The sun., 1919-03-14
MANN COHORTS WIN
COMMITTEE CLASH
Motion to Add Progressive
Men to House Steerers
Beaten, 155 to SO.
LONGWORTH IN REVOLT
Ohio Representative Says Can
nonism of Ten Years Ago
VIII Be Repeated.
Special DespatcA 10 Tnr sly


WASHINGTON. March 13.-The first
| battle of the fight to prevent control Of
| the next House by Representative Mann
| and his henchmen was staged to-day
in the meeting of the Republican Com
mittee on Committees and resulted in a
! for the Mann forces.
The crux to-day was motion by
| Representative Johnson IS. d. to rec
ommend to the Republican caucus to
/ Increase the steering committee from
six to ten members, leaving the Repub-
| llcan floor leader an ex-officio member.
| Each member OF the Committee on Com
mittees is entitled to as many votes
as there are Republicans in his States
| delegation in the house, and after a short
| debate the johnson proposal was showed
under by n vote of 1856 to IS.
The only delegations which voted for
! the proposal were those of Ohio Gour-
| teen Votes), South Dakota 1.-TWO votes)
Maryland (three votes), Massachusetts,
| twelve votes) and West Virginia (fve
votes).
Some OF the Representatives of various
States did not vote in the Committee
! ON Committees. Those States whose Rep
suggestion were Wisconsin, New York,
Idaho. Iowa, Oregon, California, Ken
| lucky, Illinois, Michigan. Wyoming.
/ Pennsylvania, Indiana, Montana, Rhode
! Island. Colorado, Minnesota, New Hamp-
shire and North Dakota
Representative johnson sought to have
added to the present steering commit
tee. consisting of Representatives Moore
| Pa). chairman Monden (Wyo). ex
| nj Hri moi ,hpr ~
". Winslow (Mass) and Longworth
| tOhio). the names of Representatives
Anderson CMinn). Reafs CNeb ).
Slemp tNa.) and Nolan CCal). All OF
these men, with Fess COhio). were on
the Glllett slate for the steering COM
mittee, which was lost through a tactical
blunder at tho last Republican caucus
when MIR Gillett was nominated by the
Republicans for Speaker OF the next
| House.
Mr.. Johnson explained to members of
| the committee on committees that in
adding the suggested names to the
steering committee the claims OF the
moro progressive Republicans and Of
| labor would be represented. II the
johnson resolution had been adopted
II would have divided control of the
powerful steering committee between
tho Mann and GIllctt factions evenly.
As the committee now stands there are
four Mann supporters and only two Gil
lett or progressive members, Wnslow
! (Mass.) and Longworth (Ohio).
The committee passed n resolution
! fixing as the final meeting to determine
and ratify all committees and other APP
! pointments and assignment of members
| the evening OF the last business day
preceding the opening Of the next ses-
| sion. \ great many places on various
| committees also were dealt out.
Representative Longworth after the
| meeting was bitter in denouncing its
action. He indicated very plainly that
lie is not by any means through with his
! light against Mannism and that in fact
it was just beginning. Mr. Longworth
! issued this statement:
The performance of the Republican
| committee on committees of it's most
| important duty, that of selecting the
steering committee, the floor leader and
the whip. was exactly what ousht to
have been expected from the men and
| under the methods controlling. Its net
| result was to make James r. Mann the
nominating figure in the next House. 7:
/ Is the most complete sort OF triumph
| for reactionism Even the final effort
OF some Of US to enlarge and libe, ~ "a
| the steering committee. so as to secure
representation upon it Of the progressive
sentiment OF the West. of the States on
! the Southern border. which substantially
contributed TO the Republican majority
and Of labor. was defeated by the usual
/ vote.
| IF II had been deliberately planned
| to restore conditions existing in the
! House ten years ago, as result of which
! the Republican majority became \
minority the plan could not have been
moro successfully consummated Then