Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14

improve his mind, and returning tc
China, end his life as private citizen
But nobody takes him at his word
every one scents a Whit as of the
African in the woodpile. They say he
has desperately embarrassed himself
IN the process of carrying on, by prom
iseS to this and that person, and groups
that he proposes to disembarrasS him
self to watch his rivals and enemies
discredit themselves, and in the end
to come back" to the general acclama-
ton, as the savior of his country. 1t
sounds plausible enough. It may be so;
other hand, the proclamation might be
only a feeler Belize Chang expects
the pickering factions to unite in press
ing him to stay on the job; with a
pressure to which, as a patriot, he would
be constrained to yield. 1t might be
so: almost anything might be so. Really,
it's an old dodge of Chang'S Cf one
may use the term this retiring; there's
something of the prima donna in
Chang's makeup. Is Feng Yu HSiang
to be rewarded for his Illness" during
the civil war now practically ended by
having the Province of Shantung added
to the great area already under his gov
ernorship (Which includes Honan,
ok1CAiok d1lO AdIlSuy OUCH Il QeNelOp-
ment would immensely increase the
dubiousness of an already sufficiently
dubious political situation. Yet Hsi
Shan's arsenal near Tai Yuan in ShanSi
Province employs, We are told, more
than 5000 workmen day and night,
under the direction of Germans form
erly with KruppS. 1t is turning out
field-pieceS closely modelled, after the
French rs at the rate of 600 year,
and 1000 rifles weekly; also a good
automatic rife. The arsenal buildings.
of reinforced concrete are surrounded
by mighty walls.
- y X
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
All the auspices are favorable for a
mighty accomplishment by the new ad-
ministration The Republican major
ity in the late House, at its passing, was
Al; in the new House it will be 81. At
the demise of the SEVENTEEN Congress
the lineup of the Senate showed SO
Republicans, As Democrats and l
Farmer Laborite, but the Republican
total included Mr. Ware, who had not
been allowed to take his seat, and Sem
ator Norris of Nebraska and Senator
Blaine of Wisconsin. both of whom sup
ported the Smith Robinson ticket. AS
against that exceedingly precarious ma
jority, as the Seventy-flrSt Congress
opens, on April is, in extra session, the
Republicans will boast magnificent
majority in the Senate, Sc Qncluding
the still unseated Ware and the dubious
-ly elephantine Blaine and Norris, as
against 80 Democrats and Farmer
Laborite (Mr. Shipstead of Minnesota) :.
The Senate is to have a new Repub-
lican leader in James E. Watson of
Indiana, who replaces Mr.. Curtis, now
Vice President; and in the House. John
E. Garner of Texas, ranking minority
member of the committee on ways and
means. succeeds Finis j. Garrett as
Democratic floor leader. Senator Rob-
inson of Arkansas, defeated for the Vice
Presidency, continues minority leader in
the Senate, and John @. Tilson of
Connecticut succeeds himself as Repub-
lican leader in the House. Mr.. Garner
has the popular qualities of his prede-
ceSsor; though he comes from Texas,
his attitude on the tariff is said to be
"betwixt and between" The new Sem
ate will be drier than the old, some
of the doughtiest champions of mois-
ture having passed into the wilderness.
/ Gen. Charles G.. Dawes may become
our Ambassador to Great Britain upon
OF his task as mead OF mis-
sion which Is studying the Dominican
finances, with q view to their proper
Tt Is very pleasant to note that the
ancestral estate of Wakefield, Va,
where George washington was born, Is
to become q national memorial, under
the auspices of the Wakefield National
Memorial Association. The association
has received gift Of $l15,000 from
John d. Rockefeller, jr., conditioned on
an additional equal sum by
January 4, 1880. There seems no doubt
that the association viii purchase q
considerable parcel Of land, embracing
the site Of the old mansion and the
graveyard In which Washing
tons 81 three generations are buried,
namely. Col. John washington of
Wartoil, England, died 1867; Lawrence