Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-05

Now is the winter of Calvin Cool
idge'S discomfort A retiring PreSl-
dents last three months in the White
House are always a barren season.
Congress is seldom inspired by any
sense of obligation to heed his recon-
mendationS. On the present occasion
the shadow of Herbert Hoover looms so
comprehenSively over Washington that
Capitol Hills thoughts are turned al
most exclusively in his direction. The
King is dead! Long live the King!" is
the slogan that prevails on the Potomac
quadrennially at this period, unless a
President be on the threshold OF sue
ceeding himself for another term. In
the case of matters like Federal econ
omy, appropriations, the cruiser bill,
the Kellogg treaty and other issues
which are more or less routine, Con-
gresS probably will act in accordance
with President Coolidge's advice. On
practically everything else, especially
where new ground requires to be broken,
the best guess Is that House and Sen
ate will mill along and give President
Hoover a chance to recommend and
lead.
This writer holds it to be extremely
improbable that the Hoover administra-
ton will preserve continuity of
Coolidge policies" which will make the
transition from Calvin to Herbert
almost imperceptible. Such thought
suggests that Hoover's regime will be
more or less of a rubber stamp OF It's
predecessor The Californian's career
and temperament supply no foundation
for any prospect of that kind. Every
one who's ever worked for or under
Hoover knows that he is man OF
original ideas and addicted to the naolt
Of working them out on his own lines.
He has a passion for blazing trails. He
is fond of choosing his own helpers-a
trait which may explain the absence OF
manv of the Coolidge cabinet in the
Hoover official household. The Presl-
dent-elect was nominated and victo-
rious on platform calling for perpetu-
alton of Coolidge policies" But the
euess NAV be safely hazarded that be-
fore the Hoover administration has
been in Office many months the country
will wake up to find it is living under
Hoover policies.
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With an Oregon Senator and an
Oregon Representative, respectively, at
the head of Congress two outstanding
committees at the present juncture, the
great Northwest is in the sadie as
never before. McNary as chairman OF
the Senate agriculture committee ana
Hawley as chairman of the ways ana
means committee in the House come
pretty near to being the limelighters OF
the legislative show of 1928-1929. Sena-
tor McNary has farm relief on MS
hands and Representative HaWley Is 10
lend his name-like Mckinley, Dmgley,
Underwood and Fordney before MINI
to a new tariff law. Hawley Is one OF
the veterans of the House, having Just
been reelected to his twelfth successive
term. He comes from covered-Wagon
ancestry, his people having crossed the
Western plains in 1847 and l848. By
profession Hawley calls himself a
| teacher and lawyer. once ne was
president of Willamette University at
| Salem, Greg. He is native of the State
| he halls from and one Of Congress
recognized tax and revenue experts.
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Whether the Senate confirms or re-
| jects President Coolidge'S nomination
of Roy o. West as Secretary of the
| Interior, his associates in that depart
ment-from division chiefs down to the
lowest Observation-Disclosures promptly
acquired fondness for the Chicagoan.
It's Vests democratic manners and
customs that have won him the de-
partment's esteem. He knocked nearly
everybody's eye out the second or third
day he was in office by finding his way
| to the employees cafeteria and trun-
ding his tray like the humblest "steno"
in the building-if such there be. Not
everybody is aware that the President
and West have been close friends
throughout Mr.. Coolidge's presidency.
The Illinois lawyer was secretary of the
Republican national committee and
party business brought him to Wash
ngton frequently. He was usually in
/ yited to bunk at the White House.
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