Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27
Capital Sidelights

just DerOre big race the horses
and trainers and Jockeys are all at
nervous tension. Similarly the lead
ers in Congress are beginning to get
FESTIVE. although 1t is more than two
months before our lawmakers from
all parts Of the country will officially
assemble here.
Chairman Madden of the House ap
preparations committee returned dur
Ing the past week and is having his
force of expert clerks get all the APP
preparation bills worked up In dun
N.Y. form, with references to the law
authorizing each appropriation and
with corresponding figures for cur
rent appropriations ready and wait
Ing for a fill-in Of the amounts recon-
mended by the Budget Bureau. when
the budget is officially submitted the
day Congress meets. This means
big saving in time, SO that the COM
mittee, split DIP into a number of
subcommittee, can get busy promptly
on their task of allocating funds for
all Federal activities.
House Leader Tilson is also on the
job. comforting with the President and
the various cabinet members and
with such of his colleagues as are
around. getting everything moving
smoothly for the coming session.
mOSI Vi the NERVOUSNESS tlldt ID
evident Is caused by the fact that
it Is the administration program to
get the tax-reyision measure through
Congress with rush, and the ways
and meaens committee, which drafts
this bill, is taking its own leisurely
time about getting started.
House Leader Tilson admits that
he hopes and Is quite confident that
he can get the tax measure through
the House long before Christmas, and
probably within a few days after the
House organizes. Then while the
Senate is wrestling with the tax bill
the House can pass the appropriation
bills-and that's about all there will
be of outstanding legislation, unless
some little tinkering with the inter
state commerce law. about which lead
ers feel they should go slowly.
So the flying start all depends on
the form" Of the ways and means
committeeman Chairman Green has
let It be known that he doesn't In
tend to come back here until October
10. OF course. there is no ways and
means committee yet, but they all
know who will be on the committee,
and It is thought by the leaders that
these prospective members should
meet infornaily and agree upon the
soon as the House organizes and for.
mally approves the assignments to
that committee 1t can meet officially
and within an hour report out its bill.
That's the sort of quick start the ad-
ministration leaders are planning for.
The thrill that comes but once in
a lifetime" was experienced a couple
- Df-s, 1xr INT q
son. Although he has been by resi-
dence and by public activity and pri-
vate whole-heartedness for 81 years
a good and loyal citizen of Connect
cut. he has never forgotten his native
hills in Tennessee. He was born In
Unicoi County, Tenn, which he de-
scribes as resembling a wart on the
face of Tennessee, as 1t juts out into
North Carolina
Representative Tilson has just re-
turned from a visit to his brother IN
Unicoi County-and the old.home
folks just turned head over heels to
pay homage to- one of their own boys
who climbed through his own strong
heartedness and firmness of charac-
ter into such distingu tshed position
in the service of his country.
They held a mass meeting in his
honor in the courthouse at Erwin,
the county seat. They advertised 1t
with the oid-fashioned vari-colored
dodgers, which exhorted all good and
loyal citizens to HE to the courthouse
and shake the hand OF one of their
own boys who was holding up Uncle
Sans right arm. And the response
was legion.
Tilson. who has stood on the floor
of the National House of Representa-.
tives in world crisis and offered his
counsel, who has conferred with rulers
in most Of the European countries and
been presented ''at court" was never
so moved in all his life. The boys
and girls he went barefooted to school
with and their children and neighbors
and all their kin came on mules and
horseback. in rickety old conveyances
and in hundreds Of automobiles, just
to see John" and let him know their
warm hearts were still with him and
that they gloried in his success, and
the good work he has done, even
though they had been separated for
81 years. The courthouse was crowd.
ed, aisles. corridors, yard and even
the roadway.
And this all happened at the very
land won) his first case-for pistol
toting.
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Now that we have had avfators
Drawing the higher attitudes in the
fast-frozen farthest North-and fol
lowing by way Of emphasis. through
contrast, our unusually warm Sum
mer-Dr. Charles r. Marvin, chief OF
our Federal Weather Bureau, comes
through with an authoritative state.
ment as to what real cold Is. He has
found that the lowest atmospheric
temperature ever read and recorded
appears to be 1913 degrees Fahrenheit.
This was obtained with q registering
Thermometer attached to a sounding
balloon sent up from Batavia, Java
in November, 1918. The exact height
at which this reading was recorded
Is uncertain. The lowest temperature
ever recorded at a meteorological sta.
ito. on the earth's surface was 80
degrees below zero Farenheit). This
was recorded at Verhoyansk, Siberia
on February and z. 1892.
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AS a practical joke, or for some
other reason, an unidentified person
living not far distant from Cape Cod
has been slipping rubber bands over
the heads or bodies Of mackerel. and
the reason for this practice for sew
eral years by this man Of mystery
is still a secret, according to Lewis
Radcliffe, deputy commissioner Of the
United States Bureau OF Fisheries.
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