The Detroit times., 1910-11-25
b TO LOSE JOBS
! ON COMMITTEES
y March 4 They Will Be Evicted
From Luxurious Rooms; Demo
Gratis Will Grab EN-.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2k.-ln the
train of the change in the party conf
b nlexion OF the majority OF the next
! 1,ouse OF representatives will come a
reries Of personal changes for the DIG
men OF the former majority. ne
\ ehanges are not important 10 the pup
j nc nor OF vast national import put
TOR the statesmen TO whom these
E15hanges are sure to come they prlilS
hiscomfort. Inconvenience ana the
\ 3oss of some OF the sweetest perqul-
FGities OF craftsmanship, says specia!
Is the New York World. Ol the
4 nresent majority OF the house, thirty
Six congressman occupy the enVlaple
nosition OF committee chalrmen' IL
does not convey SO much significance
IN 10 those unfamiliar with lie IN the
y capitol. but TO those intimately as
q eociated with the Legislators II means
II much.
n To begin with, OF the ihirty-siX gen
Il flcmen, who will lose chairmanshlPs
next session, each enjoys the prlNll
& ege of two or more comiorlaple
3 rooms. Always a committee room Tor
the meeting OF the committee, Win
4 usually one room and in a lew III,
stances whole suite or addluobai
rooms for the use OF the chairman.
kThese rooms are elegantly furnished
-some OF them are truly sulnptous'
Then committee chairman clell-
HI assistants are more numerous
man those OF a mere committee mem
Her. The big committees, ways ana
y Means, Appropriations Military ana
Naval Affairs. Postotfices. and the
IKE employ from three TO a dozen
able assistants. The chairman S pri-
\ yate secretary is, moreover, a CLASS
above the average OF clerical assist
ants. He gets more money. AS
rule, he is above the general run
sof clerical employees, member OF
"a sort of aristocracy OF clerkdom, TOT
Sasfommittee secretaryship pays from
&e.250 per annum up TO $4,000, where
Ya8p the ordinary congressman clerk
draws $1,000. From this the fact is
nelf-evident that the sort OF man
busy congressman wants for secre-
Stary Is not in the market for the av-
erage run OF minority Jobs.
And Such Luxuries
After March 4, 1911, there will be
d general exodus from the comfort
able berths I'm the main building OF
the capitol and the house Office build
ting The places that during sixteen
Years of uninterrupted power have
grown into daytime homes of the Re.
publican members of congress, VIII
now become the haunts OF strangers.
No more can the sleek chairman
lounge back before rudy CRATE fire.
stick his feet upon the fender and
say to himself:
LET the bells ring and the whip
dash 1nadly about loking for his
clansmen. | am but fifty feet away
from the floor and ! can tell the time
ON the roll at which comes my turn
TO vote to such a nicely that | don't
need to toddle in for ten peaceful
minutes
Then he could cast his eyes cell
1ngward, admire the dainty frescoed
embellishments of his den and enjoy
life.
a How different ii will be for him in
<69 Sixty-second Congress The
house office-bulding is almost a quar-
ter, of mile away. True. there is
~ underground passageway connect
Ing the capitol with the lesser build
ing where the statesmen are housed
Sj4dge Adamscn of Georgia one time,
christened 1t the Snake Hole.
Yhrough this quarter OF mile OF bad
y air and electric light. the chairman
a bygone congressional committee
now must plod. If he has business
OF Importance TO transact in his Office
ne must forsake the floor and while
engaged In the work Of making up
protty stories to tell his constituents,
BY letter, he must keep a sharp ear
Tor the tinkle of the little electric
bell which will summon him some
times once, sometimes twenty times
IN day, from his chosen duty to
the strife and strain of the floor OF
the house.
To-day the only Democrat who has
once room that he may consider all
\ his own in the main building of the
oapitol Is Representative Champ
Clark, the minority leader. MIR.
Clark has little narrow Office. just
9bAfs the hallway space devoted to
the uses OF the public stenographers.
It Is also opposite the back doorway
s@ the House restaurant and Oh
warm days the Missourian's retiring
room Is flooded with the fragrance
81 fried CLAIMS and vegetable soup 70
= distressing degree.
Uncle yoe's Royal Room.
Next session Ii will be different for
Champ Clark. AS speaker of the house
he will have the suite now occupied b,
Joseph Quincy Cannon--big. high
tceiled rooms looking out over tho
6plendid park of the Capitol across
toward the superb white granite pile
Sof the Congressional library Champ