Evening star., 1947-01-12
House 10 Start
Work This Week
0nD. Program
Committee Setups
Due for Completion
Sometime Tuesday
BY Don S. Warren

By Don S. Worren
Active consideration of District
and national legislative programs
Is expected to be started in the
House this week after committee as
signments are settled at party con-
ferences.
The Republican Committee on
Committees is scheduled to meet
tomorrow morning and, If there is no
rebellion there against the recon-
mendations of its subcommittee, the
lists of chairman and committee
memberships will go to the House
for approval Tuesday.
Democratic assignments to COM
mittees are expected to be deter
mined the same day.
ID. C. Budget to Come Later.
Hearings on the budgets of several
of the Federal departments are
scheduled to be started a week from
tomorrow. 1t will be some weeks
later, however, according to the
present tentative schedule, before
hearings are begun on the Districts S
record breaking sos, 100000 budget.
Whether the House Appropria-
tions Committee will follow the lead
of the Senate and throw the hear
ings open to the press and the pub
lie has not yet been determined.
Representative Taber, Republican
of New York, its chairman, said he
would call meeting of the full
committee as soon as the assign
ment lists had been approved.
Choice Likely Up to Subcommittee.
The various appropriations SUBJ
committees, he indicated. probably
would determine for themselves
whether to open their hearings.
Representative stefan, Repubh-
can, of Nebraska, a veteran on the
District subcommittee, recalled yes
terday the practice had been given
something of a trial by the District
Subcommittee. The only major OBJ
lection to the plan, he said, is that
1t tends to prolong the hearings.
Selection of Representative Dirk
sen, Republican, of Illinois, to head
the House District Committee is ex-
pected to be confirmed at the Re-
publican conference tomorrow.
Representative Rees, Republican, of
Kansas, is slated to be chairman of
the. House Post Office and Civil
Service Committee.
Hebert to Seek Early Action on Bills.
Representative Hebert, Democrat,
Of Louisiana, said yesterday he will
ask for action by the District group
on his nine welfare and correctional
billssas soon as the District Commit
tee is organized.
On the Senate side, where COM
mittees already are named. Chair
man Buck of the District Commit
tee is scheduling meeting of his
group for Thursday morning. At
that time he plans to name sub
committees to consider the nomina-
tions of James w. Lauderdale to be
o. member of the District Public
Utilities Commission and John
O'Dea to be peoples counsel.
Chairman Wiley of the Senate Ju-
dietary Committee has called ses-
;, sion for 10 am. tomorrow to con-
slider pending business, including
nominations.
3 District Nominees.
Before the committee are three
District nominations, one of which,
George Morris Fay, to be United
States Attorney, will be opposed by
the District Bar Association. The
other two are Richmond B. Keech,
and Edward M. Curran, to be As
sociate Justices of District Court.
The local bar group has approved
these two.
Subcommittee will be appointed
to consider the nominations, but
Senator Wiley said last night it was
not certain this would be done to-
morrow.
The Senate Joint Resolution on
national representation for the Dis
trict of Columbia, introduced by
Senator Capper, Republican, of Kan
sas, is on the committee docket.
The committee, Chairman Wiley
said, will try to get to it, but its
disposition will be left entirely up
to decision of the entire COM
mittee. Since he has been made
chairman of the committee, Senator
Wiley refrained from expressing
himself either for or against the
measure