Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

bandits of every description native to
the bad lands. Before Arizona was a
state. Cameron represented it in Con-
gress as a Territorial Delegate. His
name is Il household word all over the
State. He told the Senate on July 3,
In the course of an imprisoned de
Tense against the political drive of
his enemies in Arizona, that he once
lived five months on the desert with
out sight of a human being Cameron
Is 90 years old. but as full of fight as
IN the days his name carried terror to
evil-doers throughout the length and
breadth of Arizona
President Coolidge has reappointed
one of the Woodrow Wilson old guard
to the Federal Reserve Board in re-
neWing the 10-year term of Charles
Sumner Hamlin of Massachusetts. A
Harvard man and one of the genu-
Inc scholars in American public life,
president Wilson appointed Hamlin to
the Reserve Board for two years in
1914, and reappointed him, for 10
years in 1916. There was AN init.
mate intellectual comradeship between
them. After Wilson left the While
House in March, 1921. Hamlin Was
one of the favored six or seven men
whom the stricken statesman con.
tinued to see at regular intervals
Baruch. Grayson, Tumulty, the late
Cleveland II. Dodge and Cyrus H.
Mccormick being some of the others.
Hamlin was once a clerk in the
Treasury Department at Washing
ton and his chief was Robert l.. Owen
later United States Senator from
Oklahoma and manager of the legisla-
ton which eventuated in the passage
Senate. The reappointed reserve board
of the Federal Reserve act by the Sen
ate. The reappointed Reserve Board
governor has written a couple of
standard works on Interstate Com
merce Commission and Federal RA.
serve subjects. Hamlin has been
prominent in Massachusetts Demo
cratic politics since 1887.
A windfall equivalent to two years
OF senatorial salary has Just come
Senator Samuel NJ. Shortridge's way.
The Junior Senator from California. re-.
ceived word on the eve of adjourn
ment that the San Francisco sugar
magnate, the late John d. Spreckels.
had left him $4,000 as a token of
their old friendship and Shortridge's
long service as Spreckels personal
attorney. With a hot campaign for
denomination ahead of him, Sam"
finds the bequest more than ordinarily
acceptable. as the tall sycamore of
the Golden Gate is not blessed with
large means.
X X X
Robert Peet SINNERS promotion
from the consulate generalship at
Paris to the ministership to Greece
is the most notable transfer vet made
under the new American foreign serv-
ice law. That act, now in it's Sec
ond year, for the first time provides
for interchangeability between the
members of the diplomatic and con-
sular forces. Mr. Skinner for years
has been Uncle Sans blue ribbon
consular officer. He has held all the
AL posts, including. in succession,
Berlin, London and Paris. Skinner
is an Ohioan. He was. a country
editor in William Mckinleys day and
was appointed to the consular service
by the martyred President. AS a cub
reporter. Skinner was press agent for
Gen" Coxey when the Buckeye hobo
leader marched on Washington with
his ragamuffin army"
Copyright. 1926.1