Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-28
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

BY all the signs of the political zodiac,
another congressional battle royal.
rivaling in intensity the immortal
League of Nations fight in the Senate,
will rage on Capitol Hill If and when
President Hoover recommends further
reduction of war debts. Premier Laval
left Washington with pledge that the
United States Government would move
in that direction, provided Germany
moratorium. The opening guns in the
new Versailles treaty combat will be
fired in December, soon after Congress
reconveneS and tackles the existing
moratorium. The Hoover year" will
undoubtedly will be ratified by both
houses. but now that it is an open secret
that the current holiday Is merely the
forerunner of movement for sweeping
revision of intergc vermental obliga-
tions, there's going to be somewhat less
enthusiasm over it than might other
wise haze been the case. Also, the
doleful fact that the one-year respite
has signally failed to revive the ailins
international patient on expected lines
is not designed to cause Congress TO
throw up its hat in any paroxysm OF JOY.
Gloomy prospects for disarmament are
darkening. The picture. too.
Premier Laval told President Hoover
that he was besieged all the way across
the Atlantic by zealots who believe
that a silver standard, or at least BIZ
metallic standard, is the economic SAL
walton Of the universe. In his temper
amental Gallo way and with a char-
acteristic shrug Of his shoulders, Laval
exclaimed one day at the Wnlse House.
wherever / turned on the lie dc
France somebody always seemed to
bob up. CRYING silver!" No serious
consideration was ever given during the
washington conversations 70 the ques-
ton of supplanting gold with the Bryan
metal as q money standard Tor either
France or the United States. Silver
cronned I'M ever and anon in the dis
cussions between President Hoover and
M Laval. but only incidentally and with
reference to the monetery conditions OF
countries like Mexico. China and India.
A tragic fate seems to lurk around
the lob of umpire of the German
American Mixed Claims Commission.
Roland W. Boyden of Massachusetts,,
who passed away this week, did not
long survive his predecessor in that
post, the late Judge Edwin B. Parker
Of Texas. Mr.. Boyden was in the midst
Of the Mixed Claims Commissions
most important single case, the cele-
brated SAC, 900 900 sabotage affair in
connection with blowing up Of Amer
lean munition plants by alleged Ger
man agents prior to our entry into
the war. The case was decided a year
ago in Germany's favor, but came under
review before the Claims Commission
on July 30 and August last at BoS-
ton. with Mr. Boyden presiding. 1t
had been arranged that the reopened
litigation should be resumed at about
this time in Hamburg. The agents
of the United States are seeking to
have the verdict in Germanys favor
reversed on the ground that it was
based upon false and periured testi-
mony.
q. s. S. Mayflower. aboard which
presidents of the United States and
ether eminent persons galore were won't
to disport themselves. is about TO be
doled up at Philsdelphia shipyard
and then toted around the Atlantic and
Pacific Coasts with q view TO its re-
sale. The famous White House yacht
was recently knocked down TO the high
est bidder, L. P. Coe Of Chicago, for
Sl6.I05. Mr.. Coe purposes rebuilding
and renting the Mayfiower, putting It
on display In ports on both seaboards,
and then re-auctioning il. His hope
is said 70 be that when the economic
sun Is shining again some lucky dog
who was on the right side Of the mar
ket will indulge IN the luxury of ac-
curing the famous old tub.
NJ Tytus F1lipowicz. the Polish AM
bssSador at washington. who is hav-
ing q run-in with Senator Borsh
about the Polish corridor. has started
Capital tongues TO wagging over the
right Of & foreign envoy to rebuke a
United States Senator for expressing
his opinion on international affairs
If the chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee cared 70 do So
some diplomatic authorities think
Bnrah could have his Polish eYcellency