Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-30

Mai. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, q. S.
| M. c., who is to face a court-martlal
| for calling MuSSolini a hit-and-run mo-
torist, probably isn't surprised that the
| Navy is Subjecting him to drastic treat
ment. Now and then Buffers friends
will tell you that the department
| CLIQUE" has been cunning for him Tor
| 10! these many moons. From the same
| quarters last Summer emanated the
| tale that the Quaker leatherneck would
have been appointed Gen. Neville's sue
| cessor as major general commandant
| of the Marine Corps except Tor the
campaign organized against him by
naval higher-upS. Butler has always
resented Navy domination Of the Ma
rines. He's fond of humping his man
! " chest and eXclaiming, I'm a Ma
rine!" and by the same token giving
| thunderous notice that he's not a
"sailor." The enlisted men of the Ma
rine Corps swear by Butler and are
generally for him, right or wrong. He
| personifeS the pugnacious spirit OF the
devil dogs. For months Gen. Butler
has been considering fancy lecture
offer, which would take him all over
| the country next Fall and Winter. IL
| the fighting Marine leaves the service
the strong probability is that he VIII
take to the lyceum platform and tell
the WOTlQ lOG VI tilAIl6o'
Among the not inconsiderable ele-
ment in washington that is hoping and
PRAYING for special session OF Congress
| is the hotel industry. The Capital Is
always a mecca when House and Senate
are doing business, committee hearings
are in progress, and the leg1slaIlve
wheels generally going around. Society
| is a gayer realm when Congress IS ON
| the job, too. Many a dinner party IN
Washington is built around an in
| fluential Senator or Representative.
Usually you can't hear the axes being
I ground on these occasions, but the
| process is generally under way, all the
same. AS the time between now and
| March 4 grows shorter, the prospect OF
! an extra session increases, because there
/ is still a mass of vital legislation which
has not even been approached as yet.
Nobody anticipated the delays that have
ensued in connection with relief.
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Under the timely title of "Filibuster-
! ing in Congress-" William Tyler Page,
clerk of the House of Representatives
will address the Cosmos Club next Mon
dav evening on the dilatory ways and
means of Capitol Hill. Mr.. Pages %
years of personal knowledge are better
! than a cycle of hearSay," runs the
| clubs notice of the meeting. The
| veteran is celebrating this year the
| golden Jubilee of his association with
| the House of Representatives, which he
entered as a page in the clerks office IN
1881. In 1902 he tried to break INTO the
lower branch as full-fledged @. o; 2.
member from a district in his native
| MARYLAND. Just now he is busy as
| Hsn ~, lan SGrlP=
tarv of the United States Commission
for Celebration of the 200th Anniversary
| of the Birth of George washington.
! Whether Page will still be clerk of the
| House after March depends on now
many Republicans survive the "hu'
epidemic.
| This years 116th anniversary OF
Andrew JacksoTls victory at New Or
leans on January 8, 1915, has slgnalIy
revived the interest of both the Army
and Navy in "OId Hickory's" defeat OF
Gen. Pakenham and his British red
coats. Mai. Gen. Frank r. Mccoy.
u. S. A., commanding the 4th Corps
Area comprising the eight Southeastern
States. has Just directed Col. Henry r.
Richmond, senior Army officer at New
orleans, to work up thorough study
not only of the battle, but Jackson
ORDERS lTOiH Wdol1llBIoi' AAo y. ASoAI't,
doings during the engagement and
everything that would lend popular in
terest to that glorious page in American
military history. Assistant Secretary OF
the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke is cir
culating an attractive booklet, entitled
1.-THE Navy at the Battle of New Or
leans" It contains the address he de-
livered before the Louisiana Historical
Society on the recent Jackson day.
Jahncke wants to show that the United
States Navy and Marines also played a
valorous part in the fray.
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Speaker Longworth's talents as an
entertainer are proverbial. Mick" Is IN