Evening star., 1926-04-26
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC NILLIAM VILE.

intended to restore American citizen
ship to as Japanese-born. These
men were naturaliZed by a Hawaiian
court-all but six of them in 1919
after they had served creditably in
the armed forces Of the United States
during the World War. Their nat
uralization later was declared illegal
by the Supreme Court. The Hawaiian
court granted naturalization to the
japanese under the assumption that
the law OF 1918. intending to permit
speedy naturalization of all aliens
who served under the stars and
Stripes. was applicable to persons
not eligible to become American citi-
zens. as well as to all other aliens.
Japan probably is beginning to think
there's too much Johnson" in immi-
grafton affairs in Congress. The
chairmen of both Senate and House
immigration committees are John
sons~respectively. Hiram Of Califor.
mia and Albert of Washington.
Andrew Carnegie's Iron men keep
on working in various and sundry
wavs. More than million Of them.
ma vable in installments Of over 800, 900
a year, are now being spent in an
effort to "restate the law" In the
United States. The Carnegie Cor
poration made such bequest to the
American Law Institute. founded in
1929 and about to hold its fourth
annual meeting in Washington, it's
birthplace. BY 'restatement of the
law" the institute means the setting
forth of the fundamental principles
Of law-primarily Of the common
law.
The hope Is that when the insti.
tute's researches In that direction are
complete. they will not only COM
mand the respect and attention of
the courts, but eventually be embodied
in codes by state legislatures. For
mer Attorney General George w.
Wickersham; DR.. Roscoe Pound. dean
of the Harvard Law School; Judge
Frederick E. Crane Of the New York
Court Of Appeals and Judge Floyd e.
Thompson Of the Illinois Supreme
Court will be among the speakers at
the forthcoming session In Wash
ington. Attorney General Sargent
heads the committee on local ar
rangements. Of which Col. George T.
Weitzel. former Minister to Nicara-
qua, Is the secretary
William Darius Jameson, who once
was a member of the House Of Repre-
sentatives from Iowa. and now prac-
tices law before Government depart
ments at Washington, amuses him.
self, as side line, by writing a
sprightly weekly review of national
politics called 1.-THE Window Seat"
As an incorrigible Hawkeye Demo.
crat. he naturally welcomes the ar
rival in the Senate Of Daniel F.
Steck, the first of the breed to sit
in that body since the Civil War.
But he'll have to Withstand power
ful influences that will try to keep
him from being Democratic" accord
ing to Jameson. "and he'll have to
he guided by the Jeffersonian stand
ard. and he cautious" Jameson
points out in 1.-The Window Seat" that
several things happened quickly in
Steck's case the same evening he
was voted into Brookhart's seat"
One of them was that Mrs. Hanford
MacNider (wife of the Assistant Sec
retary Of War} rushed up and kissed
him." Jameson seems to think that
so affectionate a greeting from the
consort Of member of the Coolidge
administration is a sign of danger
that Steck may be "MacNider Sen
The wet side or the prohibition ar
gument suggests that there must be
something in names. The leading
wet in the Senate Is Edge and the
leading wet in the House Is Celler.
The intellectual leader Of all the
vets is Butler. A misprint was re.
Gently responsible for clubbing Balti.
more's moist representative In the
House John Philip StiII."
Copyright. 1880