The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19

Though it was built for naval patients, 8 steady stream of elder ly Congressmen has been going out to the hospital at time when hospital rooms are crowded and nurses scarce, for bergain- counter medical attention.
 A Congressman pays a flat rate at Bethesda of $5 a day. This gives him a private room on the 17th floor, where he conn mands a beautiful view of the Maryland countryside. Also, 1t includes all medicine, nurses, doctors, and treatments.
 While the bargain rate given to Confiressmen is not be- grudged i'm view of meagre Congressional salaries, their attitude sometimes iS very much resented.
 The other day Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas arrived at the hospital. It was 8 busy day. A lot of enlisted men had arrived and had to be taken care of. The Senator was forced to wait for a moment in front of the reception desk, then in charge of Miss Clyde Kelly, daughter of the late distinguished COP congressman from Pittsburgh, Pa., who bore the same name.
 Impatient, the senator from Kansas finally burst forth:
 T am Senator Reed. What about some Service?"
 The hospital IS hsort-handed and no messengers were present at the moment to show the sena- tor to his room. So Miss Kelly volunteered. "Will you take the elevator to your room, SenatOr?" she suggested.
 Certainly" he stormcd, "yOu don't think I'm going to walk, do yOu?"
 "WOuld you like me to carry your bag?" volunteered Miss Kelly.
 "I certainly would" shot back the Senator. "I think I rate some service here."
 Miss Kelly. did not ask how much he expected for $5 day for a room with all nursing, medicine, and doctors services thrown in. She merely picked up the Sena- tors heavy bag and carried it in- to the elevator.
 NOTE: For twenty years, Miss Kelly's father was well known figure. where he was author of the Air Mail Act and other im- provements in the postal system. Gracious Senator Barkley of Ken lucky always carries his own bag, waits on himself as much as pos sible when he visits the naval hospital.
 HULL'S LAST BIG TREATY
 One of the most unusual bat ties in Senate history has been raging over the last big treaty negotiated by Cordell Hull the Mexican Waterway Pact, dividing irrigation from the Colorado, Rio Grande and other tributaries.
 The Senate fight is unique in many respects. It Is per- haps the first time in history that state legislature has appropriated money to conduct campaign against a federal treaty. The California legisla- ture appropriated first $25,OO0, later a total of $5O,OO0 as a lobbying fund 70 defeat the treaty.
 California officials a0d other ardent representatives of the state where ex-Senator Shortridge says the sun sets so reluctantly have been camped in the nations capital, buttonholing newspaper men and doing a bang-up job of trying to defeat Hull's fast treaty. It has been one of the best-functioning lobbies in long time. Judging by their opera tions. however. they will spend not $5OOO0 but nearer $500,000 before they finish.
 The California campaign iS being waged against one of the most carefully negotiated treaties in recent history. It had been hangnng fire ever since COoIidge's day, and Hull determined to clean it up if 1t was the last thing he did before leaving office. The pact was sgined only after long c0nsulta. lion with all seven Colorado river states, and after holding