The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-05
1871 LEGISLATURE
Gets UNDER WAY
Lieut-Goy. Ross Names Committees
As Speaker of Senate-House
Members Sworn In.
(FrOm a staff correspondent.)


LANSING, Mich, Jan. 4.-The sen.
ate branch OF the legislature got under
way today at noon, Lieut-Gov. Ross,
as speaker, delivering his opening
address.
I'm part, he said:
Fl hope In the deliberations OF this
body there will be a free exchange OF
[, opinion among the members, and thai
the result OF your deliberations Will
represent that which is best in the
/. opinion OF all after the questions at
Issue shall have been fairly discussed
with the sole object of arriving at that
y which is best for the entire people or
the state.
In the consideration OF questions
which come before you 1t is well TO re-
member that the active interest and
the proffered information and advice
which will come TO you from the out
side will not at all times represent the
desires of the major portion of your
(. constituents, nor the welfare of the
people at large. Ii is one of the un-
fortunate things with which We have
To contend today that the great mass
or the people rest in fancied security,
while those who seek special privilege
are the ones who are actively inter.
ested In the legislative affairs OF the
nation and of the state
The government of Michigan in its
operation Is like a great corporations
whose business cannot. because OF the
nature of things, be handled by the
stockholders directly, but must be
delegated to their servants and agents
You have been selected 10 act in the
capacity of a board of directors Many
serious problems will come before you
for action-probems in which the
various interests will not all demand
the same solution, and 1t will at all
times be your duty TO efface from
your minds in he consideration OF
these matters, your own individual in
terests or the particular interests OF
your constituency, and examine the
question from that broader plane
which shall bring into your percDec.
tive the entire state
Senator Carl E. Mapes of Grand
Rapids created short-lived excite
ment in the opening session by an
attempt to take away from the presi-,
dent the power to appoint commit.
tees. He opposed a motion to adopt
the previous rules and asked that
rule four" giving the appointing
power to the president, be changed
and a committee of five be elected by
the senate to name the committees
and present to the senate for APP
prevail.
The question was divided and
Mapes stood alone on the vote. Sen
ator Leidlein, Democrat, said the sen
ate could trust its president. The
committees were then read as fol
lows
Agricultural College-Putney, Wat
kins, Virgins.
Agricultural Interests-Snell, Ward,
Kline.
g.pportionment-We Kingman,
Vaughn, Smell. Vanderwerp.
Asylum for Insane at Kalamazoo
Freeman, Mapes, Rosencrans
4 Asylum for Insane at Newberry-
Fowle, Lee, lmes.
Asylum for Insane at Pontiac
Vaughn, Watkins, Newton.
Asylum for Insane at Traverse City
Walter, F. d. Scott.
Banks and Incorporations-Newt
Fowle, Kline, Kingman, Rosencrans.
Cities and Villages-Geo. G.. Scott,
Taylor, Mapes, James, Fowle.
Claim and Public Accounts-Miller,
Walter Murtha
College of Mines-Foster, Barnaby,
Collins
Constitution Neutrality-suspicious.
ably, Collins, Murtha, Kline. Taylor
Counties and Observation-Disclosures.
White, Walter.
Education and Public Schools-Geo
G. Scott. Putney, Barnaby
ElCctiojls-Mapes, Newton, James,
Freeman, Virgins.
Executive Business-Fowle. Wat
kins, Vaughn, Moriarty. Weber
Federal Relations-Mapes, Cartier,
E. ID. Scott
Finance and Appropriations
ley, Kline, Fowle. +. ID. Scott, Rosen-
Grams,
Nisheries-Collins, NJ lrtha. White,
Leidlein, Walter
Forestry and State Lands-Foster.
! Ward, Moriarty, Vaughn. Cartier.
Gaming Observation-Disclosures Cartier,
Freeman, Weter, Murtha
Geological Survey--James. Leid-
Home for Feeble Minded-w Ward,
{ Lee, p they.
Horticulture - Watkins, Weter,
Smell
lnmigration-Wigg Miller, Van
derwerp.
Industrial Home for Girls--Putney
Bradley Fowle