The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
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POLITICAL REASON
FOR WORK DINNER
May Be Slap at Butler;
Resolution on Bird Term


society and politicians were still
huzzling today over the nature G.
Secretary Of the Interior Wort
dinner to President and Mrs. al
lidge Tuesday night. and altho Il
ty-siX hours have ELAPSED no ono
vet has come forward with ~
fle reason for the cabinet offi4
decision to turn the annual AZ
into what amounted to an Office
function.
For wears it has been the custom
oe each member Of the cabinet Go
arrange small and Informal dinner
in homer of the chief executive.
These dinners have been held in the
privacy of the home, or, where the
department head resides in hotel.
in a private dining ROOM Only
few intimate friends of the cabinet
officer have been invited.
Big Ceremony.
Yet Work engaged the spacious
Fan-American Union building which
the State Department employs for
state functions. The Marine Band
played for the occasion.
Instead Of few intimate friends
his guests included the greatest fig-
ures in the financial world-Fofd.
Firestone, Guggenheim. Eastman,
Ogden Reid. P. T. Crowley and 9TH
ers. Rockefeller, Schwab Gary and
Curtis were invited but unable to at
tend.
Ambassadors Present.
Present also were Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon. Secretary Of Com
merce Hoover and Sir Esme Howard.
The British Ambassador. Rare have
been tie occasions when other cabi-
net officers have attended these
gatherings. and never-at least III
the memory Of the oldest eorrespon-
dents-has q foreign envoy graced
the board.
The arrival Of the President and
Mrs. Coolidge was announced by
fanfare Of trumpets and the presi-
Dental ruffle. Every other feature
Of the dinner was in keeping with
this ultra-formality.
Those who follow the wsvs Of so
ciety-and politices-are still guess
ing.
a Public Concentration
Some of the guesses are to the ef-
feet that this semi-royal gathering
Of big business with its representa-
tives in government office is a ges-
ture Of the ra-conservatives. the
men with money without which presi-
dental campaigns cannot be won,
and is intended to intimidate such re-
ealcitrants as Nicholas Murray But
Ter OF Columbia University. They say
that Butler and his sort are really
tremendously overawed by all the
words of wisdom that can be traced
to Wall Street, and that such an af-
fair as Work managed is way Of
saying publicly to Butler, Hands off.
This is our faithful servant, in whom
we are well pleased"
Democrats Pleased.
The capital is seething with talk
for and against the third term" The
democrats consider Buffers letter
and the rumpus that followed. as ore
Of them said, "nanna from political
heaven"
. A resolution. written by Senator
T H. Caraway CD Of Arkansas. prob
ably will be presented in the senate
before adjournment which declares it
to be- the sense of the senate that no
nan should seek to break down the
tradition against third term in the
White House. Such measure is
bound to provoke considerable debate,
ond admittedly it hrs chance of pas
sage. Coolidge's friends, Of course,
win fight it,
House Gets Resolution.
The house was asked today To 20
on record as opposing any president
holding office for more than two
terms
A resolution to this effect was IN
troduced by Rep. Beck (Rl Of Wis
consin, member Of the house pro-
gressive bloc.
He declared that third term, vio-
lating all custom, would be "unwise
and unpatriotic."
II was the accepted belief that
Beck's resolution was directed a.
heading off another term Of President
Coolidge, who has twice taken the
oath though he has been elected but
once as president.
Butler "rhe Liberal!
Nicholas Miraculous Butler, who
is one hundred per cent wet, and an
aspirant to the presidency, has agreed
TO confer with Senator William r.
Borah, a confirmed dry. ON the pro-
hibition question, according to a let
ter made public by Dr.. Butler last
night.
Stauneh advocate Of personal lib
erty that he is, President Butler OBJ
jects 70 the 18th Amendment, on the
Ground that it violates our national
Dill Of Rights, the first ten amend
nients to the constitution.