Evening star., 1927-03-21
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE,

Foreign Service, has been at home on
leave. but has just been officially as
signed to duty at the State Depart
ment and temporarily relieved of serv-
Ice at Shanghai. He has had many
years of experience in the Far East.
his consular career having begun at
Alden in 1898. After that Cunningham
was stationed successfully at Singa-
pore, Hankow, Bombay and Shang-
hal. He is Tennesseean, a graduate
of the University of Michigan, a law
yer and SO years old.
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Senator William II. Kings run-in
with Haiti happens to coincide with
the annual report on Haitian affairs
just submitted to the State Depart.
ment by Brig. Gen. John II. Russell,
American high commissioner In that
country. United States Marines dot
the landscape in all directions in Haiti,
and Gen. Russell attributes to their
soothing presence the fact that some
thing approaching tranquility prevails
In a realm long addicted to turbulence
The American high commissioner be.
slows high praise upon President
Borno's government, which has CO.
operated in every way for the carrying
out of the provisions of the treaty of
1915" By that treaty the United
States Is practically empowered to rule
the roost in Haiti. American forces
there consist of a skeleton brigade of
Marines and mine sweeper of $50
tons displacement.
Somebody has called Senator Borah' $
attention to the fact that he has a
strictly up-to-date precedent for COM
municating privately with an official
of foreign government. Just about
the time the temperamental chairman
of the foreign relations committee
was exchanging letters with President
Gales Of Mexico, Ramsay Macdonald.
leader Of the British Labor party in
the House of Commons. was sending
cablegrams to Eugene Chen, the for
eign minister of Nationalist China at
Hankow. Mr.. Macdonald came under
fire at London, much as Senator Borah
found himself attacked in Washing.
ton. The former British prime minis
ter explained matters i'm q. public
speech. He said that Others" in Eng
land were sending out messages to
China, distorting the Labor party's
position on the Chinese muddle, so 1t
was decided Chen should hear direct
ly from Macdonald just how matters
stood. I'VE did not attempt to inter.
fere with our governments negotia-
tions at Hankow." Macdonald added.
I'VE have no business to do that.
The government negotiates, not the
opposition. We determined merely to
see that our men should not be badly
used in China. To make matters
clear, we urged Mr.. Chen to go on
negotiating with our accredited rep
resentatives."
Federal trials and tribulations, due
to the non.passage of the deficiency
bill, mount from day today. Now
it's the national judiciary system
that's feeling the financial pinch
caused by the Senate filibuster that
wound up the session in a blaze of
inaction. Attorney General Sargent
has had to call upon United States
judges. district attorneys and marshals
throughout the country's SO jurisdic-
tions to practice ruthless Coolidge
economy all along the line until the
end of the fiscal year. Between now
and June 80 only the most urgent
cases are to be brought to trial. Pref
erence is to be given to those which
involve a minimum of expense for wit
ness and jury fees. The Department
of Justice acknowledges that the
whole Federal judiciary system will
be crippled for the next three and one
half months, but in case will courts
have to be suspended. Here and there
employees must be dropped. In some
instances prisoners now In Jail will
have to languish there a while longer
copyright. 1917