Postmasters

The Democratic tongue of Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi--ever active in Republican rebuke--has lost none of its pristine vigor. Even a list of postmasterial nominations, sent to the Senate by the President, inspired him with an Homeric recital: "Only one California Postmaster nomination comes to us ... Idaho gets nominations for one Postmaster only . . . Wisconsin, I notice, gets one. Running down the list, there is, however, one State that is very fortunate and that is the State represented by the Secretary to the President, C. Bascom Slemp.

"He is certainly functioning while we are idling away the time. Altogether, 42 nominations go to Virginia for places that have wonderfully beautiful names, like Clover and Forest Depot and Richland and Ridgeway and Rural Retreat, all of which get Postmasters.

"Waverly is quite fortunate and gets a nomination, as also does Concord Depot. Dinwiddie gets a Postmaster; I know not why; Meadows of Dan also gets a Postmaster, and so do Prospect, Beaver Dam, Shipman, Bridgewater, Disputanta, Fincastle, Hilton Village, and last but not least is Saltville."