Show REED HAS BUT LimETO SAY Listens to All Suggestions But is as Calm as the Sphynx IS PLENTY OF TIME YET Everything Offered Will be Carefully Considered I I i I Will Apply the Rule to Meet the Applicant I Ap-plicant For Favors nnkl Take Their Measures Before He De elites to See if He Ha Any Place They Will Fit IIHt Will He Chairman Chair-man of the Committee on Foreign I Affairs i Ills Health Will Permit i Per-mit Other Capitol Chat i I WASHINGTON Dee Members I who have been closeted for brief times tm I with Mr Reed today declare that they have no knowledge of what the speaker intends to do regarding committee appointments I ap-pointments A constant stream of visitors I vis-itors has been received by Mr Reed but all have emerged with a paucity I of information lney say that the I speaker listens t all they tell him i about committee places which they I think should be allotted to themselves i and their friends and then say there is plenty of time yet and that he will give the matter his most careful consideration sideration Not even by insinuation does he let fall any scraps of information informa-tion I is said on good authority that Mr Reed has slated but few of the many new members for their positions yet that he intends to meet them first and take their measure personally 1 I is known that Mr Reed has told certain members who have been preparing pre-paring resolutions touching upon foreign for-eign affairs to confer with Mr Hitt i I of Illinois and observe his views before I they Introduce their resolutions There is little information in this however for ii I has been a foregone conclusion I that the chairmanship of foreign affairs 1 af-fairs will fall to MT Hltt the only I possible obstacle being that his health I might not permit him to take up the work Until the committees a announced I an-nounced i is probable that the House will adjourn over two days several I times for the lack of anything to do I following of the Congress usual course at the beginning |