Evening star., 1923-12-13
HOUSE TO TACKLE
LAST ORGANIZATION
OBSTACLES TODAY
Approval of Full Committee
States to Enable Body to
Begin Work.
SMALL ROWS FORECAST:
DEADLOCK is DOUBTED
Rules Committee Fight Ends in
&. 0. P. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Set for Monday.

Organization of the House probably
will be completed this afternoon at
a caucus of the republican members
Immediately following the adjourn
ment of the House.
The democratic assignments 10
committees were presented late yes
terday by the democratic members or
the ways and means committee TO u
conference of the democratic mem
bers of the House and approved.
The republican slate of committee
ously been acted upon by the repub
lican committee on committees. as
drafted by a subcommittee was pre-
sented to and approved by the com
mlttee on committees this morning
This slate will be presented to the
republican caucus this afternoon
with every prospect of its being ap-
proved Several scraps however.
are threatened. particularly regarding
enc appointment to the steering com
mittee. but it is not expected that
this viii seriously endanger favor
able action by the caucus on I'll
State or committee assignments.
Ready to Start work.
morrow and goes through the for
mality of approving the makeup of
the committees, the House will be
organized and the committees will
then be ready to start active consid-
GRAFTON on the flood of bills and reso-
lutions which have already been
introduced
While several chairmen have been
urged to call committee meetings for
Saturday morning, including the Dis
trfct committee, it is probable that
committee meetings will not start be
fore Monday. but that on Monday
practically every committee. except
those where conflicting memberships
prevent. will be in session.
deadlock in the House, similar to
that existing in the Senate, was
averted yesterday when the attempt
of Representative Moore of Virginia
to displace, by full party vote, two
of the eight republicans selected for
membership on the powerful House
rules committee and substitute a
democrat and Representative Nelson. of
Wisconsin. the insurgent leader, failed
after several hours debate at the dem
ocratic caucus. The democrats now.
in the opinion of leaders, are under
obligation to ratify the rules commit
tee states of both the republican
and democrats.
Republicans Named.
While the caucus was in session
the republican committee on commit
tees completed its task OF designat-
ing republicans for membership OF
committees, preliminary to the party
conference today.
All of the committee assignments.
once approved by the party confer
enceS. must be ratified by a vote OF
the House except those to the repub-
lican steering committee. which will
be made up of Representative Oar
row, Pennsylvania; Anderson, Mime
sofa. and Sanders, Indiana. who
served on the committee in the last
Congress. and Representatives Magee
New York; Tincher, Kansas; Graham.
Illinois, and Sinnott, Oregon, new
members. This committee together
with the rules committee, determines
the House Legislative program.
Having determined that the demo
Gratis should have four of the twelve
members on the rules committee
the same ratio as prevailed during
the Sixty-seventh Congress-the re-
publican committee on committees
named as the republican members
Repre- reSentative Smell, New York. who
will be chairman: Representative
Johnson. South Dakota. and Schall.
Minnesota. old members. and Tilsoa.
Connecticut; Scott, Michigan; Bur-
ton. Ohio; Moore, Illinois, and BiXler.
Pennsylvania.
Representatives Pou, North Caro-
lima. and Garrett, Tennessee. the
democratic leader. We're reassigned
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