Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-23
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

the recent election being Mrs. Ruth
Hanna Mccormick of Illinois, and sew
eraS who were not candidate for re-
election - Representative ]. Mayhem
Wainwright Of New York and Repre-
sentative Schuyler Merritt Of Connecti-
cut, long time treasurer OF the Yale
Lock Co.
The millionaires or near-millionaires
are among the most prominent men In
| the House, and some Of them have done
outstanding legislative work. st
Among those rated "in the millionaire
class" are: Representative, George
Holden Tinkham Of Massachusetts,,
several times q Mayflower descendant,
| wet" leader, implacable foe of Bishop
Cannon, noted African hunter, who
seeks to have unvottng Negroes in the
South eliminated from the census flg-
ures used as basis for reapportion-
ment.
York, who has just survived q very
tense campaign for reelection, and re-
puted to be the wealttiest Of all mem.
berS In Congress.
Some Of the other in the Million
aire class are Representative Hamilton
Fish of New York, chairman Of the
| Special Committee Investigating Com
munism in the United States; Repre-
| sentative Sol Bloom Of New York, as
eociate director Of the George Wash.
| ington Bicentennial Commission and
personal friend Of MusSolini; Speaker
| Nicholas Longworth, both in his own
right and through linking his personal
| fortune with that of Princess Alice"
Roosevelt; Representative Isaac Bacha-
rach of New Jersey, yachtsman and
benefsctor of crippled children, who Is
real worker on the tariff drafting
I Job; Representative Lewis w. Douglas
of Arizona, graduate of Amherst Col
lege and the Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology, formerly an instructor
| in history at Amherst, who was cited
by Gen. Pershing during the Argonne
offensive and decorated by the Bel
gian government during the LyS-Escault
offensive; Representative Percy Quin OF
Mississippi, who made his wealth out
Of the laundry business; Representa-
tive Ernest r. Alderman Of New Jer.
philately enthusiast, who made his for
tune out Of the commercial fertilizer
| business; Representative Robert L.
Bacon Of New York, who just naturally
! grew UP in the banking business and
who was awarded Distinguished Serv-
ice Medal as an Artillery oficer In
the World War; Mrs. Edith Nourse
was
born with Q silver spoon in her mouth,
who has done probably more travelling
by airplane than any other woman IN
this country and who was special rep
resentative Of three Presidents in
studying the welfare Of ex-service men;
Representative Richard s. Aldrich OF
Rhode Island, whose father was q noted
tariff legislator and who is an alumnus
of both Yale and Harvard; Representa-
IF
chairman of the Rules (policy) Com
mittee-another Amherst College grad
uate-who began his career as book
keeper and later became manager OF a
paper mill, sole owner Of power plant,
trustee of several colleges and hos
pitfalls; Minority Leader Jack" Garner
of Texas, who will come within several
votes Of defeating Longworth for the
speakership, the most popular eaten
as-catch-can debater on the House
floor; Representative Richard B. Wig
ellsworth of Massachusetts,, who was
private secretary to the Governor Gen.
eral of the Philippines, served as held
artilleryman in the World War, was
legal adviser to the Treasury Depart
ment on foreign loans and railway
payments, secretary Of the World war
Foreign Debt Commission, assistant 70
the agent general for reparations pay
tive and general counsel for organtSa-
tions created under the Dawes plan;
Representative A. Piatt Andrew OF
Massachusetts,. professor Of economics
at Harvard, editor OF publications OF
the National Monetary Commission,
director Of the mint, Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, and who served
during the World War, both with the
French and United States Armies;
Representative Morton B. Hull OF
Illinois; Representative John T. Buck
bee of Illinois, who studied agriculture
and horticulture In Austria, France,
Holland, Denmark. Sweden, Belgium,
Italy and Great Britain, and who Is
president of a nationally known seed
company: Representative Oscar De
Priest Of Illinois, painter and deco
rator by trade, who amaSsed his fortune
out Of real estate transactions and other
business In Chicago; Representative
Fred A. Britten of Illinois, whose fortune
building construction in Chicago: Rep
resentative William E. Hull Of Illinois,
formerly in the diStillery business;
Senator-elect Wallace White Of Maine.
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An interesting explanation of some Of
the eccentricities of State and national
boundary lines has just been given by
Secretary Wilbur of the Interior De-
partment. One of these concerns the
so-called Southwick jog on the south
ern boundary of Massachusetts,, jutting
into Connecticut, which has long
puzzled students of geography. The
explanation Is that in adjusting errors
In the boundaries as previously run by
compass, long narrow strip Of land
was given to Connecticut, and the Jog
coded to Massachusetts, as an equivalent
area.
How accurate was the work of the
two famous English mathematicians
who drew the Mason and Dixon line"
between Pennsylvania and Maryland,
until their work was stopped by Indians,
Is shown by the fact that O resurvey
100 years later with modern instrl-
mentS showed variation of only $50
feet at the northeast corner Of Mary
land. The original stones for hve-mile
marks on this line were carved in
England, and are still standing, with
the coat Of arms Of Lord Baltimore on
the Maryland side and the Penn arms
on the Pennsylvania side.
Illustrating the indefiniteness Of some
early boundary lines, particularly be-
tween Massachusetts, and Rhode Island,
which was under dispute for more than
200 years, during which the question
went twice to the Supreme Court Of
the United States, with Daniel Webster
and Rufus Choate as counsel for the
Bay State, Choate said before the
Massachusetts Legislature:
THE commissioners might as well
have decided that the line between the
States was bounded on the north by o
bramble bush, on the south q blue jay,
on the west by hive Of bees In swarm
ing time and on the east by 500 foxes
with flrebrands tied to their tails"
This Is a Fowl Story.