Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-26

fortunes were due to causes for which
Gen. - was in no respect to blame.
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One Of Senator George w. Norris net
aversions In Nebraska politics IS former
Gov. Sam" r. McKelVie, now q mem
Der OF the Federal Farm Board. Now
and then, ON and on the stump. the
Progressive leader refers to McKelvie as
slippery Sam" During the recent Nye
Committee investigation, according to
stories Just brought to Washington from
Nebraska, It developed that McKelvie
was the original source Of $4,000 con.
trtbuted to the anti-Norris senatorial
exchequer under another name. At least
when the Nye Sleuths probed the con-
tr1bution TO the bottom, Gov. McKelvie,s
name oobbed up Is that Of the angel in
question.
When the Senate Committee On Com
m1tteeS swings into action next week.
many plums will be ripe for distribution.
An immediate one win be the Foreign
relations Committee vacancy created
py the disappearance Of Senator Henry
=. Allen OF Kansas. On March Z, 1891,
two more foreign relations pllInns Will
be dropped into new laps, because
senators Gillett Of Massachusetts, and
Con OF West Virginia will then be
among the departed. Places on Boral1's
committee, as are those on the FOREIGN
Affairs Committee in the House. are
much coveted. Respectively, they're
considered the blue ribbon bodies of
Congress, though In many respects Of
less real power than other committees.
one OF the reasons statesmen crave
aPpolntment 70 them Is the social pres
tlge tney carry. It means, among other
things, invitations to the tables of for
eign Ambassadors and Ministers. It
also means that when friend wife of a
foreign relations or foreign affairs
member invites ENJOYS to her teas or
dinners, they generally toddle along In
9 spirit Of possible favorS to come from
friend husband some day.
4 X
William G. Deming Of Wyoming. for
mer president of the United States
Civil Service Commission, Is one of the
grand army Of one-time Federal officials
VINO succumb to the lure Of Capital life
and come back for more. He has set
tled down in Washington for the Win
ter after motoring his own way across
the continent from Cheyenne. where he
publishes the leading State paper. the
Irloune-Leader. Once upon a time
Dem1ng loomed as a prospective Repub-
lican Senator from Wyoming. He
points proudly to the fact that his State
this month reelected its G. o. p. Gov
ernor and all other State officers. ike
wise Republican United States Sena-
Tor and Representative. In other words.
wyoming and Pennsylvania were about
the only white spots" on the Repub-
lican map. Dening was drafted by the
party State Committee as director Of
publicity In the 1880 campaign.
One Of the most provocative and
revolutionary military studies Of the
Civil War viii appear next Spring In
the form Of 1.-THE Military Career of
General Grant" by Col. Arthur Latham
Conger, who has Just retired from the
United States Army after a distinguish
ed career. His last post was that of
military attache at Berlin. Col. Conger
was graduated from Harvard before
entering the Army in 1898, and has de-
voted his life to the study of military
history and strategy. He commanded
brigade in the Argonne campaign of
1918. Col. Conger's estimate Of Grant,
his campaign and his part in the Civil
War, Is destined to arouse much con-
troversy In q field which, up to now,
has cur1ouSly enough been left largely
to English military critics.
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