Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-10
UPON THE ANSWER 70. THIS
/ QUESTION DEPENDS OTHER
E,Lsl,4x MATTERS.
THE CHAIRMANsHIPs
Nhe Head of the House of Representa-
tives Will Name the Various Heads
Of neutrality-suspicious. as to
The Fortunate Ones.

Des Moines, Nov. 9.--Now that the
roll call OF the next house and senate
may easily be made up the new men,
bers are beginning to look about for
committee places. The problem of
making up the committees is simpli-
fled in both houses by the fact that
such large number of the prominent
old members have dropped out. From
the senate this dropping out is espe-
oially noticeable. Lieut.. Gov. John
Herriott will find it compare .ively easy
to make up his committees. The i'm
portant Judiciary committee has been
completely emasculated. Beginning at
the top of the following will be missed
from this one committee: Messrs.
Healy, Blanchard, Trewin, Hobart, Ha-
zleton, Hubbard, Lister, Mofit. Ball,
Townsend and Porter. All that re-
mains of this committee is Dowell,
Crawford. Whipple, Courtright and
Molesberry 1t is more than probable
that one of these will be chairman of
the committee. with the chances favor
ing Dowell. He is the senator from
Polk county and is on his first term,
but there is not second termer who is
on that committee. The number of
lawyers who will be in the senate is
not as great as in the past.
The Senate Committees.
Among the new strong men among
lawyers who will get into the senate
are Dunham. Warren, Saunders and
Turner. The important ways and
means committee of the senate has al
SO been left where it will have to be
rebuilt from the bottom Junkin was
chairman in the last senate and Lew
is, Hayward. Crossley and Hogue are
left Either one of the four would
make good chairman of the cemmit-
tee. Senator Garst. who is chairman
of the appropriations committee will
be chairman again. He desires the
place and will be given it. Of the SEN
ators who had chairmanships in the
last senate the following remain:.
Smith of Mitchell on insurance, Cross
ley on schools: Hayward on tele-
graphs and telephones; Courtright on
educational institutions; Hopkins on
pharmacy; Whipple on pardons,
Molesberry on elections; Crawford on
federal relations; Harper on COM
merce; Maytag on manufactures;
Brooks on public buildings and Lewis
on rules Senator Lambert (D), will
be here again and as chairman of the
committee on fish and game he will
see to it this time that there is an ap-
preparation for the game warden.
There are number of strong new
men in the senate The senate draft.
ed from the house the following. Dun
ham. Hasselquist, Jones, Hughes,
Stuckslager and Warren. Mr.. Dun
hoy oh nj too
schools in the house secured the pas
sage Of the compulsory education law
and other measures relating to educa-
ton. 1t was a common remark that
he was more successful than any 9TH
er member in all that he undertook
Warren was less fortunate, as he had
troublesome normal schools propo-
sition on his hands, but he was chair
man of the committee on insurance.
From House to Senate.
Hasselquist was chairman on repre-
sentative districts and served on 9TH
er good committees. Hughes was
chairman OF the house committee on
appropriations and demonstrated that
he was an ideal legislator.
Question of speakership.
The house problem of committees de-
pends entirely on the speakership out
come Temple was chairman of the
ways and means committee and Clarke
OF the judiciary. If Temple cannot be
speaker he would like to have the Judi
sciary committee, but Kendall also
would like that place, and it would not
be a great surprise if Cummings should
be selected. Both Cummings and Ken
dali are in line for the chairmanship,
and as Temple had ways and means
it is possible that with Clarke as speak
er that chairmanship would be all he
would get. But Head, English, Buch-
anan, Garden and some others, are in
line for the ways and means chair
manship. AS Hughes has dropped out
of the house a new man will go to the
head of appropriations. Wise, Teach
out and Mates are the only members
left of that committee. Wise was
chairman of the committee on rail-
roads and was quite influential in the
last house. He may retain this COM
mittee,but 1t is more than likely Clarke
Would choose some other. Kendall
had the committee on mining last time
but he will certainly get better COM
mittee no matter who is speaker. War
rem had insurance and as that is a
very Important committee care will be
exercised in selecting successor. Co
burn was chairman of the committee
on roads and as he handled the matter
, well may be retained there. Calder.
wood served on good committees last
session and Is sure TO land good
chairmanship. The same may be said
of Emory English, G. J. Flenniken. W.
M. Greeley. Mahlon Head B. f. Robin.
son, ]. /. Nichols, II. D. Teachout, and
some others. Some of the new men
like Chassel. Hanning, Mott, Stanber-
ry, and Weeks are also likely to Get
good positions on committees. But it
aN depends on who is elected speaker.