Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-03
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Representative M. Alfred Michaelson,
Republican, Of Illinois, who faces pros
ecution for violation of the liquor
smuggling laws, Is one of the handful
of foreign-born members of Congress.
He is native of Kristiansend, Norway,
but came TO Chicago in 1885 as q lad
OF and has lived in this country ever
since. BY profession Mr.. MichaelSon is
O teacher. A normal school graduate,
he taught in the Chicago public schools
from 1898 to 1914. Then he served two
terms on the Chicago board of alder
men. Since 1921 he has been a mem
Der Of Congress Rivers and harbors
matters are the committee work with
which Representative Michaelson has
been especially identified In the House.
He ought to have known the ropes be-
tween Havana and Key West. Repre-
sentative william M. Morgan, Repub-
lican, Of Ohio, who Is also in prohibi-
ton hot water, is q native Buckeye. He
runs a wholesale business in Newark,
Ohio, and lives on farm within the
city limits. The seventeenth Ohio dis
trict last November returned Mr.. Nor
gan for q fifth term in the House by
the biggest majority In the districts
history.
Arrival of Gov. Henry J. Allen in the
Senate as Vice President Curtis sue
cessor from Kansas will disarray the
Senate roll call for the first time in
many years. Ever since he came to the
Senate, in 1912, Senator Henry F.
AShurst, Democrat, of Arizona, has had
alphabetical precedence there. Senator
Allen will come first now, and John G.
Crockett, SonorouS reading clerk Of the
Senate, henceforward will have to
change his tune whenever he starts to
call the roll The first man to speak
up in an aye-andno vote has con-
siderable responsibility. Sometimes he
must act quickly according to his own
wits, without time for signal from the
party leader or whip. Senator Allen
will arrive on Capitol Hill with q va
riety of emotions, all pleasant. He
comes by appointment of the governor,
who once was his own private secre-
tary. He will be sworn in by the Vice
President, who was his predecessor in
the Senate. He returns as full
fiedged member to the body in whose
press gallery he once sat as a corre-
spondent.
At a party in washington the other
day there happened to be gathered In
a group James w. Good, Secretary OF
War; Senator James E. Watson, Re-
publican leader of the Senate, and
James M. Beck, former Solicitor Cen
eral of the United States. Somebody
who knew all of them stepped up and
calculated, well, If here aren't three
'Jirns. in a row!" The Secretary OF
War retorted, Eyes, but I'm the only
one that's Good"
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Former Representative Walter H
Newton Of Minnesota. now the secre-
tarial Hoover Congress go-between, says
thu & the laying-up of the Mayfiower Is
going to save members OF Congress a
| lot of trouble. Newton asserts that more
| folks from back home want to visit
the presidential yacht than almost any
sight In washington. Reports drifting
Fin from the country indicate that none
of the Hooverian innovations since
March 4 has excited anywhere neal
the popular interest that the Mayfiowel
incident did. The President while Sec.
rotary OF Commerce had an ofhcia
Yacht the motor vessel Kilkenny. 4
| is a craft of SO gross tons, Is 80 feet
long, IA feet wide and has six state
rooms. The Kilkenny Is one of the Blu.
reau of Navigation,s inspection boats
Hoover was very fond of the Kilkenny
and all his fishing trips away from
Washington, even as remote as Florids
waters, were made aboard her. Insider:
predict that II there's to be White
House yacht it'll be a Kilkenny in typt
and just Big enough for the fishing
cabinet. Some authorities think the
President one day may buy or builC
such craft for himself.
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Elinor Glyn, who Is about to leave
her home in Georgetown, washington.
quarter, for visit to England tell.
her friends she "adoresn the capita
and Capital life, The TT, lady intend
! to pitch her tent on the Potomac fol
keeps, The author of Three Weeks