Full House

The long career of James John Davis as a Federal jobholder was punctuated last week by a 33-minute lapse into private citizenship. Resigning as Secretary of Labor, the Senator-elect from Pennsylvania was delayed that length of time at the Capitol while North Dakota's Senator Nye challenged his eligibility. The charge: more than $600,000 was spent to elect the ticket on which Mr. Davis ran. The Senate's prompt vote (58-0-27) to seat Mr. Davis gave Pennsylvania its full elected Senate representation for the first time in nearly four years. As Senator Davis took his seat, he felt he had achieved a precedent by transferring directly out of the Cabinet into the Senate./-

Not until next day did the delayed credentials of New Jersey's Dwight Whitney Morrow arrive so that the Senate's roster of 96 might be completed. After taking the oath of office, onetime Morgan-Partner Morrow politely declined an assignment to the potent Banking & Currency Committee lest the cry of "Wall Street!" be raised. He took lowly places on the committees of Military Affairs, Labor, Post Offices, Public Buildings, Printing. Senator Davis committees: Banking & Currency, Naval Affairs, Civil Service. Inter-Oceanic Canals, Manufactures.

Senator Morrow refused to talk to the Press but newsmen in the gallery had no trouble hearing his first official word in the Senate, a clear and significant NO, as he split with the Old Guard and voted against recommitting an interstate bus regulation bill (seep. 13).

/- The precedent was not set but by another Davis. On March 4, Mississippi's Jefferson Davis stepped into Senate out of President Pierce's Cabinet, he was Secretary of War.

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