The Detroit times., 1911-02-22
That l. the Charge Of Speaker Baker
After House Votes Weekend
Trips To State Institutions
By Committees.
Claim Junketers Who Favored Mo-
Naughton Measure win Now
Vote Against It.
trrom . stan correspondent).

The house OF representatives was
short ON amusement yesterday AFTER
noon. the cat and deg fight between
Rep. whelan and DR.. o. r. Long, Oh
Icnia reformatory, the previous even
Ing having practically wound up the
firevorks on the Convict Rodebaugn
controversy, and SO IL turned to us
old diversion OF kicking over one OF
speaker Bakers decisions. Then IL
adopted n resolution Of Rep. Ashley,
OF Detroit, for some junkets. About
two hours were consumed In the
scrap, and every one Is 80 disguised
with the foolish discussion which mas
consumed seven weeks, that II Is PROD
able the matter won't be reopened.
Rep. Ashley's resolution is compar-
atively inocuous. IL that Is the proper
word. No parlor car and buffet Is pro-
yfded for, and there Is no ten-day re-
cess for the purpose, though the time
that has been consumed wrangiing
over the stuff would have easily al
lowed for the recess. The resolution
allows the members OF the various
committees on institutions, when they
think II necessary. to take trip TO
the institutions In the weekend Tor
the purpose OF ascertaining the appro-
priation needs The ways and means
committee. which was to have all the
trims under O substitute resolution
which was defeated. will have the au-
diting Of the. expense accounts, ana
this probably insures their being cut
to brass tacks.
The Ashley resolution was intro
duced early, yesterday afternoon, and
was promptly ruled out or order. An
appeal was taken from the decision OF
the chair, and, OF course, there was q
motion to table, all Of which had to
be- duly Fletcherized. The motion TO
table was lost by vote OF 81 to ~,
and the appeal was, sustained by a
similar motion. Then Rep. Straight,
Who is chairman OF the committee on
rules, introduced, as : q substitute a
resolution based ON q proposed rule.
~iying the inspection or institutions
he committee on ways. and means,
Getting that committee in its dis
elton to send not more than three
members to any one institution, and
ITO do the wofk as far .as possible IN
the weekends-. With the two resolu-
tons before the house, : tine fireworks
commenced. :. ...--.---...... "a
Speaker Baker left the chair and
took the floor. He told the house that
the practice was for committees to
announce their coming to the various
institution heads. be met with car.
rfages and Toasted, and to go back to
lansing with q resolution to allow
whatever was asked. He told Of one
budget last session, which was cut
from $4,000 to $1.2o0 or whereabouts,
BY the ways and means committee, the
institution committees recommenda-
tons not being considered, and or
another which was cut from S250,000
TO $12,500, In the same manner. Baker
openly charged that much of the
FEELING against his rulings on the
1nnket resolutions was due to sore
ness over his election as speaker. He
said that II the house chose to vote
for junkets. he thought he could stand
his share Of the blame.
Rep. Rankin, who has a grievance
against the speaker, said that his par
uouiar committee was not Of that
sort: that last year, a committee OF
which he was a member, cut budget
from $25,600 to $500 without any inter.
ference by the ways and means com
mittee. He served notice that II his
committees report this year was
urned down IL would be after he him.
self had been thrown out of the COM
mittee room.
Then they voted.
The Straight resolution was defeat
cd. so to "a. The Ashley resolution
was adopted 81 to 80. The lineup on
this Ii a pretty good sample of the
vote on the others. Here IL f.:
Aye-Amerson, Ashley, Averill,
Baldwin, Burnham, Chamberlin.
Chandler. Clark. Cummins, Decker.
Dunn. Edwards, Ewing, Flowers. Gard.
Giles, Graves, Green, Heckert. Hol.
comb, Holland. Happier. Kemmerling.
Kerns. Knight. Leonard, Lord. Lucas.
Mcbride, McEachern, Mckay. Nc.
Naughton. McNitt, Martz. Myers.
Samuel odeli, Ogg, Rankin. Rauda-
baugh. Russell. Smith. Stevenson,
Stewart Symonds, Unsoeld. verdler.
Walker. Ward. Warner, Wheeler,
Whelan, Willoughby, Wood. Wood.
worth. Yaple, Yeo, Young.
Nay--Austin, Ball, Bierd, Bricker,
Catlin, Chambers, Currie, Dusenbury,
Farmer. Field, Fisk, Fralick, Gansser.
Glasner. Hale, Haviland, Henry, Hink-
lev, Jensen, Jerome, Kalmbach. Mill.
ken. Morford, Morrison. Murphy, ar.
thur odell. Oppenborn, Parks, Pear.
SON. Perry, Raudabaugh, REYNOLDS,
Sharp, Straight, Taylor, Tufts, Waters,
Wolcott, Speaker Baker.
Speaker Baker declares that the
vote In the result OF trade between
persons who wish TO go on junkets
and persons who are opposed to the
Graves-McNaughton tonnage tar bill.
which was TO come up on third read.
ing yesterday, but was put over till
today. while the house played kick.
tl1espeaker. The tonnage tax was
due to get So out OF 80 votes yester.
day. and he predicts its defeat today.
When the Rodebaugh row came up
it,was tame and short Rep. whelan
told Of the alleged iniquity OF War.
den Russells treatment of prisoners
IN Marquette prison. He was called
b4ck 70 the real question ut issue, an
20 sustaining his amendment TO the
report Of a committee of which he
VS. the chairman. which investigated
Hodebaugh's case, The amendment
raeffo the erect that ,Rodebaugh was
nol insane when he was transferred
nom Marquette to Ionia n year ago
bu< 1haf the transfer was for mer
cenary purposes. The amendment was
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