The Washington herald., 1921-03-08
SENATOR'S BUSY
ORGANIZING FOR
new CONGRESS
Committees Are to Select
Committees Named
BY Both Parties.

Before this week Is over the
numerous committees of the Senate.
including that which will have
charse Of District of Columbia leg
islattve affairs for the next two
years. will have been selected and
other preliminaries arranged for the
grand opening of the Sixty-seventh
Congress.
The Republicans will have the
naming Of the chairmen and the
majority members on each Of the
committees. and Senator L. Heisler
Dall. of Delaware, who has been one
of the principal Republican MEM
hers Of the District Committee dur
ing the Sixty-sixth Congress, in all
probability will be chairman OF the
District Committee. The papers and
other documents of the committee,
which have been in charge Of James
Porter, secretary of Senator Law
renee T.. Sherman, of Illinois, are
still in the office, No. 33s. though
Senator Edwin F. Ladd, of North
Dakota, has moved into that suite
on the third floor of the Senate Or
fce Building.
'Committees Announced.
In announcing the Democratic
Committee on Committees, which
was chosen at a party caucus, Sena-
tor Oscar W. Underwood. of Ala
bamz. said a meeting would be held
on Wednesday for the transaction
of business. Quotas of committees
of the first class having been re-
duced to fifteen members, the Re-
publieans will have the selection OF
nine members and the Democrats
six members. The committees of the
second class will be proportionately
smaller. Senator Underwood was
selected chairman of the Committee
on Committees by the caucus; Sena-
tor Hitchcock. of Nebraska, was
made vice chairman, and the fol-
lowing members were named: Gerry,
of Rhode Island: Fletcher, OF Flor
Ida: Smith, OF South Carolina; Swan
son, of Virginia: Williams. of Mis-
sissippi; Pittman, OF Nevada: Robin
son, of Arkansas, and Walsh, Of
Massachusetts,
The Republican Committee on
Committees announced yesterday
by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. of
Massachusetts,. chairman - consists
OF the following other members:
Brandegee, Connecticut, vice chair
man: Calder. New York: Watson,
Kansas; Knox. Pennsylvania; Ster-
ling, South Dakota; McNary, Ore
gon; McCumber. North Dakota;
Moses, New Hampshire: Elkins,
West Virginia The Republican
steering committee includes Sena-
tors Lodge: Curtis. of Kansas; La
Toilette, wisconsin: wadsworth.
New York; Fernald, Maine; France,
Maryland: Frelinghuysen New Jer-
sey; Kellogg, Of Minnesota, and Nc
Cumber.
It was agreed by many Senators
yesterday that the present extraor-
dinary session. which was called
by President Wilson to perform the
inaugural functions and what bust
ness required attention. will con-
tinue in session from day to day
all this week, in order to act upon
nominations sent in by the new
President, organize committees and
pave the way in other respects for
the new session
Senate officials were all re-elect-
ed At the session yesterday. includ-
ing the chaplain. the Rev. ]. ].
Muir, who was elected only a monta
ago to NIL the unexpired term of
Rev. Mr.. Prettyman, resigned. Re-
publican and Democratic Committees
will hold sessions in the meantime
to frame the many complex COM
mittee slates, which will be ratified
by the Senate body as a whole when
completed. Numerous bills of ma
tional and District Importance are
awaiting the work of the new COM
mittees, which, however. will not
be very extensive before the new
session is called to order.
The Capitol yesterday presented
dull and listless scenes compared to
those Of the previous week, when
1t was filled with hurry and hustle
and thousands of visitors on ac-
count of the Inauguration.