Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-19
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

They're betting 100 to in Washing
ton that Judge William ClarkS decision
denaturizing the eighteenth amendment
will not be sustained by the Supreme
Court. At least those are the prevailing
odds in the Senate wing Of the Capitol.
Bets are not being accepted on those
terms, even after would-be gamblers
has been sustained by the United States
Circuit Court in appeals from 80 dect-
sions In cases of all kinds. Only in
three patent suits have Clark's findings
been reversed. The 39-year-old jurist
who is now pirouetting across the front
pages trained for the World War just
over the Potomac from Washington in
l917-at Fort Myer, Va.-and then
went to France. Clark emerged from
his overseas service with the rank of a
Field Artillery major and citation for
"gallantry in action" The judge Is ac-
cused by some of his detractors OF hav-
ing a passion for the limelight-a weak
ness not unknown even In these parts.
His home is amid the classic shades OF
Princeton, whence he commutes to his
bench at Newark.
''TIere lies q gentleman and q pa
triot" would not be an inappropriate
epitaph for the late Senator Frank L.
not-Widely-remembere angle of the
shooting ARRAY which eventually cost
him his life. In May, 1924, three
months after Greene was struck by
straw bullet In the streets of Washing
ton, the Senate passed without debate
or dissent, q bill to pay the Senator
81, 500 for the costs OF his medical and
hospital treatment. The Vermonter
was a man of the most modest means.
T{N q
his fortune. But Greene wouldn't &C
cept a penny of compensation from the
public Treasury. He argued that MS
nishap might Just as easily have over
taken the most ordinary private citi-
zen. and he didn't see why being a
Senator entitled him to special consld-
Grafton. The funds are stiH IN the
Treasury. Greene had hobby ne was
fond of INDUCING in an intimate circle.
He'd mastered a smattering of Indian
dialect and loved airing 1t.
~
Senator Otis F. Glenn, Republican, OF
Illinois, who does not often crate, reeled
off a genuine speech yesterday in de-
Tense Of President Hoover against Sen
ator McKellar's "embezzling" charge.
the MidWesterner called spades spades
and hit out straight from the shoulder
in the Tennessee Democrats direction.
Glenn made his reputation in Illinois
as q special assistant attorney general
In prosecuting the Herrin massacre
cases in 1922 He Is husky, broad
shouldered citizen, just turned 30. TO
date his championing of the Hoover
cause is the most red-blooded perform
ance in that line to which Congress has
been treated during the pending UNI
pleaSantneSs. Undoubtedly 1t had
something to do with the 42-to-39 vote
by which the Senate almost immediate
ly afterward receded from its earlier
decision TO deprive the President OF
authority to supervise the $ll6,OOO,OO
unemployment relief fund.
\
If the alleged Illinois campaign GUS
tom Of tapping telephone wires were
the vogue In Washington, it's said that
eavesdroppers this week might have
listened in on some sizzling CONVERSE
ton between Senator McNary Of oregon
and Secretary Of Agriculture Hyde. The
chairman of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, who sponsored the $60,000,-
600 drought bill on the understanding
1t bore the administration trade mark,
had 1t out hot and heavy with Hyde
so the story goes. There were rumblingS
of "a frame" and of "double-croSsing,
and such like. McNary's loyalty TO the
Hoover cause during the past year and
a half has been like Caesars wife.
Sometimes 1t had to be rendered under
delicate circumstances. The Oregonian
didn't relish being put in the position
Of proposing what he was led to believe
was q White House program and then
finding himself disavowed.
When Senator Jim" Watson was at
bat for Hoover in the Senate the other
day, something about the dole was
understood to fall from the G. o. P.
leaders lips. The alert and acetic
Caraway Of Arkansas caught it and
insisted that Watson had said dole"
even after the Indianian denied it.
Well" drawled the statesman, who's
been called the keenest and Meanest
man In the Senate, II hope the oflciaI