The Washington herald., 1913-05-23
WILSON'S WISHES
in BANKING BILL
1t |. Understanding 1t win Be
Put Forward as Admins
tration Measure.
NOT LAW THIS SESSION
House Ways and Means Committee
Now Working on Committee
Chairmanships.

President Wilson's wishes viii be re-
garded in every particular in the framing
of the banking and currency revision bill
that will be presented in the House early
in June The measure as 1t Will be intro
,duced will have the approval Of the Adj
ministration, and according to present
plans 1t will be written under the direc-
ton of the President and his advisors.
1t became known yesterday that the
House leaders have submitted to the
President a tentative list of the Demo-
Gratis who have been selected for surv-
ice on the new Banking and Currency
Committee. II the President objects to
any member. he will not be assigned to
the committee.
The House leaders realize, so some Of
them explain. that it is highly important
that the proposed banking and currency
bill shall go to the country with the ap-
prevail of the Administration, and that,
inasmuch as the Administration is will
ing to take the responsibility, 1t
should be consulted relative to the per-
sonnet of the Banking and Currency
Committee.
The Ways and Means Committee is now
busily engaged in making up the other
committees of the House. One of the
problems that presents itself in this con-
nection is involved in the difficulties at
tending the selection OF the Banking and
Currency Committee.
Dodgfng Chairmanship.
In the first place, many members who
are looked upon as desirable material are
not anxious to serve on the committee
that will handle the banking and cur
rercy bill Complaint is made that the
question is a difficult one with which to
deal, and that it has frequently involved
members in political troubles. Two or
three members who served on the COM
mittee in the last Congress are sidestep-
ping the assignment. They have ex-
pressed a desire to go on other commit
tees.
Under cover of a resolution binding the
members to secrecy the Ways and Means
Committee began their work yesterday
on the selection of chairmen for the fifty
one committees of the House not already
designated. controversy over the ques-
ton of the craftsmanship of the Commit
tee on Labor was engendered, and no
agreement was reached on this place. 1t
is understood that the craftsmanship will
go either to Representative Hensley of
Missouri or Representative Maher of New
York.
The selections made were all tenta-
tive, and must be ratified by the DEM
ocratic caucus before becoming ef-
fective.
The first matter taken up was the
question of designating chairmen of
the important committees, places that
were not contested and under the rule
of seniority would become the property
of the incumbents.
Order Under Seniority.
These NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Repre-
sentative Lever of South Carolina:
Fitzgerald of New
York: Banking and Currency. Glass of
Virginia; District of Columbia. John
son of Kentucky; immigration, Bur-
nett of Alabama: Naval Affairs. Pad
gett of Tennessee; Military Affairs.
Hay of Virginia; Foreign Affairs,
Flood of Virginia; Public Buildings,
Clark of Florida: Judiciary, Clayton Of
Alabama; Merchant Marine, Alexander
of Missouri Postoffice. Moon of Ten
nessee; Public Lands, Ferris of Okla
homa, and Rivers and Harbors, Spark
man of Florida.
The committee is understood 10 have
tentatively selected R, resentative Barn
hart of Indiana for chairman of the
House Committee on Printing.
Doubt is expressed by some of the
Democrats that the banking bill will be
come law at this session. This view is
likewise shared by the administration,
is that the bill will he passed by the
House, and that it will lie over in the
Senate until the regular session that will
begin in December.
President Wilson believes that a good
deal will be accomplished in the direc
ton of attaining results if the bill is
passed by the House. Time will then
be given in the recess for the country to
become familiar with its terms, and in
the December session. it is hoped, the bill
can be put through the Senate.