Evening star., 1926-05-12

Politicians on Capitol Hill are
flounderfnE around in a sea of dis
traction in connection with the farm
bills. Most Of them are afraid OF
being damned If they do" and
damned il they don't" Efforts to
put the ear to the ground back
home and get light and leading
there only result in confusion worse
confounded One member of the
House who queried his key farmers
received two replies favor1ng the
Tincher-Jarline bill. All the others
said they want no agricultural legfs-
lation at all a Representative from
a neighboring district found that all
of his leading farm supporters would
like to cash Mr.. Haugen's $3Io,ooo,-
900 draft on the Treasury. Tne Dem
ocrats are In a pale blue quandafy
about the whole business. support
for the Haugen bill is tantamount TO
n vote for the protective tariff. vet
a vote against it plays into the hands
of the Coolidge administration. 1t is
a pretty mess. of which all concerned
pray early riddance.
Rear Admiral Colby NJ. Chester.
T.. s. ~, retired, who was 50 years
old the other day, is in Washington
preparing to descend upon the
League Of Nations at Geneva. lie
still claims to be the rightful owner
of the Chester concession for vast
oil fields, mineral rights and railroad
facilities il Turkey. Not long ago
Admiral Chester learned that the
Mustafa Kemal government at An
CORA has denounced the concession
it gave him IN 1922, 50 the venerable
American sea dog, who fought at the
battle Of Mobile Bay in 1864. is going
to Geneva to see il somehow Justice
cannot be done him. The. Chester
Concession comprehends immense
areas in Irak. which is now domi-
mated by Great Britain. The ad-
mirars friends gather the impression
that he holds British oil maneuvers
responsible for the action Of the per-
ffdious Turk.
Florence Crawford Capper was era
died in politics and loved the game:
The daughter Of a Kansas governor,
later the wife of governor who
served two terms, and then consort or
q. United States Senator reelected TO
a. second term, all Of her mature years
were spent in public life. Senator
CAMPER found her an able and enthusl-
astic adiutant and gave her ungrudg-
ing praise for the part she played in
his fine career. Mrs. Capper had the
distinction of entertaining at hef
beautiful home in Topeka, at one time
or another, the three last PRESIDENTS
of the United StateS-Nilson, Harding
and Coolidge. She and Mrs. Harding
both F,lorences-were bosom friends,
and. while Mr.. Coolidge was Vice Pres
ident, Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Capper
were inseparable companions. They
called each other by their first names
and shared nonpolitical passion in
ommon-dancing Mrs. Capper was
ambitious for her hus-
band and proudly cherished the hope,
harbored by many of the farm bloc
leaders, friends, that Cne day he would
be elected President.
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Sir Josiah Stamp. who this week
gave the United States Chamber OF
Commerce a graphic and gripping pic
tl1re, of the British industrial crisis.
is a statistician, accountant and au-
iitor by profession and railway eX-
ecutive by occupation. Just now he is
chairman of the board of the London,
Midland and Scottish lines, but his
hobby is economics. In Washington
Sir Josiah is staying with Vice Pres
ident Dawes, with whom he served on
the reparations commission. Stamp is
a. big. broad-shouldered son OF John
Bull, with just the bit Of a cockney
accent. He has sat on every impor-
tant British commission dealing with
taxation, revenue and finance during
the mast 10 years. The Chamber Of
Commerce address on the coal crisis,
though highly technical made deep