The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
BEARDSlEE TO GET
ASSEMBLY PLUM
Slated for Chairman of Commit
tee on Ways and Means
and Peace Reigns
j. o. Davis Will Probably Win
Democratic u. S. Senatorial
Complimentary Vote
By George Van Smith
i0l Disposch 10 The Call

Dy OCOT0c dH OMItH
Especial Disp0sch 10 The Call
CALL HEADQUARTERS. CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE BUILDING. SACRA-
MENTO. Jan. e.-There is peace in the
valley OF the San Joaquin and on the
hills OF Los Angeles tonight Thanks
to the diplomacy OF Jake Transue the
white dove spread her wings today and
sped to Stockton with the chairman
ship Of the assembly committee on
ways and means.
The present was addressed to Bob
Beardslee, who as speaker Of the last
assembly served the machine not wisely
but too we'll TranSue, who waived the
chairmanshIp of the committee on ways
and means for Beardslee, will be chair
man OF the committee on banks and
banking and republican leader. where
he will be right hand man for Speaker
Stanton as he was for Speaker Boards
lee. The balm for the sore bumps
Beardslee received in the race for the
speakership is calculated to be a wide
reaching emollient. BeardsIee who is
personally one of the most Iikeable and
popular men who ever sat in the as
sembly had a strong drag for the
chairmanship of the assembly's biggest
committee other than his geographical
1ONdL4On anu the wei seated OD1eCllO0
to giving all the first assembly honors
to Los Angeles.
STANTON FAVORED TRANSUE
Speaker Stanton wanted Transue at
the head of the ways and means COM
mittee, the craftsmanship of which has
generally involved the floor leadership,
both on account of Trapsue's ability as
leader and because of his especial
fitness for graphing with the Difficult
I ties Of pruning and adjusting appro-
priations without alternating all of the
friends Of and supporters of the
speaker.
As speaker pro tenn of the last as
sembly Transue was the recognized
floor leader and first aid TO Beardslee.
his activities during the first week of
this session gave him a firm hold on
the same job and in the interest of
harmony he withdrew today from the
ways and means race in favor OF
Beardslee. with whom he has been ex-
changing assurances of undying friend
ship for a week.
In fine, .Beardslee. gets the coveted
Craftsmanship, which was not promised
him, as the price of his belated with
draWal from the speakership field
Beardslee is happy and in his happiness
many share, which viii make it easier
sailing for Speaker Stanton and the
astute Transue.
SHOWS CLOSE RELATIONS
The selection of Transue for the
chairmanship OF the committee on
banks and banking is but another in
dication OF the close relations between
him and Speaker Stanton. Stanton was
a member Of the holdover Joint com
mittee which prosecuted the bank in
vestigation. and which is sponsor for
the banking Legislation proposed and
advocated by the administration Tran
sue is richly entitled to all the glory
he gets out Of the situation which he
handled SO cleverly. His insistence
upon appointment to the chairTnanship
of the ways and means committee
would have been not wholly unpleas-
ing to Stanton. who wanted to give
Transue the place, nor yet to the gov
ernor, whose first interest is in that
committee, but it would have offended
many Of BeardsIee's friends, and pos
sibly developed friction that should
now be missing. Transue will as a
matter of course be a member of the
ways and means committee
Incidentally Transue has another
triumph coming. Indeed it has almost
arrived in the shape of an increase OF
salary for himself and Al Lindley. his
colleague on the building and loan COM
]
salaries discussed at the conference in
the governors Office early in the week
involved an increase of $500 a year for
the building and loan commissioners
who receive now s2.4OO a year.
SALARY INCREASE BILLS
With the strong legislative pull both
Transue and Lindley can exercise they
could have joined with the state Off
GERS who were contemplating individual
salary increase bills. Possibly they
would have undertaken something of
the kind. but it was forestailed by the
conference Of the state officers, which
took the initiative in the matter. Lind
! ley and Transue viii figure in the
equalization bill State Printer Shan
non viii not ask for a special bill for
I the increase of his salary from $4,000
/ to $4,000 year. He expects to have
/ the increase carried in the omnibus
1 bill, and Clerk of the Supreme Court
Caughey. who wants similar raise.
win probably hunt it with the same
gun.
The democratic United States sena-
torial complimentary vote situation
which reached the stage where James
D. Phelan and Harry Flannery, the
/ San Francisco rivals, were both out
side Of the ropes last Thursday. bids
| fair to be untangled by the passing
OF the senatorial hentlon honorS TO
eX-Assemblyman ]. o. Davis Of Hollis
ter, who has come to the front in the
Bell reform democracy with great
strides.
The complimentary vote undoubtedly
lies now between Davis and Senator
| George W. Cartwright of Fresno. The
fact that Davis is now out of politics
as an Office seeker and the probability
that Cartwright will be the choice of
the anti-McNab democrats for governor
two years hence is one of the strongest
reasons for believing that Davis viii
get the complimentary vote for SEN
ator when the bourbans meet In caucus
Monday night
Then. too, Cartwright is making no
effort for senatorial compliment. The