Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
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(COnIluueO FTOm F1rSC rage
European great war. which broke 50
many friendships, and young David
Aiken Reed, no longer so very young
feeling that the United States Govern
nnent was treating the imperial German
government too leniently, voted for
Hughes for President instead Of for his
old teacher and legal protector.
Besides being an orange thrower at
Princeton, Mr.. Reed was also q tennis
player and also player on various in
struments in the Glee Club. After all,
though. and above all. he was student.
pursuit. His entrance into Princeton
at the age Of Is Is q sufficient indica-
ton that he began 1t early. He pro-
tracts 1t till late. His wartime COM
rades on the fields of France say that
even at the front his light would be
burning into the early morning hours
while he read. He similarly now, In
Washington, has q nighttime reading
lamp, which does duty for long periods
while most Of the inhabitants of the
town are either reveling or asleep.
He makes no appointments to sec
persons in the afternoon. In the after
noon, II he is not on the Senate floor,
he Is in his office studying. He dasheS
from the floor to the ONCE and from
the ONCE to the floor with q minimum
OF personal gossip and interruption. He
Is one Of the three or four great re-
searchers into facts and great accumu-
lators OF data In the Senate. He is q
bit pedanttc even in his attitude toward
the details Of knowledge and toward the
niceties Of English style.
Passion for Information.
He has passion for breadth and
depth Of information and then for a
delicately accurate use Of it. He has q
taste for learning, and-by coincidence
which does not always happen--he has
amazing. His learning Is retained and
is disable. On top Of strict and strong
academic education he has now put
great and thoroughly assimilated
wealth of current scholarship on instant
legislative subjects. The American
tradition which demands that a great
Senator shall be great scholar Is in
him fully and conspicuously met.
Between the time when he left Prince
ton, in 1900. and the time when he en-
tered the Senate, in 1922, except for
his interval OF service IN the great war,
he first studied and then practiced law.
He argued before the United States Su-
preme Court on behalf of the United
States Steel Corporation in the suit by
the Government for its dissolution. The
corporation won. Several of the justices
thought, and said, that Mr.. Reed, OF all
the lawyers who argued on the cor
poration's side, argued best. This was
perhaps really partly because Mr.. Reed.
with his powers Of mental acquisition
and of mental retention to help him,
was especially serviceable to the court
in giving 1t off-hand all pertinent statis-
teal and mechanical data regarding In
gots, Ores alloys, bessenner converters,
open hearth furnaces and the economic
position of scrap iron.
In 1922 Mr.. Reed was elected TO the
United States Senate and, after six
years Of the independence Of action and
Of the frankness of speech which have
here been glaneingly and inadequately
greatest majority ever given to any SEN
atorial candidate.
Committee Assignments.
In less now than seven years in the
| Senate, Mr.. Reed, besides becoming
chairman Of the military affairs COM
| mittee, has become q member of the
rules committee and q member of the
immigration committee and a member
also Of the Senate's two most exalted
committees-tine committee on foreign
| ECldLlONS anu JIlc CUulIhtlbCCc OH llIldIlCc
He did the senatorial side of the writ
ing of the immigration restriction Law
Of 1924 and inserted into 1t its provi.
| sion for ultimate immigration quotas
based on a count not merely Gas al
present. of the foreign-born among u:
at a certain date, but of all of us
foreign-born and native-born together
He became thus the legislative author
as well as in every other way the author
l-cf the national origins" immigration
control method now scheduled to &
into administrative effect (unless pre-.
viously suspended or repealeD on thu
first of next month.
He conducted the senatorial inquir!
which uncovered the crimes Of the di
rector Of the Veterans Bureau. Charie
r. Forbes, and sent him to the Leaven
worth Penitentiary. He was the chic
senatorial craftsman Of the Legislation
which reorganized the Veterans Bureau
As q member Of the finance commit
tee he has borne the burden of O larg
i part of the floor work In putting on
. recent revenue, or taxation, bills through
J the Senate. As the third ranking Re
, publican member now Of that commit
. tee, he win inevitably bear q sinnila
! burden In putting through the presen
. pending tariff bill. The circumstance
clearly point TO the prospect that In tn
. Senate the present pending tarin 81
will add new stature TO the deed
: and Q new stoop 10 the shoulders Q
1 Mr.. Reed