Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-02

President Hoover is looking for IAN
other Alexander Legge" to head the
reconstructed United States Tariff Com
mission. The Diogenes search is now on
full tilt, with the prospect that both
the new tariff chairman and his five
colleagues will be nominated In rela-
lively short order The White House
is keeping It's own counsel, but the best
bet is that at least two members of the
existing Observation-Disclosures Edgar
B. BroSsard, Republican, of Utah, and
Vice Chairman Alfred p. Dennis, Demo-
crat, of Maryland-will be retained
Whether either Brossard or Dennis will
be reperpetuated in their present COM
mission ranks Is another question. Mr..
Hoover is intent on making the Tariff
Board as effective and utterly nom
partisan q body as conditions permit
He is determined that its chairman, at
any rate, shall be man so impervious
to politics and politicians that the
country will have instant confidence in
the commission. The President is
publicly pledged to put teeth in the
flexible tariff machinery. Hence his
anxiety to find a chief machinist-
preferably an outstanding business man
who will see that the machinery
functions.
Maj. Gen. Abel Davis of Chicago, who
was n recent week end guest at the
presidential camp on the Rapidan, is
the type of rugged young American with
which Hoover has always liked to sur
round himself. No one in Washington
has whispered a word on the subject,
but Davis in many respects measures
up exactly TO the tariff Craftsmanship
specifications the President has laid
down. The Illinoisan came out of the
World War with one of the finest rec
ords achieved by any civilian soldier.
He commanded the gallant SD Division
on the British front in one Of the black
est weeks of 1918. A lawyer and banker
by profession, Gen. Davis now heads
Co, biggest of its kind in the West.
Except for local Office in Cook County
he has never aspired to public prefer
ment As far as known, President
Hoover summoned Davis to Washington
merely for the purpose Of ORIGINATING
himself about Midwest conditions.
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Washington is full of high Federal
offlcials who'll be sending wedding con-
gratulations to Salt Lake City's newest
and most eminent bridegroom. Sem
ator Reed Smoot has long rated as one
of the Capitals champion go-getters
where Juicy Jobs for useful Utahans are
concerned A few of the plumS credited
to him In recent years are the director
ship OF the Veterans Bureau BRIG.
Gen. Frank T. Hines), the chairman
ship of the United States Tariff Com
mission Edgar B. Brossard), the chair
manship of the Board OF Tax Appeals
nogan Norris, an associate 1ustceship
of the United States Supreme Court
George Sutherland, a Federal radio
commiSsionership (Hatold A. LefounU,
chief reviewing appraiSership OF the
Federal Farm Loan Bureau (Ariel r.
Cardon). chiefship of bureau OF publ
cations, Department of Agriculture (Dr.
Melvin C. Merrill) and the newly
created commiSsionership of customs in
the Treasury Department capt. F. x.
A. Eble). Once upon time when 1t
was suggested at Mormon conference
that Senator Smoot would one day enter
upon his active duties as first apostle.
brother pillar of the Latter Day
Saints calculated that he hoped the
time would never come when the
church would cease TO have an am
baSsador at Washington"
Just before sailing back to England
the other day Ambassador Dawes took
time TO visit ut the bedside of Capt.
Francis j. Kilkenny, the Illinoisan's
longtime and faithful aide de camp in
France and in Washington. Kilkenny
recently suffered a stroke and is now in
hospital at Milwaukee. He left Dawes
service when the latter became Vice
President, Kilkenny's last duty being to