Evening star., 1932-02-08

With two prominent Democratic
members of the House in their graves,
Percy Quin, chairman of the Commit
tee on Military Affairs, and Samuel
Rutherford of Georgia, and third,
Chairman Collier of the Ways and
Means Committee Frustrated in the
hospital, all within the space Of q
| week, all the victims Of overtaxed heart
strain, Speaker Garner has decided to
slow down the rapid legislative pace
| at which the House has been travelling
under Democratic pilotage since the
opening Of the session in December.
Those who prophesied, and there were
many such, that on account Of the
close party division in the House and
the breakdown Of party lines in the
Senate, the present session of Congress
would be chaos productive Of no con-
crete accomplishments, have been ut
terly confounded by the events, and
the session is still young. The emer-
gency financial measures enacted were
not simple They entailed days and
nights of unremitting toll and many
far-reaching decisions and agreements
The House has already passed g. tariff
revision bill, revision of the adminiS-
trative provisions. and has completed
hearings on tax revision bill of vital
consequences, has tackled Muscle
Shoals again, battled over the question
of wage reductions for Federal employees,
and made prodigious strides on the
regular appropriations bills, besides dis
patching a big deficiency appropriation
bill. Most days there have been as
many as twenty committee hearings in
simultaneous progress, often with aft
erno0n sessions as we'll as morning sit
tings. There have been many Satur-
day sessions of Congress. All in all 1t
has been a grueling grind.
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Col Frank Knox joins the Hoover
hall of fame, where George w. Wicker
sham. Julius H. Barnes, Col. Arthur
Woods, Walter s. Clifford and many
other captains of industry are already
enshrined-men drafted to the unpaid
public service as key men in the Pres
ident'S multifarious programs for aid
and uplift, business and social; men
who are here today and gone tomorrow.
SOI. hIlOh lids UtcIl W lcdu
Mr.. HoOver'S latest creation, a con-
certed campaign through a co-ordi-
! mated committee to bring the boarded
billion and a quarter dollars of Gov
ernment gold and bank notes out of
hiding and back into the ordinary
channels of business and trade, The
President is banking heavily on the
beneficent effects of such campaign.
Col. Knox is New Hampshire editor
and publisher who has made good in
big way. For some years he was gen.
eral manager OF the Hearst pubilca,
tions. He has cut that connection and
is now owner and publisher Of the
| Chicago Daily News.
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The invitations are out for the annual
banquet and celebration of the White
House Correspondents Association,
which vii, be staged on Saturday eve
ming, March 5, at the Willard Hotel.
President Hoover and the Vice Presi-
dent, the cabinet and galaxy of con-
greSSional dignitaries will attend but
with the express covenant that speech
making will be neither solicited nor per-
mitted. The evening is to be devoted
exclusively to the business Of entertain
ment and refreshment. A prospective
attendance of six hundred viii tax the
| capacity OF the banquet hall. Paul R.
Mallcn OF the United Press is president
of the association and will share the
spotlight with Mr. Hoover at the head
| table George E. Durno of the Interna-
tional News Service is the impresario
and director general of the entertain
ment.
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Dolly Cams recent Midwest stump
| ing tour and visit back home was
| highly successful Press Association
wires throughout the country carried the
news that she was suggested" for
Governor of Kansas. The suggestion
came from an old schoolmate in
Kansas, who remembered both Dolly
and brother Charlie in the little red
school house days. Her good wisher
suggested that her nomination for the