The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-09-25
CAPITOL COMMENTS
BY Fred Holmes
Washington Correspondent of the
CARBON COUNTY NEWS

a government-empo invest
igating committee could have
found anyone in Washington who
sat up all night awaiting returns
from the several State primaries
held this week. In fact, consider
ing all of the hubbub raised by |
the politicians over the national
import of the results, the lack OF
public interest was amazing. The
daily press duly ehronicled the out
comes but there were no scare
heads and apart from that on the
LaFo'lette avalanche in Wisconsin
but little comment. One listened IN
vain for that heretofore newt
able II told you so and that banal
"I knew it all the time and that
apologize well, that doesn't
mean anything, anyway
That President Hoover's naming
of three more members of his not
vet fully grown Tariff Commits
sion should have created more than
ripple of interest at the expense
of allegedly important State pfi-
maries is considered a source OF
wonder here. More so that an Ad-
miral's resignation should detraet
from the supposed interest in the
great game of politics, especially
when fist-fights between leaders
of contending factions marked the
closing hours of a few of the ga
mes. Still more so that news OF
the victory of the drys and the
triumph of the vets was ignored
for another chapter in that now
palling continued story entitled
ruth Hanna Mccormick. or Will
She Get Away With It?s
II
What caused such abnormal IN
terest in President Hoover's tar
| if commission nominations was
not so much the personnel of the
known five-sixths of that body as
was the conviction that senator
ial FIGHT on confirmation was IN
. evitable no matter who was NAM
ed. Senator "Pat" Harrison sur
prised no one when he forma ly
announced that most if not all OF
the appointees, including even pre-.
sent Commissioner Alfred P. Den
mis-, Democrat, of Maryland, would
be vigorously opposed when the
nominations were submitted to the
Senate in December. 1t has been no
secret here that men of the caliber
desired by President Hoover en-
phatically declined to offer them
se'ves as subjects of vivisection IN
the Senate's clinical laboratory.
Incidently, the new commission,
still short of completion, is face
tiouslv referred to here as Presl-
dent Hoover's 'bob-tail flush" but
the President has stated that the
sixth victim for the senatorial tor
+rre chamber VIII be announced
within a few days.
Again one department of the
; government. not Questioning the
necessitv for administrative econ
o,,ov. &c irving tt show rs that re
+renchnant unlike charity. does
; NOT berin at home. Our sea-lords
, naturally Mead for 2 bio navv-
!, i,4st as bio as is nernit+od us IN
, der the London naval limitations
pact. Whether selfish or unselflsh
motives are back of these pleas
it is certain that a fit of sulks is
never a convincing argument. NC
mathematical ingenuity is reguir-
cd to fioure o1,t the popularitv OF
the spoiled child who insists IF
can't be It.. I won't play"
Abare six weeks before the date
of his normal retirement, Admira
Charles F. Hughes. at his own re
quest, has been relieved of his du
ties as Chief of Naval Operations
The veteran naval officer, with ar
unsuEied record, leaving behint
him forty-six years of active ser
vice in the Navy, resigned because
it is authoritively stated, he fell
that he could not support or as
sumo responsibility for the full
measure of economy that has beer
suggested for the Navy. At the re
quest of President Hoover the Ma
wv Department recently prepared
a program for reductions in eX
penditures. When furthed econom
les were recommended, Admira
Hughes asked that his successor
Admiral William V. Pratt, at pre-
sent commander of the United
States fleet, be called to reliev'
him Immediately.
Admiral Hughes has not bee
in good health, and says that n
. was urged by his physician to re
tire. but he will remain on inactiv
| status, with the rank of rear-ad
r miral, until November 1, when h
will have passed the statutory re
+ tirement age. But his duties wer
: far from being so onerous as t.
: make continuance of his activ
8 service for AZ DAYS a menace t
l. hie recovery. and his resignation