Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-25

Bob" Washburn. Boston scribe and
accredited biogra pher" Of Calvin Cool
idge. is authority for the prediction
thai It will be June, 1928. before the
President gives sign Of his intentions
anent another term. Based upon
past performance under somewhat
similar circumstances. Washburn
writes thus OF MIR. Coolidge:
''IIe will not define his attitude
toward a longer tenure of the
White House much before the close
of the first session of the Seven
tieth Congress, toward the Summer
of 1928. What he was slow to do
in 1915 and at all times. make q
statement, he will be slow to do
now. He was importuned by his
then political chief Of staff repeat
edly, to toss his hat into the ring.
This announcement Mr.. Coolidge
resolutely and continuously de-
cIined to make. not by express
statement, but by that eloquent
silence of which he is an established
master. 1t was only on the ad-
journment Of the Legislature that,
with a nne solicitude for his vocal
muscles. he laid hands on paper.
and a fragment OF paper at that,
and wrote thereon the laconic but
date for lieutenant governor.
The House of Representatives, as
befits the popular branch of Congress.
liz a vastly jollier place on big days
than the Senate. which takes itself
more seriously. Members of the lower
branch are never afraid to let them
selves 60. Their enthusiasms are
-
political friend and foe alike. During
Yesterdays debate on the cruiser bill
although tension ran high and battle
lines were tightly drawn. the House
was In festive mood. cheering and APP
plauding merrily. The fact that they
were ranged on opposite sides OF the
naval controversy did not prevent
members from giving both Speaker
Loneworth and Chairman Madden OF
the appropriations committee rousine
receptions. The OhiOan and the Hi
noisan are Enthusiastically the pets OF
the House. They were acclaimed to
the echo when they arose to spea X
and after they'd finished Mr.. Long
worth, who ought to know pronounced
the name of his distinguished father
In law, the late IT. r., RoZe-velt, and
not Rozs welt, as most people do. The
Spea ker was recalling, with visible
pride, how President Roosevelt bIuffed
the Kaiser IS years ago by threaten
ing to send Dewey to Venezuela
waters to meet a bill.collecting and
naval.ba sc seeking German squadron.
Two wOmen~-both California ns-are
heroines of the recent all-nieht S0-hour
session of the Senate on the Boulder
Dam bill. One Of them In Mrs. Hiram
w. Johnson, wife OF the senior Sena-
tor from the Golden state. and the
other Ia Miss Ruth Finney San Fran
cisco newspa per woman. At one time
during the LONG nocturnal vigil. Mrs.
Johnson was the sole occupant Of the
galleries. Her presence there fortf-
fed her Senator husband in his grim
resolve to hold the chamber in continu-
Gus session. Miss Finney. a brillia mt
and popular deniZen OF the press gal
lery, was the only scribe of her sex to
weather the Senates long distance
orgy. She had no trouble in keeping
awake because she happens to be an
authority on Boulder Dam. the I'm
perial Valley, hydrO.electric power.
food control, irrigation. reclamation
and all the other things that consti-
tute high politics In California.
n %*
A typical Vifginia negro nanny
family. was recently given the priv.
lese Of accompanying her mistress
through No. Is Dupont Circle. the
| marble pile which the President and
Mrs. Coolidge will inhabit after March
A. thAy uare q ho,.t HAsye A1A ffpv the