Evening star., 1935-10-16
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

against engaging in ANY sort Of trans
actions" with the present belligerents.
except at citizens own risk, applies to
Immigrant remittances" to Italy.
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. who
played a major part in formulation Of
the 1885 banking act, will address the
American Bankers Association in New
Orleans on November IL on Banking
legislation" When signing the law at
the White House last Summer, Presi-
dent Roosevelt joked that he doubted
whether anybody in the room, including
Treasury and congressional notables
present. knew exactly what was in the
act except the veteran Virginian. Other
Federal officials who will address the
bankers are Controller of the Currency
O'Connor. F. D. I. c. Chairman Crow
ley, Reserve Board Governor Eccles and
r. F. C. Chairman Jones.
Ever since Negroes began fiocking into
Northern States in recent years, the
Democratic party has made systematic
efforts to annex the colored vote. especi-
ally in metropolitan centers like New
York and Chicago. For the first time
two Negroes have just been chosen
as Tammany assembly district leaders.
One of them is Ferdinand @. Morton.
Harvard graduate and Manhattan civil
service commissioner. The other is
Herbert L. Bruce, described as a West
Indian by origin and a former red cap"
at the Pennsylvania Terminal. He is
now a Harlem restaurant proprietor.
The election of .Messrs. Morton and
Bruce to Tammafy posts is the termina-
ton of long fight by colored Demo-
Gratis to obtain recognition in the Tigers
hign command.
AS diplomatic plums in Canada gen.
orally go to party faithful. just as in the
United States, the expectation is that
Col. William D. Herridge, Canadian
Minister at Washington since 1881. will
eventually make way for Liberal
supporter of Prime Minister-to-be
Mackenzie King. Col. Herridge is a
brother -in-law and political adherent OF
Prime Minister Bennett, whose Con-
servative forces were overwhelmed in
this weeks parliamentary elections.
There has been some suggestions that
Vincent Massey, constituent OF Mac
kenzie King, might be reappointed to
Washington. He was the Dominion's
first envoy to this country. serving from
1926 until the Liberals were ousted from
power in 1880.
X
Gen. Hugh S. johnson inaugurates
his Nationwide speaking tour at Brook
lyn this week. During the next few
weeks he will be heard at Cleveland,
Detroit and at various points in Texas,
Louisiana and Georgia. He is billed for
Philadelphia and Grand Rapids in No
vember, and during the early Winter
will talk in Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Pacific Coast States. In January the
general will appear on platforms in the
East, beginning at Wilmington, Del.
After quitting his w. p. A. job in New
York the other day the former Blue
Eagle boss indicated that his addresses
will dwell largely on the Governments
power to deal with industrial and labor
problems within the present framework
of the Constitution and argue that there
is no need to amend it. He evidently
intends hammering home the theory
that despite the Supreme Court de-
cision in the "sick-chicken" case there
is plenty of existing Federal authority
to regulate business as N. r. A. eSSayed
to do.
(Copyright. 1889