Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-06

Many who heard his "booze party"
harangue in the Senate yesterday think
Senator Brookhart ought to be prose-
cuted for obtaining a crowd under false
pretenses. He drew capacity galleries
for his projected expose of Demon
RUNS depredationS in high senatorial
society, but the promised bombshell was
prett' much of dud. If Brookhart
hasn't anything more startling to tell
the District grand jury than he told
to his disappointed Senate audience,
his subpoena will hardly have been
worth the time of the bailiff who served
it. The Iowan's hearers wanted to be
shocked by long list Of Senators who
bibbled at the festivity in question.
Instead they heard only of Brookhart
himself, Smoot of Utah and the late
Gooding of Idaho-who. did not look
upon the grape which wall Street
proffered-and of three other Senators
(Edge of New Jersey, Ware of Pennsyl-
Vania and Moses of New Hampshire)
whom the Hawkeye mentioned, but did
not accuse of quaff1ng. On the whole,
the rifleman-S statesman put on a poor
show. He spent most of his wrath on
the evils of alcohol in general and on
the iniquities of watered railroad valu-
atoms.
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Brookhart has no cause at any time
to spare the susceptibilities Of the ma
iority of the United States Senate as
now constituted. He sets forth In his
Congressional Record autobiography
that that body "disregarded the Iowa
election laws and seated his Democratic
opponent (now Senator Daniel F.
Steck) on April IL, 1926, after a pro-
longed contest" Probably most of the
solons who attended the wet dinner
party which Scandalized Brookhart
voted to Danish him three years ago.
It's just possible that he's waited
for an opportunity like this to show
to Brookhart's homily on hip TASKS was
Judge William S. Kenyon of Iowa. 1t
was Kenyon's unexpired term in the
Senate that Brookhart first was elected
to fill In 1922.
Vice President Curtis is leaving for
Chicago next Sunday to deliver the
Armistice day speech at the Windy
City'S American Legion celebration in
the huge amphitheater of Soldier Field
on the Lake front. He will speak at IL
o'clock in the morning and his voice
will be broadcast all over the country.
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Nobody can question the legitimacy
Of the tariff expert invariably at the
elbow of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah,
chairman of the Senate finance COM
mittee, when the tariff bill Is under dis
cussion in the Senate chamber. various
specialists are Communicated for that
duty from time to time, depending upon
the particular question under debate.
Sometimes 1t Is Mr.. Shoots capable
private secretary, Isaac M. Stewart;
sometimes it is an attache Of the legis-
Iative drafting service, skilled in the
science of drawing up bills. At other
times it may be a man from the United
States Tariff Commission who Is an ex-
pert on this or that subject-carbide,
sugar, hides or. whatnot.
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Capitol Hill, as well as the executive
end of Pennsylvania avenue, IS puzZhe
with tales of the row that mas broken
out between James w. Gooo, Secretary
of War, and Representative w. Franz
James. Republican, of Michigan, chair
man of the House committee on MILL
| tary affairs. Matters are said to have
reached SO heated a stage that Presl-
dent Hoover may find 1t necessary to
step in and end the feud. Three diff
ferent issues are at the bottom or the
Good-James fracas-the san GERONIMO
military reservation incident In Porto
| tClcO, the WlCLlQTdWhL "a N1oJ. AAtOlA'A
w. Hammond as Laison officer between
the War Department and military at-
fairs committee, and the $6,5o0,OOO cut
in the Army's five-year aviation pro-
gram. Representative James is partlc-
ularly irked by Secretary GOODS re-
| cent action in recommending PResi-
dent Hoover to Transfer the San Geron1-
mo property to the jurisdiction OF the
Porto Rican government. This was
done unbeknown to James, who hao
! already introduced bill providing fol-
return of the reservation to the Wal