The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-09
COngressiOnals Still Play Parts
On Political and Social STAGE
Survey Discloses Over a
Score of Senator's Yet
In Town
BY JEAN ELIOT

'
ment Of Congress one finds
Washington alive with Congress
SIGNALS.
This is so unusual a circumstance
as to inspire q survey. which dis.
closed more than q score Of Senator's
still playing their parts upon the so
cial and political stage of Wash.
tngton, with probably enough mem
bers Of the House to constitute q
quorum.
Children in the Washington schools
form, in most instances, the tie
which binds Congressional families
70 the Capital at this time, and,
since there is no campaign this year,
the head of the family Is numerougly
eeizing the opportunity to linger on
hare through the present spring sea-
son.
Lame Ducks Linger
Moreover, one finds lame ducks
from both the Senate ana the House
staying on in new capacities--Sen-
ator Irvine Lenroot Of Wisconsin,
for example, who has gone into q
local law firm; Representative John
!
Representative Ogden L. Mills, now
Undersecretafy OF the Treasury, and
Representative Thomas w. Phillips,
Jr., Of Pennsylvania, who has not yet
formed new connections, but who
seems to have made up his mind to
make Washington his headquarters
ct least for another year. He is said
20 have Senatorial aspirations for
192S-but that, after all, is another
story.
The Hills are to be here until
june. their little daughters berry
IA school here; and next winter,
although they are to open their his
kor1C Baltimore home - inherited
from Mrs. Hills forebears. the Car
Tolls-they will maintain a pied-a-
terre in Washington and Mr.. Hill
win commute to attend to his law
business.
SenatoriaIs stiH in Town
OF the Senatorial group still In
town there come to mind Senator
and Mrs. Claude Swanson, Senator
and Mrs. Francis e. Warren, Sena.
tor and Mrs. w. l.. Jones, Senator
and Mrs. Andreius A. Jones, Sena.
tor and Mrs. Lawrence Tyson, Sena.
tor and Mrs. Thomas r. Bayard-
they. of course. have several chill
dren of school age-Senator and
Mrs. Parke Trammell. Senator Reed
Smoot. Senator and Mrs. Hendrick
Snipstead, the Broussards. the Nc
masters, the Porter Dales, Senator
and Mrs. Simeon Tess, Senator and
Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher, Senator
ana Mrs. Pat Harrison, "YounR
Bob" La Toilette and Senator and
Mrs. William 3. Borah. At the
moment Senator Borah is in Cleye-
land. where he Is due to make q
speech, but he Ia returning tomor-
row, believe.
Senator and Mrs. Tasker L. oddie
are also here-he but recently of
return from Haiti. And Senator
William II. King has just started
Tor Utah. having spent few weeks
IN Washington after his thwarted
ATTEMPT to visit the island republic.
Senator David A. Reed OF Penn.
sylvania has been in and out of
town ever since he came back from
trip to Bermuda immediately
AFTER the close Of the Congressional
session; ana former Senator George
Wharton Pepper has been an occa.
elonal visitor here. Once he came
1or q meeting Of the Cathedral
Foundation and again, this time
accompanied by Mrs. Pepper, for a
dinner at the Belgian Embassy.
Leaving Today
Senator Curtis of Kansas leaves
today for his home State. and Sena-
tor Joseph Robinson, for Arkansas.
senator James Couzens has been in
Michigan. but will come to Wash.
lngton the middle of this week. hay-
ing left his family here as hostages
Tor his return. Senator and Mrs.
George w. Norris are just off for
Nebaska- Senator Henry Wilder
keyes went early last week to his
New Hampshire home, where Mrs.
Keyes is to join him within the
next week or ten days. Having
been home about year from a trip
around the world. she is on the eve
OF starting off on another globe
trotting expedition. At the moment
senator and Mrs. Hiram Bingham
are the farthest from base of the
senatorial group, being somewhere
in China.
Congressional Representation
Speaker and Mrs. Longworth are
stu In town. So are Representa-.
tive and Mrs. Robert Low Bacon
whose children are in Washington
schools, Representative and Mrs, |
Clyde Kelly. detained for the same |
reason. Representative and Mrs. |
Alan Treadway, Representative and |
Mrs. Royal JohnsoA, Representative |
and Mrs. j. Charles Linthicum Rep.
resentative ana Mrs. Lamar Jeffers.
Representative and Mrs. Bertrand |
Smell and Representative Theodore |
Burton.
The Adam Wyants have been
back and forth several times to |
their home in Greensburg, Pa. but
are here for the present, Represen- |
tative and Mrs. Fred Britten are
lingering, as are representative and
Mrs. Sol Bloom and Miss Vera
Bloom, who are busy completing
the decorating and furnishing of |
the apartment in Sixteenth Street.
which they will occupy next season. |
representative and Mrs. Robert
simmons are here now, but will
start on trip to the Philippines
~ soon as their children are
through their school term.
&N&
WASHINGTONIANS
IN ANNAPOLIS
Mrs. T. s. Warren ana Miss
Warren, Of Washington, spent the
week end at Carvel Hall, Annapolis.
Co be with MidShiuYnan n r. Uor