The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-15
BACHARACH ON WAYS
AND MEANS COMMITTEE.
First Representation From Jersey for
Half a Century.

At the meeting of the Committee on
Committees, which is the Committee
to make the Committee assignments
for the Sixty-sixth Congress, Congress
man Bacharach of the Second District
was elected to the Committee on
Ways and Means. This is the first
and most important Committee in the
House of Representatives, and the
election of Mr.. Bacharach to this Com
mittee is not only a high honor and
personal triumph, but is is the culmi-
nation of a fight which he has been
making since he was elected to Con-
gress for representation from the great
State of New Jersey on that impor-
tant Committee.
The Committee on Ways and Means
is the Committee of the House which
frames all Revenue and Tariff legisla-
ton, and although the State of New
Jersey ranks sixth in the Union in the
point of manufactures, and the COM
mercial activities and the welfare and
prosperity of the State is therefore de-
pendent upon the legislation advocated
and approved by this Committee, she
has not had a representation on the
Republican side of the Committee since
1863, or more than half a century.
1t is a singular coincidence that the
assignment was then given to a Repre-
sentative from what is now a portion
of the Second Congressional District,
the late John L. N. Stratton, who was
born and lived in Mount Holly, and
was elected as a Republican to the
36th and 9th Congresses in 1859 and
1863. He died in Mount Holly May IT,
1889. The late Senator Hughes was a
member of the Democratic side of the
Committee during the latter years of
his service in the House of Represen-
tatives.
During the past winter an active
campaign was carried on by a number
of the prominent manufacturers of
New Jersey, insisting that our State
be represented on the Ways and
Means Committee, as there was no one
particularly interested in the welfare
of the State to whom they could ap-
peal for protection when the impor-
tant question of Tariff revisions and
Revenue Bills were taken up for con-
sideration, as a result of which the
State has suffered many disadvantages.
Mr.. Bacharach was selected as the
member of the State Delegation to be
put forward for appointment to the
Committee, and his election is a trib-
ute to his personal popularity and a
recognition of his ability as well as a
proper recognition of the demands of
the Manufacturers of the State.
Congressman Bacharach early in the
fight for the Speakership lined up with
the Gillett forces and was recognized
by the Gillett men as the leader of the
delegation upon whom they placed re-
lance for the vote of the State, and
when the roll was called for the cleo
ton of a Speaker, Gillett received six
votes and Mann one. This victory
placed Mr.. Bacharach in line for selec-
ton as the New Jersey Member of the
Committee on Committees, and that he
has so far ably discharged the duties
OF that appointment is testified to by
the fact that each member of the Dele
cation has been given the Committee
assignments asked for. The appoint
ments of the New Jersey members are
as follows:
Bacharach-Ways and Means.
Browning-Naval Affairs.
Lehlbach-Chairman Reform in Civ
il Service, and Merchant Marine and
Fisheries.
Ramsey-Chairman Enrolled Bills
and Roads.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Ackerman-Foreign Affairs.
Radcliffe-Rivers and Harbors.