Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07

The Caraway Senate lobby probe
committee has concluded, for the time
being at least, its inquiry into tariff
lobbies, and is now training its guns
on Muscle Shoals. The committees
investigators are reported to be digging
around in various letter files and sun
dry sensations are darkly limited. An
exposure of some of the folks who
have lived off the Muscle Shoals ques-
ton for the past 10 years." to quote
Senator Caraway has been one of his
particular detectives ever since the
investigation got under way. How far
the Muscle Shoals probe will CO. how
long it will take, and what it will IN
cover, is as yet matter of conjecture.
Meantime there is an apparent dis
position on the part of the leaders in
both branches of Congress, and In both
parties, to make a new and determined
effort ito solve the Muscle Shoals
problem" at this session of Congress,
and to start the legislative ball a-rolling
on this subject as soon as the tariff bill
is out of the way in the Senate.
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The President will rely on the radio
to keep him in close touch with de-
velopments at the London Naval Farley
while he Is taking his we'll earned holi-
day aboard jeremiah Milbank's private
yacht, the Saunterer, in Florida waters
this coming week. This is the same
boat and the same fishing grounds Off
Long Key below Miami which Mr.
Hoover enjoyed so much just year
ago. The President will leave Congress
to its own devices for few days and,
judging from current cable reports from
London, nothing is likely to happen
there in the immediate future to re-
quire instantaneous decision at this
end.
In the comment on the return of
Charles Evans Hughes to the Supreme
bench, frequent reference is made to
the fact that he resigned from the
Coolidge cabinet in 1926 upon the plea
that he must return to the practice of
law to recoup his personal fortunes, and
1t Is suggested that his acceptance of
the chief juSticeship entails heavy
financial sacrifice. Since Mr.. Hughes
professional income during the past
four years is reliably reported to have
exceeded a million dollars a year, and
the salary of the Chief Justice is $40, 500,
it is Self-evident that Mr. Hughes does,
indeed, relinquish large financial emolu-
ments for high honorS and a browning
glory of long life of public service,
but since he now has a priv tie fortune
the talk Of financial sacrifice in this
connection seems little far-fetched.
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The seventy-sixth birthday of Senator
Furnifold McLendeI Simmons of North
Carolina the middle of last month was
the occasion of eulogies and encomiums.
member OF the Senate for nearly 30
years, the Southern Democratic leader,
who bolted his party in the 1928 presi-
Dental election, Is now all set for a
triumphant reelection next November
for another six-year term in the Senate.
The Methodist Board of Prohibition,
commencing the intelligence of the
citizens of North Carolina for putting
no obstacles in the path of their SEN
ator, says: Senator Simmons is a
statesman Of the first order, whose
courageous and conscientious devotion
to duty has reflected credit upon the
entire State"
Mrs. Donald MacRae of Council
Bluffs, Iowa, national president of the
American Legion Auxiliary, is the newly
elected chairman of the Women's Pa
trtotic Conference on National Defense,
which held its fifth annual meeting in
washington last week. The American
Legion Auxiliary, with an enrolment
of 100000 women, is the largest unit
in the conference. Mrs. MacRae has
a threefold claim. for both her hus-
band and her son were in the American
expeditionary forces overseas and re-
ceived the D. S. c., and her son-in-
law was prisoner Of war in Germany.
The new chairman and some of the
other women participating in the con-
ference are distressed by reputed mis-
| understandings OF the purport of the
"entangling alliances" resolution which
the conference adopted. Many of the
women voted for the resolution upon