Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-11

Strickland Gillian. Hoosier bard
ought to try his hand at another "Off
Agin, On Agin, Gone Agin, Finnigin, -
with Claudius H Huston as the hero of
the ballad. The theme would only have
to be altered to depict the G. o. P. ma
tional chairman as In, out and back
"agin." At least, that's where matters
stand after yesterdays amazing pro-
ceedings at Republican headquarters in
Washington. Few politicians believe
that Huston's evasive communique tells
the whole story of what happened. IN
less certain party leaders who sat in
at the conference suddenly became
tongue-tied, there was plenty of plain
speaking. Neither George Moses nor
Will Wood is accustomed to succumb to
paralysis Of the vocal organs on critical
| occasions. The probabilities all favor
the theory that they talked right out in
meetin Mr.. Huston possibly was the
| coolest of the lot. No man under fire
ever presented a more unruffled front
than he did when the newspaper men
bearded him at the end Of the day AS
a smiling dodger of leading questions,
Washington hasn't known his equal in
many a moon.
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Supposedly Huston is not to make
his exit till the Senate adjourns, in
order not to give the Pat Harrisons, the
Thad CaraWayS and other Democratic
oeVastators national target range. But
the shooting will begin as soon as the
Democrats strip for action in the inn
pending congressional campaign. They
are persuaded it doesn't make much
difference now whether Huston goes or
not, or when he goes. They rather
think the delay in BUSTING himv-espe-
clally President Hoover'S reluctance to
bestow the order of the boots all to
the good from their angle. The Dem
ocratlc anti-Huston ammunition dump
would have been blown up only If Mr..
Hoover had promptly sailed forth with
blast. Nothing of the sort having
come to pass, the Democrats consider
that the Huston issue is theirs-to have
and to hold, A plenty will be heard of
1t afore the ides of November.
Secretary Stimson, who was busy as
bee on the floor and in the cloak
rooms of the Senate the first day of
the naval treaty debate, dignifed with
an official denial the charge that the
administration seeks party advantage
from the London pact. Stimson de-
clared he went to the Senate. in exer-
else Of cabinet officers right to the
floor, to pay tribute to a distinguished
Democratic supporter of the treaty,
Senator Swanson of Virginia who
opened the pro-pact discussion. The
Secretary OF State might have gone
farther and remained within the truth.
He might have added that without lib
eral Democratic support when the vote
comes the treaty wouldn't have a
Chinaman'S chance. There's a fair
prospect that the final roll call will re-
cord more Democraticl than Republican
ayes.
Senator Tom Connally, Democrat of
Texas, has sailed for Europe, his first
trip across the ocean in six wears. This
time, he says, he goes ''unarmed," a re-
minder OF the fact that when Connally
landed at Queenstown in 1924 the Brit
ish authorities despoiled him of his six
shooter Ireland was in turmoil and
they didn't think even an American
politician with name like Connally
ought to be at large in Erin with a
gun on his hip Later Toms weapon
was returned to him through American
consular officials. Senator Connally is
headed straight for Dublin. He wants
to inspect in its suburbs a famous old
ruin known as tom Connally's Folly"
castle built couple of centuries ago
by an Irishman whom the Texan be-
lieves must be lineal ancestor.
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Edgar L. G. Prochnik. popular Minis |
ter of Austria at Washington, warns his |
colleagues of the diplomatic corps to be |
careful about posing for the talkies, If |
the pictures are to be shown back |
home" At any rate, Herr Prochnik |
suggests that advance notice of their |
exhibition be sent Not long ago the !
Austrian envoy did movietone in Ger |
man for presentation in his own coun- |
try. 1t happened one day to be thrown |
on the screen in a theater in which |
couple of Herr Prochniks sisters were |
seated. They survived the shock of sud-
denly hearing and seeing their brother