New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-04-01

decentralization.
The fourteen members of the
Ways and Means Committee.
charged with the selection of the
majority chairmanships and the
composition Of the majority pla-
ccs on committees of the 62nd
Congress which convenes in ex-
traordinary session on April 4th,
have about completed their work
and will report their conclusions
to the democratic caucus Satur-
day evening, April !. 1t is gen
orally agreed that Representative
Fitzgerald of New York. who is
the ranking democrat on the ap-
preparations committee will be
come chairman Of that most i'm
portant committee although Con
gresham Burleson Of Texas. made
a hard fight for the place. Viii
liam G. Adamson Of Georgia. will
be chairman Of the Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce,
while John A. Moon Of Tennessee.
will be chairman Of Postoffices
and Postroads. It is still undo
termincd who will become chair
man Of the very important com
mittec of Rivers and Harbors
both Stephen M. Sparkman of
Florida and Joseph +. Ransdeil
of Louisiana being candidates for
the place If the Ways and Means
committee decide to promote
members of committees
to chairmanships Mr.. Sparkman
would succeed to the position but |
of letters have been
written to the Ways and Means
committee. it is understood. in be
half of Congressman Ransdell,
who is President of the National
Rivers and Harbors Congress.
the most militant association of
enthusiasts in the
whose campaign of ed
ucatiOn for yearly river and
bArbor bill. with appropriations
IF sufficient amount to accomplish
he completion Of projects within
United periods, has worked rad
cal reforms in river and harbOr
legislation. and no man in the
country has been a more enthus-
astic advocate of comprehen-
i've system of waterway improve ,
nents than Mr.. Ransdell. II
Public enterprise promoters of
Baltimore are going after the Ma :
iOnal emocratic convention for "
912 and have guaranteed a fund
f 100000 to entertain the dele
.ates. The first national political t
invention was held in Baltimore b
n 1881. when Henry Clay was b
by the Wings and it :
lso saw the first National Demo-
ratio convention when. in 1892. Il
andrew Jackson was nominated a
or his second term. The Demo- u
rats continued holding their
ational conventions in the Mon {,
mental City until 1856, when a
ames Buchanan was nominated =,
t Cincinnati; the same wear that =
ne first National Republican con- y
entiOn was held at Philadelphia. tt
ominating John c. Fremont. The a
epublicans nominated Abraham n n
lincoln at Chicago in 1860 and b
ave ever since mainly favored III
lat city. It's thought highly ell
robable that if the democrats Sc ~
ct the east for their convention r,
e republicans will 90 west. q
The Republican majority of the "a
ouse of the Sixty-first Congress of
aving been changed into a ma p'
ority leadership of the party
SEES conspicuously and gravely b,
n the first time in sixteen years. Ii
the Fifty-second Congress. OF
hen the Democrats had captured z,
le House, former Speaker Thos. ~
Reed was accorded the leader ii.
MP without question. This time
is evident that former Speaker :,
annon will have opposition. if ~
is undertaken to make him the an
inority leader. This is mani VI
st from the discussion of other as
ouse Republicans for the post. :. sn
fong those mentioned with more IA,
less insistence are Representa- til
Yes James R. Mann, of Illinois, Pr
ID Marlin E. Olmsted of Penn y,
lvania. An !"
1t is just possible that FIX on
oeaker Cannon, Will solve the in'
oblem by declining to be a can "a. "a.
date. in which event it is eli
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