The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-07
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WASHINGTON, Nev. s--M hes been exactly six- laen yeArs since anyone save Democratic elevator cperesos dooskesper os psge-ecy dssS sslesy M ssr needs of ConRressmen ln the halh of Che Capitol For sxteen long years, Republicans have been out m Che very cold, paxonase.ess world, .,.. ~. ulnnine vilh lhe new Republican Congress in Jan- uary 600 Democratic guards ushers clerks stenogra- pheTs stationery rocm wors@s @ sa ,sse cans win take their places
 Moss ln,rorsant of al. however, win be the new chairmen of commlttees, since the committees q Congress shape legislation far moro than most people realise Republican chairmen for the next two years win definitely effect the course of the nation.
 Here in the roll call of the most important com" mittees and the Republicans who will run them.
 ForelEn Affairs = under Congressman Charles Baton of New Jersey the House Foreign Affairs Com mittee will continue non-partisan Truman -lsoose- welt policy. Born In Canada, trained as Baptist nreacher addicted to red nectes, Congressman Eaton has been Q staunch supporter of Q. S.-World COG operation When isoationist ex-Congressman Ham Fish tried to dictate COP. policy on the Foreign throat As a result, F.DR invited the New Jersey Representative to the White House rather than Fish New York was once editor of Leslies Weekly, served as Canadian correspondent for The New York Tri- bune and The Boston Transcript.
 Ways and Means-Harold KnGtson of Minnesota, new chairman of this vital committee is bad news both to his party and the country He voted against practically every defense measure before Pearl liar. hor claimed Hitler IS dtSpaying torpearance Vnab might well be emulaed by statesmen of other cotn- tries" Personally" proclaimed the brazen MT. Knuson, T cannot much difference between Ger many's actions in Norway and the New Deal program in this country"
 KnutsOn is noisy, irresponsible, publicity blowing, has a mania for cutting taxes, especially in the higher brackets. He once made bitter attack on the late Cardinal Mundelein for favoring the Reor- ganizaton Bill . .. When Time magazine called him Fuzzy, Congresswoman Luce, wife of Times pulp fisher smoothed it by reciting Kipling's poem, Fuzzy Wuzzy" Her irate colleague purred. Knut- son will be Gods gift to hghbracket taxpayers, no gift to the little fellows
 Appropriatons- Is the all-lmpOrtant com- mlttee which decides how much the Government can spend. Its new chairman will be John Taber of Auburn, N Y, bank director and president of water company. He is the bul-in- n-the-china-closet type who once engaged in fist fight with Congress- man Cannon of Missouri and who yells so loud that he restored the hearing of the late Congressman Leonard Schuetz of Chicago. Schuetz always used an ear trumpet the floor, but during one of Tabers believing tiradeS a nerve in his ear was restored and he discarded the trumpet
 Taber glories in his reputation penny pinch CT He delighted in chopping New Deal expenditures, but brought grief to his isoationst colleagues by making a speech strongly defending seven bil- lions for lend-lease.
 Colleagues were once aghast when Taber berated the Wild Life Division of the Interior Department for paying $ll 800 to Mrs E. Eugene Lay, for land near the Finger Lakes for which she wanted $l6500 Taber demanded that the Interior Department be penazed for this penny pinching by killing its entire S9 900 for wild life It turned out that Mrs. Lay was constituent of Congressman Taber's.