Evening star., 1924-06-29
HOUSE To HAVE
MANY NEW FACES
Changes to Have Vital Effect
on District Affairs; Vet
erans to Go.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY

Without waiting for the result of
the state primaries, to be held in
July, August and September, or the
predicted political upheaval in No
vember-it is already evident that
there will be many new faces in the
Sixty ninth Congress.
II the Democrats gain control of
the House, as they now claim they
will and as some leading Republicans
fear they may, it will mean that the
chairmen of practically every COM
mittee would come from south of the
Mason and Dixon line, if the seniority
rule holds the census committee,
which has charge of the lons-ne-
elected reapportionment legislation,
being the notable exception
Right here it may be mentioned
that this fact-that under seniority
the south will control the committee
chairmanshipS, with the exception Of
the reapportionment committee - is
being used with telling force to hold
the solid south in lire to support
whatever aspirant may be named as
the Democratic standard bearer.
GilIett Among Thirty to Go.
Already it is assured that more than
thirty who are now in Congress will
not be in the next House. including
some very prominent members, as,
for example, Speaker Gillett, dean of
the House, who is quitting after thir-
ty years of continuous service, to
make the campaign for the Senate,
which, in itself, is unprecedented
The District of Columbia, with Con-
greSS exercising exclusive jurisdic-
tion, will be seriously affected by the
changes. Representative Stuart F..
Reed of West Virginia, chairman of
the House District committee, who
has been ill ever since the first day
he presided over the committee, is
voluntarily retiring. Representative
Henry L. Jost, Democrat, of Missouri,
Will also be missing from this COM
mittee.
Representative Charles r. Davis of
Minnesota, chairman of the sub-com-
mittee on the District budget of the
House appropriations committee,
after twenty-five years of uninter-
ty-five votes in the primaries. This
probably will mean that Representa-
tive Frank H. Funk of Illinois, who
was the other Republican conferee
from the House on the District bill
will be chairman of that subcommit-
majority and if the Democrats gain
control then Representative William
A. Ayres of Kansas, who was the
Democratic conferee this year, will
probably be chairman.
Langley Would Come Back.
With the $50,000,o00 program for
housing federal activities in federal
owned buildings in the Capital, and
the omnibus. public buildings bills
coming up. there is particular inter-
est in the public buildings and
grounds committee. Representative
John w. Langley of kentucky. chair
man of this committee, although
found guilty of accepting bribes to
circumvent the prohibition law, is
a candidate for reelection. pleading
for Just one more term with a pledge
that he will then retire. Representa-
tive Langley is now in his eighteenth
year of continuous service.
In the meantime, Representative
Frank Clark, Democrat, of Florida,
who is in his twentieth year of con-
tinuous service and who was chair
man of the committee for eight years
under the Democratic regime, has
been defeated in the primaries. Two
other members of this committee will
also be acknowledgements E. E.
tires and Representative George NJ.
Wertz of Pennsylvania, who was de-
feated in the primaries.
Kahn May Quit.
The Military Affairs committee will
also suffer the loss of leaders. Rep
julius Kahn of California,
ty-four years, which would shave been
continuous save for q break in the
58th Congress, has been seriously
i'll and is not expected to return