Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-20

Speaker Longvorth fitted through
Washington this week, en- route from
New England to Ohio, Just to conf1rm q
sneaking suspicion. Nick felt pretty
sure that the Senate would still be dilly-
ing and dallying over the tartf so end
lesslv that the House wouldn't need to
be ready for business on September 23,
as It planned to be, when 1t recessed on
June 10. The lower branch will be for
mally called to order next Monday, but
the session will be purely perfunctory
and be adjourned almost as soon as 1t
begins. The recess resolution antici-
pated the state of affairs on the Senate
side of the Capitol by providing Tor
pseudo sessions of the House Mondays
and Thursdays until october IA. II by
that time the tariff bill has not been sent
over from the upper branch, the House
Is likely to keep on with semi-weekly
adjournments. At any rate, William
TYLER Page, clerk of the House, has
notified all members that there is no
necessity for their return to Washington
earlier than October IA.
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Now that an attack of shingles has
overtaken the Senate Republicans. in
has already undermined their system,
no one dares predict when the Hawley
bill will become the Hawley-Smoot bill
and be in shape for conference between
the two houses. AS detection follows de-
lection in the G. o. P. ranks, led by
Senator Jim" Watson, hope that the
special session will enact the new law
grows more and more slender. President
Hoover-at least publicly and Officially
has kept hands OF the tarin mess IN
Congress. But 1t Is a significant COIN
cidence that Senator WatSon's caucus
to determine the exact number Of Re-
publican regulars" on which he can
count, was called the same night the
Senate leader dined at the White House.
There's a distinct suggestion in all this
that Hoover may be steeling himself for
a showdown. A blast, such as ne
sounded at a critical moment In the
farm debenture struggle, is destined,
some insiders think, to be the next big
noise in the tariff din.
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Apropos the reassuripg announcement
that the cellar of the British embassy
is still equal to any demands likely 70
be made upon it by the Macdonald
visit. word comes that the drlve 10 ory
up American society is still on. MRS.
George H. Strawbridge, the Philadelphia.
hostess, who has essayed the task OF
persuading the country's social leaders
to set law-observance examples, mas
iust been in Washington" She radiates
a sunny optimism. Sixteen hundred
women from 100 towns and cities in II
different States have replied TO my
appeal" she told this observer, "OnAy
some $50 refused me support. The
others agree that nothing but the power
of example in high society, as 1t is
called. will ever make prohibition FASH
ionable." Mrs. Strawbridge plans dur
ing the Fall and Winter to widen her
campaign until 1t has embraced the
whole country.
M. Pierre Lyautey, nephew of the dis
tinguished French soldier, Marshal
Lyautey, the hero of Morocco, is a visi-
tor In washington. He is a leading
young economist and publicist In Paris
and is touring the United States and
Canada to acouaint himself with North
American political and commercial con-
ditions. While here M. Lyautey has
conferred with Senator Edge, AmbaSsa-
dor-designate to France; Secretary OF
Commerce Lamont; Assistant Secretary
Klein. Vice Chairman Dennis of the
United States Tariff Commission, and
others. The French in 1881 will hold
a great colonial exhibition on the out
skirts of Paris. They desire to make 1t
international, and one Of Lyautey's mis-
sions to the United States Is to interest
our Government in taking part. He
thinks what Uncle Sam has done in the
Philippines, Porto Rico, Hawaii and our
other overseas dominions would make
rich contribution to the exhibition.
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When this broadcaster watched
President Hoover at the microphone In
his White House study the other eve
ming. addressing the whole Nation on
the naval negotiations, all the great
history that's been made in that room
welled UP in the minds eye. There,
among the other Presidents, Monroe and
Lincoln worked. It staggered the