Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-09
CONGRESS LEADERS
WANT CHIEF TO QUIT
Campaign Committee Heads
Prefer HuSton'S Resignation
Without Showdown.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

bI "s UOOLD LANCOLNs
Republican leaders of the Senate and
House today laid their plans to persuade
Claudius H. Huston to resign as chair
man of the Republican National Com
mittee.
Representative Will Wood of Indiana.
chairman of the Republican Congress
sional Campaign Committee, said fatty
today he believed Mr.. Huston should
committee in the interest of party har-
mony
Il feel that MIR. Huston has been un-
justly treated, even maligned," said Mr..
Wood, following a visit to President
Hoover at the White House today, but
the fact is that things have reached
such pass that it would be unwise for
him to continue to insist that he will
not give up the Craftsmanship. Senator
Watson of Indiana, the Republican
leader of the Senate, told me last night
that 80 Republican Senators, many of
them friends of Mr.. Houston, felt he
should get out 1 think practically the
entire Republican membership of the
House has the same feeling about it.
1 am hopeful Mr.. Huston will reconsider
his determination not to resign and that
he will gracefully step out in the in
terest of party welfare"
Showdown May Come.
The indications were that unless the
matter of Mr. Huston's resignation was
settled prior 20 the meeting of Mr..
Huston with the officers of the Repub-
lican National Committee and with Mr.
Wood and Senator Moses, chairman of
the Republican Senatorial Campaign
Committee, tomorrow morning, there
would be showdown at the meeting.
Senator Watson as Republican leader
of the Senate is prepared for a request
that he attend the meeting tomorrow at
the Republican national headquarters,
it is understood. Senator Watson, If he
attends the meeting, will set forth the
views of the majority of the Republican
Senators in regard to the national
craftsmanship,
Hope was expressed in Republican
quarters today that Mr.. Huston, recog-
nizing that party harmony was es-
sential, with the congressional cam
paign in the offing, would resign. In
deed, in some well informed quarters
it was insisted that Mr.. Huston would
step aside. The coming campaign
promises to be strenuous. Upon the
result of the campaign will depend
the control of the Senate and the
House during the last two years of
the Hoover administration. If the Re-
publicans should lose control of either
House Of Congress the administration
hands would be tied so far as its legisla-
tive program is concerned.
Members of the Senate and of the
House who are up for reelection are
personally interested in the coming
campaign also.
Partly Traced to Moses.
Rumor had it at the Capitol today
that Mr.. HuSton's insistence upon re-
tanning the craftsmanship was in part
at least traceable to Senator Moses of
Nel Hampshire, chairman of the Sena-
torial Campaign Committee. Senators
were saying that Mr.. Moses had disa-
greed with other Republican Senators
as to the need of Mr.. Huston's resigning
the national Craftsmanship.
Earl S. Kinsley, Republican national
committeeman from Vermont who, ac-
cording to dispatches received here last
night, had been asked by President
Hoover to assume the leadership of the
Republican National Committee If and
when Mr.. Huston resigns, was a White
House Visitor today. Last night a
White House statement was to the eff
feet, "the President had had no COM
munication with Mr.. Kinsley what
ever"
The Vermont committeeman at his
hotel today said he had never been
offered the party Craftsmanship.
There has been no tender to me nor
any discussion with me by President
Hoover of taking the position now held
by Mr.. Huston" he said.
Mr.. Kinsley went tq& the White House
before noon to confeRN with Mr.. Hoover.
Referring to story carried in the
Rutland, VT, Herald. which said he