WHITE HOUSE VISITORS.
CONTROLLED BY CONGRESS. In order that a more or less harmless fiction may be preserved, the plan of Mrs. Harding (wife of the American President) that visitors to the White House should have unhindered access to its rooms has received a silent but effective veto (says the Christian Science Monitor). Visitors will still be welcomed, but it has been ordained that they shall bear letters of endorsement from their representatives in Congress. Mrs. Harding sought to do away with what she regarded as an unnecessary and senseless formality, but i>t seems that the privilege of issuing these letters was regarded as a Congressional perquisite, equal in value, perhaps, to, that of ,mailing free samples of garden seeds and printed copies of speeches from the Congressional Record to the “folks at home.” As there are still to be elections, and as the terms of members of Congress are not indeterminate, the right to exercise the social privilege, if it may be so referred to, was it seems, insisted upon.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1922, Page 10
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171WHITE HOUSE VISITORS. Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1922, Page 10
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