Evening star., 1915-12-14
NAMES DISTRICT
COMMITTEE
Minority Leader Mann Picks
Republican Members for
House Body.
REPRESENTATIVES CARY
AND MAPES RETAINED
Six Additions All Have Had Actual
Experience in Municipal
Affairs.

A thoroughly republican. thoroughly
capable and active minority member
ship of the House District committee
has been chosen by Minority Leader
Mann. the striking feature of the mem l.
bership being the fact that almost
every one of the republicans who will
serve on the District committee for
this Congress has had actual expert
ence in municipal affairs in cities
where municipal service means some
thing. However, Leader Mann I'M
doubtedly owes the District something
in return for having taken Off the Dis
trict committee Representative Samuel
w. Winslow Of Massachusetts,. who
goes tN an important assignment on
the interstate and commerce commit
tee, and for having deprived the COM
mittee of the presence of Representa-
tive kefster of Pennsylvania, who goes
to the committee on banking and cur
rency
Two old members remain. Represent
ative Cary of Milwaukee and Repre-
sentative Mapes of Michigan. The
other msmbers of the minority are:
Benjamin X. Focht of Pennsylvania.
Loren E. Wheeler of Illinois, George P.
barrow of Pennsylvania, p. Davis
Oakley of Connecticut. Norman j.
Gould of New York and George Holden
Tinkham of Massachusetts,.
Members All Experienced.
At first glance. at least. Representa-
tive Mann's selection is an admirable
one for the mere fact Of fitness to
handle municipal subjects. Repre-
sentative Oakley has been a member of
board Of aldermen. collector Of taxes
and for fifteen years a member OF board
of assessors of Hartford. Conn; Rep
resentative Wheeler has been mayor
Of Springfield. ILL.,: Representative Dar-
row has been active in the city gov
ernment of Philadelphia. was a member
of the school board. and also OF the
common council: Representative Tink-
ham has served officially in Boston
Taking them in the order OF their
places on the committee. the Congress
sional Directory is responsible tor' ths
facts as given below concerning the
Renresentative Focht of Le@isburg
Pa. is newspaper publisher who hal
had previous experience In Congress
having been here in the Sixtieth, sixty
first and Btxty-second Congresses. ~
bkr 81 the e1DniSersity Club. He will b
remembered from his manner OF work.
ing quietly in CongresS. getting whal
he went after by method1cal methooi
rather than by storm.
Twice Mayor Of Springfield.
Representative Wheeler served two
terms as the mayor Of Springfield and
thirteen years as postmaster. having
gained thereby. considerable knowledge
of what is necessary in a city govern
ment Aside from politics he is an ac-
tive business man. and is at the head
of a big advertising company in the
middle west.
Representative Darrow. who comes
from Philadelphia. by a strange twist
of fate succeeds Representative Logue.
the democrat to whom many Washing
tonians are indebted for the really val
liable interest he displayed in untang-
ling the. snarl in connection with the
hold-up of the Union station plaza
awards. Mr.. Darrow was president OF
the sectional school board of Phila-
delphia for three years, was elect
ed to the common council OF that
city in 1910 and was member OF that
body when elected to the Sixty-fourth
business man and has several well
founded connections In the financial
world.
Representative Oakley has been resi-
dent of Hartford for thirty years. and
has been successively connected with
two business organizations and the
Hartford Courant. He always has been
active in municipal affairs since his
entrance into business. serving on the
board of aldermen and as the collector
and assessor. In addition he is an en-
thusiast for the National Guard, hav-
ing served eleven years in that organi-
zation in Connecticut.
"Deepest-Dyed Republican"
REPRESENTATIVE Gould is perhaps the
republican in New York
state, for he succeeds the late Serene
E. Payne and has been at various times
oficeholder in New York state repub-
lican ORGANIZATIONS. He received more
than twice as many votes as all his op-
ponents combined, which bears out the
suspicion that he is a republican of ex-
tremely republican tendencies.
He ia a manufacturer, being president
of a large concern. and has been a
delegate to national republican conven-
tions. chairman OF the Seneca county
committee and member of
the New York state republican COM
mittee.
Representative Tinkham is city man
from the start, having been born in
Boston, and now represents the dis
trict which A. J. Peters. assistant sec
retary of the Treasury, represented
while in the House in the last Con-
gress. He is a graduate of Harvard
and has served on the Boston common
council, the board of aldermen and in
the Massachusetts senate.
Minority "Come Backs" Fail
to Get Their Old Places
on the House Committees
ASSIGNMENT of republican and pro-
pressiye representatives to committees.
announced today by Republican Leader
Mann, discloses that veteran republi-
can members elected to the present