Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-09
Democrats Pick
5 10 Serve on
District Units
Assignments Made
In Both Houses us
G. O. P. Sets PurIey


defeated veteran Republican
Senator James H. Duff in the
November election. He succeeds
Senator Mcnamara. Democrat OF
Michigan. who left the COM
mittee.
On the House side there were
tour new Democratic members
named by leaders on the Ways
and Means Committee:
Representatives Multer of New
York. Granular of Pennsylvania
Matthews of Florida and Dowdy
of Texas.
Senator Clark is a former Re-
publican and a former Mayor OF
Philadelphia. He is SIS. a we'll
to-do Philadelphia socialite and
is a veteran of World War II.
G. o. p. to Confer
The Republican conference OF
the Senate today was expected
to determine new assignments to
the District Committee.
Representative Kathryn E
Granular. who was elected Il
succeed her husband. who dice
during the last Congress, will be
the first woman on the District
COMMITTEE since the Ions anC
much-praised service of Mrs
Mary T. Norton, Democrat Of
New Jersey, former chairman.
! Mrs Granahan has pledged t
continue the liberal Democrat,
policies which her husband sup
ported during his 10 years il
Congress.
Mr.. Multer. Sc. lawyer ant
member of the Banking anS
! Currency Committee in the pas
Congress. told The Star he hopec
to serve the District in {
manner to which it is entitled.
Reached in New York, HI
pointed out that all committe,
assignments still must be APP
proved by the House. But h,
voiced his approval of home rul'
for the District and declared
that every American, no matte,
where he lives. should not be de-
prived of the constitutional RICH
to vote for President and Vic
President"
FavOrs Indignation
Legislation for both home rult
and such a vote for Presiden
and Vice President already hal
been introduced in Congress.
AS for voting here for mem
bership in the House and Senate
he declared: THAT is another
matter on which l am not pre-.
pared to comment" But. he add.
ed, District residents should GER
talnly be entitled to nonvotinl
delegate in the House similar Il
those from Hawaii, Alaska anc
Puerto Rico.
Asked about the controversial
issue of integration in Washing.
ton public schools. Mr.. Multel
said he favored indignation. HI
said that in his opinion no ont
from New York could do other
wise. He remarked that there
had been some progress made al.
ready in Washington toward this
but he hoped for more.
Mr.. Multer. a former United
States District Court judge. ha!
been in Congress since 1913.
Reluctant to Serve
Mr.. Dowdy at first was re.
luctant to serve on the District
Committee.
This was understood to have
been one of the reasons why thu
Democratic Committee on Com.
mittees wanted to look over the
complete list of committee as.
signments which had beer
agreed to before a belated lunch
yesterday.
An attempt was made to kolo
a session of the Committee or
Committees at 4 pm. yesterday
but they could not muster g
quorum. A session was SLATED
FOR 1890 am. today.
Several questions had arisen. i
was understood. as to the origina
complete Democratic COMMITTEES
assignments. but when Mr.. Dow
dy agreed to serve on the Dis
trict Committee. that cleared vi
the situation on the local level
Mr.. Matthews welcomed hi
assignment to the District Com
mittee. While asserting that h,
was only in his third term h,
indicated that he did not solici
the District Committee work but
he added, II want to make a
good a representative Of the Dis
trict as / can"
Cites Traffic Problem
/ He said he feels something
wrong with Washington's train
problem and said he hopes w
can resolve the differences W
seem to have over construction
of two bridges across the Poto
mac River"
Two Of the committee vacan
cies we're caused when forme
Representative Klein. Democra
of New York, did not run TO
reelection to the House, bu
was elected a judge in New
York Court. and when Woodrow
w. Jones Of North Carolina de
cided not to run for reelection
The other two vacancies werl
caused by transfer to other com
mittees of Representatives Steel
OF Oklahoma and Rutherford o
Texas.
The Republican leaders Of tn
House plan 10 take the problem
of their committee assignment
to all committees soon.