The Hoover Week

President Hoover was worried last week about the London Naval Treaty. The special session of the Senate he had called against the advice of Republican leaders at the Capitol was not speeding the instrument toward ratification as swiftly and smoothly as he had anticipated. Senators opposing the Treaty had jockeyed the Senate into requesting him to submit confidential documents relative to its negotiation and, when he refused, the opposition brought forth an offensive reservation to the Pact. While no open filibuster yet existed, it became plain to the President that the Treaty would not be disposed of in ten days as he had hoped.

When the Senate refused to work on Saturday, President Hoover went to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, took Senators Allen of Kansas and Vandenberg of Michigan, "Young Guardsmen" supporting the Treaty, along with him to discuss the Senate situation. They urged him to prod the Senate forward by making a public appeal. They complained that Republican Senate Leader Watson was not leading as a good leader should, admitted that the slim Senate quorum might collapse altogether if Senator Watson tried to press the opposition too hard. They speculated to the President on applying cloture to the Senate debate, ordering the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest absent Senators as a means of maintaining a quorum.

President Hoover, back in Washington, summoned Leader Watson and Senator Borah, pleaded with them to hurry, named July 24 as the day he wished the Senate to vote.

P: Winding through heavy Sunday traffic back to the Capital, President Hoover saw an automobile careening dangerously toward him, swerve by. He heard a loud crash. He told his chauffeur to stop, got out, went back along the road, found that the White House machine in which his Secretary Lawrence Richey and other friends were riding had been smashed by an automobile driven by a Mrs. Carolyn Lone Beach of Brooklyn, N. Y. None was hurt. The President drove on.

P: President Hoover appointed Hoffman Phillip, career diplomat, onetime Minister to Persia, to be Minister to Norway. Selected last week as Minister to Egypt was William M. Jardine. onetime (1925-29) Secretary of Agriculture.

P: With wheat prices declining President Hoover was last week requested by Senators Capper and Allen of Kansas, candidates for re-election in November, to instruct the Federal Farm Board to purchase 100,000,000 bu. more wheat to "stabilize the market".

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