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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1952
Republican Victory to Upset Control Of Powerful House Committees
One of the major effects brought about by the Republican party's House of Representatives victory will be the transfer of powerful committee chairmanships. For many years, chairmanships have been held by southerners. Now, representatives from the Midwest, North, and East will claim the big jobs.
Six districts are still undecided, but the GOP will control the House by a fraction in the 83rd Congress. The Republican count stands at 220, just two more than a 218 majority of the 435 members. The Democrats have elected 211.
The chairmanship of the tax-writing ways and means committee will fall to Rep. Dan Reed, (R.-N.Y.) a sharp critic of the Truman administration tax policies. The former chairman was old timer Rep. Robert L. Doughton (D.-N.C.).
Rep. Jesse Wolcott (R.-Mich.), a strong foe of economic controls, is slated to take over the banking committee chairmanship. Rep. Brent Spence (D.-Ky.) was the former chairman.
Rep. Leo E. Allen (R.-III.) a ranking member of the House rules committee, will be in line for chairmanship of the powerful committee which wields a heavy hand over legislation reaching the floor of the House. The former chairman of this committee was Rep. Adolph Sabath (D.-Ill.), dean of the House of Representatives, who died shortly after being re-elected to Congress.
Rep. John (Meat-Ax) Taber (R.-N.Y.), another critic of Democratic spending, is in line to be the new appropriations committee chairman. The former chairman was Rep. Clarence Cannon (D.-Mo.).
This rounds out a Republican threesome likely to shape House economic policy around lower taxes, less spending, and fewer controls.
Chairmanship of the foreign affairs committee is likely to go to Rep. Robert B. Chiperfield (R.-Ill.). replacing Rep. James P. Richards (D.-S.C.). Rep. Chiperfield has consistently criticized the Truman foreign policy and has opposed all-out foreign spending.
Kansas Rep. Clifford R. Hope will be in line for chairmanship of the agriculture committee. Rep. Harold D. Cooley (D.-N.C.) was chairman in the 82nd Congress.
Rep. Dewey Short (R.-Mo.), who has opposed
the draft and universal military training, probably will assume the chairmanship of the armed services committee. No doubt he will be the only Missourian to hold a chairmanship in the House. Rep. Carl Vinson (D.-Ga.) was the former chairman.
Chairmanship of the District of Columbia committee likely will be passed to Rep. Sid Simpson (R.-III.), replacing Rep. J. L. McMillan (D.-S.C.).
Rep. Samuel K. McConnel Jr (R.-Pa.) will be the next in line as chairman of the education and labor committee, replacing Rep. William L. Dawson (D.-Ill.).
Iowa Rep. Karl M. LeCompe probably will assume the duties of chairman of the administration committee. Former chairman was Rep. Thomas B. Stanley (D.-Va.).
The interior and insular affairs committee will be chairmaned by Rep. Fred L. Crawford (D.-Mich.), replacing Rep. John R. Murdock (D.-Ariz.).
New Jersey Rep. Charles A. Wolverton is likely to become chairman of the interstate and foreign commerce committee. Ohio Rep. Robert Crosser was the former chairman.
Rep. Alvin F. Weichel (R.-Ohio) is next in line for the chairmanship of the merchant marine and fisheries committee. Rep. Edward J. Hart (D.-N.J.) was the former chairman.
Chairmanship of the judiciary committee probably will be assumed by Rep. Chauncey W. Reed (R.-III.), replacing Emanuel Celler (D.-N.Y.).
Kansas Rep. Edward H. Rees probably will be chairman of the post office and civil service committee, replacing Tom Murray (D.-Tenn.).
The public works committee presumably will be headed by Rep. George A. Dondero (R.-Mich.), replacing Charles A. Buckley (D.-N.Y.).
Rep. Harold H. Velde (R.-Ill.), former G-man, will be next in line for chairmanship of the un-American activities committee. He is expected to step up the committee's activities. Rep. John S. Wood (D.-Ga), former chairman, has retired from Congress.
The dean of women in Congress, Edith Nourse Rogers (R.-Mass.), will be in line to chairman the veterans affairs committee. Rep. John E. Rankin (D.-Miss.) is the former chairman.
Ike-Jenner Alliance To Prove Interesting
The youthful smile and "old guard" tendencies of the controversial Sen. William Ezra Jenner of Indiana must have appealed to Hoosier voters Nov. 4. They returned him to his Senate seat, favoring him over the popular Henry Schricker, governor of Indiana, who relinquished his post in an attempt to unseat the senator.
—Mary Cooper.
Sen. Jenner, one of the most controversial figures of present day politics, is one of the so-called "Class of 46" Republican senators who put their predominantly anti-administration up before voters this year. It was quite doubtful before the election whether his record would carry him to victory over Gov. Schricker, the Democrat who helped nominate Adalai E. Stevenson last summer.
Sen. Jenner's distaste for anything even faintly resembling liberalism led to his classification as 94th worst among 95 senators of the $2nd Congress in a poll of political scientists. His position on the Eisenhower ticket due to the general's blanket endorsement of all Republican candidates created quite a stir in the political arena. And there are many observers today who wonder how President-elect Eisenhower will effect his liberal foreign policy with men such as Sen. Jenner seeking just the opposite.
The senator has not hidden his distaste for internationalist Republicans, saying these Republicians "were equally responsible with Communist-coddling conspirators in the Truman administration for the tragic predicament in which the naton finds itself."
Equally hard for Mr. Eisenhower to swallow will be Sen. Jenner's expressed conviction that Gen. George C. Marshall is a "front man for traitors" and "a living lie."
The senator's comparative youth has stymied thetheorists who thought conservatism was policy peculiar to those of old age. He was born in
Since then he has distinguished himself as one of the more isolatist senators, opposing all aid to foreign countries and international involvements, including the Marshall plan and NATO.
Educated in Indiana schools, he entered law practice in 1932, and one year later married Janet Cuthill. The Jenners have made their home since marriage on a farm near Bedford, Ind.
Marengo, Ind., July 21, 1968, the son of L. L. (Woody) and Jane Mac-Donald Jenner.
His position on the new administration's policies should be interlocutor.
After 16 years in the state legislature he rose to majority leader in 1941. War interrupted the rising political star of "Bill" Jenner, and he resigned from the State Senate and served in the Army air force. While in the service, and without his knowledge, he was nominated and then elected for a short term in the U.S. Senate to fill an unexpired term.
The senator, Indiana's all-time top vot-getter, is a member of the Methodist church and many fraternal organizations.
The Republic of the Philippines was proclaimed July 4,1946.
Short Ones
When sworn into the Senate in 1944, he was 36, the youngest Senator and first World War II veteran to be elected to that body. Two years later he led the entire Republician ticket in Indiana and was re-elected for a full six-year term.
GI's on the front in Korea tel. Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, assistant secretary of defense, they want her to "Send us Marilyn Monroe!" We are glad the war there has not dulled their senses.
All the sweetness and love existing between the two parties now that election is over, reminds one of the woman who spreads gooey icing over the cake to hide the split.
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Free War Criminals To Raise Voices Again
New, raucous voices are being added to Europe's Tower of Babel.
They are those of the released war criminals, now issuing from Allied jails in a steady stream.
Together, they represent still another threat to a unified, peaceful Europe. Their effort already is being felt in Germany.
For President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower they also represent an ironic twist of destiny. Through two phases of his life they plagued him, first on the battlefield and then as war criminals whose fate must be decided.
Now they rise to plague him a third time—in the field of world diplomacy and politics.
Mostly they are the second raters—men who escaped the death by hanging that overtook former Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop or the way out by poison chosen by the fat Hermann Goering.
They demand that there be no German rearming until all war criminals are released.
Their theme either is outright rejection of any pact with the west or with a price tag attached.
Others recently released were former Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and former Gen. Alexander von Falkenhausen. Former Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein is out on medical parole and probably won't go back to jail.
Former paratroop Gen. Hermann Bernard Ramcke, released last year from a French prison, told a meeting of 5,000 cheering former SS men two weeks ago that the real war criminals were the western allies.
Openly in politics have been rabble-rousing former Maj. Gen. Otto Ernst Remer, whose neo-Nazi party recently was outlawed, and Wilhelm Schepmann, former chief of staff of Hitler's Brownshirt stormtroops.
Their effect on mass German opinion has been deep.—United Press.
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