Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-07

The Republican members Of the Sen
ate finance committee after two weeks
of continuous secret session have dis
posed Of only Of the IS commodity
schedules in the tariff bill and have not
touched the free list or the admins
trative sections. The latter contain
many highly controversial features. in
Guiding proposed changes in the fex-
ible tariff system, valuations and ap-
praisal methods and abolition Of the
bipartisan character Of the Tariff
Commission. With good luck the COM
mittee still hopes to complete consid-
Grafton of the remaining commodity
| schedules in the next two weeks. That
brings them up to August 10, the date
when the Senate is scheduled to recon-
vene. But 1t will take further two
weeks to thrash out the administrative
sections and to summon in the Demo-
cratic members and to put the final
polish on the completed Senate COM
mittee draft. That means that Sep
TENDER is the earliest possible date
when the bill can be reported to the
Senate, and it may well happen that 1t
will not be ready even then.
When Mrs. Alvin r. Hert telephoned
| from her Summer home on Macklnac
Island, Mich, last Friday confirmation
of the report that she was quitting her
post as vice chairman of the Republican
national committee, she added further
to the surprise with the statement that
she had resigned last February. APP
parently wires crossed somehow, Tor at
one and the same time the White House
here and DR.. Work at his home In
Colorado were denying that they had
any knowledge that Mrs. Hert proposed
to resign. Subsequently Chairman
Work issued q call for a meeting OF the
Republican national committee for Sep
tennber 8 to fill both his own post ana
to choose q successor to Mrs. Hert. the
prophecy made right after election that
Mr. Hoover contemplated a sweeping
reorganization of the Republican or
ganization is being amply borne out by
recent developments. Representative
FRANKLIN w. Fort of New Jersey. secre-
tary of the national committee, is
quoted by friends to the effect that ne,
foo has been anxious to relinqulsh MS
committee post. but feared to 40 SO lest
| it be misconstrued as slgnl1ylng
break" between himself and MI
| Hoover.
Yaroes Francis Burke of Pittsburgh,
general counsel for the Republican ma
finnal committee. who Mrs. Willie
brandt now discloses was the particular
| committee official who o. Kd ner "a
mons ohio campaign speech--wh1ch was
subsequently denounced far ana Wloe
as an aDpeal to religious Intolerance
| is one of the small group VINO were very
close to Mr.. Hoover during the cam
paign and who maintains tne same re.
ifstionship today. Mr.. Burke had MS
office in the Hoover personal campaign
HEADQUARTERS, In the Massachusetts ave-
ME mansion. his desk close to the inner
Hoover sanctum, and slept in room on
| the upuer floors that he might be avail
able by night as well as by day. He
shared honors with the Republican
nominee in the final hour on the ar
election eve, plum mucn coVete0 Ny
many of the others In the inner Hoo-
yer circle. Since March Mr.. burke
has been in almost daily attenoance az
| a sort of general assistant to all OF the
staff of Hoover secretaries, political
'1iaison" offlcer.
REPRESENTATIVE Wallace White OF
Maine is paving q visit to the Capital
| this week, interrupting briefly his cam,
paign for the Republican senatorial
| nomination In Maine next year. lHousll
| the Maine primaries are still ten montIs
ahead, the Maine Congressman Is al
ready hard at work conducting his per-
sonai canvass of the State. After q
dozen years in the lower branch OF
Congress, where he has attained large
leadership and influence, MIR. White mas
had his eye OH Senate seat for some
time. with congressional reapportion,-
ment now a near actually ana WIN
Maine slated to lose one OF its TOUR
seats in the House, and because OF geo
graphic factors, the White district
facing certain extinction, he has HOB
sons choice of either vaulting to the
senate or retiring to private life. Sena-
tor Gould Of Maine, whose term expires
next year. has not yet declared him
self, but In Maine the opinion prevails
that Gould will not enter the 1880 pri-
mary. In that event, the fight viii
probably narrow down to contest be-
tween White and ex-Gov. Ralph Brew
ster. White is confident of beating
Brewster.
4 \ -
Herbert Hoover, ir., aged Is. the