The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-07-19
CONTRADICTIONS l.
N l0R|MEu CASE
Continued from Page One.

u littll IdSe ouc.
unimportant chairmanships," say
the statement "Of the thirty-si,
chairman so appointed. includin,
those who voted for w. H. Troyc
for speaker, thirty-five voted 70
Lorimer.
1T will be noted also that of tn,
twenty-five men who voted for Ed
ward ], King for speaker who wer,
honored by chairmanships. ten. o.
nearly so per cent, Joined the Shurt
left faction and voted for Lorimel
for senator.
only four of the members who
voted for Shurtleff for speaker re
fused to join him in support of Lori
mer. Therefore thirty-six member;
who voted for Shurtleff received
chairmanships, thirty-one voted fol-
Lorimer. four for Hopkins and one
for Stringer. Only five member
voted for Troyer for speaker. Troyer
didnot vote. OF the six, four were
given chairmanships and four voted
for Lorimer"
Awarding of Plums.
Representatives who voted for
Shurtleff and for Lorimer who re-
ceived chairmanships from Speaker
Shurtleff were:
Republicans - Shanahan, Parker,
McNichols. Crawford, Behrens, Ire
land, Chiperfield, Schumacher, Bush,
Curran. Gillespie, Kittleman, Glade
Shurtleff, Dudgeon.
Hruby. Werdell, Hill
ton. Mclaughlin, Tippitt, Poulton.
Foster, Cermak, Corcoran, Browne,
Wilson.
These who voted for Shurtleff and
Lorimer were in the majority on all
the committees headed by these men,
Erickson, Fieldstack and Beck Re-
publieans. who voted for Troyer and
Lorimer received chairmanships.
Committee Under Control.
Committees headed by the Shurt-
left and Lorimer forces included ap-
ment rules, judiciary, agriculture
building, loan, and homestead as
ISOLATION, canal and river improve
ments and commerce, Chicago char
ter, claims, corporation, drainage
and water way, education, fish and
game, fraternal and mutual insuran
ce, judicial department and practice.
labor and industrial affairs, license,
live stock and dairying, manufacture
es, miscellaneous subjects, penal ana
reformatory institutions, primary
elections, public charities, railroads.
retrenehments, state institutions,
warehouses, municipal corporations,
revenue and state and municipal civ
ic service reform.
Get Bulk of The Bills.
Continuing. the Deneen statement
says:
by reference to the table it will
be noted that the bulk of the bills
introduced in the house were referr.
ed to appropriations. judiciary. Chi
cago charter, corporations, educa-
ton, fish aud game, insurance. IL
cense. manufactures, mines and min
ing, miscellaneous subjects, munich
pal corporations, railroads and re.
venue.
ut will be noted, also, that 81
these committees the chairmen were
with three exceptions. Shurtleff
Lorimer men, In the three exce9
tons Fieldstack, chairman of III
committee on revenue, voted fo
Troyer for speaker and for Lorime
for senator. He may properly b.
classed as a Shurtleff-Lorimer chair
man. The same is true of Erickson
of the municipal corporations com
mittee Terrill. chairman of mine
and mining. was the only King-HOp
kins chairman TO whom any larg
number of bills were referred.
THE committees that uaturall
| would deal with measures affecting
corporations in their relation {
each other, TO the public or to tn
state, or interests that might be will
4 ing TO pay either for the enactmen
or the suppression of a bill We're; Cor
, porations, education Tin its relatio
TO school-books and supplies), fis
and game, insurance, license, manu-
facturers, mines and mining, misceI
laneous subjects Ga convenient dunn
ing ground for suspicious measures.
municipal corporations, railroads an
revenue, and deep water ways.
ITO these committees were refer
red. ISL bills, (, An examination of tn
bills field will disclose the fact ths
al large number of these bills. eiths
in Identical form or substance th
same, have been introduced year
and year out without getting up
the third reading.
"The committee on appropriation
had 96 bills, judiciary. "a; Chacaa
u charter, 2; Jul dicial department ar
practice, 46; all of which are consi,
cred of the highest Importance to Il
% welfare of the public.