The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-04-12
WASHINGTON TALK
Of NEVADA INTEREST

fSPEcIAL CoRREsroNDENcEl
WASHINGTON, DC, April 6.-With
the convening of the special session
of the Sixty-seventh Congress now
less than week away. the matter of
committee assignments is occupying
the time Of Senator'S and Representa-
tives to the exclusion of nearly all
else. The Committee on Committees
of the House has been in session three
days of this week, and probably will
finish its labors this afternoon. Sen
ator Oddie is again confined to his
home by illness, and 1t cannot be
learned what committees he will be
on, as the assignments are not given
to the press until all work is finished
by the Committee on Committees.
Congressman Arentz, after some
strenuous sparring, landed positions
on the committees he was most in
terested in, namely Irrigation of Arid
Lands and Mines and Mining. The
latter committee Is an important one
consisting of fourteen members. and
positions on 1t have been held almost
exclusively by Eastern men. Milton
H. yelling of Utah was the only
Westerner on this committee In the
Sixty-sixth Congress. New members
rarely secure places on 1t. Arentz
had been scheduled for Indian Affairs,
but he protested.
why, there is more mining In one
county of Pennsylvania than in the
entire West" said Representative
Mann, the Republican leader of the
House, after he had declared that
Arentz could not be placed on Mines
and Mining.
THAT may be true. Mr.. Manu." re-
piled the Nevada Congressman; "but
so far as know | am the only mining
engineer ever elected to Congress.
know more about mining than any
other one thing. and maintain | be-
long on that committee. l may be a
new member, but am an old miner.
After some low-spoken conferences
between Mann. Mondell. and other
prominent Republicans, Arentz Sc
cured the appointment he was after,
retiring from the Indian Affairs COM
| mittee.
Congressman Snyder of New York
chairman of the Committee on Indian
Affairs. had particularly requested the
Nevada Congressman to accept a
| place on his committee. 1t is an en-
ticing place, too. involving splendid
| trip OF visitation to all Indian reser-
vations in the United States at least
once during each Congress. Charac-
teristically. however, Congressman
Arentz chose the path Of duty as he
saw it.
The Nevada Congressman was glver
a third committee assignment, some.
what to the surprise Of himself ant
others. He was named on the Com
mittee on Expenditures of the interior
Department; but by request he sur
rendered this to 60 on the Committed
on Mileage, after winning his contes
for Mines and Mining. c. R. Evan.
of Nevada was a member of the Com
mittee on Mileage in the last Con
gress. It is a small committee of five
members. John A. Elston of California
being chairman.
i x-Congressman Evans remains a
the Capital, appearing almost daily a
the office Of Congressman Arentz. HI
said this morning he may leave in
few days for an extended trip Il
Texas via Boston and Detroit. Sena
tor Pittman, so far as could b.
learned yesterday. had not returne'
to the Capital.
1t Is unethical for a correspondent
to speak of the probable activities o
the forthcoming Congress befor