Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-09

Dictates of self-preservation. as well
as of moral rectitude inspired many
senatorial vote-especially on the Re-
publican side-when Bill" Wares fate
! was decided on December 6. The tateS
of more than one "Newberry Senator
at the 1924 elections we're in the minds
| of members when the roll was called on
| the Norris resolution to cast the Phlla-
| delphia boss into the outer darkness.
| Something over full one-third OF the
present Senate comes up for re-elec-
| ton In 1880. Among the Republicans
| who were determined to have clean bills
| of health on the Ware issue, should 1t
rise to torment them next year, are
Borah of Idaho, Capper of Kansas.
| Couzens of Michigan, McCulloch OF
Ohio, McMaster OF South Dakota, NC
| Nary of oregon, Metcalf OF Rhode IS
| land, Norris of Nebraska and Sackett
of Kentucky. Among the % Republican
pro-Vare Senators were two whose terms
| are about to expire and who do not rank
as candidates to succeed themselves.
They include Gillett of Massachusetts and
| Gould of Maine. @. o. P. Senators, who
will tempt fate in 1891 as ware Sena-
tors are Hastings Of Delaware, Reyes
of New Hampshire, PhippS OF Colorado
Pine of Oklahoma and Schal OF Min
nesota.
y \
At least one of the Senators who voted
| fright" de, against Vare) and whose
present terms ends on March 4, 1881,
will aspire to reelection only in the
event he isn't offered a place on the
Supreme Court bench. He halls from
beyond the Mississippi and has well
known ambitions to adorn the Federal
tribunal of highest resort, notwithstand-
l i,ae hfo Senate
and the assurance of even higher hon.
ors there If he remains in the chamber.
| The Winter of 1929-30 opens with the
perennial Holmes resignation" rumor.
| The Nestor of the Supreme bench Will
be 80 years old next March. The
Holmes story, hardy annual, is &C
companied this time by the, report"
that President Hoover will have two Su-
preme Court vacancies TO fill in 1880.
Capitol HILL especially its wetter
| slopes. is reveling in the recently pub
Iished correspondence between the Fed
| eral Council of Churches and Christian
! Heurich, millionaire former Washing
| ton brewer and one Of the city's Oldest
and most respected inhabitants. MOI
long ago the Federal Council invited
HelIrich to become one of its "benefac-
| tors" or sustaining associates" He
! returned the following reply:
In reply to yours of yesterday,
beg to state that I was reared In
Christian atmosphere and Spirit, and
/ am living in that same atmosphere
| and Spirit to this day But my ex-
| perience teaches me that great
| many Councils and Chrlstlan ASso-
| citations use the name OF Christian,
but do not act in the same spirit as
orr savior Christ himself did. am
| proud to state that I was engaged
| In the beer-brewing business for
great many years and claim that
have done more good for humanity
than a great many so-calied Chris
tians and Christian Associations, etc:
| / enclose herewith the iast ADDRESS
made to the stockholders OF my
| brewing company, which speaks for
| itself. According to this, you Will not
| he surprised that I do not see my
way to contribute to the Federal
Council of Churches or to become an
| Associate.
One of "the other Hoovers" In the
present administration, j. Edgar HooVet,
chief of the Department OF Justice
Bureau of Investigation, has just rem
dered his annual report. It's an ex-
| traordinarily convincin tale OF activity
in the observance, pursuit ana appre-
+. nsion of the Nations criminals, eS-
pecially of the professional ana fugitive
class. The bureaus work is along the
lines of the practical, constructive pro-
gram which President Hoover recently
recommended to Congress as vital to the
checking of crime. Uncle Sans young
Sherlock Holmes features the remark
able growth and more efficient operation
of the National Division OF 1dentifica-
ton and Information" as one OF the
Bureau of Investigations real achieve,
ments. The division now mas i,I4o' ioI
fiscal year 1929 it made $685. identifi,
cations. It has 2,624,944 indiViduai
/ criminal records In its card-index. Nao-
bling of fugitives from justice Is one OF
Chief Hoover's specialties. HIS men ran
down 1894 in the year under review,
including 496 wanted" for automoplie
thefts; l44, escaped from Federal pris-
ons; 95, lodging bankruptcy prosecu-
tions: SIS prohibition violators and SO
deseIters.