The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
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assigned chambers This gave the minority sena-
tors chairmanships. 'ut it can be taken fo7 grant
ed that the majorit- always saw to 1t tnat the
committees presided over by minority men we're
not Of kind to have ally great influence Gu ieg1s-
latiOn.
Now that the senate office building is occupied
and each senator hss general office, private
office, reception and BATH it Is rot nee
essary to provide separate rooms In the Cap1tol
for all the upper he usf members. So it is that
before long it may >e that the farce of naming
committees which feVer have anything - 40
may be done away With.
Here is a list of sorle of the practically use
less committees Of sh@ senate: TRANSPORT alton
and sale Of meat Products; ReVolu:E nary
claims;" transport ticn rates to the seahoerd;
Investigate trespast f>pon Indian lands" and
last, "Dispostion of rs, less papers in the eSecu-
tive departments
There are to be <1a1.y changes in col':rllttee
chairmanships in NJ! rcN next and in fa's there
will have to be general shaking up "a the
committee memberships as a result OF changes
in the senates roll al> Senator Doll1Tec who
died was the chairmRh of the commtter On az
riculture and fores*ry> of the 7oost i'm
portant subsidiary E+tdi!s of the Cnitea States
senate. Senator Frarcea> E. Warren of wyoming
is the ranking mem>el Of the COMMITTEES now
that Senator Dove1 is dead, but Warren is the
chairman of the committee on military 1f1ers a
position which he YOU'D prefer to hole - that
Of the craftsmanship If the agricultural EoHy. No
member holds two Important chairs and sc some
one besides Senator W;;rren must be se'crted to
take Mr.. Delivers 1sace at the head of tbs
mittee which looks ft"r the bills in which the
farmers of the county and the forest enth lsiasts
are particularly Interested.
Eugene Hale of M>inC will retire in March. He
is at the head of :2(e committee appropria-
tions. a position wh::h next to the chieftainship
of the committee OF finance is the most impor
tant chairmanshp ii the gift of the sena;e No.
body knows yet wlrt will succeed Mr. Hale as
committee chief, but it can be taken for Sranted
that if the Republicans hold control Of TIE SEN
ate and the socalleG regulars hold cont5o, of the
Republicans Mr.. Eale will be succeede1 by
man of what in these days the country IS given
to call the old school of Republican tho:ght.
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, the
Republican leader ii the senate, is the chairman
of the committee finance, which corresponds
to the committee ways and means of the
house Of representatives 1t was the committee
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. but
frequently the United States senate takes house
bills and strikes out everything in them except
the enacting clause, thus gets around the
stitutional question, and frames revenue bills
much as it wishes to. OF course these bills have
to 60 back to the house for agreement, but the
senate despite constitutional inhibition does just
about much original work In revenue meas
the house itself
Who is going to succeed Nelson W. Aldrch 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 the finance committee and
in the natural order of things he would succeed