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Show Predict South's Control if Davis Wins WASHINGTON. The South will control congress If the Democrats win in November, according to political prophets who ure unusually busy these days in the capital. Although two of the South's favorite sons were given back seats by the Democratic convention. Democratic members of congress from below the Mason and Dixon line are confident of cornering the desirable committee chairmanships if their party comes into power. It Is said by some that the control of the South In congress will be even more secure than during the Wilson administration, when the Southern states held most of the positions of influence In the senate and the house. Northern Democrats lost out, It is asserted, when the Harding landslide of 1020, by putting them out of office, deprived the ones who came back in 1022 of their original rank In the seniority list. Representative Ralney of Illinois, for example, would have been in line for the chairmanship of the powerful ways and means committee com-mittee if he had not been defeated in 1920. Although re-elected in 1022, he Is listed eighth among the Democrats ou the ticket, and Representative Garner Gar-ner of Texas now is ranking minority member of this committee and will become be-come chairman If the Democrats win. Representative Sabarh of Illinois, and who Is at the top of the minority list on the Immigration committee, Is one of the few Northern Democrats who, under seniority rule, will be in line for chairman of an Important committee. com-mittee. The present minority leaders of the senate and house, both of whom are from the South, will become majority leaders in the event of Democratic success. Senator Robinson of Arkansas Ar-kansas will step into the place oT Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, present pres-ent majority leader of the senate, while Representative Garrett of Tennessee Ten-nessee similarly will take over the majority leadership now exercised by Representative Longworth of Ohio, in the house. The appropriations committee in both houses, as important and powerful power-ful as any, will be headed by Southerners. South-erners. Representative Byrns of Tennessee in is line for the chairmanship chairman-ship in the bouse, while Senator Overman Over-man of North Carolina will have the place in the senate. |