Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-31

Dozens Of members of Congress and
their respective wives will pack up
the moment the Session Is ended for
trip to the Panama Canal. They are
accepting the hospitality of the Gov
eminent owned Panama Railroad
Co.'S steamship Cristobal, which will
lift anchor at New York on March 3.
The Cristobal will touch en- route to
the Isthmus, at Port All Prince, Haiti,
giving Senators and Representatives
an opportunity for closeup OF mat
troubled isle. Members of Congress
are carried free of charge on these
VOYAGES, but must pay Sol apiece for
any members of their families who &C
company them, as a round "trip rate
covering subsistence. The rate for
others Is $500. The reason the den
liens of Capitol Hill are permitted a
| Joy ride to and from the canal Is that
| the authorities in charge of the big
ditch feel that Congressman are the
| representatives OF the holders and
| owners of the steamship line-the
plain people--and should therefore be
! given, as they are, these periodical OPP
portunities to legislate intelligently re-
garding isthmian affairs.
DIR. Alfred SEE, the accomplished
| Chinese Minister to the United States,
| is a graduate of Central High School
at Washington. He was one of the
| first Chinese boys sent to this country
| to be educated by the old imperial
government. In those days, matter
| of 30-odd years ago, See and his com
patriots still wore pigtaiIs, and the
| dienified and distinguished diplomat of
| today recalls wildly how he had to
put up with no little teasing and a
| good deal of Juggling at his braid Sew
| eral of DIR. SEES high school class
| mates are men now prominent in
Washington professional and business
! life. With some of them the Minister
keeps up the old friendships. After
| leaving high school SEE was graduated
at Cornell University during the presi-
1 dency of DR.. Jacob G.. Schurman, for
mer American Minister to China and
now Amba ssador at Berlin. DR.. SEE s
! favorite argument. when Americans
express disappointment that the young
| Republic of China does not pull itself
/ together, IL to remind them that II
| was not until / 3 years after the Dec
| lara ton of Independence that the
| United States had Il Constitution and
| steadied itself Chinas Fourth of
! July falls on Lincoln's birthday--she
| became Il republic on February II,
| 1912.
| X X X
! Representative Robert Luce, Repub-
| lican, of Massachusetts, statesman and
scholar, has just published in book
| form his Harvard University lectures
on Congress. The lectures deal not
only with the activities and powers of
| the National Legislature, but with the
| puhlic's view of them. Mr.. Luce adj
| mits that Congress is possibly in
| greater disfa Vor today than at any
| previous period of its history. But
the Massachusetts Representative says
| the same thing is true Of State Leeis-
| Iatures as well as of the British
| Parliament and other European legls-
| Iative bodies. Criticism OF law
makers" Luce asserts, and of laws
is. always has been and doubtless will
be a favorite occupation of mankind.
Democracy has disappointed. 1t has
not brought the millennium"
Washington political society is
watching with interest, not unmiXed
| with amusement budding roma nee
In which an eligible United States
| SENATOR widower--and an eligible
widow of a United States Senator are
the dramatis personae. Nothing has
az vet heen arranged. To draw upon
the language of an official denial oi
impending matrimonial events. But
mutual friends think 1t would be ar
ideal match and some Of them appear
10 b famautiug II. II Developments