Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Political geography is the handspring
Of Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Buffers am
bition to break into the Senate from
Pennsylvania. AT present both Key
stone SenatorS-"Dave" Reed and
Jim" Davis-hail from the western
end of the State, Allegheny County.
This violates tradition almost
amounting to a law in Pennsylvania,
according to which one solon should
hail from the Philadelphia side of the
Commonwealth and the other from the
Pittsburgh sector. Butler rates east
ern, his home bailiwick being Chester,
near Philadelphia. Two contingencies
are at the back of the Quaker Ma
rine's head. The principal one is that
Reed, who would not come up for re-
election until 1884, may retire in the
meantime to become Ambassador to
Great Britain, succeeding Gen. Dawes.
The other is that Jim Davis, for
some reason or other, may not aspire
to reelection in 1882. In either event
the way would be clear for the nomi-
nation of man from the east end Of
the Penn'S Woods.
Little enthusiasm is discernible in
high administration quarters over Ma
hatma Gandhi's plan to visit the
United States either before or after
the coming Round-table Conference in
London. What to do with the Indian
''hberator," especially If he turned up
in Washington, would be first-claSS
international nut for the President and
the Secretary of State to crack All
would be serene If the British govern.
ment, in response to confidential in
quiries, which would surely be made,
were to say 20. K" It would be horse Of
very different color if Sir Ronald Lind
say, on orders from Downing street,
were to register diSpleaSure over
projected honorS to Gandhi. New
Delhi dispatches say that the Mahatma
thinks that midas independence move
ment would receive greater support If
he were to visit the country which
$50 years ago faced much the same
problems now confronting India"
That's hardly suggestion designed to
revive cheerful memories In London.
Altogether, Gandhi's descent upon this
country would be welcomed with mixed
emotions at Washington.
x X X x
Secretary Wilbur is about to establish
Reindeer Council for Alaska. WASH
ington'S reindeer authority is Ernest w.
Sawyer, who last year made an ex-
hauStive survey of conditions in Alaska
as personal representative of the Secre-
tary of the Interior. Sawyer is an en-
thusiast on the possibilities of the rein
deer-meat industry. He envisages an
annual export of 10000 animals, repre-
senting 100000 pounds of meat,
which can be shipped to Seattle at $42
ton. This would divide about 1882 900
annually in freight between Uncle
Sans struggling Alaska Railroad and
steamship lines and bring back into the
territory $2100,000 in cash at a net re-
turn of cents pound. This cash."
says Mr.. Sawyer. spent among owners
and workers would mean almost as
much to Alaska as the whole of the
$50, 100000 annual fish catch" One Of
Sawyer's principal aides in Alaska was
keen young Eskimo named Abraham
Lincoln, president Of the territorial
Reindeer Association.
X
Everybody in Washington wondered
why Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
Democrat of Democrats, came to have
the honor of entertaining Montagu C.
Norman, governor of the Bank of Eng
land, who has been talking shop this
week with Secretary Mellon and Fed
eral Reserve Board Governor Meyer. It
appears that Mr.. Normans host in the
United States is George L. Harrison,
governor of the New York Federal
upon time was legal secretary to Mr..
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes at wash
ington, is an old friend Of Admiral
GraySon, 50 the most natural thing in
the world was for Norman to be put
up at the picturesque suburban home
of the Admiral and Mrs. Grayson.
Doubtless the astute master of John
Bulls gold and paper sovereigns nre-
ferred an unofficial host in Washington
to the oftlcial hospitality of the British
embassy. Norman dotes on divesting his
periodical cash-and-carry visits to this
country OF anything remotely eayoring
Of government business.