Evening star., 1932-04-18
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Bingham OF Connecticut. The feud
grew out OF an attempt by Maj. Gen.
James E. Fechet, retired chief of the
Army Air Corps, to interest members
OF the corps reserve in adequate appro-
priations for military aviation. Gen.
Fechet became national defense editor
of the Aero Digest when he quit the
Army last year. "The Confessional
Record" charges Senator Bingham with
distorting Gen. Fechet's activities, and
by way of retaliation. rakes up the
Senate's censure of Bingham in No
vember, 1929 in connection with tariff
lobbying. The Senator is also accused
OF abusing his franking privilege Ito
attack the cause Of aviation"
Princeton University has raided the
American foreign service for the third
time during the past couple of years.
1t has just drafted DR.. Dana G. Munro,
United States Minister to Haiti, as pro-
fessor Of Latin American history and
affairs. DR.. Munro was formerly chief
Of the Latin American division at the
State Department. His father is al
ready a member of the Princeton
faculty. De Witt Clinton Poole left the
foreign service with the rank of coun-
selor Of embassy in 1880 to become the
head Of Princetons new college of pub
lie affairs. Last year Tyler bennett
resigned as historical adviser of the
State Department to join the history
faculty at Old Nassau
Although American railroads are
weathering the stormiest times in their
history, the Interstate Commerce Com
mission has just been asked to approve
the most spectacular scheme of rail-
road building launched in decade.
1t is submitted by the Denver Pacific
Railroad Co. and contemplates the con-
struction Of 825 niles of brand-new
road from the Rockies to the harbor
OF San Pedro, Calf. The promoter is
Coleman Crenshaw of Salt Lake City.
The projected line strikes nearly
straight west to the coast by way OF
Glenwood Spring and Moab, Utah,
south to the boundary between Utah
and Arizona, and then either north or
south Of the Grand Canyon National
Park. Beyond the park the line runs
through the Imperial Valley to the
coast at San Pedro. The promoter
claims the road will be 600 miles short
sr than some now in use, and that when
Boulder Dam is built transcontinental
hauls should be providing $45, 900, 900 OF
eastbound traffic the first year.
During the recent appearance of
President Whitney of the New York
Stock Exchange before the Senate
Banking and Currency Committee, a
woman spectator, who evidently had an
out-of-town guest in tow, pointed to
Senator Bulkley, Democrat, of Ohio
and said: That's Senator Steiwer of
Oregon--the best-looking man In the
Senate"
Now that Controller General McCarl
mas acquired the diplomatic service as
lis latest enemy, by disallowing the
costs OF private telephones in the homes
OF ambassadors and ministers, he may
ncite some Of the constitutional law
yers with which the service bristles to
agltate for his removal. The autocrat
OF expense accounts holds office under
a l5-year appointment expiring In 1896,
Lawyers contend that, according to a
contemporary Supreme Court decision,
the Presidents right to appoint carries
with 1t the right to remove. One of
these days somebody whom McCarl has
irked may try to get Mr. Hoover (or
Mr.. Roosevelt) to pry the controller
general loose from his job.
(Copyrsht. lss2.)