Evening star., 1926-10-01

A report that the resignation of
Garrard B. Winston, Undersecretary
Of the Treasury and Secretary Mel
Ions strong right arm, Is TO Dc
forthcoming, shortly reached WASH
lngton this week from New YORK
bankers with financial connections IN
Pittsburgh and Chicago. and received
considerable credence here. The date
of Mr.. Winston'S retirement was hXed
as before the first Of the year. He
proposes to return to Chicago ana 10
resume the practice Of law. he is the
senior partner in the firm of Winston,
Strawn & Shaw, widely known through
the Middle West, with a large
and rich clientele. The undersecre-
tary is silent on this report and no
comment is Forthcoming from Secre-
tary Mellon, his chief. But friends of
both testify to the fact that Mr.. Win
stons plans to retire have been in the
making for the past year. He Is rep
resented as feeling that he has helped
pilot the Treasury ship through some
troublous waters and that calmer
seas are ahead and his services can
now be spared. His Chicago law
partners are keen for him to return
to them and he is keen to return to
his profession.
Silas Strawn, another member Of
Secretary Winston's Chicago law
firm, has also been an absentee from
his regular pursuits, and has devoted
the past year to his country's service,
sacrificing a arter-million-dollar an
nual professional income to serve at
stipend Of S666 per month as the
American member of the special in
ternational committee which has
been investigating the administration
Of justice in China, with particular
reference to the eXtraterritorial juris-
diction maintained there by the world
powers. Mr.. Strawn Is now on the
Pacific Ocean headed for home after
year in Peking. The committee on
which he served was one of the by
products Of the Washington Disarma-
ment Conference. 1t was determined
that each of the nations which exer-
cised extraterritorial jurisdiction in
China should send an emissary there
to investigate and confer jointly as
to the situation and to report in
dividually to their respective govern
mentS. Their aim was to make sug
gestions for the improvement Of the
administration of justice in China
with view to ultimate abolition of
the special prerogative exercised there
by the outside nations. Strawn ac-
cepted from President Coolidge this
mission. Little has been printed
about 1t here in the year which has
elapsed. But he will reach Washing
ton soon with his report.
A simple marble headstone, with
M 0fh VII TiylOr hn CIV 20 Ia
line Colonel William ]. Bryan" has
just been shipped from the Lee
Marble Works in Massachusetts to
Arlington National Cemetery at the
Capital. 1t will mark the grave of
the great Commoner. In shape, size
and simplicity the plain. white
marble slab is uniform with the
thousands Of stones which mark the
graves at Arlington of the soldier
heroes. In death. as in life, the great
Democratic leader, who came so near
to the presidency. will be simply one
OF the common people"
Official Washington welcomed the
news that Queen Marie Of Rumania
had decided to bring along with her
| on her forthcoming American tour
her son, Prince Nicolas. For by
doing so she has relieved the official
etiquette experts of great embarrass-
ment. Their greatest problem here
tofore in connection with the Queens
visit was to decide who should take
Mrs. Coolidge in to dinner when
Queen Marie entered the White
| House dining room on the arm OF
President Coolidge. Until the an
nouncement that the Prince was
coming, too, there was no one in
| sight of equal rank to be Mrs. Cool
| idge's escort. Now that difficulty
disappears. The Ambassador Of q
country takes official precedence, in