River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-12-08


assigned chambers This gave the minority sena-
tors chairmanshps, rut it can be taken foT grant
ed that the majority always saw to 1t that the
committees presided over by minority men we're
not of kind 10 have ary great influence GU Regis
lation.
Now that the senate office building is occupied
and each senator has a general Office, private
office, a reception room and bath, 1t is rot nee
essary to provide separate rooms In the CaplCoi
for all the upper he ush members. SO 1t is that
before long it may Sc that the farce OF naming
committees which fleVer have anything I'd 90
may be done away With,
Here is a list of sorle of the practically use
less committees Of shf senate: Transportation
and sale of meat Products Revolu:Snary
claims" transport sticn rates to the sea hofrd;
Investigate trespas$ fpon Indian landsi ana
last, disposition OF 0stless papers III the e@ecu
tive departments
There are to be s.1ary changes in cog:pl1ttee
chairmanships in MI rcfl next and in fa% there
will have to be general shaking up n the
committee memberships as result of changes
in the senate's roll ala Senator DolHFeT VINO
died was the chairm1h of the committeT On ag-
riculture and forestry of the Taost I'M
portant subsidiary b3di'is of the Unitea States
senate. Senator Fra1'ceo E. Warren OF wyoming
is the ranking mem bel OF the committee now
that Senator Dollive1 is dead, but Warren is the
chairman of the com'hift Tee on military 1fq1rs a
position which he Would prefer to hole % that
of the Craftsmanship of The agricultural koHy NO
member holds two Important chairs and sc some
one besides Senator Warren must be selected to
take Mr. Delivers Pace at the head of the COM
mttee which looks rftnr the bills in which the
farmers of the county and the forest enthusiasts
are particularly Interested.
Eugene Hale of Mfinc will retire in March. He
is at the head of .r1e committee on approprla-
tons position whsah next to the chieftainsh1p
of the committee OF finance is the most impor-
tant Craftsmanship ii the gift of the sena@e. NO
body knows yet w1fs will succeed Mr.. Hale as
committee chief, but it can be taken for granted
that if the Republicans hold control Of tae SEN
ate and the so-calle& regulars hold control of the
Republicans, Mr.. Fsale will be succeeded by
man of what in these days the country IS given
to call the old school Of Republican thought.
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Islsnd, the
Republican leader Ii the senate, is the chairman
of the committee on finance which corresponds
To the committee on ways and means of the
house of representatives 1t was the committee
on finance which considered the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill and which reported it to the senate
Every bill which has TO do with the raising OF
revenue goes to Mr.. Aldrich's committee. Under
the constitution all such revenue measures must
originate in the house of representatives, bur
frequently the United States senate takes house
bills and strikes out everything in them except
the enacting clause, thus gets around the con-
stitutional question, and frames revenue bills
much as it wishes to. OF course these bills nave
to go back to the house for agreement, but the
senate despite constitutional inhibition does just
about as much original work in revenue meas
ures as the house itself
Who is going to succeed Nelson w. Aldrich as
chairman of the most powerful committee in the
senate of the United States? Nobody knows
Senator julius C. Burrows OF Michigan ranks
next to Mr. Aldrich on the finance committee and
in the natural order of things he would succeed