Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-26 | Page 1 | Joseph Fordney Quits Politics

JOSEPH FORDNEY QUITS POLITICS I A A AAatSiAAA A CHAIRMAN IS TIRED AFTER ! MANY TERMS : Tariff, Revenue and Bonus Three Big Measures He Works On DECISION IS SURPRISE I Green of Iowa Is Slated to Head Important House Committee SAGINAW", Mich., June 26. Congressman Con-gressman Joseph W' Fordney. chairman chair-man of the house ways and means committee and author of the Pordnoy tariff bill, announced positively this morning in a telegram to the Saginaw Sagi-naw News Courier that be will not be a candidate for reelection. He plans to retire at the nd of his present pres-ent term after 2 1 years of continuous service in congress. FORDNf 1 riRED. WASHINGTON' lun- 26. I am tin J, I am Ktr-Venrs old; r want to rest now and '" with mv family." j Chairman Joseph W. Kordney of the house wavs and means committee. d-' d-' ( 1., r.-d i mi l In annoiin. ln h h i .1 I determined not to seek re-election. from the eighth Michigan district af-jter af-jter a continuous service of 24 years. By th.- time hi- term ends March 4. next, Mr. Kordney said the three I big measures on which he has worked this season tariff . revonuc and bonus I would have Keen enacted into law 'coming from his commltteo. These major bills kept him steadily at work and while he Is .till hale mu firm, Mr. Pordney says he is entitled to a rest. "A Democrat was serving in the Eigh'h district when I was tlrst elected elect-ed nearly a iiu.ir:. r of a century ago." he said, "and I have be n here ever since. This Is th" last political job I j expect to hold." j News of Mr Fordney'S decision was Ian utter surprise to house members generally. Representative William It. Green of Iowa. Is the ranking Republican I member of the ways and means committee com-mittee LJnder the house seniority I rules, he will become chairman, members mem-bers said, if th Republican! retain control of the house In the November elections.