Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-24
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE


Many Senators who voted against
fconfirm2 dion of Judge Lenroot of Wis
consinl for the United States Court Of
Gust oms. and Patent Appeals did so
without the slightest aninus against
me man himself. They did not even
present his alleged power trust" af1ilia-
tons or reputed record as a lobbyist"
Their opposition was based on the fact
that Lenroot is q lame duck. They
are against the principle Of giving high
| Federal Office to man who has been
| rejected by the voters of his own State.
| Their argument is that If a public
man who has been defeated for re-
| election wants to return to official life
he should seek vindication at the hands
| OF his constituents and not accept re-
ward from the President of the United
| States. The anti-Lenroot Senators
| here referred to do not think that the
situation is altered in his case by the
fact that Lenroot had certain claims
! on President Hoover. What they have
in mind Is the service the former Sena-
I tor rendered the Californian's cause at
the Kansas City convention and as q
| close political adviser just previous
| thereto. Judge Lenroot had settled
down to a profitable law practice in
| Washington. His friends say he well
| coined a place on the Federal bench
| in order to escape the vicissitudes of
| politics-including Fostering by people
who wanted to use his pull" at the
White House.
Herr Friedrich Won Prittwitz, urbane
German Ambassador to the United
| States, is ambling around these days
| looking as If he'd returned to the pas
! times of his student days at Bonn Uni
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| the vogue. The Ambassadors forehead
Is swathed in bandages, which conceal
no fewer than nine stitches in the scalp.
Herr Won Prittwitz was driving his own
| automobile back from Richmond, Va,
whence he had gone to look at the his
| toric British pictures now on exhibition
| there It was a slippery day on the
| Robert E. Lee highway, and the ambas-
| sadorial car, when about midway be-
| tween Richmond and Washington,
skidded violently. Herr Won Prittwitz
was dashed into the windshield and
suffered painful cuts and bruises to his
! head. The nine stitches were taken
| just in time, and he hopes within few
days no longer to be casualty.
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Guesses are constant es to just who
comes nearest being Herbert Hoovers
| Col House. Probably the best guess
Is that the President has a number OF
unofficial gunI-shoerS spying out the
land for him from time to time-the
sort of thing a Chief Executive wants
to have done without letting 1t be too
| obvious that inquiries are being pursued
on the White Houses behalf. The news
| dispatches have Just carried the infor-
nation that Mark L. Requa OF Cali
fornia, mining engineer and Federal
| fuel administrator during the war, has
been out West on the Presidents OIL
policy affairs. President Hoover's invi-
| tation to Western oil-producing States
| to send representatives to conserva-
ton conference at Colorado Springs In
June followed series OF discussions
which Requa has been having with Oil
authorities in the mountain States
Reuua ranks as one of Mr.. Hoover's
confidantes par excellence. It's been
said that he has two hobbies In life
/ the President and his own family.
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Senator Robert B. Howell, Republican
Progressive, of Nebraska, signaled in
his speech in the Senate on May %
| that the administration faces some
| hard Shedding, if and when it seeks
sanction of any rebate agreement with
! Germany. Mr. Howell, who reflects a
pretty wide body Of sentiment in the
Upper House, is convinced that the
concession just offered in connection
with our Rhine Army occupation costs
is an entering wedge" with regard to
all our European war debts. The Ne
braSkan thinks, in particular, that 1t
raises the curtain upon what sooner
or later will be a demand for partial
cancellation of the several billions ow-
ing to the United States Treasury Cap
itol Hill is rumbling with talk about
the subtle role of Americas "interna-
tional bankers" In the Paris repara-
tons negotiations The suggestion Is
that Messrs. Owen 2. Young and ].