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ELECTION BRINGS COMMITTEE LOSSES
While it is too early to predict how the Senate and House Committee posts will be distributed by the Seventy-Second Congress, there may be some changes that will affect the future trend of radio legislation.
The recent elections created two vacancies on the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, four on the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, and five on the House Patents group. The first two must pass on all bills dealing with radio, while the latter is important to the industry because of its control of the radio patents, about which there has been so much concern.
Had the Democrats gained control of both houses, the high power broadcasting advocates would probably have been given serious reverses. Senator C. C. Dill, the leading Democrat on the Inter¬ state Commerce Committee, and Judge Ewin Davis, who holds the same position in the House group, are both opposed to the extension of high power facilities.
Representative Davis, as the author of the Equalization Amendment bearing his name, should he gain the Chairmanship, doubt¬ less would insist on a closer observance of the Act. And that is just what the new Couzens bill is seeking to supplant with a dif¬ ferent basis of distribution of broadcasting facilities.
With the present line-up, Senator James Couzens, of Michigan, will likely hold his leadership of the Senate Committee.
Two places, however, will have to be filled. They are now occupied by Senators C-uy D. C-off, of West Virginia, and W. P. Pine, of Okla¬ homa, both Republicans. Wallace H. White, Jr. , of Maine, at present Chairman of the House Committee, who was elected to the Senate, will undoubtedly be a candidate for one of these vacancies.
The House group, on the other hand, will need a new Chair¬ man. Frederick L. Lehlbach, of New Jersey, the ranking member, will probably get the job if the Republicans are able to retain their slim majority; but, should deaths or resignations give the Democrats the upper hand, Judge Davis would be the likely leader.
The other three vacancies will be created by the loss of Representatives Harry E. Rowbottom, of Indiana, and Charles H. Sloan, of Nebraska, both Republicans, and Jeremiah E. O'Connell, of Rhode Island, Democrat.
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The Patents Committee likewise/lose its Chairman in '':he event that the recount of votes of Albert H. Vestal, of Indiana, Republican, determines that he is a loser. Members who have been cut off are Florian Lampert, of Wisconsin, F. Dickinson Letts, of Iowa, Charles E. Kiefner, of Missouri, Robert Blackburn, of Kentucky, and Fred G. Johnson, of Nebraska, all Republicans.
This new Congress will probably inherit the Couzens Bill for the creation of a Federal Communications Commission as the Decem¬ ber session will be too short for the passage or defeat of the measure. High power and the manner of distributing broadcasting facilities loom as the foremost radio issues.
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