Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-22
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC RILLI4U VJLE.

Herbert Hoover is back from Fhila-
delphia where he went to give the
Federal Governments blessing To the
Sesquicentennial Exposition. That
now promising infant, which has had
rather time Of it being born, is TO he
ba ptized and christened. after all, in
1925. and not In 1927 as was latterly
projected. SO the 15oth anniversary
of the Decla ration of Independence
will be duly commemorated on SEIZED
ute time and not year late. The
doors OF the "Sesqui' will swing open
on June | and remain open until
Winter comes. The Secretary of Com
merce pledged that Uncle Sam would
spare no atom Of energy" in the
limited interval now at his disposal
TO make the exposition notable. A
million dollars of Federal money will
probably be asked and appropriated.
Hoover told a Centennial dinner com
panv in Philadelphia that The exposi
lion celebrates the most potent event
for human good since the Sermon on
he Mount
The Vice Presidents cha mber in the
Capitol is SO easy of access for tour
ing taxpayers and other patriots thai
the official guides seldom fail TO con-
duct parties of them 10 the chambers
cratically aiar, visitors avail them
selves literally Of the chance to see
what is going on on the other side of
them. Mr.. Dawes Is inspected in this
fashion nearly every day. As he was
undergoing scrutiny this week, Sen
ator Edge OF New Jersey happened
along and reminded the Vice President
Of something Tom Marshall once
said under similar circumstances. A
e~rn 1f
threshold OF the chamber ra Their 10
Marshalls annoyance. whereupon he
mapped al them: Either come in or
throw me peanut
Yet another plan for farm relief
the name of such is now legion-was
brought 10 the attention of Congress
this week. 1t bears the authoritative
name OF former Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture, Carl Schurz Vrooman
OF Illinois. and was introduced by Sen
ator Joe Robinson, Arkansas. minor
ity leader in the Senate, as Demo
cratic plan" for helping agriculture
out of its rut. The Vrooman scheme
tackles bodily and boldly the farm
surplus problem" the existence of
which was frankly conceded by Secre-
tary Jardine in Illinois yesterday. The
same bill was introduced in the SEN
ate in May. 1921. and is the only farm
export corporation project that ever
passed both houses of Congress. But
it was killed in conference" by the
adverse vote of the two G. o. P. con-
ferees from the House. The Erooman
plan provides for 5000 900
farmers export financing corpora
ton" authorized to extend credit on
sound security to foreign buyers OF
American farm surplus, including
corn. wheat, tobacco. hogs and beef
cattle.
Senator James A. Reed. Democrat.
Of Missouri. arch foe Of the World
Court or any other scheme that might
entansle Kansas City with the out
side world. told the Senate that he
doubted if any but a small proportion
of that body had ever studied the
World Court protocol. On certain
day in March, 1922, Reed himself was
caught mapping on an identical occa-
sion. He was attacking the four
power Pacific treaty just negotiated
at the Washington conference. He
opposed ratification, Reed declared, be-
cause the treaty failed to annuI the
Anglo Japanese alliance. Senator Len
root interrupted to ask If Reed was
not aware that the concluding para
graph specifically annulled the ALI.
ance. With deprecating wave of his
eloquent right arm as il he we're
brushing out of existence the most
triiing allusion, Senator Reed blurted
out that he hadn't given the text Of
the treaty any particular attention.
, His confession was later expurgated
from the Congressional Record.
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Donald f. Richberg. the hrillia nj
young Chicago lawyer who was archi