Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-04

Recent inquiry by the United
States Tariff Commission into the
subject of the onion industry here and
abroad has raised a great stir in
Spain, according to information reach
ing the commission. Other activities
in tariff investigations are said also
to have caused misapprehension and
ill-will abroad. For the purpose of
dispelling these false alarms and set
ting Europe right on the purposes and
duties of the commission, Thomas O..
Marvin, Massachusetts Republican
protectionist, and Edward p. Costi-
gan of Colorado will spend the next
two months touring Europe on off
cial business. They describe their mis-.
sion as selling the Tariff Commits
sion" to the world They will sail
from New York August IL and will
visit France, Belgium, Germany, Italy
and Spain. The travellers will assure
the Spanish officials that no meddling
with the Spanish onion industry is in
tended.
Senatorial primaries will follow
thick and fast during the next eight
weeks. Senator Curtis of Kansas, Re-
publican floor leader in the Senate;
newcomer in the Senate, and Harreld
of Oklahoma led off the procession
Tuesday of this week. Curtis has no
worries over his Senate seat, but the
Democrats have high hopes of elect
ing a Senator in Missouri and Okla
homa. and those States will bear
watching on election day. The Ohio
primary comes next week with Sena-
tor Frank B. Willis all set for the
Republican nomination, but close
contest on the Democratic end be-
tween former Senator Pomerene and
Judge Florence Allen-a wet and
dry fight, with popular woman pltted
against an able man, and botn OF the
legal profession. The two blggest
nomination battles on the Repuphcan
side both come next month. George
Moses, Senator from New Hampshire,
and Irvine l.. Lenroot, Wisconsin
Senator, have stiff opposition. Both
Moses and Lenroot are confident OF
pulling through, but Washington OBJ
servers are not giving odds on either.
At this distance, however, Moses
looks to be in a stronger position tnan
Lenroot.
The President is rated shy man
when it comes to promlscuouS Joiiiiis
of clubs, lodges and orders, which
are the happy hunting GROUNDS o. ~
many men in public life. rev OIL ms
associates in Washington know Tia.
Mr.. Coolidge, long member OF the
Middlesex Club, premier political or
ganization of the old guard Repup-
icans in Massachusetts, was recently
elected it's senior vice president. Inc
other vice presidents are the two Bay
state Senator's, Butler and Gillett, ana
John L. Bates, a predecessor OF MT.
Coolidge as Governor of Massacnu-
sets. Col. Charles s. Proctor, VINO
served with the President as mem
her of the governors council when
Mr.. Coolidge was in the State House
at Boston, and one of the Presidents
intimate Massachusetts friends little
seen or heard of in washington, is
the clubs president. The. M1ddlesex
Club has a membership of about SUI
and its roster Is the real " no $
Who" in Bay State Republican poll
tics.
The prospect of a new building soon
to house the Supreme Court arouses
interest in the subject or where the
court has held its sessions during the
137 years of its history Inquiry de-
velops that 1t met first in New York:
next in Independence Hall, In Phil
adelphia: then in the basement of the
Capitol until the time of its burning
by the British in 1914; then. until the
Capitol was rebuilt, In the residence
of the clerk of the court: next, in its
present chamber at the Capitol until
small fire there in 1898 drove it out
temporarily into Senate COMMITTEES
rooms.
The wei kpown CoolidEe economy