Evening star., 1942-09-20
Capital Side|iehts
By Will P. Kennedy.

The beloved acting House leader, Rep
resentative Schuyler Otis Bland of Vir-
ginia, "threescore years and ten," who
is completing 26 years OF consecutive
service. asked the House on Thursday to
join with him in commemorating two
important historic anniversaries-the
looth anniversary of the adoption of the
Constitution and the second anniversary
OF Speaker Sam Rayburns taking the
oath Of that office Mr.. Bland said that
Mr.. Rayburn measures up to any of his
predecessors in that Office" MINORITY
Leader Joe Martin after commencing the
great ability and fairness" of Mr.. Ray
burn, called him one of the great Amer
leans of his day" ... r.
Congress has just had printed Is 900
copies of valuable handbook for serv :
icemen and servicewomen Of the present
war and their dependents, including
rights and benefits of veterans OF World
War l and their dependents. 1t was
compiled by Representative Wright Pat
man OF Texas and contains 352 questions
and answers on matters of great concern
10 all those in the service and their
friends This material was carefully
checked by the various departments of
Government. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines.
administrator of veterans affairs, with
his assistants, A. D. Hitler and Ira D.
Scott, are given "the lions share of
credit in preparation of this booklet" by
Representative Patman. Ofhcials of the
Selective Service System, War and Navy
Departments, the Marine Corps, the Fed
eral Security Agency and the Womens
Army Auxiliary Corps also contributed to
the perfection of this handbook of which
1880 copies were printed for distribu-
ton by House members and $500 by
Senators.
Chairman David I. Walsh of the Sem
ate Naval Affairs Committee has had
compiled and printed a catalogue of the
Beverley r. Robinson collection of naval
battleprints, major portion of which
are on exhibition at the Naval Academy
Museum. Annapolis. This affords an
extraordinary opportunity for Navy men
to obtain INSTALLATION OF the develop
ments of the Navy and naval warfare.
The collection contains 518 naval battle
prints and seven miscellaneous items OF
these 28l are displayed in the Annapolis
Museum.
Attention of the House was called on
Thursday to the death at the age of 73
OF Big Jet1"-former Representative AL
bert w. Jefferis from Nebraska-by Rep
resentative Charles F. Mclaughlin. Big
JEFF" won this nickname while football
and baseball star at the University OF
Michigan. He also was prize debater
and later a college football coach. 1t
was he who nominated Charles G. Dawes
for Vice President and was manager of
the Coolidge automobile caravan
from Plymouth, VT, to Bellingham,
Wash. He was considered for appoint
ment as Attorney General in 1925.
Uncle Joe" Cannon, one of the most
picturesque as we'll as most forceful men,
bers in the history of Congress, settled
with "the other" Roosevelt, the Rough
cedence for the Speaker of the House.
The question arose on February 2, 1905,
as to the social rank of the Speaker.
President Roosevelt had invited Speaker
Cannon to state dinner at the White
House for the Supreme Court and asked
him If he would object to = seat below
the Attorney General Mr.. Cannon re-
piled that were 1t private dinner he
would be content with any place the host
might assign to him, and were he 4
private individual he would be equally
pleased with whatever course the host
might take, but he felt that in attending
a state dinner, as Speaker of the House,
he might not waive the position to which
he was entitled oficially. At the dinner
In question the Chief Justice, as the
guest OF honor, of course, would sit at
the right of the host. The Vice Presi-
dent, If there were one president Nc
Kinley had died September IA, 1901: Vice
President Roosevelt had succeeded to
the presidency and Senator William p,
Frye OF Maine had continued IS Presi-