Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1919 — INDIANA SOLONS GIVEN PRESTIGE [ARTICLE]

INDIANA SOLONS GIVEN PRESTIGE

NEW AND WATSON HAVE MOST IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENTS. Washington, May 23.—Indiana’s senators have fared exceptionally well in the framing of the republican committee slate, reported completed today by the committee on committees. It is proposed Senators Penrose, of Pennsylvania, and Warren, of Wyoming, for chairmanship of the finance and appropriation committees, respectively, despite the opposition of the progressives. The committee slate will be presented at a conference of republican senators to be held next Monday before the convening of the senate. The progressives at that time are expected to take final action in opposition to Senators Penrose and Warden, but it was reported tonight that the factional troubles would be settled in the conference and probably not reach the senate floor. Chairmanship Assignments. The chairmanship assignments are understood to have been agreed upon by the committee on committees today, as follows: Foreign relations, Lodge, Massachusetts; finance, Penrose, Pennsylvania; appropriations, Warren, 'Wyoming; military affairs, Wadsworth, New York; naval affairs, Page, Vermont; judiciary, Nelson, Minnesota; interstate commerce, Cummins, of Iowa; agriculture; Gronna, North Dakota; commerce, Jones, Washington; Knox, Pennsylvania; public lands, Smooth Utah; privileges ' and elections, Dillingham, Vermont; manufactures, LaFollette, Wisconsin; education and labor, Kenyon, Iowa; mines, Poindexter, Washington; immigration, Colt, Rhode Island; Indian affairs, Curtis, Kansas; irrigation and reclamation, McNary, Oregon; Philippines, Harding, Ohio; printing, Mose, New Hampshire; library, Brandege, Connecticut. Three new members of the foreign relations committee reported chosen were Senators New, Indiana; Harding, Ohio, and Mose, New Hampshire. The selection of Senator Watson for places on the finance and the interstate commerce committees and Senator New on the foreign relations and military committees gives Indiana immense prestige in the United States senate'. Recognition Is Unusual. K iNo pair of senators from any state in the union has committee assignments of such importance as these to which Watson and New have just been assigned. This unusual recognition comes to them early, each having served only two years in senate. Senator New’s name was given consideration at the request of Senator Lodge, chairman of the foreign relations committeg.i Mr. New had not aspired to such a lofty place and he was given a surprise when the republican senate leader expressed the wish that he be assigned to the committee, which will receive the peace treaty. Senator New and Senator Lodge hold similar views on the league of nations and many of the subjects involved in the peace treaty. The Indiana junior senator is not satisfied with the present league covenant and~he is not very keen about a league of nations of any kind. Senator Moses, another antijeaguer, also is to go on the foreign relations committee. Senator New already has been a member of the military committee and he is to retain that place. . Senator Watson will serve on the two most powerful senate committees dealing with domestic questions. The finance committee, which is his new assignment, handles all tariff and revenue matters!, and the. interstate commerce committee, which assignment he retains from the last session, will deal with the railroad problem, the most important domestic question before congress. Senator Watson served for many years as a member of the ways and means committee of the house of representatives and this fact led to the request that he be assigned to the senate finance committee.