Representative

The normalcy backwash which put Warren G. Harding in the White House also deposited a Republican named Michael J. Hogan in Congress as Representative from Brooklyn. Distinguished only by his enormous obesity and his shag of white hair, Representative Hogan lasted the minimum two years in Washington, then drifted back to resume rooting for the political potatoes which are left for small-bore Republicans in Democratic Brooklyn. After a series of public jobs, he set up a private office where persons who wished could avail themselves of his experience in government.

Last year onetime Representative Hogan was indicted on a charge of extorting $725 from two would-be plumbers after promising to fix them up with city licenses. Last April Federal authorities turned him up for another piece of business. As confidential clerk to the Collector of the Port of New York, they charged, he had taken $100 apiece from three Italians who had entered the U. S. illegally, needed some political fixing to get their first citizenship papers.

In Federal Court last week Fixer Hogan was convicted, sentenced to a year & a day in prison, fined $500.

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