Evening star., 1932-06-05
Capital Sidelights
By WILL p. KENNEDY.

Senator, Frederick II. Gillett of Massa-
chusetts, who completed So years of
public service for his native State and
the Nation last year. 80 of which were
in Congress, Is back in Washington
and at the age of 80 actively engaged
in writing the biography Of Massa-
chusetts' most noted Senator, the late
George FriSbie Hoar. Mrs. Gillett was
q daughter-in-law of Senator Hoar.
Vetran colleagues of Mr.. Gillett In
Congress are enjoying his presence
among them again. He has recently
been in California after q lengthy trip
to Hawaii, and u well tanned by the
sun. He has been enjoying his favor
ite pastime Of playing golf, appears
robust and Is enjoying nfe-while he
works away at the biography and fends
of the opportunities of his friends that
he write his own memoirs Of nearly
two-score years in the National politi-
cal arena.
While at the Capital refreshing his
memory by careful research Mr.. Gillett
holds conferences with william Tyler
Page, who has served as an employe of
Congress for more than so years, COW
ering the terms Of both Senator Hoar
and Mr.. Gillett.
Senator Hoar's father, Samuel Hoar,
was also a member of Congress, from
1885 to 1887, and subsequently sent
by the State Legislature of Massa-
chusetts to South Carolina to test the
conStitutionality Of acts prohibiting
free Negroes from coming into the
State, and on arrival, December S,
1874, the Legislature of South Carolina
passed resolutions expelling him from
the city Of Charleston. He was chair
man Of the Massachusetts, State Con-
vention in 1855, which formed the
Republican party in Massachusetts,.
Senator Hoar's brother, Ebenezer
lockwood Hoar, also served for one
term In Congress, l873-l875. He had
previously served in the Massachusetts
Senate, been Judge of the Court OF
Common Pleas, Judge Of the State Su-
preme Court, Attorney General of the
United States and a member of the
Joint High Commission which formed
the treaty Of Washington in 1871, under
which the tribunal was provided to set
tie the Alabama claims
Senator Hoar, after service in both
branches of the State Legislature, was
a member of the National House of
Representatives from 1869 to 1877 and
Of the United States Senate from 1877
until his death, in 1904-so that his
service was contemporaneous for seven
years with that Of his biographer, Mr..
Gillett.
The House appointed him in 1876 as
one Of the managers to conduct the i'm
peachment proceedings against William
w. Belknap, ex-Secretary Of War. and
he was appointed member of the
Electoral Commission, approved January
29, 1877. to decide the contests in vari-
GUS States in the presidential election of
1876. He was chairman of the Massa-
chusetts delegation to three National
Conventions and presided over the Re-
publican National Convention In 1880.
Senator Hoar's son, lockwood Hoar
and his nephew, Sherman Hoar (son Of
Ebenezer lockwood Hoar). were also
members Of Congress so that the biog-
raphy being written by former Speaker
Gillett will show five members Of the
Hoar family in direct descent for three
generations serving In the halls Of Con-
gress.
How small this world Isl"
Ask Edward Grant Buckland. chair
man Of the board Of the New York, New
Haven g. Hartford Railroad. who Is
serving as doctor" for the ailing rail
lines as president of the Railroad Credit
Corporation. He has good reason to
in Washington he found himself with
old associates.
He taught law at Yale University for
eight years. During that period he had
in his classes John @. Tilson and Rich
ard P Freeman, both of whom are now
members of the House, and Hiram
Bingham and Frederick C. Walcott.
both of whom are members Of the
United States Senate from Connecticut.
And still the political pot thickens. for
Mr.. BCckland had as an associate pro-
fessor the present Governor Cross Of
Connecticut.
Oftentimes the hard-working news
paper man gets scant credit for his big
ideas and the way in which he puts
through worthwhile propositions. Usu-
ally you will find him meticulous about
wedding out incongr,lities and insistent
on having the proprieties maintained.
Take Fred A. Emery, president of the
Society of Natives, and active in many
civic and patriotic organ
For years there was an alley
street named Washington, between
Fourth and Fifth, G and H streets, one
Of the most inconspicuous and most un-
appropriate streets to be named in
honor of George Washington. Yet it
was the only street in the Capital City
he founded named in his honor. Fred
Emery took that to heart. He appealed
for support to a number of citizens as
- ha En1n of
Citizens Associations so effectively that
the name of washington" has been
taken of the one-block alley and it is
now G place.
Now Fred Is fathering another prop
osition to fittingly honor washington IN
this Bicentennial year. His kin-folk
are scattered all over New England, and
especially in Vermont, where Fred him
self Is Q taxpayer. So Fred proposed to
The Vermont State Association here
that they should recommend to the
Governor Of Vermont the naming Of q
distinctive range Of the Green Noun
.ains in honor Of the first President. but
for whom there might not be q United
States.
Recently Calvin Coolidge was honored
by having a range of the same noun
tains named in his honor, embracing
the peaks of Killington in Shrewsbury,
Little Killington and Mendon peaks in
and Shrewsbury in Killington.
The Governor of Vermont comes from
Chelsea in Orange County, nesting in
the shadows of the same range In which
Is the town Of Washington, which has
as its loftiest elevation Washington
Peak, from whose 2,500-foot summit
there Is a wonderful panorama.
So there Is strong likelihood that
Fred Emery will see this hope of his
especially since he has been
editorially by the most i'm
portant newspaper in that region. the
Free Press, which urges the
early adoption of his proposal
4 \ X \
President Hoover has a double" In
Congress. Representative Edward F.
Erik, who represents the Pittsburgh dis
trict and who has been making frequent
visits to the White House regarding his
plan for rehabilitation OF
industry, has been taken for the Presi-
dent more than so times, and In all
parts of the country. Frequently while
sitting in his office in the Foreign AZ
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