Evening star., 1934-04-09

Speaker Rainey has named an all
lawyer House committee to mvesti-
gate the Writ brain trust revolution
charges. Representative Bulwinkle,
Democrat, of North Carolina, chair
man, was once upon a time prosecut-
ing attorney Of his home town Of
Gastonia. He is veteran of the
Mexican campaign Of 1916. and came
out of the World War a major Of Field
Artillery. Representative John j.
O'Connor, Democrat, Of New York.
took his law degree at Harvard and
was an oficial Of the New York State
Constitutional Convention In 1915.
Representative william w. Arnold Of
Illinois, the third Democratic COM
mitteeman, began life as a farmer and
ended up as q lawyer. Representative
Frederick r. Lehlbach, Republican, of
New Jersey. is a Yale man. Repre-
sentative Harold McGugin, second
Republican minority member of the
committee. studied law at the Inns
OF Court in London before being ad-
mitted to the Kansas bar in 1914.
Like Chairman Bulwinkle. Mr.. Nc
Gugin was city attorney of his home
town before coming to Congress. and.
also like the North Carolinian, served
with the A. E. F. in France.
Speaking of congressional lawyers.
q recent number of the Rocky Noun
tain Law Review contains an informa-
tive survey by John Brown Mason on
The Legal Education and Training
of the Lawyers in the Seventy-third
Congress" It records that 68 Of the
o6 members of the Senate belong to
the legal profession. OF 432 Repre-
sentatives reviewed when the poll was
made-there were three vacancies at
the time-25l are lawyers. This
shows q lawyer percentage of 10 on
the Senate roster and So per cent
in the House. In explanation of the
omnipresence of lawyers at the Cap
itol, the article quotes former Assist
ant Secretary of State James Grafton
Rogers, now of the Denver bar, as
saying: Lawyers do not live by bread
alone. The community pays them in
terms of prestige, power and fame. -
The present Congress constitutes a
pretty impressive legal brain trust.
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William H. Beck, United States
consul general at Ottawa. is enjoying
q brief leave of absence in Washing
ton, cordially welcomed by a host of
friends who knew him during his long
tour of duty at the State Department.
BILL" achieved the distinction of
serving as assistant to no fewer than
four. Secretaries of State, one after
the other, viz, Bainbridge Colby,
Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kel-
logg and Henry L. Stimson. He ac-
companied Secretaries Colby and
Hughes on good will tours to South
America, Secretary Kellogg to Paris
for signature of the Kellogg BRAND
pact. and Secretary Stimson to the
London Naval Conference. Few for
eign service men have had Beck 3
unique opportunities for a close up
of the diplomatic game. Now that
the promotion system provides for
transfer Of consular officers to the
diplomatic branch, Beck's admirers
are confident he's going to wind up
as Minister or Ambassador. He
hikes everything about Canada except
its beloW-zero Winters
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Throughout the present session Of
Congress Representative Henry Ellen.
bogen, Democrat, cf Pennsylvania, has
talked directly to his constituents
every Sunday afternoon by radio
From his desk in the House Once
Building over a special hook-up with
a Pittsburgh station he broadcasts a
week by week account of proceedings
in Congress. Fan mail indicates thal