Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL r. KENNEDY.

With the Lafayette commemorative
services being held at the Capitol to-
day, there is special interest in the
places visited by Lafayette on his last
visit to this country, 80 In order that
members of Congress and others high
in official life in Washington may
have authoritative information on
which to plan pilgrimages to these
places near the Capital City, Assist
ant Secretary Of State r. Walton
Moore has prepared list of such
places in Northern Virginia and Abe
marie County, in 1924 and 1925, as
follows:
Fairfax County, Mount Vernon and
Woodlawn; Loudoun County, Oak Hill,
the home of Monroe, and Leesburg;
Prince William County, auckland;
Fauquier County, Warrenton and New
Baltimore; Culpeper County. Gull
pepper Court House and Jefferston;
Orange County, Gordonsville, Mont
pelier, Orange Court House and
Wilderness; Albermarle County, Boyd
Tavern, Monticello Charlottesville and
the University Of Virginia; Stafford
County, crossed the Southern part of
the county on journey from Fred
ericksburg to Steamboat landing"
on the Potomac; Arlington, the home
of Gusts, and Alexandria City.
Lafayette apparently did not enter
Louisa County, although he went
through the two counties bordering
on the south. Fluvanna and Gooch-
land. The research made by Sec
rotary Moore, with the cooperation
of Cyril Wynne. chief Of the division
Of research of the State Department,
discloses nothing to indicate that La
fayette visited King George County
Gunston Hall or Chatham or whether
| he visited the home of Marshall at
Oak Hill
This information. relating to Lafay-
cites visits to Virginia, has been taken
from the journal Of his secretary.
Levasseur. published under the title,
Lafayette in America in 1924 and
1925" and from Robert D. Wards
AN Account of General Lafayette's
Visit to Virginia in the Years 1924
70, published at Richmond in 1881.
Ihey also consulted contemporary
issues OF the Washington Daily Ma
tional 1ntelligencer and of the Balti-
more Niles Weekly Register, but these
did not add materially to the infor-
nation contained in the two books
| named above.
An extraordinary protest against an
expected Executive order by the Presi-
dent transferring the Bureau of
Fisheries from the Department of
Commerce to the Department of the
Interior was made in the House by
one OF the most prominent Democratic
members. Representative John w. Nc
Cormack of Massachusetts,. He said :.
Il consider this to be an unfortunate
| and unwise move, because the Bureau
| of Fisheries properly belongs within
the Department of Commerce. The
| Department Of the Interior Is mainly
| concerned with internal matters. par
ticularly with the conservation OF our
natural resources only in q very
| limited sense do fisheries come
| within the purview of that depart
ment. Fisheries have to do with COM
merce and industry and concern in
the main activities beyond the con-
fines of continental United States"
| Appealing to his colleagues to prevent
the change, Representative Mccormack
said: II sincerely trust that the men,
bers of the House who are interested
in this matter on the East Coast. along
| the Gulf and the West Coast will
| realize the inadvisabilty OF trans
| ferring the Bureau of Fisheries and
take action to present their views upon
the question to the proper officials. "