Evening star., 1926-10-13

Senator Irvine L. Lenroot, who
lost his Wisconsin primary fight to
retain his Senate seat, is due in
Washington this week. His coming
serves to stimulate discussion of his
political future. Washington wise
acres are all certain that he has a
political future. Political forecasters
make substantial acknowledgment
Of his high regard for the Wisconsin
Senator's great abilities and his ap-
probation of Senator Lenroot's un-
swerving loyalty, as evidenced in the
World Court and other Senate battles
where Coolidge prestige was at stake.
Just what form the reward to Senator
Lenroot will take, no one processes to
know. But his friends talk as If
nothing less than a cabinet post would
fulfill the requirements of the case.
They are confident that the Wis
consin Senator is of cabinet caliber,
and, what is more to the point. are
confident that Mr.. Coolidge holds a
like estimate of Lenroot. This leads
the discussion into the subject of i'm
pending cabinet vacancies, if any. The
fact of the matter is that there are
no cabinet designations on the i'm
mediate horizon. Senator Lenroot,
his friends point out, is specially we'll
equipped to hold the portfolio of Sec
retary of the Interior. Should DR..
Work along about next March con-
clude to relinquish this office, Len
root, according to this hypothesis.
could step into Secretary Work 8
shoes.
Another bit of current Capital
speculation turns on the forthcoming
arrival in Washington of a Canadian
minister as diplomatic representative
of our Northern neighbor. The
State Department has had nothing
to say about it, but ottawa dis
patches have been full and explicit
that Canada has fully determined to
establish it's own diplomatic rela-
tions with the United States indie
pendent of Great Britain. The Irish
Free State blazed the trail in this
and so far is the only dominion of
the British empire to send a separate
representative here. But Canada s
1nly sending it's own minister here, but
looks to have the United States
reciprocate by sending an American
minister to Canada. The Irish Free
State hoped for a like result, but so
far it has failed to materialize. In
the case of Canada, however. it seems
likely that intimations of desires of
Canada to have a United States min
lister at ottawa are likely to be
needed. If and when this happens,
upon whom will Mr.. Coolidge bestow
the plum? Gossip is busy with names
and already the name of Lenroot has
been mentioned in this connection.
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Mrs. Coolidge, who laid the corner
stone of the new and very fine chapel
at Mercersburg Academy in Penn
sylvania in June, 1924, returned there
this week as special guest of
honor at the dedication exercises.
The President was obliged to forego
attendance. This is the prep school
where John Coolidge graduated and
where Calvin, jr.. was a student at
the time of his death. In the spire
of the Mercersburg chapel is a caril-
lon of 43 bells. the second largest
in America and the only one in
Pennsylvania, the gift of a Penn
sylvania alumnus. Copper coins from
all over the world were melted to
provide the metal for the bells. in
Guiding a widows mite" from Herod' S
time and ring money from the Swiss
cantons of 1000 BIC. Other historic
souvenirs which went into the
melting pot were metal fragments
from Nelson's flagship Victoria at
Trafalgar, Dewey's flagship Olympia
at Manila, Old Ironsides. Sir Thomas
Lipton's cup challenger, Shamrock
w; a copper wire from the airplane
PMS. which made the Navy's
Hawaiian flight; shell fragments
from the French battlefields and last,
but not least, shaving from the
famous Liberty Bell.
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Returning travellers from the Irish
Free State bring to Washington re-
ports of a military air5service in the
Emerald Isle which does II great
credit-one more bit Qf evidence of