Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-20
WHAT 4 CONGRESSMAN SEES
Seneky Touching the Washington Doing OF Personalities
Familiar to Philadelphians
BY ]. Hampton Moore

Worth Bailey disappeared from congress
sional life. AS is well known. most of the
important committee chairmanships went
to the Southern States and are still there.
With Republican control restored sgnih.
cant changes may be expected. Butler, of
West Chester, will supplant Padgett, of
Tennessee, as chairman Of the Committee
on Naval Affairs, and Browning, of Cam
den, will rank second. Edmunds of Phila
delphia, will succeed Stephens, of Missis
sippi, at the head of Claims: Porter of
Pittsburgh, will have the choice of Foreign
Affairs to succeed Flood, of Virginia (Which
he will doubtless accept or Of EXpendi-
lures in the Department of Justice, to suo
ceed Walton, Of New Mexico; Kreider, Of
the Dauphn- Lebanon district will take
Expenditures in the Interior Department
from Hastings. of oklahoma, If he wants
il; Temple and Robbins. of western Penn
sYlvania, will take from western and
southern Democrats the committees on
Expenditures in the Treasury Department
and on Public Buildings respectively; Gar
land Of Pittsburgh, will takes Mines and
Mining from Foster, of Illinois; Kiess, of
Williamsport will succeed Barnhart, Of
Printing and Ben Focht, of Lewisburg,
will succeed Gregg, of Texas, at the head
of War Claims.
IN ADDITION to these charmanships
Pennsylvania members will advance in
other ways. Moore, of Philadelphia, who
Is second to Butler in seniority in the
State delegation, will sit next to Fordney,
of Michigan, the successor of Kitchin, of
North Carolina, as chairman of the power
full Ways and Means Committee. Ware, of
Philadelphia, will be number five on the
Appropriations Committee. or one point
ahead of the veteran Uncle Joe Cannon.
McFadden, of Canton, will move up next to
the chairman of Banking and Currency,
with Darrow, of Germantown, a peg or
:wo behind. Rose, of Johnstown, will ad-
vance on Coinage, Weights and Measures;
Watson, Of the Bucks.Montgomery dis
trict, who is on Insular Affairs, will move
up next to the chairman of Patents with
a strong probability of securing the chair
manship II he wants it; Graham, of Phila-
delphia, will advance to number three on
Judiciary; NORM and Crago will move up
to numbers Ave and seven on Military At
| fairs. the chairman of which, Kahn, of
California, will succeed Dent, Of Alabama;
Griest, Of Lancaster, will be number three
and possibly number two on Postoffices and
Postroads, the chairman of which, Judge
Moon, Of Tennessee, led the Burleson
forces against the pneumatic tubes; and
Costello, Of Philadelphia, will become mum.
| ber three on the Committee on Rivers and
Harbors, the chairman of which. Small, of
North Carolina, gives way to Kennedy, of
Iowa. Congressman Strong, another of
the reelected Pennsylvania Republicans,
is OIL Mines and Mining and one OF the
expenditures committees. When the new
Pennsylvania members come up for consid.
Grafton there will be some changes in these
prospective committee appointments and
some additional places will have to be
! found, but what has been set forth is suffi-
/ Client to show how consequential Is the
tansition from Democratic TO a BE.
publican regime! =,