Evening star., 1949-04-25
cop. Leaders Iedqe
Collaboration 10 Win
Control Of Congress
By Gould Lincoln

I BY Gould Lincoln
: A joint statement. pledging the
ptmost collaboration to win back
control of Congress. was issued
today by Republican leaders,
yhile the Executive Committee of
the Republican National Commit
zee was meeting at the Army and
Navy Club.
: The Joint statement was signed
By National Chairman Hugh d.
Scott, Senator Brewster Of Maine.
chairman Of the Republican SEN
Storial Committee: Representa-
live Hall of New York. chairman
Of the Congressional Committee;
James s. Kemper. treasurer OF
HE National Committee. and
Harold z. Talbot, chairman OF
he Finance Committee.
: The statement pointed out that
he Republicans must win at least
Seven Senate seats now held by
Democrats to take over control
IL the upper House, and at least
IL House seats held by Demo-
erats. At the same time they
must hold all the present Repub-
dcan seats in Congress.
Z Continuing Drive Promised.
> The statement said in part:
! 1--WE. the undersigned chair
men, pledge jointly a continuing,
aggressive and co-ordinated cam
paign to win back control OF the
congress. To attain this objection
ge shall pool personnel and serv-
ICES.
! I'VE shall work in close CO.
operation with the Republican
strategy Committee on which are
Yepresented the Senate, the House,
the Republican Governors. the
state Central Committees. the
state Finance groups and the Re-
publican National Committee
7 Committee of Three Named.
I Mr.. Kemper issued a statement
Ia which he said that he had
Appointed q committee Of three
10 survey the Republican set-up.
fhis committee is composed OF
Mr.. Talbot, Arthur E. Summer
field of Michigan, and Thomas T..
coleman of Wisconsin. Mr.. Kem-
rer said this committee would
make a double check on operating
costs to assure the elimination OF
any possible overlapping between
the activities Of the National
Committee and those of the SEN
atorial and congressional commit
tees.
1T is our hope" Mr. Kemper
said, that they win be able to
complete this study within the
next two weeks. AS soon as their
report is ready. there will be
another meeting Of. thse Budget
Committee for the purpose OF re-
examining the budget which was
Approved at the Omaha meeting
IL the National Committee last
winter.
Several years ago. at .a' meet-
ing of one of the committees. l
suggested the desirability OF &C
curing for the National Commit
tee, permanent headquarters. pref
erably near the Capitol. I'm glad
to report to you that at the Satz
urday meeting authority was
granted to appoint a committee
to explore this possibility. feel
that the acquisition of permanent
headquarters would have a good
reaction on friend and foe alike.
I trust that before too long that
hope may be realized.
The committees headquarters
have been at 1887 Connecticut
avenue NV.
]. Committee Name Changed.
The name of the Republican
Policy Committee, created at
Omaha. yesterday was changed
to "the Republican Strategy
Committee" 1t adopted a resolu-
tion recommending a series OF
regional conferences as substi-
tute for the original plan for a
policy-making gathering.
The strategy group elected
Mr.. Coleman as it's own vice chair
man. It authorized Chairman
scott to name q subcommittee OF
six which will function continu-
ously on strategy matters.
With MIR. Scott as Its chairman,
the subcommittee is expected to
include Mr.. Coleman, Senator
Brewster of Maine and Repre-
sentative Hall OF New York.
To Deal With Regional Theme.
sMr. Scott said the Strategy
resolution on the re-
eional conferences called for each
to deal with a theme Of particular
interest to the region. Three
topics, he said. have been selected
SO far, agriculture. industry and
taxation. He made it clear that
there would be no attempt to
write out a statement of National
policies for the Party.
THE resolution adopted was
offered by Senator Brewster. 1t
chlls for the cooperation Of all