South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-11-14
PENNSYLVANIA
TO DOMINATE ON
BIG COMMITTEES
Keystone State Expected to
Furnish Chairmen for
Seven House Groups.
INDIANA WILL GET ONE
Many Shifts Inevitable Re-
CARELESS of Whether Semi
ority Rule Holds.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 13.-(By A.
P)-Pennsylvania, with seven. will
top all the states in big house COM
mittee heads in tho congress, unless
the seniority rule IS abrogated.
All told. there are 90 standing
committees. but some Of them have
little to do with important legisla
ton. The seven important chair
manships Pennsylvania Is expected
to have are: Banking, claims, for
eign affairs. judiciary. naval, post
office and printing, a gain Of two.
Iowa will have four-all big ones.
They are ways and means. all-pow-
erful of itself; roads, agriculture
and insular affairs. although Chair
man Towner of the latter could re-
linquish control there to take educa,-
ton, lost 10 Ohio through the shift
OF Rep. Tess TO the senate.
Ohio Feels Sighted.
Illinois Will hold on 10 appropria-
tiors, the biggest committee of the
house. and rules will pass from Kan
sas TO New York. Rivers and har"
bors, accounts and Indian affairs
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 one big committee-educa-
ton. Ohio members insist the old
seniority system ought not TO keep
them out of honors they claim as
their due.
The far west will hold on TO eev-
immigration, labor. military and
territories Minnesota last Tuesday
lost the head of judiciary and post
office, holding on TO pensions, and
the northwest is beginning TO clamor
for greater representation.
Some OF the committees were shot
TO pieces. The committee on expo
sitions and industrial arts looks as
if a cyclone had struck it-eight OF
the 10 Republicans being off after
March 4.
Indiana TO Head Census.
Indiana will get the chairmanship
of census. which must frame the bill
for house reapportionment.
There will be a big shift around,
regardless Of whether the seniority
system holds up or falls down. Abou.
10 vacancies are TO be filled on ap-
preparations. A scramble already
has started for four Of the eight Re
publican places on the rules COM
mittee, which will be vacant. Mas
sachusetts Will cling TO merchant
marine and interstate commerce.
two committees in which important
legislation will be considered.
The steering committee. which
shapes legislation, consists of seven
members. two of whom will not
come back. Greene of Vermont was
elected 10 the senate ana Dunn Of
New York did not run. The others
who are followers are Darrows OF
Pennsylvania, Longworth o. Ohio
Sanders of Indiana, Anderson OF
Minnesota and Nolan Of California.
New England and New York will
insist on continued representation.
May Abolish Two.
Two committees may be abolished.
One is woman suffrage and the 9TH
er is control Of the liquo| 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, Rep. Mann Of
Illinois. the veteran Of many legisla-
tive battles. occupies a position OF
power greater than that Of any 9TH
er man in shaping the organization
of the next house.