The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-28

features of the neutrality lee Senate munitions investigat at the coming session. [ Secretary Henry Wallace, who does not accept fees for making addresses, Miss Frances Perkins freuueutly collects honorariurns. For a recent speech in Houston, Texas. she was paid $500 and ex- penses Chairman Bob Dough- ton, of the House Ways and Means committee, brought back an un- usual trophy from the Philippines. 1t consists of Q huge pair of carabaO horns, which the lanky North CarOlinian purchased for @4 after some sharp trading. The owner of the horns asked $7 for them when Duughton inquired their price. "Give you a." Doughton replied. "Sold," said the Filipino. "ShuCks," Dough- ton remarked to a nearby friend, "t'n bet I could have got them for 93." ConnectiCut's Democratic Representative Wil- Ham M. Citron is one member of congress who will not be on hand for the opening next Friday. He is i'll in Q hospital in Moscow, Russia.
 Ship Subsidies
 Senator Hugo Black, ocean-mail investigator, charges Assistant Commerce Secretary J. M. John son and Admiral" J. c. Pea cock, chairman of the Shipping Board, with under cover efforts to force Karl A. Crowley, post office solicitor, to approve ship subsidy bill they are framing. Black is threatening to take the senate floor and attack them publicly unless they abandon what he calls their sub rosa lobbying tactics The argument be- fore the supreme court on the validity of the AAA processing tax on Louisiana rice was liter. ally a battle of giants. John P. Burlington, Houston, Texas, lawyer who represented the ct. tacking rice millers, is 6 feet 5h inches tall, and Assistant Att torney General Frank J. Wide- man, who defended the law, stands 6 feet 4iA inches Incident ly, official Washington looks for the courts momentous decision on the agricultural act to be handed down January 6, when the Nine Old Men reassemble after their holiday recess.
 Huey Long Victory
 After a secret.statewide check, political scouts have informed democratic national headquarters that Representative Cleveland Dear, anti-Huey Long leader, has no chance of winning the special election for the deceased King fish's senate seat. The agents re- ported that Longs henchmen have shrewdly built their cam- paign around him, with the result that he is as much 8 candidate as If he were alive and running. The scouts also brought back word that the Long machine could be expected to make peace with Washington after the election. The most popular Christi man toy sold in capital stores was Q so-called G-man sub-ma- , chine gun. The toy sold so fast the stores could not keep up with the demand. One of the largest department stores ran out of its supply a week before Christ mas.
 Swanky
 Visitors to Speaker Joe Byrns' refurnished office are coming away gasping. The once sedately dark-hued furniture has been re- placed with equipment trimmed with brilliant red, with carpet and drapes to match. The place now resembles ritzy hotel lounge Friends of Repre- sentative Hamilton Fish, Jr., say he has no hopes for the republi- can presidential nomination next year, that his goal is second place on c Borah- Fish ticket. A veteran, experienced legislator, and bearer of an illustrious name (his grandfather was secretary of state) and coming from New York, they say, makes Fish @ logical choice as the running mate for 8 westerner New Deal legalists are relating with much gusto a rebuff dealt by the supreme court to Bainbridge Col by, secretary of state in the Will son cabinet but now Q violent foe of the administration. According to the tale Colby sought to be admitted to practice before the court in a private, instead of the usual, public ceremony. This is done in some courts, but the Nine Old Men refused to make any exception and Colby had to go through the prescribed routine.
 Sec Commissioner
 Reason given by Commissioner George c. Mathews for not re- signing from the Securities and Exchange commission in antipathy for living in New York. He had expected to join the General Telephone company with offices in Madison, Wisconsin. How-