Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-02
JEs ARE HANDED OF
Nebraskans Get Some Positions that
They Desired.
LATTA LANDS UPON BANKING
Lobeok Secures Berth in Body for
District of Columbia.
NEW RULES FULLY AGREED TO
Several Changes I'm Procedure Are
Provided for and Number Of
office Holders Cut OFF
List for the Time.
CFrom a staff Correspondent

tfTOm "A btaII correspondent
WASHINGTON April 1-(Special Tele-
gram - Committee assignments, as pre-
pared by the ways and means committee
were adopted by the democratic caucus
Just before recess was taken for dinner at
6l5 o'clock tonight
Congressman Latta is assigned to bank
ing and currency Indian affairs and ac-
counts
Lobeck gets the District of Columbia
which he was out after, and expenditures
in the Treasury department
Mcguire goes to agriculture and claims.
Congressman Pepper, the lone democrat
from Iowa. Is given military affairs and
war claims.
The caucus was noteworthy for its har-
mony and the smoothness Of it's progress.
Besides the committee assignments the
democrats adopted the economy program
and the new rules prepared for the COM
ing session by the committees that have
been working In the last month,
Important changes in procedure and
general reorganization Of the house will
result from the action of the democrats.
The power of naming committees was
definitely taken from the speaker by the
rules and lodged in the house Itself. Com
mittee members are to be elected by the
also in the filling OF vacancies.
some Employees Cut out.
A saving of $4,000 in the annual cost OF
running congress is promised through the
cutting out OF surplus employees and in
active committees and through the abol-
ishment of the time honored extra
months pay" Appolntive places are put
into the hands of one committee special
body 10 be known as the committee on
organization and the scramble for congress
sional positions will center about its doors.
The important changes in the rules under
which the new congress vii loperate are;
The selection OF committees by the house.
A provision to prevent filbustering under
the rule giving authority to discharge COM
mittees from consideration of bills
provision permitting amendments to
appropriation bills whenever those amend
ments will resupit IN retrenchment OF ma
tlonal expenditures.
Authority for bills to come up twice for
passage under tn eunanlmous consent priv
ilege.
me rule TO prevent flibustering on a
motion TO discharge a committee from
custody. Of a bin is the result of the fill
buster conducted in the last session by
Representative Mann OF Illinois. He had
the pohlolAlte ltbl EahAAaAlon biiA PAoCGN oA
the calendar under this rule, and demanded
that It be read completely and peartion
that consumed several days.
The new rule provides that a bill shall
be read only by It's title and that It's title
shall not be more than 100 words long.
Il prohibits any member from having be-
fore the house at any one time more than
two motions TO discharge committees from
the custody of bills. Under this rule the
democrats believe it can be made to work
as originally intended, to prevent the bury
ing OF bills I'm committee.
The new rule affecting appropriation bills
Is a renewal OF the so-called Holman
rule" first used by the democrats in 1875.
1t permits amendment TO appropriation bills
OF wide character when these amendments
viii effect a reduction OF federal expendi-
lures.
Committee Assignments.
The democratic members Of the standinI
committees OF the house for the Sixty.
second congress as selected by the demo.
cratic caucus today follow the first mem.
ber named In each case being chairman OF
the committee:
Ways and Means-Underwood Alabama
Randell Texas; Harrison, New York
Brantey, Georgia; Shaokleford, Missouri
l<itchin, North Carolina; James, Kentucky
Rainey Illinois; Dixon. Indiana, Hughes