Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1921, Page 17

50,000 APPOINTMENTS TO BE MADE BY NEW PRESIDENT Year's Salaries Ag gregate $100,000,000. Most Plums in Post Office Depart- ment—Some Tpward of 50,000 appointments to public offices carrying salaries aggre- gating more than £100,000,000 a year are to be made by P'resident Hardinz. Some of these were made today, many others will be announced during the next few months, while still others will be made as the terms of present demo- cratic officeholders expire. The first fruits from the shaking of the official “plum” tree were cabinet officers, whose are $12,000 a vear each. Others come include nearly @ dozen, ambassadors, whose sal- aries are $17,500 each, many ministers at $10,000 eich, assistant secretaries federal judges, neys and mar- shals, customs collectors, members of Various government boards and commis- sions and postmasters by the thou- sands. In voll of Mr. perquisite whose immec salaries to to the huze patronage Harding are the appointive of Vice President Coolidge, appointments comprise contrast only his secretary, clerk, page boy and a private telegraph operator. Their <alaries total $7.700 a year. The Vice President himself receives $12,000. As is the usual custom, ambassadors and ministers now serving are expected to present their resignations to Presi- dent Harding immediately. so he may have a free hand in crcating his own diplomatic corps. There are forty-four bassadors and ministers, but some of these who have risen from the ranks the diplomatic service may be re-, tained, practically all of those now service will continue in office until successors are named and qualify. Changes in Ambassadorshi Among ambassadorships regarded as the certain to be filled by Mr. Harding are Ttaly, Great Britain, France, those to Spain, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Peru. Many new min- | also are to be appointed, and when relations are re-established with ny, Austria, Mexico, Turk Bulgaria appointments also will be madge to those countri Among minigers now hoMling office. who have come up from the ranks in diplomatic service are William the Hague: Hugh Gibson. Richard Cra- . at Prague; Joseph G. Grew, at Copenhagen: Peter Augustus Jay, at Salvador; Hoffman Thilip, at Bogats, Colombia. and Ar- thur Bailly-Blanchard, at Port- Au-Prince, Haiti. . Among appoinTments in immediate or eariy prospect are seven members of the Shipping Board at $12.000 each; two members of the Interstate Com- merce Commission at $12,000 each; five members of the Federal Reserve Board at $12,000 each: three members of the tariff commission at $7,500 each: two members of the Federal Trade Commission at $10,000 each; some of the nine members of the Raliroad Labor Board at $10,000, and four mem. bers of the federal farm loan board at $10,000 each. Four of the nine Supreme Court justices also may be appointed by President Harding. Chief Justice White and Associate Justices McKen- na, Holmes and Day now are eligible, both age and length of service, to oluntary retirement. The salary of at at Warsaw ; Phillips, Made Today. 1 the Chief justice is $15.000 and that | of assoclate justices $14,500. Postmasters Lead Patronage. Postmasters comprise the buik of presidential patronage. There are nearly 50.000 postmasterships remain- | ing in the presidential class, although | President Wilson placed many in the civil service. All have four-year terms, and it is estimated that President Harding will appoint something like 15,000 during the next year, as the re- publican majority in the Senate re- fused confirmation to several thousand postmasters as well as other officials, including members of the Shipping Board, during the last session of Con- gress. Although not classed technically as putronage, the President has the selec- tion of officials for many choice places in the Army and Navy, through recom mendations for ~promotion. Amonz these are chiefs of War Department bureaus, including the chief of staff, and eleven major and twenty-two brigadier generals. Selections of gen- eral officers made by President Wilson ere held up in the Senate this year in the republican blockade of Mr. Wil- son's nominations, and these appoint- ments now will be made by Mr. Hard- ing. In various execuutive branches of }the government the Department of i Justice leads in patronage, with a roll | of about $130,000, includini a solicitor general at §10,000, one assistant to the Attorney General at $9,000, seven other assistants at $7.500 and solici- ters for the other departments. In the Treasury Department the principal plums are treasurer at $8,000, the commissioner of internal {revenue at $10,000, the prohibition en- I forcement commissioner at $2.500, the icontroller of the Treasury at $6.000. the controller of currency at $5.000, the director of the mint at $5,000 and Iseveral departmental auditors at $4.000. Four assistants to the Postmaster eneral are the best jobs in the Post Office Department subject to political change. Other “Cream™ Appointments. In the Interior Department an as- jsistant secretary and commissioner of lands, patents, pensions and education at $5,000 each, a_commissioner of In- dian affairs at $3,500 and directors of | mines and geological survey at $6.000 | each are the cream of appointmen In the Department of Labor an istant secretary at $5.000, commis- ioners of labor and lighthouses at {85,000 each, the director of the census at’ $6,000, the immigration commis- LGy | i i sioner general at $5.000. the commis- sioner of fisheries at $6,000. and the c!fle( of the children’s bureau at $5.000 comprise the principal patron- age. Three members of the Civil Service Commission—one at $4,500 and two at $4.000—and a public printer at $6,000 are other choice presidential plums. Also there are Mexican and Canadian commission members with big sal- aries. Many positions of honor without salaries also are to be filled by Presi- dent Harding. Among these are ap- pointments to the Commission of Fine Arts, the national advisory committee on aeronautics, the geographic board, the federal electric railways commis sion, the Pan-American commission und The Hague court l D. C. BILLS PASSED INGGTH CONGRESS Measures of Vast Impor- tance to Department Em- ployes and Citizens. Legislation of vast importance to the District of Columbia and employes of ths government residing here was enacted during the Sixty-sixth Cen- gress which went out of existence to- day. In the first place, the Congress adopted a new ratio in making its appropriations for the National Capi- tal, 60 per cent out of the revenues of the District and 40 per cent out of the federal Treasury. in place of the half. and-half plan which existed since the enactment of the organic act in 18 While the Congre: changed the ratio, it still retained the principle of, having the federal ‘Treasury pay o 'fixed proportion of the expendi- tures of the National Capital. Provision s made for beginning work on_an creased water supply for the District, in accordance with the plans drawn by Maj. Tyler, Unit- ed States Engineer Corps. For this Congress inserted an ftem of $200.000 in the Army appropriation bill, just passed. The entire project contem- Dlates an expenditure of $.000,000. The appropriation was made on the 60-40 plan. Provide for Retirement. Legislation was enacted providing for the retirement of superannuated government employes and providing them with annuities. The law providing for the retire- ment of public school teachers in the District also was enacted. The Congress undertook to deal with the housing situation in the District, passing the Ball rent com- mission act. under which the Pre: dent appointed the rent commission with authority to pass upon contro- versies over rents. This aat has hren assailed in the courts and its anstitutionality is still in doubt. Other laws enacted include the fol- nE The so-called zoning act. which es- tahlishes distriets within which cer- clas of buildings may be and certain businesses car- erected ried on An act extendingghe federal work- compensalion act to include Distriet government. taries of em- ployes of the n et revising sa e Yot The District of Columbia po! and fire departments. A prolibiting the sale of game birds in the District : ‘An act extending the jurisdiction of the Municipal Court so as to in- Clude cases involVing sums up to 1.000 £ act reorganizing the bureau of T and measurcs and establish- yudards of weights and meas- | | ! Capitol Concert Called Off, Due to Ex-Speaker’s Death The concert whick was sched- uled to be presemted with the aid of the amplifier on the cast froat of the Capitel tonight has been called OfF in deference to memory of former Speaker Champ Clark. There was me concert last might, for the same e B : n decided 'n to flluminate the dome of the Capitel because of the death of the former demoeratic leader of the Houmse. | | l&. Str i lma:l? car merger legislation will be Reclassification Measure. The report of the Joint commission 'on reclassification of government em- ployes was submitted to Congress in March, 1920, and w referred in the Senate to the appropriations mittee and in the House to the c'S.'fl. Mittee on reform in the civil gerv- jce. In the House a reclassification Tt @vorably by Chair- man Lehibach. In the Sepate the e port and bill remained before the ap- | propriations committee without ae- | tion. ~Senator Sterling, chairman of | the Senate civil service committee, in | the last few weeks of the session | made a drive to have the appropria- | tions committee discharged from fur- | ther consideration of the reclassifica- | tion measure and to have the entire matter referred to his committee. His «flort was blocked, however, by riem- bers of the appropriations committee, | who insisted that it was the purpose | | of the committee to undertake re- classification legislation in the new ICnnzreu. In this connection it was announced | by Chairman Warren of the Senate appropriations committee that no further bonuses would be allowed employes and that the ion of salaries would be made particularly with that idea in mind. Plan Department Reorganising. Proposals for a reorganization of the government departments in Washington were introduced in both |hou3(l. Representative C. Frank avis of Nebraska fathered a bill in the House. and Senator McCormick of Tlinofs in the Senate. - A joint resolution sponsored by Senator Smoot in the Senate and Reavis in the House wam put through. This provides for u joint committee of Cdngress to investigate and report! upon the entire question of govern- ment reorganization. The commit- tee was organized with Senator Smoot as chairman and plans to be- &in work almost immedlately. It las been estimated that it will re- uire a year and a half to complete e study and report. Among the measures relating to the District which failed of action was the Curtis-Gard child labor bill. Hearings upon this measure were had before the District committees of both houses. It is expected that this bill will be pressed for action in the new Congress. Another important measure which {failed of action was that to regulate traffic in the District and provide for la trafic court. Extensive hearings were held on this bill. ! t In Failed of Esactme Efforts were made to obtain action i portunt bilis wore passcd |on the proposed constitutional amend- Sever: House witheut | MERt EIVINg the people of the Dis. by one or the other house without | (t{l" rarional representation. Heap. b ingg fnally enacted intwlaw ings were held beforc the House ju- sl uthorizing a merg- |diclary committee. at which 'author- . e el o ized ropresentatives of the principal er of the Washington Iway and | SPTCvie and professiona) Pkl Ytectrie € with the Potomacizations spoke in favor of the meas pany, amended so rmit the merger of all t car companies operating in o District, was reported favorably , the Senate by the Senate District | commitiee, but failed of further ac- House Distric uid bill I Electric Company ciric Power Com I conimittee ufe und no one appeared to represent organized opposition. Committee Inquiries. Several investigations into condi- tions existing in the District were ngressional committees. A al «ommittes of the Senate in- | vestigated the public school syxtem and made recommendations that the of education be appointed by the President instead of by the jus- tices of the District Supreme Court; v, The House committee also, by | for the appointment of . business « of 11 to 1, against the chair- | manager for the schools and for a i ordered a bill to be drafted | further survey of the school system. lich would force w merger of the | The investigation was asked at & time fwo strect railway systems, but the | when a controversy was in full sway \lairman did not call a meeting to ) over Dr. John Van Schaick, jr. then Ficeive this report president of the board of education, In the etten session of the new |and the then superintendent of Congress cfforts to complete this schools, Erncat L. Thurstgs. Dr. Van VENT NEW SENATORS WHO SUBSCRIBED TO THE OF CALITORNIA. RALPH H.CAMERON. OF AR LZONA.. naekis® EwiNe SAMUELD.NICHOLSON, OF COLOR-ADO.- [ANEW SENATORS, MANY FROM WEST, TAKE OATH TODAY Terms Begin With Congress, Which Represents Swing to Republican Camp. MAJORITY PARTY HAS MARGIN OF 22 VOTES Former Governors and Ex-Mem- bers of House Are Represented in List of Newcomers. Brand-new faces—a baker's dozen of them and one more—broke into the senatorial group picture at the Capitol today. Of the fourteen mnew senators sworn in cleven are repub- licans and three are democrats. Of course, there were a lot of other sen- ators who took the oath of office today besides the fourteen, but the others had previously served in the Scnate and could not be classed as newcomers. It may be mentioned, however, that the political make-up of the Senate, which was so evenly republican and democratic during the Congress which closed today that the republican con- trol kung only by a vote or two, to- day swung way over to the repub- | lican camp. In the new Senate there are fifty-nine republicans and thirty- seven democrats, a margin of twen- ty-two votes, which is some majority fin the Senate of the United States. Of the eleven mew republican sen- ators sworn in eight come from the great ~west beyond the Missisxippi and three from states east of the river. Those from the west are eron of Arizona, Shortridge of Cali- fornia, Nichalson of Colorado, Oddie of Nevada, Ladd of North Dakota, Harreld of Oklahoma, Stanfield of Oregon_and Norbeck of South Da- kota. From Illinois comes McKinley, from. Kentucky Ernst, and Maryland Weller. The three new democratic scnators are Caraway of Arkansas, Watson of Georgia and Broussard of Louisiana. The democrats succeed lo seats hitherto held by members of their own party, but the republicans, e cept in the cases of Ladd and Me- Kinley, will warm seats hitherto oc- been nominated by th board of District Com- missioners. The nomination was as- sailed both on the grounds t he s not only a bona fide resident of the District; but also that he w temperamentally unfitted for the o Schaick had President for fice. The Senate finally rejected hi nomination. The cost of living in the District of Columbia wus investigated by the Senate District committee, which, in its report to the Senate, charged that profiteering had been indulged in by both wholesale and retail dealers in foodstuffs, xhoes and other necessaries An offshoot of this investigation was a furiher investization of the they sought to increase Thix investigation kers. when the price of bread. ulso was couducted by the Senate Dis- triet committec The Setate ittee on manufac- tures during consideration of the Calder cosl reguiation bill investigated the prices charged for coal in the Dis- trict of Columbia. Charges were made that_the Coal Dealers’ Associution in Washington fixed the prices and as- sailed any independent dealer who sought to cut under those prices. The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission had both under- taken investigations with a ‘view to prosecution if the charges proved true. NG STAR, W SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE. = TASKER L.ODDIE of NevaDA. Q KEYSTONE Harass - Ewine THADDEUS H.CARAWAY OF ARKANSAS RICHARD P ERNST OF KENTOSKY. a7 oy ] PETER. NORBECK., OF SOUTH DAKOTA.. cupied by the democrats. A word or two about the new sen- ators, from the personal side. Wil- liam ‘Brown McKinley. the new sen- ator from Iilinois. who takes the place vacated by Senator Sherman, is newcomer to the Senate, but not to Washington. He has served his leg- islative apprenticeship in the House, a matter of fourteen years, though [ mot consecutively—he missed out in the sixty-third Comgress, due to the democratic onrush In that year. As an orator, Mr. McKinley has not at- tompted to shine in Washingtom, but as a business man and a sound legis- lator he has won a high reputation for himself. Senator McKinley hails from Cham- plain, ill, and is about sixty-four vears old, a native of the state. He was educated in the common schools and spent two years in Illinois Uni- versity. Then he went to work—and 50 well did he work that he amassed a fortune which places him in the millionaire class. He is a banker. a farmer, and a traction magnate. His friends call him a “prince of good fellows. 'wo Former Governo: There is a brace of former gov- ernors in the new republican outfit— Tasker L. Oddie and Peter Norbeck. The career of Tasker Lowndes Oddie nas been picturesque. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 24, 1870. He attended school in Kast Orange, N.J. He went to work in New York in the real estate business. At night he studied law. and after completing a three-ycar course was admitted to the bar. - Young Oddie attracted the notice of Anson Phelps Stokes, and in 1898 he went to Nevada, where he was con- nected with the management of rail- road, mining and banking properties. He studied mining in practical and scientific_way. and began prospect- ing on his own hook. He cut loose from the Stokes' interests. He was hard up. He worked his own claims with his own hands. Finally he be- came a partner of the famous “Jim” Butler in the discovery and develop- ment of the great Tonopah mines in Nevada. For five years he was man- ager of these properties. Later he became interested in Goldfield and other mining camps. Senator Oddie ha taken an active art in the development of Nevada, and \x been interested in agriculture and ock ra well as mining. He has | several held publicoffice. _In | 01-02 he was district_attorney of Nye county, arca laurger than that of New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and | Maryland mbined. In 1903-7 he was | 2 state senator and from 1911 to 1915 he s governor of the state. enator Oddie’s parents Meigs Oddie of New York and Gibson Prout Oddie, a native of Wash- ington, 1. €. He is through his mother a direct descendant of the first Governor of Maryland, Benjamin Stoddert, and also of Benjamin Stoddert, first Secre- tary of the Navy. He is a cousin of the jata Lloyd Lowndes, one time Governor of Maryland. Two Former Gove Senator Peter rbeck comes to Washington from the gubernatorial chair almost dircet. He is a native 01; South Dak and is fifty years nld.l At one time he taught school, but later ! became interested in drilling artesian wells, and forming the firm of Norbeck & Nichelson, said to be the largest con- cern of its Kind in the country, made a considerable success, Before he was elected Governor of South Dakota, Senator Norbeck served tate senator and lieutenant governor. enator Samuel Morgan Shortridge ‘who succeeds denator Phelan of Cali were Henry | en | ors. NGTON, /INASF NORTH DAKOTA. D. C, FRIDAY. MARCH 4. 1921 OATH OF OFFICE TODAY. PIOHN WHARRELD. JOUN WHARRELD. — EpWIN S BROUSSARD OF LOUISIANA. OVINGTON E WELLER, OF MARYLAND. EF.LADD, WILLIAM B.MSKINLEY, OF ILLINOIS [THoMA S E VATSON. \ OF GEOR-GIA.- 17 !WILSON RETIRES AS CHEERING MESSAGES COME FROM NATION Leaves the Wh;_Housew With Ever_v Evi- dence of Lifting of the Mantle of Re- sponsibility of Last Four Years. With the casting off of the burdens Takes Usunl Ride. of office hi condit has Woodrow Wilson today retired to this merninz in the White House private life, 1o be a plain citizen of | Mulying bills and Mesolitionsiswhiich the United States and a resid o P B S i i the District of Columbia ‘In roor Tater tha heen his He gave every cvidence of the free-| custom. telling t wh Jtosted dom that is now his with the lifting | (24 B Telt Al wieht and would, aft- of the mantle of great responsibilits | e also wuch time read- from his shoulders. which responsibil-{ ing the mess of consratuy " ity bore down so heavily and teling-| on his adn ration of the an's [1¥ upon him during the last four|afs carrying good wishes vears. He retires to private life with) return to private lite. T A light heart and high spirits and| of those sending 1 mes With the hopefulness of a boy | sages were not made known | | i physical ned reach there shortly after and relatives are amazed at the rapid- p Iy improved. His voice was| Mr Wilsor | ger today and his eyes wereldutomobile 1ide | briginter, and his smile was almost]leaving the W continuous. He had been lovking for-| t fo ward to this day and he enjoyed it . iny Meant Much to Him. 1 \ The day meant much to Lim. Be- | up. of house sides the freedom and rest in store " time for him, the hundreds of letters and | Esifen) grams and cablegrams which he bsts 1 cived from triends and well- [ o5 i i both in this country und | ghy Europe were pleasing, as was the ! knowledge that his health had so im-! v q I OFoved iand) tiiat the icaces aud we-] VAL GREET MEWIXSON | sponsibility of public office would be | —_— | his no more. and that he could live in | Washington Friends to March to | quiet. and that from now on he would | | have time to devote to reading and | New Home as Neighbors { writing and_the practice of law. 4 i Woodrow Wilson is in better health old-fashioned welcome of “home {than at any time within the last year 1o fiome folks wi ven fand a half. In . he is in much sident and Mrs. Wilson in front ! better phy conditi than his * ty home this ! appearance would sugxesi to the un- large number o | knowing observer. Of course. his other admirer { physical appearance has nged | chief executive | greatly s the day e went through |, This welcome, which is inte { what Warren G. Harding is going [ D¢ @ simple but inspiring { through today. especially xo since the [ Peen arrareed by the den i war and since hix participation in the | tritl committ e ) { Paris peace conference, and his sub- | Shich dohn 15 Costello, |-equ»-m ineus In September, 1919, | ihe democeatic national commiites | Hair In Almost White. | ""Mr Costello said toduy that the af- His hair is very gray—almost white | fair i= arranged solely to show Mr nd thinner. His eyes are not as | Wilson th the democrats of Wash- bright. and the lines in the face are | ington wish him well for the future, re numerous and deeper. He stoops, |and to welcome hi W Mrs. Wilson and he walks very slowly and with |z hone d that they are to difficulty, ‘leaning heavily on a stout | the ture home in Wash- { cane. However, despite his long i1l 3 { ness he is a trifle heavier than when The plan is for th who It {he entered the White House His participate in the demonstration to alth is steadily improving, thousgh. senible at Dup Circle and then to {and his physicians and closk friends Ik to b street home. 10 s i ity of this change for improvement Hock Less than six months ago he couid 4 o’'clock a number of democr. not walk, and it was necessary for serators and other old party frie wheeled in a chair. of the Wilsons will be received at the Mr. Wilson spent last ing and S street home. FORDNEY TARIFF~ MRS. COOLIDGE HAS DIES AFTER VETO WINNING MANNER | | | { i Efforts to Override Presi-|Though Primarily a “Home g House to fill' the unexpired term of | il { i - A s el dent Wilson Fails After | Body,” She Will Make Dis place in the Senate formerly filled by | . 3 ¥ : Senator Gore i Night Session. | tinctive Place Here. Senator - Samuel T». Nicholson of | | Colorado i m-lm.uh}lx_--un accessor| . Fordney emergenc tarift of Senator Charles S. Thomas, demo- il N teiaT crat. .\'l’l-’l(f)r Nicholson is in the] measure. r.nglqall) designed ll‘old middle fifties. He is a big mine oper- | the farmers, died after a midnight ator, including both gold and silVer{giryggle in the House. Efforts to mines, and is a man of considerable) ;. 4. the President's veto. which meat His home is in Leadville. Some years ago he was a candidate for lieutenant governor of the state, but was defeated. Has Served as Sheriff. The new republican senator from Arizona is Ralph Henry Cameron. He ts a New Englander by birth, coming from Maine, where he had a common terms he served as sheriff of Coconime county, and from 1909 to 1911 he served as delegate in the House from Arizona, and later he was elected a representative when Arizona became a state. He has not been in the ROBERY N.STANTIELD, | OF OREGON. fornia, is a sample of the men who were born in the middle west—and went far- ther west to success. He was born August 3, 1861, in Mount Pleasant, Henry county, Jowa, where his father, Rev. was stationed. The ever. Senator Richard P. Ernst. Ken- tucky’s new member in the Senate, is a republican of long standing. He is Elias Shortridge, was stationed. The|a lawyer. making his home in Cov- |and that the measure “would not furnish a youth Semator Shortridge worked in | inStpn, Ky but conducting much of iy, any substantial degree the rellef} the mines In Nevada City, Calif. He |Di# business in Cincinnati. By repu-igought by the producers of x;{os:ogrerl.‘hfi attended school In San Jose, graduating in 1879. For four years he taught school in Napa county. At the time he studied law, and in 1884 he was ad- | mitted to the bar. Scnator Shortridge has been one of he most successful lawyers in the state, practicing before both state and icderal courts. He has interested him- £21f in public affairs, and incidentally has been a republican ever since he was old enough to take an intérest in politics. He was a presidential elec- tor for President Harrison in 1888, for President McKinley in 1900 and for President Taft in 190S. Greatest Sheep Grower. i Another of the new senators, who | comes, too, from the Pacific coast, .is Senator Robert Nelson Stanfield. His fathér- was-a plonecr'in California and Oregon. The senator was born and an able lawyer. Weller Friend of District. Senator O. E. Weller of Maryland, {republican, who succeeds Senator John Walter Smith, democrat, is by no means a stranger to the District of Columbia. Mr. Weller at one time was employed in the government de- partments in the District of Colum- bia. He knows the National Capital and its needs, and is expected to be a valued friend of the District in legis- lative matters. Many of his con- stituents are employed her nator Weller was highway com missioner of Maryland. and a_splendid system of roads has been built up in the state largely under his super- vision. Mr. Weller's home is in Baltimore, but he has taken a keen interest in the agricultural needs of i at Umatilla,. July, 9. 18 which j the state, and has many fricnd; makes, bim Something over forly-|the. farmers. He has advocated se. three years old. He is a. “self-made |operative buyving and selling for the | .man,”” and reckoned the greatest|farmers as a means of improving | sheep grower in the country. His |their economic condition g own sheep on his own range have! Watkenis! Caraes totaled 200,000 in a single season;| with some 400,000 to 600,000 purchas. | Of the three new democratic sena- cnerally. ed from other growers. { tors. Scnator Tom Watson He was attending the normal school | i s b in Weston, Ore., when his father died. | freworka i the sen o> He left school immediately and went ! TEE dpthe Democrat home to run the ranch for his moth- | boPUlist and democrat u. Senator er. and his younger brothers and |‘WAlSon comes to the Senate in the Sinters—there “were. eleven children, | Place of Senator Hoke Smith, He was nominated on an out-and-out anti Wilson platform in the Georgia pri maries. Senator Watson has been stirring things up one way and an- other for many years. At one time he was indicted and tried because of a book called “The Roman Catholic Hierarchy,” which he wrote and pub- lished. He was tried twice, the first trial resulting' in a hung jury and the second in acquittal. During the war Mr. Watson got himself into trouble with the govern- ment by publishing articles in his magazine, Watson'’s Magazine, and the Jeffersonion Weekly, attacking the Army draft laws He tried cattle first and then sheep. and made a great success. Now he is rated a millionalre. He has played his part in the poli- tice of his state in recent years, too. He was elected to the lower house of the state legislature in 1913, 19 and 1917, and was elected speaker of the house, .He met his only defeat when he ran for the republican nomination for the Uniter States Sen- ate in 191$ against Senator McNary. Chemint and Professor. Senator I3dwin Fremont Ladd, North Dakota, is a chemist and a college professor. Until his election to the Senate he had been for years presi- . 1 closed to these publicajions. He dent of the North Dakota Agricul- | publishes the Sentinelland 15 presi- tural College. As a sciénist he is|dent of the McDuffic Bank and a law- known all over the civilized world, | ver. Senator Watson is a native of {and is a_member of enough chem Georgia. sixty-four years old. He and agricultural societics to flll a!served in the Fifty-second Congress, page it the mames ‘were all written|1891-93 as a populist, and was the own. opulist candidate for Vi Presi- Senator Tadd Is a friend of the|Gent in 1816, While in (‘nnzr«],;e:e fagmer. He has not only taught the farmer things he ought to know. but he has fought for pure foqd and pure paint laws. He has been plastered with libel suits and injunctions by the corpordtions who oppose these laws, but he has gone on his way not- withstanding. Senator Ladd had the support, of & non-partisan league for obtained the passage of the first law appropriating for free rural delivery of mail in_this country. Senator Thaddeus H. Arkansas, democrat, of Scnator Kirby, also a democrat. Senator Caraway wuas a member of the House for the last seven or eight Caraway of takes the place the republican nomination against'years and before that was a judge Senator Gronna, whose place he takes.}of the Arkansas circuit court for a Oklahoma Republican. couple of terms. He s a native of | Missouri, and forty-nine yvears oid. It is an entirely new experience for the Senate to have a republican mem- | Tennessee. ber from Oklahoma. John W. Har-; The third new democratic senator reld, who took the oaith of office as Ls IE;':M" ;i-“lir«:tlul:m{d of Louisiana, a tor today, was etected on the re.|Prother of the late Senator Robert S. Dublican _ticket. —Ho. was born in|Broussard. He is a native of New Morgantown, Ky., in 1872. He went [Iberia, La. and is forly-six years old. to Oklahoma about 1906, practiced|He is a Jawyer, a planter and a bank- law in Ardmore for eleven years and | er. He threw in his fortunes with the then moved to Oklahoma City. He |progressive party in Louisiana a few has made money in oll and was elect- | years ago, and ran on the progressive ed November 8, 1919, a member of the ticket fgr lieutenant governor, | He is a sraduate of Dickson College, school education. Mo went west | ol early in his career amd became in- 5 " p andvoted terested in mining and stock raising. | The ¥eto ;‘i';j‘u“’i:,“‘;_",n,‘;" ol He located &nd. built the Bright |y, "oypectation among republicans Angle trail imto the Grand Canyol i, “¢hcy could round up the two- of the Colorado river in Arizona, to | {hat, thest 000 SRH, orerride the | which state he moved in 183. Three | :,"“‘“ ama it was for this reason that House for a number of years, how- { tation he is in the millionaire class ! and the mails were | ! was sent to the House early in the evening. failed by 21 to get the req- uisite two-thirds vote. The vote was 201 for and 132 against. Some republican members of the ways and means committee that tramed the bill voted against it. and few were sincerely ggxious lo see it ! leaders had urged Chairman { Pordney of the Ways aid means com- | { mittee to let it lie on the table with- out action. President Gives Rensoms. The bill was vetoed late yesterday by President Wilson in a message which declared that “this is no time for the erection here of high-trade barriers” i some H i which was expected in the the Senate last night. for overriding it staple commodities Action on the veto { House and possibly with the indications considerably in doubt. “The situation in which many of the farmers of the country find themselves cannot be remegied by a measure of this sort,” the President said in his message. S There is no short way out of existing conditions,” he added. ‘und measures of this sort can only have the effect of MRS. CALVIN COOLIDGE. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of the Vice President, is a gracious and Vi- vacious woman. A democratic wapd politician in Boston, a member of the governor's council during the admin- i iving the farmers and of raising |; e G e s deceiving the farmers and. ol Mrmer | stration of Gov. Coolidge. once se- L e better system of domestic mar- |marked in counection with the gov- { keting, and cres . he said, “but espe. | cially larger foreign markets for his (:;:'p]u.q p:odun'l Clearly measures of his sort," he continued, “will not con fuce to an expansion of the foreign market.” Only Slight Interest. The President said the measure “has interest so far as its pro- ernor's w f cCal’ had his wife’s smile he'd have been President long ugo.” Vi President and Coolidge were 1 1905, ore her marriage Mrs. Coolidge was | Miss rdhue of Burlington, Vt. the home stute of her husband. It was in Northampton, however, that Mrs, {only slight ectivi cenue yields are concerned” | Viee President Coolidge and a‘:d“:;:cl::e? that the rates estab-lwooed Miss Goodhue. She was a1 {an 8 the bill “eitiier equal or eX- [teacher in the Northampton School L oo established under the |for Mutes when he was a strugeling | Payne-Aldrich act. in which the prin- | young lawyer i ciple of protection reached its high-1 The Coolidgex have two sons—o {water mark, and the cnectment of LJohn B.. born in September. 190 vhich was followed by n effective Calvin, jr, born_in April. 1908, xhibition of protest on the part ¢ he majority of the American people. “I do not believe” the President id, “that the sober judgment of the me Life of Coolidgen. , home dife of the Coolidges Las pictured as the quintessence of Th n ! nasses of the 7 npn‘. of lhp'llrllulm. simple life. Mrs. Coolidge is a \ of the special class whose In- |y nonbr She has spe crea Cirests are immediately affected by g :‘r '|‘|T JRhS ’j-k spent w great this measure, will sanction a return. me taking care of her | capecially in view of conditions which d her two boy® She is Jend even less justification for such fond of social life and has | liton, to a policy of legislation for |&real charm of manner, however, and {Eelfish interests which will foster {8 expected to make a very definite i monopoly and increase the disposition |Mace for herself in Washington I to look upon the government as an |Ci¢ty. Not at all desirous of sor {instrument for private gain instead :'r'm:;!:fn]\iwx‘nn"l::f' the of an instrument for the promotion [of wikine the —sir preisome of the general well being. a home body. who has been %0 happy in l|luklln:A her home place of con- GEORGETOWN DEBATERS qa‘,‘a"llil;”f..,‘,'.»‘“?m. The fads and Toms of the day DEFEAT TEAM OF YALE Red Crows Her Only Club. The Red Cross is the only organiza- tion of which Mrs. Coolidge hus been Awarded a unanimous decision over |4 member in the past. She gus not Yale University 1ast night, George- peen a membir of societies or clubk. town University debaters are looking | In fact, she has been quoted as say- i forward eagerly to meeting the ey i ch fo Lo A Niling team torsorrow |IDE that she never cared much for evening. them Georgetown took the negative side of the proposition “That the Employ- ers of the United States Should Abol- ish the Principle of the Open Shop. The members of the winn Georgetown team were John J. Jac obs of Montana, John J. Darby of the District of Columbia, Edward J.. Ca! lahan of Maine and Robert W President was the Cool- Even while the. Vic governor of ) chusetts idge home in simplest. Mr cupied « by of a double house on t, for which they paid v have Tived in that they were married, year, when the; house ever 3 except for the fir | Wimsatt of the District of Colum-|jeased the home of one of the col- bia, Yale debaters were Edwin Mims [lege professors in Northampton. When of Tennessee, Robert M. Hutehins of | in Be lidges have gecu- Kentucky, Daniel Rochford of Min- | pied a th suite in the Adams nesota and William B. Beuton of | House. & hotel that for years has be Missouri. { e headau % of the “upstaters William §. Culbertson. president of | during legislative sessions. As gov- the Yale Club of Washington, pre- | ernor of Mas chusetts Mr. Coolidge sided. The judges were Rear Ad-|could have commanded a fine gxects- mansion had he so desired. Mrs. Coolidge has interestod herself in woman suffrage, though she did not Court of Appeals, Justice Fenton W.|take an active part in the campaign Booth of the Court of Claims, Jus- | for it. She believes that the wornen tice James S. Smith of the Court of [of the country, now thal they hitve Customs Appeals and Gilbert Gros- | obtained the vote, should educata venor, president of the National Geo- ) themselves 50 as to make the Lusi use graphic Society. of their privilege. miral W. €. Benson, chairman of the United States Shipping Board; Jus- tice Josiah A. Van Orsdel of the tiy