Evening star., 1925-02-16

President Coolidge has not zig
nored" senatorial patronage tradi-
tions and susceptibilities, as some OF
his foes on the Warran nomina tion
contend. At the White House assur-
ance Is given that Mr.. Coolidge, on
the contrary. Is punctiliously careful
not to rub any CT Capitol Hills
sensitive fur the wrong way. The
President consulted with Senator
Couzens Of Michigan regarding Mr.
Warren's appointment to the Ato5-
ney Generalship and the understand
ing was that Couzens would support
the nomination. There 10 no official
indication, as yet. that he will not
do so. though Warren's opponents
count Couzens as one Of them. 1t is
the Coolidge practice to confer with
Republicans Senators on appoint
ments affecting their States. In the
case of Mr.. Kellogg. no such confer
ence took place, because Minnesota
has no Republican Senators. Ambas-
sador Houghton's promotion to Lon
don was recommended to the Presi-
dent by Senator Wadsworth of New
York, who also was consulted about
the elevation of Mr.. Stone to the Su-
preme Court bench.
The Daughters Of the American
Revolution expect to spend more than
81, coo, 900 on the auditorium annex to
Memorial Continental Hall in Wash
ington. The proposition Is expected,
despite its financial dimensions, to
enlist enthusiastic support At the
thirty-fourth Continental Congress
of the Daughters in April. Meantime
the president general, Mrs. Anthony
Wayne Cook. will tour the country as
far as the Pacific coast and SELL the
project to prominent chapters
throurhout tIae Union. There are
more than 1000 D. A. r., chapters to-
day totaling $4,000 members. Mem
bership Is increasing at the rate of
1000 a month. 1t Will be proposed at
the forthcoming congress to raise the
annual dues from 81 to % and that
measure will help materially to
finance the auditorium. The Memorial
Continental Hall, immortalized as the
scene of the Washington armament
conference, long since proved made
quate for congress purposes. But
when the new auditorium has reared
It's majestic proportions skyward. the
Daughters will have one of the finest
convention halls in the United States.
Oswald Garrison Willard, editor of
the Nation. is X-raying conditions at
washington, and diagnozing in par
ticular the relations maintained be-
tween the President and the press.
One recent episode, which caused per-
turbation among Washington cor
RESPONDENTS, but was little heard of
outside that exclusive circle, is en-
easing Mr.. Wizards special attention.
It concerns the famous incident of
Ambassador Jusserands public speech
on the French debt. The day after
the speech, that exalted parsonage.
known as "a White House spokes-
man." referred to 1t in terms that in
duced experienced Washington news
papermen to report that President
Coolidge had "rebuked" Jusserand
Within "a hours, White House state
ment rebuked the correspondents who
said Mr.. Coolidge had rebuked the
Frenchman. One bold scribe, Henry
Suydam, correspondent Of the Brook
lyn Daily Eagle. took up the cudgeis
for his confreres. He said It provided
graphic proof of the necessity of a
different system OF reporting White
House utterances. There Is hardly q
week that does not witness varying
Interpretations of presidential
Views, made by trained reporters in