Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
Capital Sidelights.
BY WTLLP. KENNEDY.


iand manufacturing and export execU-
tiVeS, when he referred with feeling
10 the sons of the wild jackaSs who
now control legislation in the Senate"
seems to have stirred up a hornets
nest that threatens to GUST him as
party leader and has accumulated the
developing bitterness between the East
and West that portends possibilities OF
a change in party control In Congress.
But this remark was only a part
OF a running fire of smart" talk that
enlivened the dinner. Senator Moses
commented upon the "trepidation with
which Senators now accept an invita-
ton to such dinner in Washington.
The POSTMASTER emphasized later that
that was . New England dinner and
not Wall Street dinner.
The New Hampshire Senator ex-
pressed his Joy to be "in a company
where the Helms cease to Hef1in
and the Brookharts are at rest" He
also gave a demonstration, which many
present took to have a very personal
reference, that some of us Yankees
are still able to speak in catarrhal
tone"
House Leader Tilson, when called
upon q few moments later, pointed out
that when the original Moses started
out he took along with him a fellow
kAauAC0 AhIOl 10 S4O Ills IdAhulS 1O1
him, but when our George gets started
he needs none to speak for him"
When Representative Edith N. Rogers
suggested to the delegation represent
ing the New England Export Club that
they and the New England Council,
which Is q trade development confer
ence, ought to establish q representa-
tive at the Capital to help members
OF Congress and Federal officials ON
matters of business interest to that
section, one Of the prominent manu-
facturers was heard to remark: "Tne
Connecticut manufacturers tried that
and see all the trouble 1t started"
The Boy Scouts of American
throughout the length and breadth of
the land have come to the aid of Con-
greSs to keep history straight and to-
make the historical record complete.
John Hanson Of Maryland. one of the
great re-Revolutionary leaders. who
was President of the Continental Con-
greSs and who personally spoke the
thanks Of Congress to George Washing
ton after the surrender of CORVALLIS at
yorktown and who was signer of the
Articles Of Confederation of the United
States, sleeps in an unmarked grave
where, none seems to know.
Under T. L. Underwood, 1872 Mary
land avenue, Washington, troopmaSter
Of Troop %, the Boy Scouts dedicated
themselves to the finding of the grave
OF John Hanson, and will search and
help search until it is found" In the
course OF their search they found fully
foot underground, several old graves
OF historic interest near Oxon Hill, Md,
short distance out of the Capital City,
where Hanson died at the residence of
his nephew in 1888. They are still OH
the trail of Hanson'S grave
out OF this has grown a nationwide
search by the Boy Scouts, under a plan
arranged by E. S. Martin, secretary of
the editorial board of the Boy Scouts
organization, with Ansen Void, compil-
er Of the biographical directory of the
American Congress, to gather missing
information regarding all former mem
bers OF Congress whose biographies are
incomplete. Already various troops
throughout the States have turned in
valuable information.
Mr.. Martin, in calling for the assist
ance OF all Boy Scouts in this work, has
told them that they will be doing a
good turn for the Government and at
the same time enriching their own
knowledge of local history and be de-
veloping good objective for hikes"
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During an intensive search since early
in 1925 to get the fullest information
possible regarding hs life record of
each former member of Congress, AnSel
Wolds the sturdy and pertinacious right
hand man to Senator George Moses in
compilation of the Autographed Di-
rectory--which, by the way, is the most
used book in some of the leading
Libraries of the country-has CLEANED
some interesting items regarding early
congressional elections. In some States
elections were not held until somewhere
from April to November of the year fol-
lowing the opening of the Congress.
There Is q record Of some members
from New York not having been elected
for q full year after their term began.
There Is record Of vacancies on April
8, 1885, 3 full month after the term
began. Rhode Island. Connecticut and
Virginia held their elections In April;
Indiana, Missouri Kentucky, North
Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee in
August; Mississippi in May and Mary
land in October.
A surprising story has just been I'M
earthed from old files by the Congress
sional biography researchers regarding
former Representative Edward Preble
Little, from Massachusetts,, who served
from December Is, 1882, to March 3,
1853. Coming from cultured Massa-
chusetts it amazed the researchers to
find this record as of January 8, 1853:
Hon. Edward p. Little made his APP
pearance in Congress on Thursday and,
without taking off his broad-brimmed
hat, advanced to the Speaker and af-
firmed to support the Constitution of
the United States"
This same Little at the age of
years Tin 1900 was on the U. S.
frigate Boston with his father, Capt.
George Little, at the suggestion of PreSi-
dent Adams, who gave him a commits
SION as midsnipman; He was born in
Marshheld, Plymouth County. After
voluntarily quitting Congress he was
collector of customs at the port of
Plymouth for four years. He died at
Lynn, Mass, in 1878.
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Members Of Congress will greatly miss
Representative r. Walton Moore of
Virginia IF and when" he carries out
his announced intention to withdraw
from the national legislative body. He
has made history real to them by taking
many OF them on personally conducted
visits to historic Shrines In 1.-The Old
Dominion" and linking them up with
achievements affecting other parts of
the colln " and the Government itself.
None ali knows his Virginia better.
For e2>, nipple. he has just taken some
Of his colleagues to Williamsburg, which
Is just saturated with history, and intro
duced them to many interesting land
marks, one Of which was the old State
prison. built In 170l, which stands to-
day as 1t did in Colonial times. It is
claimed that the notorious pirate
Blackboard was imprisoned there, but
Mr.. Moore refers to that as IAN unverf-
fed tradition" But it is an undeniable
fact that Henry Hamilton, the British
governor general of the Northwest, who
was captured at Vincennes by George
Rogers Clark, the George washington
NJ the Mast mae cant - NNFifIio .lss,,..