The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-25

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The caucus OF the Republican mem
bers of the Sixty.sixth Congress will
be held Thursday night at the Capt.
tol. Unles sthere is a violent, eleventh
hour change in the situation, there
will be but two candidates for the
speakership James R. Mann, OF
Illinois, and Frederick H. Gillett, Of
Massachusetts. The manager OF each
claims to have enough votes clinched
to elect his man. In less biased cir
cles, the majority opinion seems to be
that Gillett will win.
The majority of the West Virginia
delegation Republicans-will vote for
Gillett. Since the withdrawal Of Fess,
of Ohio, Representative Stuart F. Reed
is counted in the Gillett column. Up
till that event, Mr.. Reed was support
ing the candidacy of DR.. Fess. Repre-
sentative n. G. Woodward will cast
his vote for Gillett. He has been prom
inent and energetic in promoting the
Gillett candidacy among his party col
leagues in the House. 1t is consideretl
most probable that Representative
elect Echols, Of the Sixth district, will
finally line up with the Gillett forces.
Mr.. Echols arrived in the Capital on
Monday. Representative Wells Goody-
koontz, Of the Fifth district, successor
to Representative Edward Cooper, is
confined to his home at Williamson
with an attack Of FLU" and will not be
in attendance upon the caucus. He
was counted on to help Gillett with
his vote, but he has never made a pub.
lie statement Of his attitude. Repre-
sentative George M. Bowers is the one
out-and-out Mann supporter on the
delegation, and has been somewhat
active in promoting the success OF tho
Mann candidacy.
Frank H. Tyree, Of Huntington, ar
rived Monday. He is candidate for
sergeant-atarms OF the House. State
Chairman William 3. Baker, of Elkins.
is another late arrival. National Com
mitteeman v. u. Highland, OF Clarks-
burg, came Tuesday.
Benjamin L. Brown has been recon-
missioned postmaster at Kingwood, an
office which is in the presidential
class.
Following fourth.class postmasters
in West Virginia have been commits
stoned: Joseph e. Tate, of Dot; Ches-
ter A. Sell, Of Hubbard; Ruth A. Brill,
Qf Intermont; Cora Williams. Of
Kincheloe; and Thomas "A. MCGUIRE,
OF Premier. Hubbard is a newly es-
tablished office in Mineral county.
Major John @. Bond, Of Charleston, is
in the Capital. He was summoned to
appear before a Senate investigating
committee that has been probing the
charges made by Goyernore ect Allen,
OF Kansas, upon his return from ser.
vice over seas. These charges, which
have been widely published and dis
cussed, reflected upon the military
skill with which the battle in the Ar.
gonne was directed by American Off
GERS. Major Bond was in that battle
and was associated with Gov. Allen
closely during the operations in that
sector. Bond was not called to testi.
~ before the committee. After hear
Ing Gov. Aliens testimony, the com.
mittee decided to lay aside the inves.
tigation until the next Congress.
However, this visit gave Major Bond
the opportunity to meet Gov. Allen
and some other friends who were com.
rades in arms in France. y
West Virginia Wesleyan college at
Buckhannon, Wv. is one Of the edu-
cational institutions appearing in the
list OF colleges and universities that
have agreed with the government to
make exceptions in their admission re-
quirements in the case Of discharged
soldiers.