La. Lady v. Ky. Colonel

Shortly after Senator Huey P. Long got a black eye for committing a nuisance in the Sands Point (L. I.) Bath Club washroom and invited the Roosevelt Administration to "go to hell" before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Milwaukee, a Women's Committee of Louisiana, composed mostly of New Orleans socialites and headed by Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sat down to write a telegram. It was addressed to the five members of the moribund Senate committee assigned to investigate the malodorous election of John Holmes Overton, Long henchman, to the Senate. Mrs. Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long Times-Picayune, used strong language in an effort to rouse the lethargic Senators. Last week she made public a reply from one of them. Kentucky's Democratic Marvel Mills Logan, whose colleagues call him Colonel, telegraphed:

"Attribute your telegram to inexperience or ignorance or both. Therefore I hope the committee will not proceed against you for contempt. But do not offend again."

Cracked back Mrs. Hammond: "We regret, Senator, that we must offend again. We are inexperienced in the field of practical politics but we are not ignorant of the inactivity of your committee. . . . Your committee has kept your investigator in Washington, permitting him to do nothing ... has frittered away its scant appropriation . . . has attempted to discredit the record by representing that your authority is limited under the resolution. That resolution is immeasurably broader than the resolution which made a record that threw Vare and Lorimer out of the Senate. . . . Speaking of contempt, Senator, why do you refuse to proceed against Long's henchman, Seymour Weiss, treasurer of the Long racketeering machine, who as a witness treated your committee to all the insults and contemptuousness that could be handed out? . . . The women of Louisiana cannot be frightened off by any such telegram as yours."

A third anti-Long man got an important Federal job in New Orleans last week when President Roosevelt snubbed the rebellious "Kingfish" by appointing New Orleans' Daniel Decatur Moore to be Collector of Internal Revenue.

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