Evening star., 1919-03-02
THEIR JOB TO SHAPE
LAW OF THE NATION
Men Who Will Head Important Senate and
House Committees in the
Next Congress.
Next Congress-.

have to organize the committees. But
| Senator Penrose insists he will be
| chosen, and IL is pretty safe to say he
will be. The republican progressives
viii mako their fight in the party
! caucus and then support the party
selection Since this fight over the
| league of nations has developed. the
chances Of Senator Penrose have
Frightened, for his opponents believe
| 1t Is more important that repub-
Hcar should head the foreign rela-
tions COMMITTEES than that Penrose
should be defeated for chairman ofA
finance.
The senior senator from Pennsylva-
MA is the biggest man in the Senate,
physically This is no reflection on
| his mentality. however for he is
| a clever speaker, a hard hitting de-
batter and a great student of tariff
and revenue laws, He has served for
| twenty-five years in the Senate and
hSd served for years in the state leg
! isiature before coming to Washing
ton. He is a graduate of Harvard in
| the class of 1881 and a member of the
bar
Lodge for Foreign Relations.
About one of the important chair
! tnahshlps in the Senate there is no de-
pate Whatever-the foreign relations
committee, Senator Henry Cabot
| Lodge of Massachusetts in all prob
ability would be the selection of the
republicans for that post even il he
I ga
the committee. Both because of his
| wide knowledge of foreign affairs and
his ability he is regarded as the ideal
man for this place. The next Senate
| must handle the peace treaty, and the
chairman of the foreign relations
committee will hold a commanding
position, even though he is not of the
Presidents party. The republicans
believe that in Senator Lodge they
have leader who will look first To
the interests of America
Senator Lodge also is both a Har-
| ward man and member of the bar
But he is known pest TO the country =
| as a legislator and an author His
| DOCKS, practically all of which deal
with the history of the United States
and its leading men. have been widely
published. Senator Lodge is in his
sixty-ninth year, but time has dealt
kindly with him, and he stands today
as one of the leaders of American
thought in regard to the foreign af-
\ fairs of the country. He is one of the
ablest speakers in the Senate, and his
speeches command the strict attention
of his colleagues on both sides of the
:. chamber
To Handle Railroad Problem.
The problems of reconstruction.
winch have been allowed to slide in
the present democratic Congress.
; must be dealt with by the republicans.
Among these problems the questtdds
which looms as large as any, perhaps
larger, is what shall we do with the
railroads." Senator Albert Baird Cum-
Minis of Iowa will head the commits
tee on Interstate commerce No man
! in the country has made a more care-
ful study of the carriers or has q
keener grasp of the railroad problem
He will have a great influence upon
the determination of a railroad policy
Inclined to government ownership as
| a solution of the problem years ago,
Senator Cummins is now inciining to
! private ownership under the strictest
kind of government control, with the
roads divided into geographical sys-
TENS Senator Cummns is a lawyer
and an able one, one of the stalwart
sons OF the middle west. He was Coy
ernor of Iowa before he came to the
Senate to succeed the late Senator W.
! Is. Allison. He has been put forward
several times by his state as a candi-
date for the republican nomination
tor President, and may be again in
1890.
orner pressing problems of recon-
tstruction and readJustment to meet
peace conditions will be handled by
the committees on education and labor
and military affairs. Senator William
Z. Borah Of Idaho is slated TO head the
lcommittee on education and labor and
Senator James w. Wadsworth. jr- of
New York the committee on military
isffairs. Senator Borah is perhaps the
greatest orator in the Senate, and,
com bined with this. he is an able law
yer and man of progressive tenden-
twelve years and is beginning his
third term
Student of Military Affairs.
| Senator Wadsworth is regarded not
only as one of the ablest of the younger
senators-he is still in his first term
but as one of the ablest men in the Sem
late. A big future is predicted for him,
Notwithstanding his steadfast opposition
to woman suffrage. He comes up for re-
jelection next year. Senator Wadsworth
served for years in the National Guard
and in the war with Spain, and has
made a study of everything pertaining
| to the military. He is an ardent advo-
cate Of military training for the young
men of the country and will put his
shoulder to the wheel for universal mill
| tary training when the time comes to
decide upon a permanent policy for the
future He graduated from Yale in the
spring of 1895, enlisted as a private In
Battery A, Pennsylvania Field Artillery,
and served in the Porto Rican campaign
! in the summer Of that year. Besides
being legislator, Senator Wadsworth
| is a farmer and probably knows as
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