Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-27

It will be a noble looking old Roman
upon whom the galleries in the incoming
! House of Representatives will look down
when they survey the patriarchal f1gure
| of Henry T. Rainey OF Illinois. the
| veteran Democrat upon whom the man
tie of the majority floor leadership has
| lust been conferred, is surmounted by a
| tumbling shock of SnoW-white hair that
would alone make him a notable figure
| in any assembly. House honors fan to
Representative Rainey late In life, but
| find him in unimpaired vigor. He cele-
brated the arrival of his list year last
Summer by touring Russia with Mrs.
Rainey. Senator Borahs right bower.
| Miss Cora Rubin, clerk OF the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, was a
member of the same party. There's an
alma mater tie between Representative
Rainey and Calvin Coolidge. The 1lli-
| noisan Is an Amherst man, class OF 81.
| He is entering upon his fourteenth term
in the blouse, though not consecutive.
Rainey was not elected to the Sixty
seventh Congress. He first came TO
Capitol Hill with mick" Longworth In
| 1908 and had served exactly as many
terms. Only four members Of the House
now outrank Representative Ralney In
length Of service.
Every two years the newspaper men
of washington quit writing politics 1or
a spell and play it. The occasions are
the biennial elections to the Standing
Committee of the press galleries OF
Congress and to the board OF officers
and governors of the National Press
Club. Election in both cases is only a
couple of weeks away, and the knights
of the portable typewriters are in the
midst of their wire-pulling and put
ton holing campaign. Important
duties await the next press gallery
committee on Capitol Hill. Every TOUR
years it is charged with the task OF
| arranging for the accommodations OF
the Nations press at the national con-
ventions of the two political parties.
The job sets in as soon as the respec-
tive national committees decide wnere
the big pow-wows are to be held. That
will be next month.
Walter Bruce Howe, chairman Of the
board Of the Navy League, who has now
entered the fray against President Hoo
ver is a practicing lawyer at Washing
ton. He has a Summer place at New
port Howe's affiliations are military,
| rather than naval, as he was at PERISH
ing's headquarters during the World
! War and now holds a majors commits
sion in the Army Reserve Corps.
couple of years ago, when Uncle sam
was patching up matters in Nicaragua,
Maj. Howe was selected by Maj. Gen.
Frank r. Mccoy to accompany him as
legal adviser in connection with the
presidential elections supervised by the
United States Government. Howe is
relative of former District Attorney
Jerome of New York and began law
| practice under him. He Is fluent
| SDaniSh scholar
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These are times when America can i'll
| afford to lose its hImoriSts. One OF
! the few eminent ones left-Patrick
Francis Murphy-has just passed away
at New York. AS a spontaneous after
dinner wit Murphy had few equals. At
| a dinner in Paris IL or Is years ago
he matched flint with Mark Twain at
a Fourth of July feast and came of
best. 1t was Murphy who once said
that America was discovered several
times before Christopher Columbus
came this way, but that sit was always
hushed up" Murphy was fond OF mar
rating what he told British customs
officers who examined him on arrival
| in England during the war. Persons
with his incontestably Irish name were
a bit suspect, and the New Yorker
was asked to detail his origin. well, u
he said, ITS like this. I'm American
by residence English by language, Irish
| by extraction and Scotch-and-soda by
choice" He got by.
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When Secretary Stimson and his ex-
ecutive assistant, Allen T. Klots, re-
ceived the Washington correspondents
at Woodley on Thanksgiving eve to spill
the beans about Manchurian develop