The Jones County news., 1922-12-05
ENOUGH MAJORITY
FOR ORGANIZING
AFTER THAT, The REPUBLICAN
CONTROL or THE HOUSE MAY
BE RATHER DOUBTFUL
COMPLICATED BY FACTIONS
Changes Coming in the Most lmpor-
tant Committees Of the Senate as
Result Of Upsets in the Recent
Elections.
nu rnMARn 9. clARK

jorltles IN house and senate have been
reduced greatly, but the assurance
seems to be that the majority IN the
senate viii have no difficulty In mat
ters Of reorganization and that prob
ably all representatives in the house
who bear the name Of Republican will
Join TO perfect the house organization.
After the house is organized along
Republican lines nobody can tell What
may happen. There are factions with
In the dominant party In the house,
and no Republican attempts to deny
the fact. II may be because the ma
jority is 50 small in the house that the
Republicans will be able on matters of
moment TO keep the members Of their
party in line, but when it was said In
other writings on this matter that the
party with a small majority was easier
to keep In line than a party with a
big majority, no thought was taken OF
majority so small as to be almost
Invisible.
There will be some committee chair
manship changes in the senate as a
result of the recent election. Senator
Porter j. McCumber Of North Dakota
was defeated IN the primaries and II
was known prior to the election that
change must come in the chairman
ship Of the powerful finance commit
tee Of the senate.
La Toilette Moving Up.
Senator Reed SmOot OI Utah is the
present second ranking majority men,
Der Of the finance committee. Promo
ton to the chief place will come to
him. II Is interesting to note that Sen
ator Robert NJ. La Toilette of Wiscon-
sin is the next ranking member of the
finance committee Therefore he will
stand second in that body when the
senate is organized after March fourth
next. If anything should happen to Sen
ator Smoot, Senator La Toilette would
be In line for the chairmanship of the
finance committee, and IL goes without
saying that this would not be aitogeth-
er agreeable TO certain of the senate
elements.
The Wisconsin senator already Is
chairman of the committee on manu-
factures. and when the senate is re-
organized he will hold second place on
the highly important committee on in
terstate commerce. That place now is
held by Senator Townsend of Michi
gan, who has gone down to defeat
Senator Cummlns of Iowa Is the chair
man.
Membership in the committee OIL
post offices and post roads of the sen
ate is highly desirable. The chairman
OF that committee today is Senator
Townsend. After March fourth next
he will disappear from the upper
house, and If seniority shall rule, as
It probably will, Senator Sterling OF
South Dakota will assume the chair.
manshlp.
The recent elections will create two
vacancies in the committee on finance
IN addition to that of the chairman.
ship. Senator Calder of New York,
and Senator Frellnghuysen of New
Jersey were defeated at the polls for
reelection. There will be much rlv.
airy among ambitious Republican sen.
ators to secure these places. Mem
bership In the finance committee is
desired just as earnestly by the sen.
ators as membership in the ways and
means committee Of the house is de
sired by the representatives.
Foreign Relations Committee.
In these days of Interest in mterna
tlonal affairs the foreign relations com
mittee Of the senate offers its mem
bership attractions to the senators whe
are diplomatic minded" Henry Caboi
Lodge of Massachusetts is the chair
man of the committee. Senator Me
Cumber of North Dakota, is second II
membership. If Senator Lodge haC
not managed TO escape defeat. VIII
liam f. Borah of Idaho almost un
doubtedly would have been made tn,
chairman of this committee, and tn,
country knows pretty well what th'
Idaho senator's thoughts are on IN,
subject of international relations. A.
Il is, Senator Borah after March mex
will be the second ranking member o
this great committee.
Nutn HtNuloT lidIll >. new OF In
diana retires from office next Marc
the Republicans will find 1t necessar
TO name a new chairman for the con
mittee on territories and insular Dos
sessions. This committee has to d
With Hawaii, Alaska, Porto Rico an
the Philippine islands. The impol
tance of its duties therefore can b
well understood.
II is said today that the Republican
probably will choose Nicholas Ions
worth of Cincinnati as the leader /
the next house TO succeed Represents
tive Mondell of Wyoming but this ma
ter has not yet been settled.
: Claims OF Vets and Drys.
q Naturally enough the so-calle
a vets claim that the so-called dry
r lost prestige as result of the ele-
= tion. Naturally enough, also, the dry
b hold that the same thing is trr
In reverse. The sale of lntoxicatin
liquor is forbidden by the Constitl