The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-12
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Senatorial Ddy
At White House
WONDER TABLE
BY HELEN EssARY

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back from Hollywood soon),
once said:
'Tt isn't safe to say howdy.
do to some Senators. They are
likely to answer with public
speech No. 1872.
The Senators who passed
through the waiting room of
the White House offices the
other day weren't exactly max
ing public speeches.
But they were making pretty
noble public appearances.
A Senator-anybody, in fact
has to make a noble public
appearance when he runs the
gantlet of the Is or 80 news
papermen generally waiting in
the outer office.
The newspapermen are wise
in knowledge and information
plus lunches. They know
definitely who is calling on the
President. Guess what he is
calling about. His manner as
he leaves the presidential office
generally tells the success or
failure Of the visit.
It was a senatorial day at
the White House when we were
there. AS the Senators came
out Of Colonel Marvin McIn"
tyres office, which leads to the
Inner Shrine, they were
deliberately nonchalant and
casual.
Some hurried away. Others
stopped to talk brightly about
things that had no connection
with the Rooseveltian confer.
ence.
Senator Costigan, Senator
Sheppard. and Senator Adams
paused to admire the big table
in the center of the lobby.
They'd probably passed it by
a hundred times without COM
ment.
It is indeed a wonderful ta-
BILE. Almost II feet in diane
ter, and sliced from one Philip
pine hardwood tree. The up
per part of the sloping table
legs ends in carabao heads.
I should think Pat McKenna,
the very nice guardian of the
White House office, would
dream about the carabao heads.
He faces them all day. And
every day. Pat is probably i'm
mune to nightmare, however.
During his long office as door
keeper he must have seen many
funny faces.
The table we've been discuss
ing was the gift of Emilio Agui"
naldo.
Aguinaldo was bandit. An
insurrectionist. So this Govern
ment thought not very many
years ago. Now they tell me,
he is a fine citizen. He will
probably be the first president
of the Philippine Republic. All
that shooting and that carrying
on about him was little mis-"
take.
The present which Aguinaldo
gave the United States, his late
enemy, sometimes holds the
coats and hats of a hundred and
fifty newspaper men hurrying
into presidential press confer.
ence. Supports public opinion,
as it were.
= Senator Sheppard, who had
been talking to the President
about cotton, made a little mel
ancholy joke. He said you never
could kill off all the cotton boil
weevils or any other kind of
boil weevils. Insects would keep
on attacking good plants and
people just as long as there was
a world. And they always got
their man and their plant.
Senator Smith, of South Car
DINA, came along soon. Cotton
Ed" is a copy-book Southern
Senator. Complete with whisk.
ers, big hat. waistcoat, and
watch chain.
We sat in one of the fat, leath.
er chairs and watched the pro-
cession go by. Considered how
the Stodgy Representative Bank
head, of Alabama, on his way to
Colonel Steve Early's office,
could have produced the exotic
Tallulah. Thought of asking
Steve Early, who known every.
thing, about this.
But just then Senator Byrnes,
of South Carolina, said GOOD
afternoon" in his nice South
ern voice. Jimmie" Byrnes
looked mighty fine in a new
suit and a shirt and tie in
the proper shades of blue. He
made some jaunty remarks
about the world at large. But
neglected to say what he had
been talking to the President
about.
Senator Joe Robinson, who
makes the bumptious Huey
CULVER (sometimes), was the
last to leave the offices. Sec.
rotary Cordell Hull, the prize
visitor of the afternoon, slipped
out by a private exit. Miss
Margaret Durand, Miss Wilma
Meredith and Miss Leila Stiles,
members Of the White House
secretariat. put on their spring
hats and went home The news.