Evening star., 1943-03-14
Capital SideIiehts
By Will P. Kennedy.


House Committee on Foreign Affairs
called up the lease-lend extension bill
in the House on Tuesday, Representa-
tive Paul w. Shafer, Republican, of
Michigan remarked that it was Mr..
Blooms 73d birthday anniversary, and
his colleagues rose in their places and
applauded. There was dramatic quick
the next day. Several Republican men,
bers, including Representatives j. Ham
ilton Fish, New York, and Edith Nourse
Rogers, Massachusetts,, had announced
their intention to offer amendments 1t
was anticipated that the final action
would not be taken until after o'clock,
but the amendment Of Representative
John M. Vorys of Ohio was defeated
about half hour earlier than was an
ticipated. The chairman of the Com
mittee of the Whole House, Representa-
tive Albert A. Gore of Tennessee, who
succeeded to the seat formerly held by
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, called
upon Mr. Bloom, who had yielded time
to all who desired. Mr.. Bloom looked
expected to offer amendments had
ducked out to lunch and asked: Am
l supposed to be the last speaker" The
chair replied, Unless some one else asks
for time" So Mr.. Bloom let his speech
go and announced, II move that the
committee do not arise'-and the bill
was passed, II minutes ahead of expec-
tation on the Republican side.
Mr.. Bloom that day had as guest on
the floor former Representative Herbert
c. Pell of New York, who has been out
Of Congress for % years. He is a great
grandson Of the late John Francis Ham,
tramck Claiborne, who left Congress in
1887, and who was a nephew of Repre-
sentatives William c. c. and Nathaniel
H. Claiborne. The former had the dis
tinction of voting consistently on So
ballots for Thomas Jefferson in his his
toric contest for President when he was
tied with Aaron Burr for IS ballots.
Believe 1t or not" Ripley has claimed,
erroneously, that it was Claiborne who
cast the decisive vote for Jefferson, but
House document proves that it is
Representative Matthew Lyon of Ver-
mont, then recently released from in
generation under the alien and sedition
laws, to whom the honor truly belongs.
Mr.. Pell was an outstanding member
OF Congress. He was graduated from
Harvard and Columbia universities and
in recent years has been a lecturer at
those universities and in other institu-
tions of learning He is robust and
vigorous in his Goth year, and had to
look up to only one man in the House
Representative Lowell Stockman OF Ore
gon, who stands foot 6.
During the Civil War, Representative
Clement L. Vallandingham of Ohio was
arrested by the Union military authori-
ties for reasonable utterances and BAN
ished to the Confederate States. He was
lawyer and teacher. and for two years
had been preceptor in Union Academy.
Snow Hill, Md. and later editor of the
Western Empire. He had served five
years in Congress. When deported, he
went to Wilmington, N. c., and thence
to Canada. While in exile he was an
ullSuCCcSSlul CdIlUludCe IOF governor OF
Ohio in 1868, and also was an unsuc-
cessful candidate for the United States
Senate in 1858. A nephew of Repre-
sentative Vallandingham - Representa-
tive John A. McMahon-served in Con-
gress from 1875 to 1881. and was one of
the managers appointed by the House
in 1876 to conduct the impeachment
proceedings against William w. Belknap
Secretary of War. He later was presi-
dent of the State Bar Association and
unsuccessful candidate for the United
States Senate in 1889
The legislative calendar of the House
District Committee this session is a nov
city which has attracted much attention.
Miss Mabel G. Haller. committee clerk,
has received many compliments upon
the innovation. including one from Rene
F. Camalier. who formerly was special
counsel to the Senate District Commit
tee. and said it was just what he would
have liked to have done for the Senate
committee. 1t contains q brief biography