaults the heights of public
| favor in Nebraska. Issues like gas
| filling stations and coal yards for the
plain people are things on which he
purposes laying paramount stress.
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| John Garibaldi Sargent is no after.
2dinner star. He made his maiden ap-
learance as q banquet speaker before