The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-21
Some Democrats Want Him
 to Name Committees
RESOLUTION IS PREPARED
vorite Sons for Ways and Means Committee Under Congress-
 man Underwood
BY wATTERsoN sTEALEY

BY WATTERsON sTEALEY
 Washington, December 2o.-(special)- J. Representative Champ Clark of Missouri prospective speaker, announced today that reports that he was endeavorng to name the House committee through the manipulation Of any slate in the demo- cratic caucus January 19 wore without foundation in fact. In his statement MT. Clark renounced his right to name the | committee by appointment, and he con- tinues to stand by that He is using 10 effort to influence the action of the cau-
 GUS and will not do so.
 It became evident today that in spite
 of MT. ClarSs announcement of last Fri
 day that there will be an effort in the | caucus to have the time-honored rule of | the speaker naming the committees fol- | lowed Not few of MT. Clarks friends
 believe that it is due him that he name
 the committees, and they couple with
 this the declaration that 1t is a positive reflection upon his leadership to allow
 him to surrender this right. This group
 is backed by those who believe that the | only way in which the House can prop erly do business Is through the appoint- | Allcil Ol lne COIlII1ltltcS Dy the Sp6dkcf l (placing the responsibility upon him),
 and not their election by the caucus or | by a committee.
 It was learned today that a democratic
 member of the House has prepared the
 subjoined resolution which may be of- fered at the caucus. The member said
 hls resolution was merely an expression of confidence in MT. Clark, and he re-
 garded 1t as due him that 1t should be | In vii nf hn nft
 Clark has assumed, however, 1t is not
 improbable that he would use his influ-
 ence against its adoption.
 l Resolution to Be Offered | The resolution follows:
 Whereas, The Hon. Champ Clark Of | Missouri has been unanimously nominated l by the democratic members of the House l of Representatives of the Sixty-second l Congress in caucus assembled for speak
 CT of the said House; therefore, be 1t | Resolved. That in tes stlmony of the
 ability, fairness and judgment of the said | Hon. Champ Clark and as an expression
 of confidence in him, he is hereby direct ed by this caucus to designate tenta- tive ways and means committee in or- der that such committee may proceed
 with the initial work of preparing a bill | or bills designed to reduce the oppres- sve and prohibitory rates of the existing | tariff act, and said committee shall re- | port to a democratic caucus to be called the Thursday preceding the Monday set | by law for the converting of the Sixty
 second Congress, what preliminary work | has been accomplished and what changes l In existing schedules it deems necessary l to relieve the country of the burden of
 excessive tariff taxes and supply revenue | for the honest and economical adminis- l traton of the government
 | bot
 speskership the Hon. Champ Clark IS hereby directed to appoint all the com
 m!ttees of the House, the minority mem- | berS of said committees to be composed
 of republican representatives designated | by the leader of the minority | Favorite Sons Indorsed
 State delegations continue busily in- | dorsing favorite sons for the ways and
 means committee to be elected January | I9. Representative Lloyd of Missouri will
 not be a candidate, and Representative | Shackelford of Missouri will be named | by the delegation. Representatives Ran | del. who is a present member of the committee, will secure the indorsement | of the Texas delega ton; and Representa- | tive Sisson Is favored by Mississippi | Both Representatives Kitchen and Rep | resentative Pou will probably be present. ed ty the North Carolina delegation, the
 
 Among other new men being boomed for
 a rlace today Is Representative Hughes | of New Jersey.
 l It should. of course, be understood that | the indorsement by delegation of a | favorite son does not necessarily mean l the election by the caucus. There has been little change in the probable per- stated in these dispatches Harrison of New York, Palmer of Pennsylvania, | Denver of Ohio, Dixon of Indiana, Rainey | of illinois, James of Kentucky, Hull of
 Tennessee. Randel of Texas. Kitchen of North Carolina and Sisson of Missis- sipri may sit at the table with Chair man Underwood.
 Louis Timms of Mount Vernor. Ala, dIed December IS on board the United States battleship Des Moines, it Is an nounced today by the navy department. | Tinims' death was cabled by the com manding officer of the Des Moines at | Gibraltar.
 | The Alabamian was a boilermaker and | had served two years and a half in the | navy.
 Death was due to Malta fever He was | n son of Louis Timms of Mount Vernon. w. H. Dubose's feat of raising seven | l ales of cotton on three acres of land on his farm at Brunddge is made the theme of a pamphlet published by the Southern Commercial congress. Mir. Dubose's' methods of culture are
 set forth in the book, which Is mailed | free to applicants
 l Senator Johnston will be the only
 member of the Alabama delegation to | spend Christmas in Washington. 
 
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