encounter between Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State, and one
of the irreconcilables, when Mr. Hughes, integer vitae scelerisque
purus had just commissioned Colonel George Harvey to take the seat
once occupied by Woodrow Wilson in the Supreme Council.

When the news of this appointment reached the Capitol, Senator
Brandegee, of Connecticut, hurried down to that structure across
the street from the White House whose architectural style so
markedly resembles the literary style of President Harding, the
State War and Navy Building, official residence of Mr. Hughes.

Harvey being, in a sort, Brandegee's ambassador to the Court of
Saint James, the Senator's object was to tell Mr. Hughes what
Harvey should do in the Supreme Council. Mr. Brandegee has the gift
of direct and forceful speech. In his earnestness, he dispenses
with the elegancies and amenities. The upper ranges of his voice
are not conciliatory.

In this tone, he developed views regarding this country's foreign
relations with which Mr. Hughes could not agree. The Secretary of
State combatted the Senator from Connecticut precisely as he
combats counsel of the other side when a $500,000 fee is at stake.
The discussion was energetic and divergent.

Mr. Brandegee hurried back to the Capitol and summoned other
senators to his office, all those who were especially concerned
about the exposure of Colonel Harvey to European entanglements.

He was excited. His voice was nasal. His language, in that select
gathering, did not have to be parliamentary. He told the senators