The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-25
NIXON COMPLETES COMMITTEE.
Names the Five Assembiyrne en- to Investigate
Insurance Conditions.

Sneaker s. Fred Nixon of the Assembly
announced at jamestown, N, Y, yesterday
the Ave Assemblymen who are to serve on
the legislative committee which is to IN
yeetisate life insurance conditions In TINS
State. They are James T. Rogers OF
Broome Rep), Robert L. Cox OF Erie
Rep), William W. Wemple OF Schenectady
(Rep), Ezra P. Prentice of New York Rep),
and John McKeown Of Kings (McCarren
Dem.).
These, with the three Senators appointed
last week, w. W. Armstrong, William j.
Tully and Daniel j. Riordan, constitute
the committee. or the Senators Riordan
Is Democrat, so that the committee con-
sists OF six Republicans and two Demo-
Gratis. Mr.. Armstrong has been chosen
chairman Of the committee. He is close
friend of Gov. Higgins and comes from
Rochester.
Rogers has been in the Assembly since
1903. He is a lawyer He was chairman
Of ths Committee on Excise and member
of the Committee on Railroads and Com
mittee on Codes. in 1900. He is the Re-
publican leader in the Assembly and now
chairman Of the Ways and Means and Rules
committees.
COX N lawyer, dltHousH TIC otoi toA oue
IN life In the manufacturing business. lie
has been in the Assembly since 1900, and is
now chairman Of the Committee on Claims
and q member of the Cities Committee.
Assemblyman Wemple was District At
torney in Schenectady county in 1895.
He was elected to the Assembly in 1902,
and Is now chairman of the Committee en-
Unfinished Business.
Prentice represents the Twenty-fifth
Assembly district of Manhattan He is a
Princeton man, and was first sent to the
Assembly in 1908. He is membe" the
Committee on Cities and the Conf - on
Public Health.
McKeown has had long record in the
Assembly, having been reelected ten times
He was for two years a member of the Board
Of Supervisors OF Kings county and has
been in Brooklyn politics for years. In adj
dition to being the only Democrat among
the Assembly members he is also the only
man among them not lawyer; He is a
Committee on Gas, Electricity and Water
Supply. and the Committee on Rules.
IL was said yesterday that in making
his selections Speaker Nixon took par
ticular pains to name men whom ne though
different Assemblymen sought to be nance
on the committee, and it is said that at leas
one or two Of those selected were amoni
the number who put in no application. Th'
Speaker announced before leaving Albah.
iast week that he would name none Of tn,
men who served on the Stevens committee
Surprise was expressed in some quarter
yesterday that the name Of Assemblymal
Lewis Of Oswego was omitted from thu
committee. He is chairman Of the Assem-
bly, Committee on Insurance.
Il was said yesterday that the COMMITTEES
will meet for organization In New York
probably at the Murray Hill Hotel. mex,
( Thursday.
The first important matter that the com
mittee will have to take up will be the
selection Of counsel. Senator Riordan anc
Assembiyman McKeown, it was said yes
terday, will probably insist on lawyer
from the Democratic ranks Joseph H
Choate's name has been mentioned, but &c
far as was learned no advances have beer
made to secure his services