The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10
OSCAR UNDE RWOOD'
SLATED FOR PLACE.
Among Those Scheduled To
Fill Vacancies On Com
mitteeS

WASHINGTON, Dec. s.-(By AS
ISOLATED Press. )-Congress will con-
vene tomorrow with the Senate fac
ing reorganization fight and the
House unable to function because its
committees still are unorganized.
Republican and democratic leaders
OF the Senate completed tonight their
committees. They will be presented
on the floor tomorrow, but before
hand the republican selection will be
passed upon at party conference.
| At its final session today the re-
publican committee on committees is
understood to have selected Senators
Lenroot of Wisconsin, Willis of
Ohio and Knepper of Pennsylvania
for the three republican vacancies of
| the. foreign relations committee
This committee is to act upon for
| mer President Harding's world court
proposal. which has the Endorsement
OF President Coolidge. Senator owen
of Oklahoma is understood to have
| been slated by the democrats for
the four minority vacancies on the
committee, the other three to be
filled by Senators Robinson of Ar
Kansas, the democratic leaders, I'm
| derwood of Alabama and Walsh OF
Montana.
| Senator Shipstead, farmer-labor
the foreign relations committee, ac-
cording to reports. but the seat he
Will hold Is one newly created In
| accordance with an agreement be-
| tween the majority and the minority
that the committee places assigned
to the third party-farmer-lab or-
would not be chargeable to either OF
the regular organizations. Senator
Mangus Johnson of Minnesota was
| given the extra place created on the
agricultural committee.
Assignments Confirmed.
! The republican committee on COM
mittees confirmed the tentative as
signments of Senators Gooding OF
Idaho, Couzens of Michigan. Howell
of Nebraska and Tess of Ohio to the
vacancies on the interstate COM
merce commission committee.
Selections for the four republican
were Elkins of West Virginia, Nc
Cormick of Illinois, Ernest of Ken
lucky and Stanfield of Oregon.
| There were. reports that Senator
Spencer of Mississippi had beer
placed on the judiciary committee
which deals with prohibition legisla-
| ton. Senator Spencer has introduced
a bill providing for the appointment
! of committee which would deter
mine what alcoholic content of bev-
erage, was. in fact, intoxicating.
o o O
Democrats Make Progress.
/ Democratic members of the House
ways and means committee made
substantial progress today in the Sc
| lection of minority members for the
| other public committees, but the
| work was not completed. Present
prospects are that it will be late ir
| the week before either the repub-
lican or democratic selections are
| completed and the House probably
will take another three days recess
tomorrow soon after it meets.
| Senate democrats are prepared tc
present a motion Tor the Senate tc
proceed with the election of a Pres
ident pro tenn, but they still are un-
decided whether this motion will
come before or after the Senate has
passed formally upon the make-ur
! of it's working committees. The
| Senate republican insurgents await
announcement of the majority COM
mittee assignments before deciding
their attitude as to any organization
| row on the floor.