The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-04-14
lire OF EASY MONEY
HOLDS EX-OFF|C|ALS
LITER LOSING POSITION
PRACTICE BEFORE DEPART
MFNTS IN WASHINGTON.
cEORCIANS AMONG NUMBER
MANY Retained by Interests Which
Relieve They Possess Influence.
Rarely Do Any of Them Go Before
Courts for Their Clients.


Rarely Do Any of Them Go Before
Courts for Their Clients.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The CAPT
al continues to be the paradise OF the
former holders of high public Office,
who for one reason or another may
have retired to private life.
This is true primarily because a
man with small knowledge OF the law
NAV set up shop here and command
ices as large or larger than leaders
Of the bar get in other communities.
In Washington the lawyer of the
ev-ofice-holding type rarely practices
IN court or even in those office con-
ferences where compromises are reach
ed and settlements out of court arriv-
81 ed at.
Where They Find Success.
He practices before the executive de-
oartments OF the government, before
administrative or regulative agencies,
before committees of congress and oc-
casionally before the court of claims
or the court of customs appeals.
Oftener than not this is highly prof
a table business, particularly tax cases
argued before the tax adjusting agen-
cies of the bureau of internal revenue
4 and the claims cases before the Unit
ed States Shipping Board.
There are scores of these lawyers
here who are making more money as
advocates than they made while in
government service, or could make II
thew returned to their homes.
1t is primarily matter of money
making which keeps so many OF them
in Washington There is little distinc-
ton left to a lame duck" or some
other kind of an EEK" who lives here.
They are a good deal like retired army
or navy officers. The town is full OF
& generals and admirals on the retired
fist and there are too many OF them
f lust as there are too many former SEN
ators and former congressman for the
II Individual to count heavily.
Families Balk at Small Towns.
Then, too, there is another phase OF
Is tbe matter. Men who have served Ill
4 one or the other branches OF congress
# or in the cabinet or in some other I'M
portant ornamental public office dis
like to 60 home This is particularly
true if they have suffered defeat at
the polls. Moreover, their families do
81 not want to go back to the small town.
There are perhaps fewer cabinet OF
fcers in Washington than any other
special class. Most men who have held
4 ministerial offices return to their homes
where they are looked on as long as
they live as political celebrities. Two
FL cabinet officers of the Wilson regime,
however. are members of the Wash
ington bar. Robert Lansing, who was
secretary of state, is practicing inter
rational law here, and A. Mitchell
81 Palmer, who was attorney general, has
law offices in this city. Former At
torney General Gregory has legal con-
4 rectons here, but he does most OF his
work in Texas.
Three Ex-Secretaries There.
Joseph P. Tumulty, who was secre-
Il tary to President Wilson,; c. Bascom
Y Semp, who was secretary to Presl-
dent Coolidge and George B. Chris
titan, who was secretary to President
4 Harding, have remained in Washing
5 ion. Mr.. Tumulty and Mr.. Slemp are
practcing law and Mr.. Christian rep
4 PRESENTS the Wanamaker interests.
George Rublee and Joseph +. Da-
yies, who were members of the Fed
eral Trade Commission, are practicng
= law in the capital; Daniel C.. Roper
missioner, practices before the COM
miSsioners of internal revenue, have
opened offices here; Edward E. Clark,
who was an interstate commerce COM
missionr, practices before the COM
mission; Edward B. Burling, who was
general counsel of the Shipping Board,
E and George E. Chamberlain, former
Senator from Oregon and later mem
Der OF the Shipping Board, has law
offices here.
Senate Well Represented.
Many former members of the SEN
ate have been admitted to the District
par, although their names rarely, II
#eVer, appear on the dockets OF the local
courts Among them are Hoke Smith,
10 Georgia; Porter J. McCumber. OF
90 iSdNOld, n ". OtdlllSgp ~
lucky; Atlee Pomerene, OF Ohio; VII
lara salisbury, of Delaware; Thomas
Sterling of South Dakota, and Tom
r. T. Gore, of Oklahoma.
An even longer list of former con-
ereSSmen engaged in practicing before
ne departments and commissions OF
me government could be compiled.
among those who have made financial
success are Covington, of Maryland;
Carhq Of Virginia; Sims, of Tennes-
zee, Watkins, of Louisiana; Brantley'
!! Georgia; Lloyd, of Missouri; Camp
oeii OF Kansas; Ansberry, of Ohio,
fFu y S?herley, of Kentucky. Humphrey,
ashngton, was another, but he
gently has been appointed to mem
pSIsnlp on the Federal Trade Com