Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
Capital Sidelights
BIZ WILL p. KENNEDY.

The scenes about the Senate once
Building while the Senate finance
committee has been laboring with the
Hawley-smoot tariff bill reminds vet
eran onlookers Of the description Of
a similar throng some years ago by the
late canny swede, Senator Knute Nell
son, conservative Republican from
Minnesota, who apropos of the hearing
on the Fordney-McCumber tariff act
in 1922 said:
IT never In all my life saw such
swarm Of men as were around
the finance committee while they had
this bill before them. Day after day
they came with their handbags. They
swarmed in the corridors, and the bill
indicates that they got thsir work in
we'll"
Members of the Georgia delegation In
Congress are telling the romance of
"Grandfather's Clock" taken as a
trophy of war from the plantation Of
former member of Congress during
the Civil War, which has just been To-
Gated only about 100 miles from his
birthplace in Massachusetts, and which
The record Of Thomas Butler King
stands out In history, his public serv--
ice having spanned the continent and
covered more than twoscore years. He
was born in Palmer, Mass, in 1900 and
attended Westfield Academy. He be-
gan the practice OF law in Philadelphia
when he was 20 years old. He settled
on Retreat plantation, St. Sinlons
Island, Ca, In 1925. After four terms
in the State Senate he came to Con-
isso 1850 he was appointed S ap collector Of the
port Of San Francisco by President
Fillmore, served two years and later
went again to the Georgia State SEN
ate. He was sent to Europe by Geor-
gta as a special trade envoy In 1851 and
for three years served in Europe as
commissioner Of the Confederacy.
Recently at an auction in East Mans
field. Mass. an eight-day clock was
bought by the former police chief OF
Attleboro, who is now inspector Of mo-
tor vehicles in Representative Joe"
up the clock the purchaser found this
record written on the inside: Taken
from the plantation home Of Hon.
Thomas B. King, st. Simons Island,
st. Sinons Sound, Ga. U. S. S. Ethan
Allen, on blockade, Jan. 10, 1858"
Investigation disclosed that the is
land home Of the late Representative
King was vacated during the war days
when he was IN Europe as agent OF the
Confederacy and his sons were in the
Confederate Army. The blockading
feet sent landing party to investigate
the vacant home and large cotton
warehouse on the shore of the island
plantation.
Three granddaughters Of the former
Representative are now living on the
old plantation and the old clock Is go
ing to be sent back home to Georgia
from Massachusetts after having been
one of the spells Of war for more than
IS years.
Attention has Just been called to the
fact that our senior ex-President, CHIEF
Justice Taft, now on vacation, some
IT years ago sounded the call that
brought the Chamber OF Commerce OF
the United States into existence. Thus
BY official invitation from the Chief
Executive the agency of organized in
dustry is voicing the reasoned convic:
tons of American business on national
problems.
And now President Hoover is steeing
up q Federal Farm Board TO speak
similarly for the great basic industry
of agriculture.
Oficial friends of Secretary Charles
Francis Adams, eleted over his Victory
the other day in the yacht race IN
Penobseot Bay, the seventh successive
lutte are mailing him with new respect
and expressing the hope that next year
he may have an opportunity to cele-
hrate the decennial of his victory as
the skipper who in 1920 successfully
defended the Americas Cup by out
sailing Sir Thomas Liptons shamrock
v. It was with the Resolute that Secre-
tary Adams, after losing the frst Two
races, defeated the Shamrock ~. Our
Secretary of the Navy has certalny
proved that though great changes may
have come during the last is years IN
naval construction-since the Vanltie
and Resolute we're built for the cup
race. that were to have been sailed In
1914. but for the World War-hls sea-
nanSnip has kept pace with progress
in yacht designing.
It would be real triumph for the
American Nation If its Secretary OF the
Navy, in open competition, should earn
the right to sail the cup defender race.
Il II X
Wood that grew in the Southland and
for l12 years stood in the White House
is being preserved In thu shape OF
hunaidor stand and has been formally
presented to the Southern Pine Asso-
citation by Wilson Compton. secretary
and manager of the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association. A plate
on the humidor stand records the fact
that it is of the stand used IN the
White House in the early nlaeteentn
century. and was made from long-lea1
yellow pine timber installed In the
white House roof In 1915 during Presl-
dent Madison's administration, anu re-
moved In 1927 in perfect condition.
Claims against the United States
totaline many hundreds Of millions OF
dollars are being defended IN England
and Germany by George r. Farnum,
Assistant Attorney General One OF tne
most famous of these suits was hrougnt
hv the British Public Trustee against
the Alien Property Custodian and the
treasurer of the United States, 1nvolv-
ING many millions of dollars TINS
suit grows out of the conflicting seiz-
ures of shares Of stock IN american
corporations owned by German ma.
tionals doniiciled in Great Britain az
the outbreak OF the World War. Inc
British authorities seized the certin-
Gates which were found In the BRUSH
isles and the American Alien properly
Custodian made seizure Of the STOCK
on the books Of the corporations IN the
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