Amarillo Daily News

PENNSYLVANIA IS TO BE IN CHARGE BIG COMMITTEES

WILL TOP LIST WITH SEVEN CHAIRMEN HOUSE BODIES

By Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Pennsylvania with seven will top all the states in big house committee heads in the new congress unless the seniority rule is abrogated.

There are sixty standing committees but some of them have little to do with important legislation.

The seven important chairmanships Pennsylvania is expected to have are banking, claims, foreign affairs, judiciary, naval, post office and printing, a gain of two.

Iowa will have four—all big ones. They are Ways and Means, all powerful of itself; roads, agriculture and insular affairs, although Chairman Towner of the latter could relinquish control there to take education, not to Ohio through the shift of representative Fess to the Senate.

Illinois will hold on to appropriations, the biggest committee of the House and rules will pass from Kansas to New York. Rivers and harbors, accounts and Indian affairs will remain with New York which has few Indians like those who used to be there.

In the present House, with a solid delegation Ohio has the chairmanship of only one big committee—education.

Ohio members insist the old seniority system ought not to keep them out of honors they claim as their due.

The far West will hold on to several important committees including immigration, labor, military and territories.