Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-25

President Hoover's current experiences
with Supreme Court appointments must
I'LL him with a realization Of what
Woodrow Wilson went through IA years
ago. Few confirmation contests In
American history have rivaled in in
tensity the fight which the Senate
wazed against the nomination of Jus
tice Brandeis in 1916. President VIII
son appointed him in January, but 1t
was the succeeding June-f1ve months
later-before he was permitted to as
sumo ONCE. Among the leaders in the
struggle to have BrandeiS rejected were
william Howard Taft and Elihu Root.
The times are changing, and we with
them. Brandeis was fought because he
was "a reactionary radical" Parker
of North Carolina is now opposed be-
cause he is "a reactionary conservative. :"
President Green of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor has just cleared up
widespread misrepresentation about
Brandeis and Parker. The North Caro-
linian's supporters have been claiming
that his yellow dog" decision, which
has invited the enmity of organized
labor, was in line with Supreme Court
decision in which Brandeis, the bench's
great liberal, concurred. Green de-
clares that, far from concurring,
Holmes and Brandeis, the dissenting
twain, formed, as they so often do, the
opposing minority.
One of Washington's witty Demo-
cratic women, who confesSeS she burns
no incense at the Hoover throne, thinks
the London naval treaty should be
called "Reductio ad absurdum," which
is defined by Mr.. Webster as 1.-The re-
ducing of a superstition or hypothesis
to an absurdity."
California, Here I Come" will after
all continue to be a popular song with
Filipinos, now that the Senate has
smashed the Shortridge amendment to
the impending new Western Hemisphere
immigration laws. The California dele
CATION in Congress moved heaven and
earth to bring about the exclusion OF
Filipinos along with the proposed en-
barge on Central and South Americans.
A simultaneous effort to ban Canadians
and Newfoundlanders also fell by the
wayside. The plant of Senator Short
ridge and neighboring statesmen that
immigration from the Philippines is
gravely aggravating unemployment con-
ditions on the Pacific Coast failed to
outweigh the argument that as long as
the islands are under the American nag
the little brown brother cannot logically
be barred from the United States. So
ends CALIFORNIA; attempt to include the
Filipinos among the Orientals we ex-
clude.
appointment of an Ambassador to
Mexico, to succeed Dwight w. Morrow
is imminent. The Jersey Senator -desig-
nate and London Naval Conference
delegate may make a flying trip to
Mexico City flying is in his family's
line nowadays to take formal leave OF
President Ortiz Rubio. But his politi-
cal fences in New Jersey are in such
sore need of immediate attention that
time in or on Mexico. j. Reuben Clark
of Utah, former Undersecretary OF
State and an early associate Of Mr.
Morrow'S In Mexico City, is now re-
garded President Hoover'S likelieSt
choice for the ambassadorship. Mr.
Clark is Mormon.
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N. H. Aylesworth, president of the
National Broadcasting Co.. Sprang a
good one at the recent Washington
meeting Of the Society Of American
Newspaper Editors. THE other day,
he said, my wife told me that N. B. @
from week to week. I pleaded, OAR
ling, If you keep on telling me that
you'll drive me crazy Thereupon my
better half rejoined: ooh, that won't
be drive. TIN just be putt"
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There's going to be considerable con-
gressional exodus to Europe during the
approaching long recess, the campaign
to the contrary notwithstanding. Sen
of New York both contemplate trans
atlantic trips. Wheeler means to have
Q look at the League Of Nations, and
Wagner wants TO include Russia IN hi