Evening star., 1932-02-14
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

BY WILL p. KENNEDY.
The first United States flag ever to
fly the 48 stars in the blue Aeld Is on
display daily at the Capitol Very few
| Of those who see 1t each day realize this
| distinction. 1t is the flag that was fly
| ing over the Capitol building 20 years
ago when New Mexico entered the
Union on January and Arizona fol-
| lowed the next month on February IA.
| The flag was hauled down long enough
| to have two large stars inserted and
! then flung again to the breeze. 1t is
| now part of the mural museum which
Representative Edmund F. Erik Of Penn
sylvania Is building up in his office.
"Charlie" Dawes, erstwhile Vice Presi-
dent and later Ambassador to the
| Court of St. James and recently ap-
| pointed by President Hoover to head up
| the $4,000, 100000 Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation, has been good news
| for the Chief Executive for more than
IS years. He was good news for Presi-
dent Mckinley even before the latter
received the nomination, and Mckinley
| said of him: Charlie Dawes is one Of
| the finest young men, as well as one
! Of the most capable business men, and
| shrewdest politicians I know"
Wilson A. Korns, manager OF the
Daily Reporter in New Philadelphia,
| Ohio, has treasured little story for
some SO years, which he has just told
| us:
| In 1896 the delegates from that con-
| greSSional district composed OF Coshoc-
| ton, Licking, TuscaraWas, Holmes and
| Wayne Counties to the National Repub-
lican convention held in st. Louis that
June, which nominated the martyred
President William Mckinley, made a
| trip to Canton to assure Mr.. Mckinley
| of their untiring support. They in
vited Mr.. Korns to accompany them.
| They were most graciously received.
During their visit Gov. Mckinley
| excused himself once to escort Mrs.
| Mckinley, who was an invalid. from
one room to another. She leaned
| heavily on his arm. On his return to
| the reception room he was handed a
| telegram. His countenance lighted up
and was suffused with delighted smile
He told his visitors: This telegram
Is from Charlie Dawes Of Chicago, tell
| ing me will have the unanimous en-
| thusiastic support of the Illinois dele
| CATION at the ST Louis convention" 1t
was on this occasion that Mckinley
spoke his appreciation Of Dawes as
quoted above.
1t will be recalled that Mckinley was
| nominated on the first ballot in one of
| the most memorable Republican Ma
| tional Conventions in the history of the
| party. He was placed in nomination by
| the late United States Senator Joseph
B. Foraker in one Of the most stirring
and eloquent speeches ever delivered in
| such a gathering.
Seldom has a new man in Congress
! attracted so much immediate attention
and been so universally welcomed as a
good fellow" as Representative Dick
! Kleberg. who arrived fresh from the
| hurricane deck of a Texas pony
| His grandfather, the late Richard
King. founded the 1,250 00o-acre pas
ture which has become known as the
worlds largest cattle ranch. His
biography in the Congressional Direc-
tory is modestly held down to four and
! half lines, in which he makes no
| reference to his proves as a cowboy
and manager of the premier ranch
Young Dick from the first was a
man of the soil, ingrained with zest
for tilling the soil and animal hus-
bandry on generous scale. After a
whirl at branding. range riding. the
roundup and other strenuous life in
tliC SiOdI opOil spdSCS, IiC
went TO the State university and took
his degree in law-but he never hung
out his barrister's shingle. He prefer
red to roam through the chaparral and
the thickets of South Texas, and to
busy himself with the branding iron
and lasso.
For years he has been recognized as
a leader among the fast disappearing
COW men of the Southwest. He was
chosen to head the Texas and South
western Cattle Raisers' Association
the largest organization of its kind in
the world
His style with the lasso and lariat
Is somewhat cramped in Congress. but
he throws an effective speech also and
has won respect for the real men who
live most Of their days in the saddle.
There recently passed from the pos
session Of the Government a property
known as the Congressional Globe
Vault" in connection with the Govern
ment Printing Office. George Carter
the public printer, explains that this
: property, while Of little present value
had rendered important service for
more than half century and was the
last surviving relic of the printing OF
the proceedings of Congress by private
| contractors
For many years the Globe vault
, housed approximately 10000 plates OF
the old Congressional Globe which the
Government purchased from the pub
fishers in 1878. The Government Print.
. ing Office began printing the Congress
sional Record as the successor to the
, Globe with the proceedings of the
, Forty-third Congress in 1873. Con-
gress appropriated 100000 for tht
purchase of these plates, a quantity o.
bound and unbound copies of the
Globe and "the vault" This was g
! two-story brick structure located on ar
alley between Third and Fourth streets
, northwest. close to Pennsylvania ave.
nue.. where stood the building in which
the Congressional Globe was printed
for many years by F. and j. Rives anc
George A. Bailey
The purchase Of the plates proved
, of little value to the United State.
Government. In fact, they were unfit
: for use on modern printing presses
On that account the Joint Committee
: on Printing of Congress several years
: ago authorized the public printer tc
/ dispose of the Globe plates. The meta
from 10000 stereotype plates was sal.
, vaged by remelting for other plate
, making purposes. but the 24.00O rub.
| Dtr COlIl1OSlCIOIl plates lldO 10 D6 Oe-
stroyed, as this material was unfit fol
further use.
In recent years the Globe vault hae
been used for the storage of old rec
ords and files of the Government
, Printing Office. The moving of thest
papers to the main Office files brought
, to light many interesting historical rec
ordS.