Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-01-10
0. C. SKINNER SPEAKER
MoNTRosE MAN NAMED BY eau.
GUS ELECTED BY HOUSE.
Opening Day-Adams Had 12 and
TobIn 10 Votes In Caucus.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-Tho Nineteenth General
Assembly of tho State of Colorado
convened at noon New Years Day,
with all the members present.
In the House tho arranged program
was carried out without hitch. Oni-
as C. Skinner OF Montrose was elect
ed speaker.
In the Senate everything proceeded
smoothly until the order of election of
a president pro tenn. was reached,
when recess was taken to permit
tho Democratic senators to go into
caucus.
Employees Of the Senate.
The Senate employees are as follows:
Secretary of the Senate. Mark A. Skin
ner; assistant secretary. c. w. Gist:
reading clerk. M. ]. Walsh: bill clerk,
Walter Alexander; docket clerk. F.
Helms; sergeant-at-arms, c. E. Good
friend: assistant sergeants- at arms,
James Lewis and Olaf Bergman; chap
lain, Rev. R. E. Dickinson; chief en-
rolling clerk, Miss Tanner; assistant
enrolling clerk, Miss Jennie Silver
berg; chief printing clerk, A. 2. Wat
son; assistant printing clerk, W. G.
Flintham; messengers, Michael Null
Inns and Harold Tague; doorkeeper.
Frank White; assistant doorkeeper,
Frank Gomez; janitor for chamber,
James Killoram; janitor for commit
tee rooms, Frank Sutton; janitor for
cloakroom and gallery, Mrs. Della
Phillips; telephone messenger, Dexter
McConnell; night watchman, James
Collins; matron for women's gallery.
Mrs. NJ. F. Egan; pages. Leroy Hol
lcnbeck, John Hecker, Charles Rohr
and William Clark; judiciary COM
mittce clerk. Lew Wallace; revision
clerk. Miss Irene Bohmyer; finance
committee clerk, L. ]. Smith; corpora
ton, insurance, etc, Ed. Moore; agri-
culture and irrigation clerk, educa-
ton and additional insurance. Turner
Seamon; assignable clerks, Miss NJ.
Lillian Taylor, Miss Margaret Resor.
Miss Dorothy Tyler, Miss E. Laube
and Miss Rose Hamburger; lieuten-
ant governors clerk, Miss Anna Far
rel; Senate reporter, Miss Marie Legg;
assistant doorkeeper. John Stanton;
clerk of revision committee, Nellie
Clark; janitor Of committee rooms.
Walter Fisher; page. Thos. Conway.
House Employees.
The full list of house appointecs
follows: Chief clerk, r. P. Rubin of
Chaffee; assistant chief clerk, Fred
Duval of Pueblo; reading clerk, Lee
ID. Eaton of Montezuma: docket clerk,
Ethel Brandt, Denver; sergeant-at-
arms, Joseph Hurd of Boulder; as
sistant sergecnts alarms, c. F. Chase
of Douglas. Leo Crowley of Otero and
William Carlin of Dcnver; Chaplain,
NJ. A. Head OF Denver; house reporter.
Anna Wakelin of Denver; doorkeep-
ers, Andrew Friedman and William T.
Lyons: assignable clerks, Ollie Hen
dcrson, Dorothy Porter, C. Dillon, Mrs.
A. wilkins and Mrs. A. Harris; bill
clerk, Harriet H. Little; printing
clerk, C. o. Withrow; assistants, l.. Z.
Sibbald and john p. Allen. Com
mittee clerks-Flora Rogers. revision;
Mildred Block, judiciary: Marian Hill,
corporations; Mildred Vickerman. re-
vision and constitution; S. G. Fos-
dick, agriculture; Margaret Cahill, ap-
preparations. Chief revision clerk, NJ.
ID. Bowen, Denver; assistant, Thomas
Hughes; mail clerk, ID. T. Kavanaugh,
Ell Paso; messengers, Robert Adams,
Russell Hicks, Marshall Vought, F.
Libbonnad; janitors, A. Pachecho and
r. NJ. Beach; speakers clerk, Mabel
Skinner; Matron, Gertrude Higgins;
pages, Ballard Turnbull. Peter Schaef-
er, John T. Kapham, Raymond An
drews, Louis Cantu; night watchman,
Richard Rosa.
Tho Senate was called to order by
Lieutenant Governor Fitzgerald. At
ter the prayer, the rol,-call showed the
IL holdover senators all present.
The communication from the secre-
tary of state naming the new senators
was read. Senator Bollesfield moved
the appointment of a committee on
credentials. BclIesficld. Joyce and
Parrish were appointed and approved
the report of the secretary of state.
A committee consisting of Senators
Hits. Hayden and Garman was then
appointed to notify the chief justice
and request him to administer the
oath of office. The eighteen newly
elected senators were then sworn in
by Chief Justice Campbell.
Senator w. H. Adams of Conejos
was the caucus choice of the Demo-
Gratis of the Senate for the cfficc of
president pro TEN. The caucus last
ed over an hour and the vote stood:
Adams, IL; Tobin, 10. There wero
"a members present-Adams and To
bin rot voting.
Representatives Clarence Finch of
Sedgwick county, Emery Young of Tel
Ter and Mrs. Frances Lee of Denver
were appointed to notify the governor
that the House was ready to receive
any message from him.