Evening star., 1932-03-07
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

The Senate Banking and Currency
committee has obtained $4,000 from
the contingent fund of the Senate as
an initial allotment for expenses of the
committees investigation of Wall
Streets bulls and bears. This speaks
volumes for the extensiveness of the
probe which the committee now con-
templates. Plenty of sensations are
promised. Meantime the Senate is
moving to set up special committee
to scrutinize 1892 campaign expenses
Senator Dickinson. Republican, of Iowa
has introduced the resolution for q
special committee of five, to be author
lied to obtain itemiZed statements OF
all expenditures by all presidential and
senatorial candidates, in the primaries
or otherwise. and to investigate all con-
tributions and all contributors. The
sum of 100000 as an initial allotment
for the expenses of this Special Sena-
torial Committee is asked for in the
Dickinson resolution. If the Senatorial
Committee gets that amount it will
start in with more money than any
candidate or campaign committee now
has in sight. The treasures Of both
the Republican and Democratic Ma
tional Committees are as bare as Old
Mother Hubbard's cupboard and the
prospects are poor. Talk of probes OF
campaign funds brings grim smile to
the faces of the gentlemen whose job
it Is to raise the funds.
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Gene Tunney, the retired worlds
heavyweight champion, is being groom
ed for the Senate, as the Democratic
opponent of Senator Hiram Bingham
who must stand for reelection in Con-
necticut this year, according to reports
reaching the Capital this week end.
The nominations in Connecticut are by
the convention system. The Demo-
cratic organization there has high
hopes that Bingham can be beaten II
all goes well, but are casting about for
the most effective candidate, and the
present reports are to the effect that
Gene Tunney is apt to be their choice.
Tunney Is battalion chief OF the
Crusaders, militant wet organization,
lives in Greenwich and is getting about
the State at public gatherings great
deal, and making a fine impression.
Senator Bingham is on the alert and
at the present time yields first place
to no man in his opposition to the
eighteenth amendment and for real
beer.
Senator Thomas j. Walsh Of Mon
tana. is being talked about for pos
sible judgeship, not on the Supreme
Court or some Lesser post in the Federal
judiciary. but as the United States
Judge on the World Court bench in the
event that the United States becomes a
member of the court in the immediate
future Senator Walsh, long an earnest
protagoniSt of American adherence to
the court, has been conSplcuouSly active
in the recent sudden move in the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee to re-
port out the World Court resolution
and to press for action by the Senate at
the present session. Some OF Senator
Walsh's Democratic colleagues in the
Senate say privately they believe it is a
mistake for the Democrats to stir up
the World Court question this year.
The Department of Commerce has
recently been revising its extensive mail
ing lists with a view to eliminating the
names of parties dead or removed or
no longer interested in the department
publications and press releases. 1t is
an economy move. A form letter was
sent to very name on every list asking
for an acknowledgment as to whether
the service was desired in the future
The editor of a paper In a small Illinois
city this week replied as follows: We
never open franked mail as it never
contains anything of interest to us, be-
ing usally some hooey from a Congress
man. Your letter was opened by mis-
take because our regular mail opener Is
home sick with the f1u. If you want a
reply to this note and want me to see 1t
put 2-cent stamp on it." The editor
received a reply with 2-cent stamp on
it-but his name went off the mailing
list
Believe II or not, according to the
columns of the women's page Of New