Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM FILE.

Thomas H Eliot, a grandson of the
late President Charles w. Eliot of
Harvard University. who is associate
solicitor of the Department OF Labor,
is receiving honorable mention around
town as the principal writer of the
unemployment insurance and old-age
pension bill He is one of the bril-
liant young products Of President
Roosevelts alma mater who throng the
different legal divisions of the New
Deal. Following his graduation from
Harvard College In 1928. he occupied
fellowship at Cambridge University,
England, for year and then returned
to America to take his degree at Har-
ward Law School in 1882. While
there he won the Ames Competition
for the best law argument. After
years practice in Buffalo, he was ap-
pointed to the Department Of Justice
in Washington, and in August. 1888,
was transferred to the Department Of
| Labor. Mr.. Eliot's brother, Charles
w. Eliot, I'd, is also on duty in Wash
ington, as executive officer of the
National Resources Board. which re-
Gently transmitted an elaborate report
to the President
Before it reaches the floors of the
two houses of Congress, the economic
security bill will have undergone the
minute scrutiny Of the stats of expert
craftsmen who function, respectively,
as Legislative counsel for the House
and Senate. The House experts have
had the first crack at the measure.
Their Job as well as that of their
Senate colleagues is to X-ray i'm
portant legislative proposals, to see
that proper phraseology is used, and
to plug any possible loopholes. They
are veterans at their work and are
seldom caught mapping The chief Of
the House legislative counsel is Mid
dleton Beamen. The head Of the
Senate staff is Charles F. Boots.
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When the critics of the manganese
| ore tariff concession in the reciprocal
treaty with Brazil cleared for action
they invited combat with Secretary
of State Cordell Hull, who knows more
about tariffs and tariffmaking than
almost anybody else in the United
States. That explains why he was
| able to hit back at the manganese
people with annihilating facts and
| figures. Due to his long experience in
Congress, particularly on the Ways
| and Means Committee. he knows all
the tricks of the lobby trade and Is
especially familiar with its predilec-
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embarks upon log-rolling campaign.
| The Secretary's recent blast exposing
the grossly exaggerated" claims about
the manganese industry Is q master
piece of rebuttal and refutation.
| Among other things, he disclosed that
exactly 354 out of a total of nearly
45,OOo.00O gainfully employed Amer
leans were engaged in mining man.
| ganese ore in 1929. when the SKY
scraping" Hawley-Smoot tariff was
enacted.
| Lincoln day oratory was conspicuous
bv its absence In the Senate. Instead
the chamber celebrated in the Fourth
of July spirit, with Senator Huey
Longs violent attack on Postmaster
General Farley supplying the fire.
works. In former days Lincoln's
birthday anniversary was the invari.
able occasion for fulsome, old-fashioneo
eulogies of the Great Emancipator by
Republican stalwarts like Smoot Of
Utah, Shortridge Of California ano
Tess of Ohio. Now that these OLD
Guardsmen no longer adorn the scene
Lincoln day spellbinding seems te
have vanished with them.
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New York Republicans, especially Of
the younger element, who are nov
specializing in ways and means fol
reorganizing the g. o. r., want mor'
attention paid to woman members o.
the party with q view to making &