Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Impending marriage of Senator
Dill. Democrat. of Washington. will
not diminish the dimensions of the
bachelor bloc in the next Senate. 1t
was five in number up till the time
Dill decided TO take the matrimonial
leap. and five it will remain. for a
newcomer, Senat@r-elect Tyd1ngs,
Democrat, of Maryland still lives in
single blessedness. The Senate'S otner
unmarried members are Walsh OF
MASSACHUSETTS,, Hale of Maine, Nc
Kellar of Tennessee and La Toilette
~ Wisconsin. Young Bob" ranks,
from the standpoint of eligible prob
ability. as the most likely one of that
quartet to step off, as he's just
graduated into the thirties. Senators
Walsh. Hale and Mcclellan, being com
fortabIv across the half-century line,
are looked upon as confirmed and in
durable bachelors. Mcclellan stresses
his unwedded state in the official au-
photography contributed by him to the
congressional Directory. There are
several widowers in the Senate
among them Curtis and Capper of
Kansas. Walsh of Montana, Fess OF
ohio and Hefiin of Alabama.
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Washington on June and VIII
he occupied by the veterans or the
| Cd Division, which made history
| in France nine years ago. HAN
dozen of it's famous leaders and mem
| bers happen now to be on duty mere
including Maj. Gen. john a. Le1eune,
tTT 6 NJ. c., who led it into battie'
Mai Cen. Hanson f. Ely, who com
n,anded it's Sd Brigade: Lieut. Col.
Hanford MacNider NOW Assistant Sec
ratarv of War;, who wound up IN
Esranca as the I'd Divisions ad-
3utant. the Rev. DR.. Jason NOBLE
piarca the divisional chaplain moW
President Coolidge's pastorl, ana
| ia,It Condr. Joel II. Boone, u. ,. M
ono Of the divisions surgeons tnoW
of the White House medicai s,an, J.
| with these high and mighty puuoles
To steer things at the division iortn,
coming reunion, the 1O.0OO lndidhs
aynected to attend it are counting on
pnt tipoa in the old Capital town.
1o,,,ro;ttees have just been appointed
- sbane things in that direction.
with Senate funds withheld from
! 49, paed slush-fund committee, II
| locks as If the huge pile Oh feiliisyi !,
n,,;a Senatorial ballots already seized
10 IL were in for an indefinite periodi
| of dust gathering. Such q coiiectloii " "
votes has never before been seen -,
tho District of Columbia. lhey lolai
more than 500,0 900 in NUMBER, III ny
than 5000 individual metal paiio ,s
boxes, and are strewh over neay he
&c 20 floor space in the catacoinDs
- 4ba Senate Office Building. IN
oda;t;on there are about 500 bags Oh
,.r,xro+ad ballots. tally sheets, Volin5
| ,.aoisters and other election oocu-
o,ents The aggregation concerns
n,lv votes in Philadelphia ana
Aiieebenv Counties. 1t Is under the
avcI.,siye control of David S. Barry
sergeant alarms of the Senate, WHO
carries around with him the only keys
to the vaults that are IN eHls'e eoc
Two of Barry's Capltol pollce
are on guard over the ballots day ana
night.
| Denver, Colo, is the latest city 10
throw its hat into the ring as an
sa,,irant for the next Democratic
national convention. 1t seems 70
eniov the backing of William U.
McAdoo's friends. William jennings
T,rvan was nominated at Denver IN
ions for this third and last preslden-
tial licking, but Colorado Democrats
think that circumstance doesn't mill
tate against the Rocky Mountain
metropolis' claim as an ideal conven.
ltion city. George Il. Milton, editor OF
the Chattanooga News, a high priest
in the McAdoo temple, observes: II IL
not too early to remind the DeiI,o,
cratic national committee of the
folly of selling the convention for
brass check. The lair of the Tiger
is no place for the next convention
Let's go vest
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Practice before Government de-
lpartments at Washington and at the
bar of the District of Columbia con-
tinues to be the favorite recourse of
lame ducks. Congress had adjourned
but q day or two before two OF the