Evening star., 1932-04-29
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAN WILE.

and other leaders became disguSted with
/ HefllnS ruthless time wasting of which
| ne gave a characteristic example this
week by stretching into five hours the
Senate'S permission to extend his self
defense harangue beyond the two hours
asked for. At this moment of Capitol
economy it's noteworthy that Hef1in S
harangue. covering 81 Congressional
record pages, cost the taxpayers, at S42
page exactly $l,134. 1t was the most
expensive swan song in Senate history.
put most Senators think it was worth
the money.
Not long ago the wife of a Washing
toon naval officer hoped into a pas
senger plane for fight to New York.
Just before she took off. her husband
invested in a $4,000 accident policy
against the possibility that the missus
might crash. Her telegram TO him an
nouncing safe arrival on Manhattan
Island read: you wasted your two
| dollars"
Senator Borah. darling of the drv
gods, likes to tell how he became a
prohibitionist. 1t was more than 25
years ago. when he won fame as prose-
cutor Of the I. w. w. dynamiters in
the Occur d'Alene mining region, in
northwestern Idaho. Largely at Borah's
personal instlgation, martial law was
proclaimed in the district for the l8
months duration of the trial. The
decree shut up all the saloons. As the
trlaIs end approached Borah was de-
Iugeo With appeals from miners wives
ana mine owners to keep the saloons
closed permanently. The women plead
ed that they'd never known such happv
homes or family life before and the
operators said the mines were never
so satisfactorily worked as during the
sa!oonless days. Thenceforward big
Bill became an undying foe of booze
and all its works.
Great plans are in the making for
the october annual convention of the
American Bar Association In Washing
ton. which will be featured by the Law
ing OF the corner stone of the Nations
palace of justice-the new United States
Supreme Court Building on CAPITOL
Hill. Chief Justice Hughes will pre-
SIDE over what will probably be the
most imposing galaxy of legal lumi-
narles ever assembled on American
from abroad 20
Politics, hypocrisy and self-interest
rul riot through the congressional fight
Tor economy" A characteristic ey-
ample Is the zeal of a certain Senator
known as an administration stalwart-
VINO Is up for reelection this year-to
nave several hundred thousand dollars
kept IN a departmental appropriation
thought 1t pertains to an utterly non
essential purpose, in his own State. The
same Senator is blind to the argument
that an equivalent sum, cut from the
departments budget will REQUIRE the
dismissal Of some 40 officials engaged
on demonstrably valuable Government
work. CIV
X
Meet Maj. Gen. Mathew A. TinIev of
Council Bluffs, Iowa Democrats favor
lte wee presidential son, whose name
Will be presented to the Chicago con-
Vention. surgeon, soldier and states
man" is the alliterative slogan adopted
by Dr.. Tinley's boosters. His military
rank is the result of Army medical
service in the Philippines, on the Mexi
can border and in France. Hows this
for human interest political propaganda?
DR.. Tinley's favorite Christmas pres
ents are receipted bills to deserving
patients unable to pay"
tCopyright. 1897