Show t f IA Washington Daybook J By HERBERT DERBERT lL PLUMMER l IER WASHINGTON Nov Nay 2 20 NothIng 20 O-No O Nothing thin g perhaps is more productive of conversation conversation con- con now in the capital than mention of at who will be Democratic leader eader house should that party organize in the coming congress At least half a dozen names arc are heard icard in most discussions In fact no o- o one apparently knows just what will happen As one Democratic stalwart put it Your guess is as good goods goodas as s mine However there seems a well- well grounded feeling that the leader willbe will willbe be some one other than a 8 southerner Since ince the south will be in the saddle saddles as s faras the and committee committee com corn chairmanships arc are concerned there here are many who feel feel and and this includes some southerners too too that that the he east cast or or west should be given the post ost of ot leader Unquestionably an outstanding Democrat in line for the leadership leaderships is s Joseph W. W Byrns of or Tennessee Were he a 8 candidate and went after the le job seriously there might be dif dlf- culty It would be hard to keep him ilm out though he is a southerner DOESN'T WANT IT MAYBE But happily the belief prevails that lat Byrns is satisfied as it is His plum lum would be that powerful all committee ommittee on appropriations with him as chairman chIrman A friend of Byrns in congress stopped at Nashville the other night en n route to Washington He reports that lat Byrns already is talking with enthusiasm about the work facing the he appropriations committee next session And it is this mans man's opinion although al- al though lough he says the matter was not discussed directly that Byrns' Byrns place in n the seventy-second seventy congress is fixed It is not surprising Byrns knows the ic providing money end of the government government gov- gov perhaps as well as any man And while white th the l leadership of the house ouse somewhat of a 8 Tennesee job since nee it was held so long by Finis Garrett might have its attractions holdIng the pUrse strings of the naion nation nation na- na tion ion seems to have the greater appeal for or Byrns With Byrns out of the way then the name of John OConnor O'Connor New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Tanu Tammany Demo Democrat rat probably looms largest RAINEY FIGURES IN But there are others who must be betaken betaken betaken taken into consideration Rainey of 01 Illinois Illino s is isone one Admittedly a power among the Democrats already he is attracting attention by his Insistence insIstence insistence tence that the party have a definite legislative program in view for the coming congress I If the south south- is to make a ii i bid for forthe forthe the post which post which it it may there may there are areat areat areat at least two men men to be considered besides besides be be- sides Byrns One is McDuffie of Alabama Democratic whip of the thelast thelast last congress and one of John Garners Garner's Garners Garner's Garners Garner's Gar Gar- ners ner's right-hand right men McDuffie Intimated in intimated intimated in- in in the spring that he wanted the post but bt his feelings now are unknown I John Rankin of or Mississippi is another another another an an- other southerner whom they talk of ofin ofin in such discussions ns |