The Hoover Week

THE PRESIDENCY

The Hoover Week

When Senator Hiram Johnson kept calling more and more naval officers before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify against the London Treaty, President Hoover last week began to suspect a subtle filibuster was in progress to block ratification of the Pact at this session. The President has gained enough knowledge of practical politics to realize that delay feeds the fires of Opposition. Sternly he spoke out his displeasure.

"It is my understanding that the advocates of the Naval Treaty in the Senate are earnestly striving for action in the present session. If it should prove impossible to complete in the present session, I shall call a special session of the Senate immediately following the regular session to deal with the question."

As a result of this threat, Chairman Borah of the Foreign Relations Committee prepared to close hearings this week, predicted the Pact's ratification within a fortnight.

P: Bursting with a sense of "personal triumph," Secretary of Labor James John Davis called on President Hoover to tell him that he (Davis) had been nominated for the Senate in Pennsylvania over Senator Joseph Ridgway Grundy . Nominee Davis declared he would not leave the Cabinet until Sept. 1, after he had written his department's annual report.

P: With his face burned a pinkish red by sun and sea wind, President Hoover returned to the White House from reviewing the U. S. fleet off the Virginia Capes. Aboard his reviewing ship, the U. S. S. Salt Lake City, the President had clambered up and down steel ladders, poked in and out of gun turrets, inspected the officers & crew, thoroughly enjoyed himself.

P: To his Rapidan Camp President Hoover carried 17 men as weekend guests. Mrs. Hoover, slowly recovering from her seriously sprained back, was still unable to accompany him. Hard rain again interrupted the President's fishing. Four Senators abruptly hastened back to Washington to carry a mysterious message from President Hoover to Utah's Senator Reed Smoot on the final Tariff compromise.

P: A staunch Administration Senator who is rarely invited socially to the White House is Daniel O. Hastings of Delaware. Said Senator Hastings to the Delaware State Society in Washington: "The President entertains the irregulars at the White House to get them to change their votes while conservative Republicans like my colleague [Senator John G. Townsend Jr.] and myself have to seek entertainment elsewhere."

P: President Hoover last week appointed Hanford MacNider, Iowa-born (1889), Harvard-educated (1911), onetime (1925-28) Assistant Secretary of War, to be U. S. Minister to Canada. An A. E. F. Lieutenant Colonel with many a military decoration, Mr. MacNider was national commander of the American Legion in 1921.

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