Evening star., 1937-01-14
TWO REPUBLICANS
COMPLETE HOUSE
D. c. COMMITTEE
Fenerty and Reed Vacancies
Are Given to Bates
and Shafer.
-FOUR REAPPOINTED
FROM G. 0. P. MEMBERS
Dirksen Assigned to Appropria-
tions Committee-Bates Still
Mayor of Salem, Mass.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.


Two new Republican members were
added to the House District Commit
tee today, completing its personnel
for the new Congress. Four new DEM
ocrats had been named yesterday.
The new members are Representa-
tives Bates, Massachusetts, and
Shafer, Michigan. Bates fills a va
cancy caused by the defeat in the No
vember elections Of former Represent
ative Fenerty Of Pennsylvania. Shafer
replaces Representative Reed Of Illi-
nois, who was advanced to the Ju-
dietary Committee.
The Republicans reappointed to the
committee are Representatives Dirk
sen, Illinois; Short, Missouri; Brew
ster, Maine, and Cole, New York.
Dirksen also was given an assign
ment on the Appropriations Commit
tee.
Continues Mayor Post.
Although a member Of Congress,
Bates is still holding his position as
Mayor Of Salem, Mass-a position he
has held for 13 years. He said he
hoped his knowledge of municipal ad-
ministration may be of some assis-
tance to the city of Washington"
Shafer is a newspaper editor from
Battle Creek, Mich, and Is A years
old.
With all of the vacancies filled on
the committee, Chairman Norton
plans to call q special meeting Mon
day for organization purposes. At the
same time she will name two special
subcommittee to consider the Jacobs
fiscal relations report.
The four new Democratic members
accepted the appointments with vary
ing degrees of enthusiasm. but
promised to work for the best interests
Of the Nations Capital.
The District must have a commit
tee in the House, and new members.
like college freshmen, can't be
choosers.
That's the principal reason Repre-
sentatives Laurence F. Arnold OF
Illinois, Herbert s. Bigelow Of Ohio.
Leon Sacks Of Pennsylvania and
William r. Allen of Delaware were
put on the District Committee. None
Of them sought the assignment, but
the House Ways and Means Commit
tee, in its wisdom, saw At to give
them the job.
Are Not Squawking.
These new members, however, are
not squawking. All of them wanted
a job on a committee, and they got
it, though most of them realize by
this time that the work ahead in con-
nection with District affairs Is to
be the biggest and perhaps the most
important undertaken in recent years,
because the pending fiscal relations
report proposes to upset the present
plan Of Federal participation in the
expenses Of operating the District.
And what a diversity Of vocations
these four new members represent.
Arnold, for instance, is business man
and a banker who served for eight
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Bigelow is a clergyman, who came to
Congress after service in the Ohio
House of Representatives and the City
Council of Cincinnati. Sacks, a grad
uate Of the Wharton School of
Finance, is an attorney and former
deputy attorney general Of Pennsyl-
vania. But Aliens career has been
even more varied. For 20 years he
worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad
as a station agent and telegrapher
and later became q packer Of farm
products. After that he engaged in
the oil business.
Arnold's chief aim was to get as
signed to the powerful Appropriations
Committee. But there were too many
other Democrats, who were returned
for a second term, after the same job.
But on the District Committee,
Arnold plans to actually learn some
thing about the problems Of WASH
1ngton. II want to be fair to the
District" he said.
Arnold said one Of his first tasks
would be to study the fiscal relations
report and the effect Of its proposed
three-point formula for dividing Dis
trict and Federal expenses.
Sacks admits his ignorance of Dis
trict affairs but said he proposed to
learn everything there is to know to
be Of efficient service.
Has Had Previous Service.
Bigelow said he believed his work
on the District Committee els going
to be Of interest" because Of his con-
nection with the Cincinnati city gov
ernment as member Of the City
Council.
"rm glad to be on the committee, "
he declared. I'm going to give it
my best service. I want to contribute
to Washington some of the spirit of
the city government Of Cincinnati"
Bigelow, incidentally, believes Gin
cinnati is one Of the best-governed
municipalities in the United States.
Much Of the credit for the successful
operation of the city, Bigelow gives to
Clarence A. Dykstra, city manager,
who was one Of the members of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's special committee
which studied the fiscal relations
problem between the United States
and the District.
"Dykstra Is doing an excellent Job,
he said. 'I am proud Of Cincinnati's g
civil service and merit systems, which
are being strictly enforced. If there
Is any city in the United States that
is getting its moneys worth, it Is
Cincinnati"
Although Bigelow admitted he would
be inclined to approve any recommen-
dations that Dykstra might make, he
said he would consider the fiscal rela-
tions report with an open and un-
biased mind.