Evening star., 1941-10-12
Capital SideIights
By Will p. Kennedy.

James B. Tyler, an employe in the
become a fancy lettering specialist for
House officers and members. He learned
the art in the Dayton Ohio Art Insti-
4etute. He also has taken a law degree.
since working at the Capitol When a
member is about to make speech, with
blackboard or chart illustrations he
calls upon Mr.. Tyler to do the lettering
for him. When Joe" Sinnott, the vet
eran doorkeeper, received a poem about
his courtesy from an admrer, Mr.. Tyler
printed it in beautifully Illuminated let
tiers. He has done notices and their
pet bit of philosophy" for various men,
bers-an Abraham Lincoln poem for
Representative Dondero of Michigan, the
"sportsmans creed" for Chairman Sum-
ners Of the Judiciary Committee, sew
eraI sentiments" for Chairman Bloom
Of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep
resentatives Michael J. Kennedy, New
York; Flaherty, Massachusetts,; Hol-
brook. Ohio, and others. He has come
to know the entire House membership
room service is that when he sees
member arise from his seat and start
to leave the chamber he is ready to hand
him his hat.
Referring to the proposed "decentral-
ization Of the Government" Chairman
Cochran of the House Committee on
Accounts cautions his colleagues that
while nothing in the Constitution re-
quires Government departments to be
located In Washington" yet in some Of
the basic laws are provisions that at
least part OF Government agency must
be located in Washington. And he gives
as examples the Interstate Commerce
Commission, the Federal Trade Commits
sion, the Securities and Exchange Com
mission, the Federal Communications
Commission and the Tariff Commission
which ARE in a way agencies of the
Congress, although independent estab-
lshments and directly answerable to the
When a superb specimen of the
long-horn steer was presented to the
National Zoo by the Texas State Society,
Representative Kleberg of Texas told
The House members that this was zone
OF the descendants of the true pioneers
of this country. He comes of a line that
IN bondage and in service played a dis
tlnct part and contributed much to the
development of our country" He quoted
from the first chapter of Genesis, oath
Av1l r&I eaiI LAT H. -.
forth the living creature after his kind,
cattle and creeping things and beasts of
the earth after his kind and 1t was So"
Then he pointed out that the industry
represented by the steer in the Zoo was
the first industry mentioned in the Eng
lish language and quoted the fourth
chapter of Genesis, Goth verse: And
Adah bare Jabal; he was the father Of
such as dwell in tents, and such as have
cattle" Mr. Kleberg suggested that his
colleagues permit their minds to 60 back
to the period of time of the tanning Of
the West and of the trials where the
long-horn bore the load.
The Tooth anniversary of the founding
Grated in the House recently by Repre-
sentative John Jennings, jr, of Ten
ncssee. He recalled that William Blount,
the first Governor of national territory,
appointed by a President of the United
States, left his palatial home in the old
North State and rode horseback across
the Alleghenies to establish his capital
That State has furnished three Presi-
dents-Jackson, Polk and Andrew john
son. The first member of the United
States Supreme Court from west Of the
mountains was John Catron of Tennes-
see. John H. Eaton, who married the
glamorous Peggy O'Nesl, was the young
est man ever to hold seat in the United
States Senate. William Charles Cole
Claiborne was the youngest man ever to