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the roll of the newly organized chamber
he reels off three familiar names. Again
the roster contains Lodge, Hitchcock
and Pepper, reminiscent. respectively,
Of two former chairmen of the Foreign
Relations Committee lodge of Massa-
chusetts and Hitchcock of Nebraska) and
the Philadelphia lawyer Pepper of
Pennsylvania, who was in the Senate
from 1922 to 1927. Once more, too there
are two Johnsons, as there were when
Hiram of California and Magnus Of
Minnesota were both members. The
newest johnson is the former Governor,
Edwin Carl, of Colorado He has been
assigned the outer wing position on the
fringe of Democrats for whom space had
to be found on the thinned Republican
side.
Andrew w. Melons gift of a monu-
mental National Gallery of Art to
Washington has its inspiration mainly
in the Pittsburghers devotion to paint
ings and sculpture, but 1t also springs
from the former Secretary of the Treas
ury's ardent desire to see the Federal
City become architecturally the most
beautiful capital in the world. Nothing
during his record tenure of IL years at
the Treasury gave Mr.. Mellon greater
pride than his association with the
sl00000,00o departmental building prof.
ect along Pennsylvania and Constitution
avenues. His commission to John Rus
sell Pope. New York architect, who will
design the art gallery, stipulated that
the building should be in full keeping
with the granite and limestone piles
which now luxuriously house so many
Federal activities.
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At the White House sphinxlike silence
Is maintained about the makeup of the
Second-term Roosevelt cabinet. Although
the impression grows that no changes
are in early prospect except possibly in
the secretaryShip Of war, to which Mr..
Woodring was appointed temporarily,
gossip persists in connection with the
Labor Department. If there's to be q
new Department of Public Welfare, Sec
retary Perkins rates as a strong posi-
bility for it's first head, with Works
Progress Administrator Hopkins as chief
runner-up, or vice versa. If the cabinet
lady is switched to public welfare, her
present chief aide, Assistant Secretary
Edward F. McGrady, is looked upon as
her certain successor. With strike tur-
MOL looming as the blackest cloud on
the New Deals horizon, its ace trouble
shooter in the industrial realm would
take over the Labor portfolio at psy-
Geological moment.
Senator Matthew M. Nicely, Democrat,
of West Virginia, chairman Of the Con-
gressional Inaugural Committee. is wres-
Ting with the traditional and thorny
task of solving the loaves and fishes
seating problem on the Capitol Plaza on
January 20. Mr. Nicely has the distinc-
ton of being West Virginia's second
United States Senator to be elected to
third term. The only other one was the
late Stephen B. Elkins, Republican. Fol-
lowing the patronage reprisals recently
imposed upon Mr.. Neely's young col
league, Rush Holt, State newspaper
refers to the senior Senator as West
Virginia's "only recognized representa-
tive" in the upper branch Of Congress.
It acclaims him as having now reached
a commanding position, where he can
procure for West Virginia benefits that
were out Of reach before"
Somebody has suggested that the
President might magnanimously cele-
brate that "era of good feeling" which
is supposed to have set in on q certain
day last November. By naming the