Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-02
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

If and when the time comes for the
Republican national committee to name
successor to Claudius H. Huston,
David Winfield Mulvane of Kansas is
bound to figure prominently In its calcu-
lations. A wheelhorse of the G. o. p.
for more than 80 years, he Is widely
considered the best timber available.
Recently become a widower and bereft
of his aged father about the same time,
Dave" Mulvane Is thought to have
more inclination to throw himself into
active party work than might have been
the case before. He is an original
Hoover man" and, while nominally iden-
tined with the Curtis-for- President
movement In Kansas in 1928, always
looked upon the Californian as the
Republicans best bet. Mulvane Ia a
Yale graduate, A. B., 1885. He's lawyer
by profession, who was born in Illinois
but grew up in Kansas. His 80 years
sit very lightly upon him and he plays
the game of politics with youthful vigor.
Few men understand it so well or have
wider acquaintance among party
leaders.
Senator James E. Watson of Indiana,
Republican leader in the Senate, is re-
earning his nickname of Sunny JIM
these days by his optimism over the
course Of the tariff bill. He Is quoted as
predicting that the Hawley- Smoot patch
work will be out of conference between
the two houses of Congress in two weeks.
BY just what magical process this record
is to be achieved, the Hoosier statesman
doesn't disclose. But he radiates con-
fidence that the job will be tackled and
settled before April is ended. Few of
his comrades on Capitol Hill 60 along
with Watson in believing the conference
capable of such speed. They rather look
for interminable delay. The majority
leader, is himself one of the three Sen
ate Republican tariff conferees. Perhaps
Jim" relies upon the power of his own
well known elbow grease to spur the
conference into action.
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william F. Schilling of Minnesota,
spokesman of the dairy industry on the
Federal Farm Board, has Just written
q preachment entitled Speaking Of
confession by a confirmed advocate and
practitioner of the old-fashioned hand
milking method who has recently been
converted to the modern method of
milking by machine" Says Schilling
81 always liked to milk COW. In fact,
for many years, while in active service
on Spring Brook farm, was called the
champion mixer. But 1 have sur
rendered at last to the kind Of me-
chanical mixer you make In factory.
Now that. am deprived of my favorite
brand of exercise, I'm hunting up new
reducing prescription that's easy to take
and that I'LL enjoy as much as I did
the exercise Of extracting the milk Of
human kindness from the foster mother
of the race"
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A goIfing companionship on the links
of the District Of Columbia and nearby
courses had much to do with the
Japanese American naval agreement
Just contaminated at London. The
principal negotiators of the accord were
Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania
for the United States and Ambassador
Tsuneo Matsudaira for Japan. Reed
and Matsudaira struck up friendship
in washington while the Japanese
diplomat was on ambassadorial duty
here. BY accident. rather than design,
they found themselves fellow delegates
at London. Nothing seemed more natu-
raj to Secretary Stimson and Mr..
Wakatsuki, the respective chiefs of the
American and Japanese delegations,
the task of conducting negotiations.
They did so through weeks of endless
discussion. Now and then, when mat
tiers were in deadlock or awaiting de-
cision in Toxic. the Senator and the
Ambassador golfed together on the out
skirts of London, preserving at all times
personal entente cordiale that was
proof against all conference shocks.
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Senator George H. Moses, Republican,
of New Hampshire, Is of this week for
holiday In Europe, most Of which will
be spent afloat In the Mediterranean.
At Villefranche he and Mrs. Moses will
join the palatial private yacht Of Fred
erick II. Prince. Bnatnn banker and