Evening star., 1923-12-08
HOUSE AND SENATE
|. SEEK TO COMPLETE
+. COMMITTEE STATES
Upper House Assignments
Likely to Come Too Late for
0. K. Before Monday.
DEMOCRATS PLANNING
MEMBERSHIPS TODAY
Many After Three Republican
Seats on Senate Foreign
Relations Body.

The task Of completing committee
states was pressed today by Senate
and House leaders in an effort to
have full membership assignments
ready by the time Congress convenes
Monday. after its week end recess.
In the Senate, however, it appeared
doubtful that the republican commit
tee on committees would be able TO
complete its assignments to majority
vacancies in time for a party ap-
proVal conference before the Senate
meets. This raised the possibility
that Senate democrats would defer
their fight for REORGANIZATION of the
Senate when that body meets Nor
day until after the committee as
signments have received its approval.
senate d. o. p. Hits snas.
The republican committee on com
mittees in the Senate struck a snag
yesterday in considering the three
majority vacancies on the foreign
relations committee. Although it was
reported that the field had been mar
rowed to five aspirants for places on
this committee, progress in making
the selections was slow because Of
the complications growing out of the
efforts Of fully a score OF republi-
cans to get the assignments
1t was reported that the committee
on committees had narrowed the field
to tive-Lenroot of Wisconsin, Willis
of Ohio. Pepper OF Pennsylvania.
Edge Of New Jersey and Elkins of
West Virginia. Three places are to
be filed
There is a tacit understanding that
Senators Johnson and Shipstead, the
two farmer-labor members from Min
nesota, Will be taken care of in com
mittee assignments by the creation OF
additional places on the committees
on which republican leaders determine
they shall sit. Some senators are
urging that Mr.. Shipstead be given
the extra place on the foreign rela-
tions committee and others are ask
ing that Mr.. Johnson be given the
extra place on the agriculture COM
mittee.
Little progress was made during
! the forenoon session, but Chairman
Brandegee expressed hope that all
selections would be ready for action
by the republican conference Monday.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts.
the republican leader, and Senator
Borah of Idaho appeared before the
committee. 1t was said that final
selections for the three vacant re-
publican places on the foreign re-
| lations committee still were to be
made.
The House republican committee on
committees decided that selection of
republican members of the House
rules committee and the membership
of the republican steering commit
tee in the House, both of which direct
the legislative program, would be
postponed until vacancies on all other
committees had been filled.
D,t;os
On the al-powerful rules committee
in the House the minority will have
four members as against eight for the
majority on rules-the same ratio in
effect during the S!Xty-Seventh Con-
greSS.
There will be eleven democrats on
the ways and means committee to fif-
teen republicans, the committees mem
bership having been increased by one
TO assure republican control. This Is
the committee which viii initiate any
tax reduction legislation.
The committee on committees made
tentative assignments of republicans
10 half a dozen committees yesterday.
while the democrats of the House,
meeting III caucus, selected their eleven
ways and means committee members
who will designate the democrats to
serve on the other committees.
The minority caucus adopted a resog
luton recommending the crea ton of
new House committee to handle all
legislation affecting war veterans. Re
publican leaders have indicated they
also favor such a move.
The democrats of the ways and
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