The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-15
SOUTH CAROLINAN DENIED THE
GUARDIANSHIP OF APPRoPRi-
ATloNS COMMITTEE.
CONTEST IS IN SIGHT
Caucus of Senate Democrats Will Be
Held Today and "Pitchfork 6en'
Will Fight Committee Selections
Walsh of Montana Is Given Place on
the Committee on judiciary.

washington, March IA. = Senator
Benjamin r. Tillman of South Carolina
lost his long and hard fight today for
the craftsmanship of the powerful SEN
ate committee on appropriations. The
democratic committee list, completed
tonight by the steering" committee
headed bv Senator Kern accords the
a denominations craftsmanship to Sen
ator Martin Of Virginia, and places
Senator Tillman at the head OF the
committee on naval affairs
democratic caucus has been calleo
for 10: 80 o'clock tomorrow moriii's'
when the committee lists will be pre-
sented to the full democratic li'eili-
bership of the senate 1t is expected
that Senator Tillman will lead ilshu
in the caucus to overthrow the COM
mittee's decision.
Radical Changes.
Radical changes in the method of
controlling senate legislation and
committees. which formed the basis
for the so-called progressive demo-
cratic re- reorganization fight, begun last
December, were approved by the dem
ocratic managers and will be offered
for the adoption by the caucus to-
morrow These recommendation
are:
All committee chairmen shalls be.
elected by the democratic members of
the committee. The practice has been
for the steering committee to appoint
all charm en-; a majority of the demo-
cratic members of any committee may
call a meeting of that committee at
any time.
Members of conference committees
shall be selected by the democratic
majority of the committee having
charge Of the legislation in question.
Steering committee members shall
be selected by a democratic caucus
instead of through appointment by the
caucus chairman; appointments by
the steering committee to fill Vacan-
c:es on all senate committees must be
passed on by the full caucus.
The recommendation to be made.
tomorrow constitute important de-
partures from the practice that has
prevailed in the senate and are similar
in many ways to the changes that
were made in the house at the Begin
ming of the last congress.
Personnel Of Committees.
The complete personnel Of the lead
! ing committees, including democrats
and republicans, has been agreed upon
as follows:
Appropriations:
| Democra ts-Senators Martin, Vir-
ginia, chairman; Tillman, South Car
olina; Culberson, Texas; Overman,
North Carolina; owen. Oklahoma;
Smith, Maryland - Chiffon, West Vir
einia; Lea, Tennessee; Bryan, Florida;
| Shafroth, Colorado.
! Republicans - Sennt tors Warren,
Wyoming; Perkins, California; CAL
inger New Hampshire; Smoot, Utah;
| oliver, Pennsylvania; Dillingham;,
Vermont; Jones, Washington.
| Foreign relations:
| emocrats-Senators Bacon, Georg-
ia, chairman; Stone, Missouri; Shive-
ley, Indiana; Clarke, Arkansas; Hitch
cock, Nebraska; O'Gorman. New York !;
| Williams, Mississippi; Swanson, Nir-
ginia; Pomerene, Ohio; Smith, New
| Mexico.
| epublcans--Senators Lodge, Mas
sachusetts; Smith. Michigan; Root.
New York; McCumber, North Dakota ;
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