Evening star., 1922-11-11
Zihlman May Get One of Ten
Appropriations Committee Posts
Veterans Needed for
''H0les'' Made by
Vote.
Budget Officials Aid
York on Supply
Bills.

The master committee on appro-
priations of the House. the one COM
mittee with thirty-five members. was
the hardest hit of any of the big COM
mittees in the elections. Either by
voluntary Withdrawals from Congress
or through the fate OF politics. there
will be ten vacancies on this COM
mittee. which handles all the supply
bills for the federal government, in
the Sixty-eighth Congress.
Those who are passing out are:
Cannon, Illinois; Ware, Pennsylvania: !:
Slemp, Virginia. Kelley, Michigan:
Ogden. Utah: Stafford. Wisconsin: ::
Hustled, New York: Hutchinson, New
Jersey. and Evans. Nebraska. nine
republicans. and Sisson, Mississippi.
one democrat
incidentally, 1t may be noted 1t
was dissatisfaction over failure to re-
ceive from the democrats an appoint
ment to the appropriations commit
tee that is undAr stood to have caused
Representative Guy f. Campbell of
Pennsylvania, heretofore listed as a
democrat. to ask the clerk of the
House to have his designation
changed to republican
The necessity of picking ten of the
most experienced veterans of the
House to fill these vacancies on the
appropriations committee will cause
upsets in many of the other House
committees and probably will mean
the shifting of at least one man from
the House District committee to the
appropria tions committee. The name
OF Representative Fred n. Zihlman of
Maryland. who will rank next to Rep
resentative Stuart F. Reed of West
Virginia on the District committee in
the Sixty-eighth Congress. has al
ready been suggested to replace Rep
resentative Evans. who was one Of
the conferees on the House District
bill
Between Reed and Zihlman-
The choice probably will be between
Reed and Zihlman. one for chairman
OF the legislative committee on Dis
frict affairs and the other. on the sub
committee handling District appro-
priationa Both are good friends of the
District and favor generosity in de-
velopment OF the nations capital. The
assignment must be left to adjust
ment between the representatives of
their respective states in the republic
can committee on committees. II a
democrat Is chosen from the House
District committee to go on the ap-
propriations committee the choice will
probably fall on Representative Ralph
Gilbert of Kentucky, whose father
represented INC SdtNc IN con-
RresS for eight years and who has
Inherited love for the capital and an
ambition to help make 1t the greatest
city in the world. Representative
Gilbert served two terms as Judge.
With the passing out of Congress
OF Representative Patrick H. Kelley
or Michigan, who was taken from the
naval affairs committee to organize
the subcommittee on naval appropria-
tions or the appropriations committee
and to be It's chairman. there Is much
interest nationally. and particularly
as chairman. Representative Burton
L. French of Idaho will probably be
chosen for that important position.
Representative French has been
Chairman Kelley's right-hand man In
drafting the naval appropriation bill
tect. 1t Is recalled that he made a
notable speech in the House present.
ing the committees proposal for cut
ting the Navy personnel to $1,000. He
has been a member of Congress for
sixteen years.
Work ON supply Bills.
Off1cialS of the budget bureau are
closeted with subcommittee of the
committee today going
over preliminary estimates for the
big supply bills. 1t is expected that
all of these bills will be ready for
presentation in the House when the
regular (short) session opens on De-
cember 1.
Mono of these measures will be
acted on. however. at the special ses-
Bion beginning November 20, as under
the law the budget repor. is not pre-
sented until the December meeting
Some of tho members had to race
back to Washington Immediately
after the election and the dust of
travel still was visible as they sat
down behind closed doors to hear