Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-02

Mention of Senator George H. Moses,
Republican, of New Hampshire, as Sena-
tor-to-be Dwight w. Morrow's ambaS-
sadorial successor in Mexico, conjures
up variety of diverting thoughts, Does
the G.. 0. p. high command, whose
headquarters are in the White House,
think it might be just as we'll to have
the wise-cracking New Highlander off
the political reservation in 1880? Has
the Mexico appointment been devised
as the most expeditions way of diSpoS-
ing of the chairman of the Republican
senatorial campaign committee? On the
whole, next years critical party neces-
stiles considered, wouldn't it be better
to let the sons-of-the- wild-jackasS jest
err exercise his wits in diplomacy than
in politics? These, at any rate, are
the reflections and speculations aroused
by the Morrow Moses Mexico reports. If
the President pro tenn. of the Senate were
promoted out of that body into the for
eign service, he would follow Edge of
New Jersey. In Moses case there isn't
quite the local political Set-up which
induced former Senator Edge to accept
an ambassadorship. The Jerseyman
would have come up for denomination
and reelection in 1880. He faced fight
the outcome of which was something
more than problematical. No one has
ever suggested that Moses could be I'M
horSed in New Hampshire.
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President Hoover'S first regular
message to the Seventy-f1rst Congress,
which will be read for him in both
houses tomorrow noon, doesn't justify
the Chief Engineers reputation for
| brevity of speech. It's a tidy document
of IL ,000-odd words. 1t will fall to the
honorable lot of this observer to de
liver" the message over the radio net
| work of the Columbia Broadcasting
! System. At his ordinary rate of micro
| phonic speed 900 words in, roundly,
| Is minutes-it should take him exactly
| one hour and half to reel of the
presidential story to the listening audi
ence across the country. That's a tall
order-both for the audience and for
| the broadcaster.
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A recent visitor to Washington was
! Col. Thomas w. Miller of Delaware,
| former alien property custodian, who
earlier in the year completed term
at the Federal Prison in Atlanta. Miller
looks as fit as fiddle and none the
worse for his enforced visit as guest
of Uncle Sam in Georgia. He told
his friends in the Capital that he
busily engaged in staging quiet come
back into private life. One OF his
ma Tor occupations is the operation Of
/ a huge ranch in Nevada, in partner
| ship with former Gov. Scrugham or
that State. Miller purposes spending
part of his time in Reno and the rest
| in Wilmington, where he and his fam
| lily are in occupation OF the Miller an
cestral home. At Atlanta, ne says, Col.
Miller was active in helping the prison
officials map out and put In practice
| q WOW gyrtoro of financial audit anu
| control.
Papers Just filed in the New York
| Supreme Court are direct ecno OF
the marine lobby inquiry in the United
| States Senate. Capt. Herbert Hartley,
known to thousands of American globe
trotters as the former commander OF
the steamship Leviathan, Is SUING the
present owners of that snip, tne Irans-
oceanic Corporation OF the UhlIeu
! States, for SIS, 1866 salary due him. HIS
employment was suddenly terminated
in October, following certain revelations
before the Shortridge senatorial COM
mittee, which was looking into the
Shearer affair and correlated "lrregu-
laritieS." The former skipper OF the
biggest American liner complains that
he received only $500 OF sos, 100
salary contractually due MIN. HarCley
was hired to become the commodore
of the projected fleet of four four-day
crack transatlantic ships which his
principals planned to put in commits
sion. The captains troubles are the
outgrowth of testimony given before
the Senate committee by Laurence J.
wider, who was questioned ABOUT d
Iumored $l45,000 merchant marine
lobby in Washington. Hartley inquired
IN the Wilder testimony as the. recip-
lent of $4,000 "for professional serv-
ices, ship operation"
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young Bob" La Toilette OF Wlscon-