Evening star., 1925-04-24
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Senator Henrik Shipstead of
Minnesota, lone sentinel of the
Farmer Labor party in the Senate
and on the foreign relations commit
tee, contemplates a Summer vacation
In Europe. Norway, land of his an
cestors, which he has never visited,
will be one of the Minnesota viking
principal detectives. Not many peo-
pie know how Shipstead, before he
was in the Senate a year, achieved
the foreign relations committee, a
distinction Senators spend years in
earning. Shipstead, early in his
Washington career, saw a newspaper
report-unfounded, as far as he
knew-that he was slated for mem
bership of the Senate's blue-ribbon
committee. He thought he'd ask
Senator Lodge about the rumor. The
veteran chairman of foreign rela-
tions.. to the young Minnesotan,s
astonishment, had formed a high
opinion of Shipstead's qualifications.
Not long afterward his addition to
the committee was officially an
nounced. Friend and foe agreed that
he has given an effective account Of
himself there.
To suit President Coolidge's con-
venience, this years conference of
State governors will be held in New
and the official host. The end of
June or the early days of July are
the tentative dates under considera-
ton. The exact time will largely de-
pend on Mr.. Coolidge's plans, for the
governors expect the President to at
tend the conference. They under
stand he has some projects he wants
to lay before them. Last Fall some
80 or 40 State executives came to-
gether In Florida. Maine, which will
entertain the governors for a full
week, hopes to marshal nearly the
full complement of 4S this time. Gov.
Brewster of Maine Is trying to have
1925 officially adopted as New Eng
land year" The purpose is not clear.
Nobody seems to know whether it's
giant home coming" scheme, de-
signed to lure New England's way
ward sons and daughters back to
ancestral soil for a spell, or whether
the year" is to glorify New England
ascendary at Washington.
Charles Evans Hughes first big
case, on returning to private practice
at the end of the Summer, will be
given him by the client that offered
his maiden opportunity for celebrity
the State Of New York. 1t was ex-
actly 20 years ago that New York en-
gagged Hughes to try the celebrated
gas and insurance cases-in the guise
of public inquiries. Now the Empire
Commonwealth has engaged the for
mer Secretary Of State to conduct, on
it's behalf, litigation growing out of
the Federal water power acts effect
on navigable streams. New York is
determined to retain control over GER
tain power developments at Niagara
Falls and along the st. Lawrence
River. Attorney General Ottinger of
New York State came to terms with
Mr.. Hughes during the latter's recent
sojourn in the United States in the
midst of his Bermudan vacation.
Albert D. Lasker of Chicago, former
chairman of the United States Ship
ping Board, was a recent caller at the
White House. He saw the President
just about the time the Shipping
Board row over the Dollar-Pacif1c Mail
deal was at it's zenith. Mr.. Lasker
has long been an ardent apostle OF
taking the Government out of the
shipping business as expeditiously as
posSioie. oo ie approves SuSh u dis
actions as the Dollar purchase of the
five President" liners, and told Mr.
Coolidge SO. Lasker nowadays has
time and thought only for his great
advertising business. He seems to
have hidden politics a last and long
farewell.
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Gen. John j. Pershing, whom viii
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