Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-11

Capitol Hill is a deserted city for the
most part and will be till the date OF
the special session of Congress ap-
breaches. Many Of the captains and the
kings have departed for vacations In
home States or in salubrious climeS to
the south. Senator Jim" Watson, new
Republican leader in the upper house,
is hobnobbing with his devoted Hooslers,
but will be back before the end OF
March. Senator Joe" Robinson, the
Democratic Senate leader, has just
started away for Arkansas In his own
automobile. Senator Snoot. who Will
pilot the new tariff bill through the
Senate, has gone to Utah to gather up
energy for the job. Senator Borah, for
eign relations chairman. is remaining
in Washington. Speaker Longworth has
gone South for a brief visit Republic
can Leader John @. Tilson is taking
things easy for a fortnight somewhere
in the Northeast. Representative Jack"
Garner, the new Democratic House
leader, made off for Texas before the
late Congress adjourned. Representa-
tive Haugen of Iowa, chairman Of the
House agricultural committee, is rustl-
eating in the corn belt, but will return
before April l for the meeting of his
committee for special consideration of
the farm relief bill. Senator McNary,
Senate agricultural chairman, is stay
ing on the job in the Capital.
Julius Rosenwald, Chicago merchant
Washington after a weeks sojourn as
an official distinguished guest" at the
Hoover Inauguration. He tells a good
story about his fellow toWnSman, Rob-
ert p. Lamont, now Secretary of Com
merce. A few weeks ago one of John
d. Rockefeller, jr.'s, scouts arrived in
Chicago to spy out the land in adj
vance of the Standard Oil of Indiana S
recent stockholders meeting. He was
young New York lawyer and came to
consult the Sears-Roebuck chairman
about a likely successor to Col. Robert
w. Stewart. RosenWald suggested three
or four names, among them that of
Robert p. Lamont, to whom he paid
some special compliments. "Glad to
hear you speak SO enthusiastically of
Lamont" said the Rockefeller emissary.
"Why?" asked Rosenwald. Because he
happens to be my father-in-law," was
the reply.
Beauty and the beast-respectivelv
Mrs. Charles H. Sabin of New York and
| the Republican elephant--have parted
| company. The retiring national COM
mitteewoman from the Empire State is
the acknowledged Venus of the G. o. P.
organization. Tall, blonde, vivacious
and brilliant, Mrs. Sabin has been a
| popular figure in Republican councils
for the past 10 years. She came natu-
rally by her politics, for. as Pauline
Morton, she was the daughter of Paul
| Morton, Secretary of the Navy in the
Roosevelt administration in 1904 and
1905, and granddaughter of j. Sterling
! Morton, Secretary of Agriculture in the
second Cleveland administration. Just
why the fair Pauline has deserted the
ship at this witching hour can only be
guessed. Prior to Kansas City she
trained with the Coolidge Hilles wing
| in New York State rather than with
| the Hoover-TIill camp. She is a wet,
| too, which may account for her aban-
donment of the water wagon, which is
now the G.. o. P. chariot.
| X X X X
DR.. c. G. WI, who has succeeded
DR.. Alfred SEE as Chinese Minister to
the United States, is likely to be the
| first foreign envoy to be received by
| President Hoover. The gifted son Of
WI Ting-fang, most famous of Chi
| EeSe diplomats ever Stationed In wash
ington, may present his credentials at
the White House in the capacity of an
Ambassador. Informal negotiations are
pending between the United States and
Nationalist China looking to the ele-
walton of their respective legations in
Marking and Washington to the rank
of embassies.
| X X X X
Exactly 40 years after his graduation
at Annapolis with the class of 1889, Ad-
miral William " Pratt achieves the blue
ribbon of the Navy-the command of
the United States fleet. Native of Bel
fast, Me-, and just turned 60 years of
age, Pratt is one of the most distin-
guished and experienced of American
naval officers. He served in the famous
White Squadron" from 1889 to 1891 !;
aboard U. S. S. Mayfower in the Span
ish-American War; later in the Philip