Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-01-20
.ASSEMBL Y AGAIN
IN SESSION,
Speaker fesIy Announces Com
mjttes Appointments.
CuMM|NS ELECTED SENATOR,


- state Printer English and State
ELLA. onassell to Be Renominated W
next opposition at Republican c
and Six Contests for Seats.
''h Des MONIES, Jan. 19.-The /,
to lure reconvened this morning
lko- O'CLOCK, after a recess from TN
OF last week. The members fo
T. most part went to their homes 4
let 'he recess to clear away personal
M. ness, and today they met ready f.
49,. work of the session, which nro,
~ TO be busy one.
-. AT the opening of the session i,
Vi mouse Speaker Guy Feely apnou
yes MS committee appointments, The
my Oh distributing the committee nc
hi inehts has been strenuous ons
,st the speaker, but his annonncem
We left very few, if any, sore spots and
DIS sehefal comment about the char
e OIL the house and the lobbies was
- ne mad performed the task with ~
~ TACT and that the committees .r,
40 evenly balanced and well desiene,
III Forward the work OF the body WHY
n petition. w
a. The senate committees wfer
nounced Thursday, immediaArro,l
IS the Inauguration of Goverlfenant
ana the swearing in Offenders
governor Clarke. The n assign
OF the senate were givSgeneral as
ments of the Thirty.sek committees
sembly. The heads
VI are:
cha1rmen gMith of Mitchell:
Ways and meg Polk; appropria.
Judiciary. Dow Jasper; railroads,
IONS Maytabttawattamie; agrlcul-
saunders yCass; schools, Allen OF
n tare. bruSfpublic health, Clark OF
p rocanon cities and towns. GILL;
.omesl6ills: banks. Stuckslager OF
,. surance. Whipple of Benton:
ta,ph and telephones, Mates of
sa1corporations, Sammis of Plym-
Z suppression of intemperance,
Nson of Adair; labor, Hunter; high
Jays, Nichols; elections, Peterson;
ublic libraries, Savage; educational
nstitutions, Proudfoot; charitable in
titutions, Fred N. Smith of Des
Ioines; printing, Larrabee; mines
nd mining, Kirkpatrick; constitu-
ional amendments and suffrage, Bur
ess; constitutional and judicial dis
riots, Van Law; senatorial and repre-
entative districts, Bennett; military,
'rown; compensation of public Off
ers, Seeley; pharmacy, McCulloch;
ommerce and retail trade, Gates;
enitentiaries and pardons, w. S. AL
en-; claims, Hoyt; manufactures. Chap
nan; public buildings, .Frudden, hor-
iculture and forestry, Taylor; fish and
anne, Frances; rules, Balkema; public
ands, Wilson; engrossed bills, Nc
Janus; enrolled bills. Adams.
: First Bills of Session.
The first bill of the session to be
in the senate was one by
senator Dowell of Polk county, provid-
ng for a separate department to have
barge of insurance affairs Tor the
tate. As outlined in this letter last
week, the bill provides for the appoint
nent by the governor. with the APP
'roval OF two-thirds of the senate, OF
commissioner of insurance, who shall
AVE full charge of the department
md shall draw salary OF $4,000 a
ear. 1t also provides for deputy
with salary of $1,000
year. The appointment is to be for
! term of four years, with power OF
emoval placed in the hands OF the
governor.
In the house the first bill to be in
reduced was one by Representative
ellis of Jackson county, appropriate
ng $1,500 for the removal of the re-
mains of former Governor Ansal
Briggs from Omaha to Andrew, in
Jackson county. Ansel Briggs was the
irst territorial governor of Iowa, serv-
ng from 1886 to 1850. He is buried in
| cemetery at Omaha, where his grave
S neglected. A similar bill failed to
PASS the last session of the legislature.
Representative Miller of Bremen
county is ready to once more intro
luce his bill clipping the wings of
he state board of health. Mr.. Miller,
n the last session, caused many COM
notions by his attacks on the doctors,
over the enforcement of the
state quarantine laws. This year there
ire several physicians in the lower
house of the legislature and Mr.. Miller
IS calling attention to the fact that
hey are all in agreement with him in
his movement to reform the board of
health laws.
cummins Elected Senator.
At noon today each house voted sep
arately on the election of United
States senator for the long term, be,
ginning next March. The Republic.
ans of each house cast their votes for
Senator Albert B. Cummins and the
Democratic minority voted for Claude
R. Porter of Centerville, the nominee
Of the primary of last June OH the
ticket. Tomorrow at noon
a joint session of the two houses will
be held and Senator Cummins will be
elected.
This evening a Republican caucus
will be held in the house chambers for
the purpose of nominating candidates
for the position of state printer and
state binder. The present incumbents
OF the Offices, u. d. Chassell, state
binder, and Emory English, state
printer, will be renominated without
and will be elected later in
the session. The present terms of of.
flee Of the binder and printer run to
January, 1910, but as there will be no
session next year the present legis.
lature must choose their successors.
Representative Harding of Wood
bury today introduced bill in the
house providing for the creation OF n
revenue revising commission to recod
ify and suggest changes in the reve.
nue. laws of the state. Under the bill
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