Evening star., 1929-12-04
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLiAM WiLE.

Herbert Hoover'S first regular message
to Congress contains no breath-taking
surprises. Despite its length, it Is
brass-tacks document. 1t would have
been difiicult to deal at greater brevity
with the numerous big national sub
jects the President tackles. Some Of
them are dismissed with q few words.
The world at large will not fail to note
the fact that the President of the
| United States has quit calling the war
remuneration treaty the kellogg pact"
He dubs 1t the kellogg BRAND pact"
| The message reveals at numerous points
the Hooverian passion for government
! by commission, conference and commit
tee. The Chief Engineer proposes the
| creation Of half a dozen new commits
| Sions. They include a new Federal
Power Commission, q permanent Fed
eral Radio Commission, special Muscle
! Shoals Commission a commission to
| investigate Haiti, and a commission to
study the banking system. While Sug-
gesting these, Mr.. Hoover reminds Con-
gress Of commissions. conferences and
committees already organized by him.
Among them are the Law Enforcement
Commission. the Child Health Confer
! ence, the committee on merchant marine
| mail contracts and the conferences on
the general economic situation. The
President also announces that the Child
| Health Conference will be followed by
conferences on housing and recreation.
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Former Gov. Clifford Pinchot and
Mrs. Pinchot are back at their hons IN
/ Washington after their romantic eXpe-
| dition into the South Seas on their
| schooner yacht. The erstwhile Penn
sylvania State executive doesn't ac-
knowledge that he timed his return to
H. .A~iak 49,
| when the fate of William s. Ware is to
be definitely determined by the Senate.
| But Pinchot happens TO have struck
| the Capital at that very hour. The
Senate has not forgotten the remark
able certificate of election which
Pinchot sent it when Wares credentials
were submitted in March, 1927. The
Philadelphia boss appears" to have
been duly elected, which was another
way of saying that Pinchot thought
| Ware hadn't been elected at all. The
one-time forester of the United States
| has been o close coadjutor of SEN
ator Norris, Republican Progressive,
of Nebraska, who leads the night to
keep Ware out OF the Senate.
Over at the Department Of Justice
nowadays they don't ask Who's who?"
but who's Hughes?" No fewer than
three Hugheses are on Attorney Cen
eral Mitchells staff. First, there's
Charles Evans Hughes. jr., Solicitor
! General; then there's w. j. Hughes,
/ who for many years has been in the
Solicitor Generals office; finally, there's
| Vincent Hughes, who is chief of the
| division of frauds in the Bureau of In
vestigation. The other day Vincent
Hughes asked w. J. Hughes to intro
duce him to the Solicitor General, with
view to securing the latter's indorse-
ment of an application for admission to
practice before the Supreme Court. The
presentation duly ensued, resulting in
Mr.. Hughes introducing Mr.. Hughes to
Mr.. Hughes.
William H. Beck, we'll known and
popular right-hand man OF the Secre-
tary Of State, has just been designated
Assistant to the Secretary" by depart
mental order Of Col. Stimson. Presum-
ably the indispensable Bill" will ac-
company his chief to the London Naval
Conference. If he does. It'll be just an
other historic transoceanic voyage for
the young foreign service man. After
Beck left the Army In 1918 he was pri-
vate secretary to Henry White. one of
the American peace commissioners at
Paris Then "Bill' became private Sec
retary to Robert Lansing at the State
Department Afterward, In succession,
Beck was private secretary to Balm
bridge Colby, Charles Evans Hughes
and Frank B. Kellogg, and now he is
at the elbow of Henry L. Stimson. Beck
accompanied Colby to South America,
Secretary Hughes to the same continent
two years later and o.Europe in 1924,
and was taken to the Paris treaty sign
ing by Secretary Kellogg In 1923.
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Japan's unwillingness to associate it
self with the Hoover -Stimson move to
mobilize worl1 opinion against war IN
Manchuria is the subject OF lively specu-
lation IN the washington diplomatic
circle The commonest view Is that
Tokio's nose Is q little out OF joint be-
. cause Nippon resents any action which
, seems to ignore her prerogatlves ~ tne
There were signs Of Japans ruined