Show I tP 7 I II liJe OR W ON Block Housing Bill BillONE BillONE ONE NE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT IMPORTANT I TANT VOTES in the closing days of ot congress was held in strict strictest strictest strictest est secrecy though it affected sev several eral oral million people It was the vote of the house rules committee to pre prevent prevent vent the housing bill from reaching r I Ithe the floor of at the thc congress where othe I congressmen could vote on it How However However ever this column has now obtainer that secret vote The Taft housing bill with provi provisions for clearance slum and low cost housing had long before passer the he senate It also passed the house banking I and currency committee I II I after Congressman Jesse I of Michigan it fo 10 weeks i Finally it went to the rules com coin j which has the power to de decide cide whether any bill can come be before I fore ore the full house for a vot vote Am Ant I I that hat was as far as It got thousands of veterans waited foj fog long promised ong-promised housing to ma mate materialize materialize te six Republicans on thi th rules rules' committee voted thumbs down Naturally they tried to keep the theL names secret However here is th lb roll roU call of the six men who flouter the will of the majority of and wouldn't even let odd othe congressmen vote Leo Allen of Illinois chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of the rules committee James Wadsworth of New York who while voting with the real- real estate interests on this simultaneously simultaneously simul simul- demanded that young men be drafted Edgar Edg-ar Chenoweth Chenoweth Chenoweth Cheno Cheno- of Colorado Ross of Oklahoma whose law firm represented some of the big big- natural natural natural nat nat- ural gas companies while he authored a rate-increase rate bill for forthe forthe forthe the gas companies Forest Forejt Harness Harness harness Har Har- ness of Indiana and Robert Rich of Pennsylvania Two Democrats present voted to fo the he housing bill Howard Smith o 0 Virginia and Adolph Sabath o 0 Illinois That was how the Taft housing bill sill containing the hopes of mil millions millions lions ions was buried One interesting gentleman why walked out at the last minute of the thi housing lousing bill was Congressman Gent Cox of Georgia Cox is a key man of the rule committee claims to have grea influence Before the vote carat cam off oft Cox sent a telegram to his horns home district promising to support thi tbt housing bill But just before the vote came Cox got up and ducked out of the rules committee News of his run out of course did not get bac badly home lome to his home voters Woman oman Gets FCC Post ONE OF THE FEW Truman ap appointees appointees appointees to be confirmed by the senate during the minute last-minute rus rust rusi of ot congress was Miss Freida Hen Hennock Hennock Hennock nock the first lady ever appointed to o the federal communications com corn mission Miss Mss Hennock was con cony confirmed confirmed firmed not only because of her ab abil ability l lity ity ty but because of her frankness rankness Called before the Republican dominated interstate commerce committee Miss Hennock appoint appointed ed as a Democrat told the sen senators senators senators Im against you and I always alway have been I have done my best tc I collect money for Roosevelt an and anc I have lave probably taken a lot of goo good Republican money away from what whal you wanted to collect Do you know anything about radio asked one Republican sen ator I Only that Ive I've raised a lot ol OJ money for radio programs sot foi Roosevelt replied Miss Hennock I Senator Brewster of Maine want I id td d to know what Miss Hennock thought of Mary Martin of Maine who ho last year was considered as s a possible appointee to the FCC I 1 didn't know her ber replied the lady Democrat from New York But I think that women haven't had nearly the recognition tion they deserved since they got suffrage If they have brains and ability they should not be penalized merely because they wear a skirt The amazed senators taken back backby backby backby by Miss Hennock's frankness asked many questions all of them and ancL friendly When the searing rearing was over over the prospective FCC CC commissioner told the com com- Youre much too nice I hope you dont don't confirm me and that call me back here every week Neel But Bul they didn't they confirmed ler ter right away Politics in Education E. E B. B NORTON DEPUTY COMMISSIONER COM COM- MISSIONER of education has reigned reigned re re- in a hull huff over political cen- cen He is sore at energetic scar Ewing new federal security administrator who is the over overall over nl loss oss of the office of education Ewing Ening was former vice chair man of ot the Democratic national nation al committee and is an out all-out Truman man Another resignation lion tion in the offing oiling is that of 01 Educational Edu Edu- Educational Commissioner John lohn Studebaker himself |