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Show HOUSE MEMBERS ! MAKE SCRAMBLE: J . 1 Important Places at Head( of Committees Are Eagerly Sought 1 1 WASHINGTON, Nov, 14 Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, with seven, will top all the I States in big house committee heads In the new congress, unless tho se-DlorltS se-DlorltS rule Is abrogated All told, there arc 60 standing committees, com-mittees, but some of them have little to do With Important legislation. The : sc en important chairmanships Penn- 1 sylvanla Is expected to have are Ranking, claims, foreign affairs. iu-dlclary, iu-dlclary, naval, postofflce and printing, a K'ain of two. Iowa will have four all big ones. They ,vre ways and means, all powerful pow-erful of Itself; roads, agricultural and Insular affairs, although Chairman! Towner of the latter could relinquish control there to take education, lost to Ohio through the shift of Representative Rep-resentative Pcss to the senate. Illinois will hold on to appropriations, appropria-tions, the biggest committee of the house, and rules will pass from Kan- 1 sas to New York. Rivers and har- j bprs, accounts and Indian affairs, will remain v-ith Now York, which lias Tew Indians like those who used to be there. Oino WANTS MORE. Tn the present house, with a solid 1 delegation, Ohio has the chairman- 1 ship of only one big committee education. edu-cation. Ohio members insist the old seniority system ought not to keep them out of honors they claim is their due Tho far west will hold on to scv- 1 oral important committees, including Immigration, labor, military and ter- ! rltorles, Minnesota last Tuesday lost heads of the judiciary and postofflce. hold-Ing hold-Ing onto pensions, and the northwest 1 i3 beginning to clamor for great rep- : resentatlon. Some of the committees wore shot' to pieces The committee on expofll- tions and industrial arts looks as If ! B yelone had struck it eight of the J 10 Republicans being off after March; fourth. Indiana will get the chairmanship of census, which must frame the bill for house reappointment. There will be a big shift around, re- j gardless of whether the seniority sys- j tern holds up or falls down. About 10 vacancies are to be filled on appropriations ap-propriations A scramble already has siarted for four of the eight Republican Repub-lican places on the rules commi t,, which will be vacant. BAY STATE DOES WELL, Massachusetts will cling to merchant mer-chant marine and interstate commerce, com-merce, two committees tn which Important Im-portant legislation will be considered. The Steering committee, which ! shapes legislation, consists of seven members, two of whom will not come back. Greene, of Vermont, was elected elect-ed to the senate, and Dunn, of New York, did not run. Tho others who hold over are iarrowi Pennsylvania; Longworth. Ohio, Sanders. Indiana. Anderson, Minnesota, and Nolan, fornla. New England and New York ' will Insist on continued representation. , Two committees may be abolished One Is woman suffrage and the other j is control of the liquor traffic. Members Mem-bers say they might as well be wiped 1 out- As chairman of the committee on committees, which picks men for he hundreds of places, Representative M 1 v of Illinois, the veteran of many legislative battles, occupies a position J of power greater than that of any 1 other man in shaping the organization 1 of the next house. 00 |