Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM FILE.

Congress is about to have presented
to it in appealing form the niggardli'
ness with which Uncle Sam in the
past has treated his foreign service
officers. Representative Ogden l..
Mills Republican of New York. has
| introduced a bill providing for a grant
of SO. 900 to the widow Of Edward Bell
the brillia mt young American diploma
who died at his post in China In lsEo
After Is years in the consular and
diplomatic field, Bell had achieved the
| highest rank in the foreign service
below that of minister. The Mills bill
plans to give Mrs. Bell the amount OF
her husbs nd's a.t annual salary. Ed
ward Bell, although only 43 when his
ca Aer came to an untimelv end. had
| left his impress upon our foreign re
lations. lie was one Of Walter Hines
Pages chief adiutants in London dgr
ing the World War. In 1921, as
charge d'affaires at Toxic. Bell con
Quoted the delicate negotiations WhlcI
finally led to Japans acceptance Oh
1.-The Washington armament conference
! Ar the conference itself he was Secrs
!
Eastern affairs, and. with John V. A
NacM,irrav. now minister at Peking
heIned to bring about the Sino-Jap'
anese accord over Shangtung. Mrs
ReIl and her children are understooo
to be in circumstances that make the
proposed congressional grant more
than useful.
One of the things about the farm
revolt, that send Arctic shivers
down G. o. p backs Is that 1t has its
seat mainly in Iowa. 1t was from
the insuycent, soil of the Hawkeye
state that another Republican revolt,
of painful memory. sprans. Dolliver
of Iowa it was who in 1910 blew the
lid off the Payne-Aldrich tariff barrel
and started something that did not
come to. an end until William How
ard Taft and his party found them
selves outside the breastworks on a
cold and bleak November morning in
1912. The ominous business about
the present farm revolt, with its
| belligerert Iowa background. Is that.
like the DolIiver uprising. the tariff
hulks heavily in the picture. \
count Of noses. in both House and
| Senate. IL said to have assured Cool.
| mpossibility at this session. But
J thew dolefully concede that 1t may be
| a horse Of another color in Deem
Der. 1926, after congressional cleo
! ton. ,r +
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There's new Senator on Capito
| Hill from one Of the Southwestern
States, who, not little to his own
| surprise. found himself victorious in
| November, 1924, in consequence OF
] the Coolidge landslide. In the inter
vening IL months Senator --, SO
| the story goes, pretty well convinced
himself that Coolidge had carried the
State onsa - landslide, instead
Of the other way about. At any rate
| he hadn't been in. town very long
| last month, before he went to the
| White House to pay his respects
The President was glad to see him
| Come in some day soon and have
| lunch with Mrs. Coolidge and me-
| the Chief Executive said. "Oh. that 4
| all right, Mr.. President. That's all
| right" rejoined the. Senator. "Yo,
aren't under any social obligations to
Public schools of the District Of Co
| lumbia are. in a very peculiar sense
| national public schools. Children from
| virtually every State in the Unior
| attend them, and have done so fol
several generations-the offspring o.
Government officials and members o.
| Congress domiciled in Washington 70,
varying periods. So the whole coun