The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-14
BIG SHIFT DUE IN
IN COMMITTEES
Pennsylvania Will Have
Seven Unless Senior
ity Is Abolished
SCRAMBLE Is BEGUN
Scores of Important Posts to
Be Filled; Republicans
Losing Their Jobs

WASHINGTON. Nov. 13.-Pen-
rsylvania with seven will top all
the states In big house committee
heads In the new congress, unless
the seniority rule is abrogatod.
All told there are GO standing
committees, but some OF them have
little to do with important legisla-
ton. The seven important chair
manships Pennsylvania IL expected
to have are: Banking. claims. for
elgn affairs. judiciary. naval, post
office and printing, gain of two.
Iowa will have four--all big ones.
They are. Ways and means. all
powerful OF Itself; roads. agricul-
ture and insular affairs. although
Chairman Tower OF the latter could
relinquish control there to take
education, lost to ohio through the
shift OF Representative Fess to the
senate.
Illinois In the Lead
Illinois will hold on to appropri.
alton. the biggest committee of the
house. and rules will pass from
Kansas to New York. Rivers and
harbors. accounts and Indian af-
fairs will remain with New York
which has few Indians like those
who used to be there.
In the present house, with a solid
delegation. Ohio has the chairman
ship OF only one big committee
education. Ohio members insist
the old seniority system ought not
10 keep them out OF honors they
claim as their due.
The far west will hold on to
Asreral important committees, in
ctIding immigration, labor. mill
tary and territories.
Minnesota last Tuesday lost the
heads OF judiciary and postoffice
holding on to pensions. and the
northwest Is beginning clamor TO
get greater representation. The
committee on expositions and indus
trial arts looks as IL a tornado had
struck its of the 10 republicans
being off after March 4. Indiana
will get the chairmanship OF the
census, which must frame the bill
for house reappointment.
Scramble for Places.
There Will be Il big shift around.
regardless OF whether the seniority
system holds IN or falls down.
About ten vacancies are to be filled
on appropriations. A scramble al
ready has started for four of the
eight republican places on the
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Vaacnt.
Massachusetts, will cling TO mer-
chant marine and interstate COM
mercce, two committees in which
important Legislation will be con-
sidered.
The steering committee which
shapes legislation, consists OF seven
members, two of whom will not
come back. Greene. of Vermont was
elected TO the senate and Dunn OF
New York. did not run. The others
who hold over are Darrow. Pen
nsylvania; Longworth, Ohio; San
ders. Indiana: Anderson, Minnesota.
and Nolan. California. New Eng
land and New York will insist on
continued representation.
Two committees may be abol-
ished. One is woman suffrage ana
the other Is control OF the liquor
traffic. Members say they might
as well be wiped out.
As chairman OF the committee on
committees. which picks men for
the hundreds OF places, Representa-
tive Mann OF Illinois, the veteran
of many Legislative battles. occupies
position of power greater than
that OF any other man in shaping
the organization OF the next house.