Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18

| 1t is a fortnight of sadness which
| has set In for hundreds OF distinguished
| Washingtonians, whose careers are
| scheduled to terminate on March 4
| They are headed, of course, by the
f! President and Mrs. Coolidge, and in
clude nearly all the members of the
cabinet and their families, scores OF
| subordinate officials and numerous Rep
resentatives and Senators. Twas ever
thus with the incoming OF new ad-
ministration and Congress, even though
! they be of the same political complexion
as their predecessors. The men and
women about to quit the District OF
| Columbia scene will go with varied emo
| lions. The commonest belief is that
| Mr.. and Mrs. Coolidge depart in a
spirit of relief Nearly everybody in
| the Coolidge cabinet would have been
| glad to finger on under Hoover. The
| lure of Washington takes a powerful
hold upon those who are privileged to
bask for three or four years in the SUM-
shine of official life with all its per-
quisites. The congressional folks whose
sun has set invariably say adieu with
poignant regret. Most of them go in
voluntarily. deserving Capitol Hill as
| lame ducks.
Thanks to the Hoover landslide in
| November, vacant chairs in the Senate
after March 4 will be found mostly
on the Democratic side of the aisle.
Bruce of Maryland, Nicely of West Vir-
ginia, Gerry of Rhode Island, Edwards
of New Jersey and Bayard of Delaware
will adorn the upper house no more
or ct least not for another two years.
| TWO other Democrats vaniSh-Reed of
Missouri and Mayfield of TeXas-but
not as Senators defeated for reelection.
Jim" Reed leaves by his own choice
and Mayfield was beaten for renomina-
| ton by brother Democrat, Representa-
tive Tom Connally On the Republican
| side, Senator Curtis will transfer from
the floor to the rostrum; Mclean of
Connecticut, goes out of his own Volt
ton, having not sought reelection, and
Larrazolo of New Mexico, who has re-
Gently been at the point of death, ends
his incumbency of the late Senator
Jones unexpired term.
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Over on the House side there will be
missing notable array Of familiar faces
| and potent figures when the Seventy
first Congress is assembled in special
session. TON" Blanton of Texas will
be the outstanding absentee. The Great
Director, like all vivid personalities, has
acquired legion of friends as well as a
host Of enemies during his six continu-
Gus terms. Blanton Is almost sure to be
returned to Congress two years hence.
Finis Garrett of Tennessee makes his
exit after "a consecutive years of serv-
ice. Only four men have been in the
House longer than the retiring Demo-
cratic floor leader Jim" Begg of Ohio
with five terms to his credit; Charles E
Winter of Wyoming, consequent upon
an unsuccessful race for the United
States senatorship, says good-by after
serving in three Congresses, and two
popular Democrats, Meyer Jacobstein of
New York and Martin l.. Davey of Ohio,
return to private life after respectively,
three and five continuous terms in the
House.
1t has Iusc come to light that the last
visit paid by the late Melville e. Stone,
honored dean of the Associated Press,
was a call he made upon Herbert Hoover
in January just after the President
elects return from South America
Stone rose from sick bed, aged 80, to
drive in a closed car all the way from
New York to Washington to spend an
hour with the boy" as he often called
MIR. Hoover, and then turned right
around and drove back to New York.
Stone was confined to his rooms practi-
cally all of the time following his trip
to Washington He had an abiding
admiration for the President-elect, with
whose career Stone had had close con-
tact from its earliest inception. Elihu
Root, who has just gone abroad, at "a,
on a semi Official mission, has always
wanted to see Hoover whenever the
latter was in New York. On a certain
occasion early in the 1923 campaign,
New York politicians and newspaper
men were securing Manhattan Island
for Hoover. who was calmly sitting with
Mr.. Root. III at home.