Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-04
FIFTH DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN
TO sE CHAIRMAN OF HOUSE
APPROPRIATIONS.
ioWANs TO LAND FIVE
COMMITTEES cHAlRMANshiPs
Kennedy, Haussn, 0owns'l and
Townsr in Line For Important
Plaess-Will Lose Places on Other
Committees Because Of New A.
signments.
BY f.. G.. Dougherty.l

ny IL, W LVuBucies'l
Washington. March 4-Here's the
way the Iowa delegation in congress
will fare as to committee assignments
in the next session:
First district-Kennedy. chairman
rivers and harbons committee.
Second d.strict-Hull. member mill
itary affairs committee.
Third district-Sweet. member com
mittee on interstate and foreign COM
MERGE
Fourth district-Haugen, chairman
committee on agriculture.
Fifth district-Good. chairman APP
preparations committee.
Sixth acknowledgements member
committee on postoffices and post
roads.
Seventh district-Dowell, chairman
elections committee No. 3.
Eighth district-Towner chairman
committee on tnsular affairs.
Ninth district--ire,n IN, member ways
and means committee.
Tenth district-Dickinson. member
committee on revision bf laws and
other small committee.
Eleventh district-Boies. member
committee on public lands.
With the exception Of Congressman
Boies and Dickinson. the. lowe rep
resentatives in the next congress Will
have either chairmanships or member
ship on the houses mostN important
committee. Five chairmanships go to
Overwhelmingly on rivers and har-
bors. Heugen on agriculture, Good on
appropriations Dowell on elections
and. Towner on education. Places on
important committees also will be re-
tanned for Ramseyer, who is on post
offices and postroad.s Sweet, who is
on interstate and foreign commerce
Hull. on military affairs. and Green on
ways and means. These four com :
mittees rank among the top notcn
orga mutations in the house.
BY reason Of the chairmanships
going to the Iowans Haugen loses his
place on the committee on water
power: Towner relinquishes member
shin on the committee on education, OF
which he was the ranking republican
member in the present congress. and
LOW ell, Dy dCCcpIihS lhc r
of the elections committee. is COM
PEELED to drop his seat on the com
mittee on expenditure of the agricul-
tural department. and on the commit
tee on territories.
The failure Of Boies and Dickinson
to get choice assignments Is due largely
to the fact that they are new mem
bers and the further fact that the
Iowa delegation will have more chair
manshfpe than any other state delega :
ton in the new house. While 1t is
likely that Judge Boies will be treated
differently than any of the members,
his record on the Iowa bench is known
to members Of the committee on com
mittees. and it is possible that he may
be given assignment to the important
on judiciary. 1t also Is with
in the range of possibility that Mr..
Dickinson, who succeeds Frank WOODS
from the Tenth districe. may succeed
Woods on either the banking and cur
rency or the committee on industrial
arts and expositions.
Good Supported GilIett.
The suggestion was made by some
Of the advocates of Mann's candidacy
for the speakership that all repres-
entatives who fail to support nm
would fare badly in committee as
signments. but despite the fact that
Mann really controls the appointment
Of new committees it was asserted that
Representative Good. ranking republi-
can member on the important approp :
riations committees, would be elevate
to the Craftsmanship. Good supported
Gillett for speaker and was one OF the
active members Of the House in bring
ing about the election of the Massach-
usetts leader. In his advocacy ne was
actuated by two thoughts-the mrs.
being conscientious objection to Mann
and secondly that desire to succeed
the committee on appropriations
which had Gillett been defeated wouia
have gone to Gillett, who topped Coca
on the committee.
Representative Towner has the
rcnoice Of either committee on educa :
ton or Of insular affairs, being the
ranking republican member Of eoth.
He selected insular affairs to bring
forward several ideas he hos for the
betterment Of thhe inhabitants OF the
island possessions Of the United states.
Judge Green, representative OF me
Ninth Iowa district is the Hawkeye
member on the committee Ynich
recommends membership on all inc
house organizations when IT meets
Wednesday,