Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC VILLI4N VILE.

Richard L. Jervis, chief of the
White House secret service squad, is
back from a hurI-y-up trip to the
Pacific coast bubhling with admira-
ton for the speed with which Grim :
inal justice is administered out there.
Handsome Dick" was summoned by
the Government as a witness In the
case OF man named Elmer Wolfe,
who was circulating through the
United states mails a malicious
printed document regarding President
Coolidge. Among its recipients We're
the members OF Congress. Wolfe
was indicted by a Federal grand
jury. tried convicted and incarcerated
in San Quentin prison within SO hours
of the time formal proceedings
against him We're begun. JerVis thinks
this establishes an American record
for the blind goddess. and one worthy
lesser personages than the President
of the United States are involved.
X X Y X
Col. John c. Coolidge of Plymouth,
VT, has written his distinguished son
at Washington that he is resting as
comfortable as his age and condition
permit, and that there is no cause for
anxiety about him at the moment. The
colonel says it's not very cold in his
neck of the woods, and, altogether
things are not so that he feels any
necessity to avail himself Of the oppor-
tunity, which is, of course, at his dis
posal, to spend the rest of the Winter
in the more salubrious climate of
Washington. The Presidents father is
an inveterate home body He'd much
rather be little uncomfortable under
his own roof than luxuriate under
some other roof. Often the colonel
having reached Ludlow, Vt, as late as
midnight from some business errand
which kept him busy all day and eve.
ming has preferred the late additional
journey to Plymouth to staying away
from home overnight.
X X X
Senator and Mrs. Robert Beecher
Howell of Nebraska are among the
biggest people in the Senate, both
being of statuesque physique and
paragons of rugged good health.
They're inclined to blame 1t largely
on the fact that for more than a dozen
years they have slept out of doors
Summer and Winter alike. In Wash
ington the rear end OF their apartment
Is rugged up not as a sleeping porch,
but as an outdoor room, with huge
windows on all sides, through which
the hight ttiit w iiitA Ga I III NAISA "
do their worst, no matter what the
temperature Senator Howell was
once a naval officer-he is a graduate
of Annapolis, class of 1881. It's just
possible he acquired his passion for
breeZes when ne was cadet midShip
man in the United States Navy. He
and Mrs. Howell, at any rate, attrib
ute the futility of doctors in then
family to their openair sleeping quar-
ters From their present well venti
lated roost they command a fine view
of the Illuminated dome of the Capitol
X x x
Republican leaders in Washington
| freely concede that upon the shout
ders of Senator Simeon ID. F'eSs OF
| Ohio has been placed as tough a bur
| den as ever was thrust upon a mem
Der of the G. o. P. in contemporary
times. Fess it is, who will bear chief
| responsibility for keeping the United
| States Senate "safe for Coolidge" al
| this years congressional elections
| The job falls to him in the capacity
| of chairman of the Senatorial cam
| paign committee. Nearly 30 seats
are at stake, now held by Republi
| cans, and any number of them Is
acknowledged to be in jeopardy, par
| ticularly in the embittered West. Sen
| ator Fess is a teacher by profession
| but has been a politician by occupa
| ton for the better part of the past
| 25 years. Few men know the game
of vote-getting better than he does
| Opposing Fess in the campaign for
| control of the next Senate is Peter
| Goelet Gerry. senior Senator from
Rhode Island, who has just become
chairman Of the Democratic Sena
torial campaign committee. Gerry