Evening star., 1923-12-09
West Virginia Representa-
tive, Elected Unanimously, ;
Has Served 8 Years.
BALL STILL CHAIRMAN
OF BODY IN SENATE
Capper, Elkins, Gooding, Weller,
Hale, King, Sheppard, Copeland,
Stanley, Jones, Edwards Members.

Repre- Stuart F. Reed of
West Virginia. who has served eight
years continuously In Congress. was
unanimously elected yesterday by the
republican committee on committees
as chairman of the House District
committee, which has jurisdiction
Capital.
At the same time the Senate repub-
Hcan and democratic committees on
committees tentatively announced the
following assignments to the Senate
District committee:
Senator L. Heisler Ball. Delaware.
chairman; Senator'S Wesley L. Jones.
Washington; Arthur capper. Kansas;
Davis Eikins. West Virginia.: Frank
r. Gooding. Idaho: E. o. Weller.
Maryland. and Frederick Hale. Maine
republicans; William II. King. Utah:
Morris Sheppard. Texas; Carter Glass,
Virginia: a. Owsley Stanley. Ken
lucky: Royal S. Copeland. New York.
and Edward Irving Edwards Of New
Jersey. democrats.
Subject to Revision.
The slate for the committee is
subject to revision by either or both
of the committees on committees.
which meet today to put the final
touches on the committee assign
ments.
Senator Ball is continued in the
committee. an office in which he has
been considered fair and generous to
the District. The new members of
the committee are Senator Hale of
Maine, republican. and Senator'S Cope
land of New York and Edwards. OF
New Jersey. democrats, both being
newly elected senators.
Senator Cameron of Arizona. who
served on the committee in the last
Congress. goes of at his own request.
and the death of the late Senator Dill
lingham Of Vermont created another
vacancy. Senator Bayard Of Delaware,
democrat, also retired from the COM
mittee. In the last Congress the po-
litical complexion of the committee
was eight republicans to five demo-
Gratis. Under the agreement entered
was changed SO as to give the demo-
Gratis added representation.
Under the reapportionment Of the
committees In the House tho repub-
licans in the present Congress are
to have only twelve places on the
District committee. instead of four
te en- as in the last Congress-. Six of
those fourteen republicans did not
return to this Congress. There were
four vacancies among the twelve
places remaining to the republicans
Then Representative Roy o. Wood
ruff Of Michigan was given a place
on the naval affairs committee and
Representative Elliott w. Sproul of
Illinois was given a place on the
post offices and post roads committee
That made six vacancies In the twelve
republican places.
Three Places Vacant.
The committee on committees yes
terday selected three new men for
the District committee and left three
places still to be filled by a special
subcommittee designated to complete
the work of minor committee assign
ments. This subcommittee will meet
tomorrow at 1880 o'clock, when 1t is
expected the other three members
will be chosen for the District COM
mittec.
The three new men chosen ycster-
day are:
Representative Henry X. Rathbone,
member at large from Illinois. who
was born in Washington and whose
grandfather was a. United States
senator from New York. Representa-
tive Rathbone spent most of his youth
in Washington, where his family was
we'll known and held property here
adjacent to the White House until re-
cent years. He has practiced law for
twenty eight years. He was presi-
dent of the Hamilton Club OF Chicago,
the largest republican club In the
United States when this country en-
tered the world war and when Secre-
tary Hughes was a candidate for. the
presidency. Representative Rathbone
has already expressed his desire and
intention to cooperate to the utmost
of his ability in getting progressive
and sympathetic legislation for the
District passed.
Representative Ernest willard Glib
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