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...Took a Saturday afternoon cruise on the Potomac aboard the Mayflower, accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge. Mrs. Capper (wife of the Senator from Kansas), Mrs. Gann (sister of Senator Curtis, also of Kansas) and Charles G. Washburn, a former Representative from Massachusetts...
...Capper-Tincher bill, which in theory placed American grain exchanges under the supervision of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has never produced any practical change of importance in the rules and practices of the Chicago Board of Trade. Recently the Federal Trade Commission has, in compliance with a Senate resolution, conducted an investigation of that market, and in its report makes several recommendations regarding desirable changes in the present mode of operation...
Protests of Negro organizations from many parts of the country, descending about the ears of a Senator, caused him to change his mind. Senator Capper of Kansas is leader of the farm bloc and of the "marriage bloc"-if such a thing there is. In the last Congress he brought forward a Constitutional Amendment and a supplementary bill to make marriage and divorce laws uniform throughout the country. One of the provisions of the bill prohibited " marriage between members of the white and black races or of the white and yellow races." Letters of protest-from Negroes have since poured...
Accordingly, Senator Capper decided to amend his bill by striking out the passage which is " unnecessarily offending to the Negro population." Many states have laws against miscegenation, and the Senator regards the provision as an unnecessary troublemaker. The withdrawal of this section by the Senator is made easier because he himself did not write the bill. It was drawn by the attorney of the American Federation of Women's Clubs...
Among the long list of Presidential possibilities picked by Democratic politicians appeared (with one or two votes each) many unknowns and not a few Republicans. Among the Republicans were: Frank O. Lowden, Elihu Root, Hiram Johnson, R. M. La Follette, William E. Borah, Arthur Capper, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Albert J. Beveridge, James C. Couzens...