Evening star., 1927-12-04

new one, In substitution for the II
minor committees on expenditures
The ways and means committee is
ready to report bill providing for a
reduction of $o36. .000, 900 in taves.
while the administration has set n
ma ximum of 1925, 900, 900 for the tax
cut.
Deficiency Bill Ready.
The House appropriations commit
teN is ready to report the urgent de
fIciency appropriation bill, which viii
carry approximately $3.50, 100000, and
is working on a program to get the
nine regular supply bills ready for the
House before March Is.
Approximately 5000 bills and reso-
lutions are already at the Government
Printing Office. having been informally
presented to the clerks so as to he in
shape for reference to proper com.
mittees as soon as the House or
ganizes. Included in these are more
than 40 measures affecting the Dis
trict of Columbia. and most conSplcu'
ously the Zihlman bill 10 set aside
the lump sum appropriation and re-
turn to the fixed proportion as pro-
vided for in permanent law.
William Tyler Page. clerk OF the
House. and 35 years in service at the
Capitol. will call the House to order.
After prayer by the chaplain. Rev.
DIR. James Shera Montgomery, Mr..
Longworth will he reelected Speaker.
The leader Of the Democratic minor
ity will address the House. The
Speaker will address the House. The
Speaker then will administer the oath
of Office to members, the roll being
called by States and the members OF
each State delegation walking to the
pit in front of the Speakers desk and
taking the oath in block. There are
95 new members. some of whom, how
ever served in previous Congresses.
Statement of Changes.
A statement will be made OF the
changes since the last Congressional
election, five members of the House
having died and one resigned. Those
who died were A. f.. B. Stephens of
Ohio. Ladislas Lazaro of louisa ma
Walter w. Magee of New York, VIII
liam ~. Vaile of Colorado and NJ. E.
Cr,mpacker of Oregon. The creden-
tails OF their successors have been
received-Charles Patgenhorst, Ohio,
/ ne l.. de Rouen, Louisiana: Ciar-
ence T.. Hancock, New York: 5. Har;
rison White. Colorado, and Fra nklin
L. Correll, Oregon.
In the first Pennsylvania district
HaZlett was elected to succeed VIII
liam $. Ware i'm the House, but re-
signed October 20, and November ID.
at a State election. James Nj. Beck,
former solicitor general Of the United
States, was elected.
The House next will proceed to the
election of officers and employees who
served in the last Congress and Tor
many years previous will he reelected.
Resolutions then will be passed ap-
pointing committees to notify the
Senate and the President that the
House is organized and ready TO trans
act the public business.
A resolution next will be approved
for adopting the rules of the last
Congress. This will call for an amend
ment eliminating the 16 minor COM
mittees which the leaders are agreed
should be abolished and creation Of a
new standing committee on eXpendl
lures. Until this is disposed of the
slate of the committee on commit!
tees making assignment of members
10 various committees cannot be re-
ported.
No Opposition Seen.
No serious opposition is expected,
as both Republican and Democratic
members are agreed that this reform
should he instituted.
The Republican committee on COM
mittees approved the reform yester-
day after receiving the report OF
committee which has been studying
all Summer on how the House could
perfect its own organization, and car
rying ont the proposal made several
years ago by Chairman Madden Of
the House appropriations committee
and urged in the last Congress by
Representative Il. Walton Moore of
Virginia, Democrat.
The committees to he abolished are
those on alcoholic liquor traffic, rail-
ways and canals, woman suffrage. In
duStrial arts and eXpositions, mileage
and the II expenditure committees.
The new committee to be created
| will be known as the committee on
expenditures and will care for work
heretofore performed by the il sepa'
| rate committees.
| Chairman Smell OF the House rules
committee said that membership on
nearly dozen other House commit
| tees would be increased and that un
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