Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-12-22


assigned chambers This gave the minority sena-
tors charmanships, but it can be taken for grant
ed that the majority always saw to 1t that the
committees presided by minority men were
not of kind to have any great influence on legis-
lation.
Now that the senate Office building is occupied
and each senator has general office, private
Office, reception room and bath, 1t is not nee
essary to provide separate rooms In the Capitol
for all the upper house members. So 1t is that
before long it may be that the farce of naming
committees which never have anything To do
may be done away with.
Here is a list of some of the practically use
less committees of the senate: Transportation
and sale of meat products;" Revolutionary
caims;" Transportation rates to the seaboard;"
Investigate trespass upon Indian lands;" and
last, Disposition of useless papers In the execu-
tive departments"
There are to be many changes In committee
chairmanshps in March next and in fact there
will have to be a general shaking up in the
committee memberships result of changes
in the senates roll call Senator Dolliver who
died was the chairman of the committee ag
riculture and forestry, one of the most i'm
portant subsidiary bodies of the United States
senate Senator Frances f. Warren of Wyoming
is the ranking member of the committee now
that Senator Dolliver is dead, but Warren is the
chairman of the committee on military affairs,
position which he would prefer to hold to that
of the chairmanship of the agricultural body. No
member holds two important chairs and so some
besides Senator Warren must be selected to
take MIR. Delivers place at the head of the com
mittee which looks after tho bills In which the
farmers of the country and the forest enthusiasts
particularly interested.
Eugene Hale of Maine will retire In March. He
Is at the head of tho committee on appropria-
tions, a position which next to the chieftalnship
of the committee on finance Is the most impor-
tant craftsmanship In the gift of the senate No
body knows yet who will succeed Mr. Hale as
committee chief, but II can be taken for granted
that If the Republicans hold control OF the sen.
ate and the so-called regulars hold control OF the
Republicans Mr.. Hale will be succeeded by
man of what In these days the country ia given
to call the old school OF Republican thought.
Senator Nelson w. Aldrich of Rhode Island. the
Republican leader In the senate, is the chairman
OF the committee on finance, which corresponds
to the committee on ways and means OF tho
house OF representatives II the committee
on finance which considered the Payne-Aldroh
tariff bill and which reported IL to the senate.
Every bill which has TO do with the raising OF
revenue goes To MIR Aldrich's committee. Under
the constitution all such revenue measures must
originate In the house OF representatives, but
frequently tho United States senate takes house
bills and strikes out everything In them except
the enacting clause thus gets around tho con
etitutlonal question, and frames revenue bills
much as Il wishes 10. OF course these bills have
to 80 back 10 tho house for agreement. but tho
senate despite constitutional inhibition does just
about as much original work in revenue meas
ures as the house itself
Who Is going 10 succeed Nelson " Aldrlch as
chairman Of The most powerful committee In tho
senate 90 tho United states9 Nobody knows
Senator Julius G.. burrows Of Michigan ranks
ua1t 10 MIR Aldfieh on the finance committee and
ln The natural order Of things be would succeed