The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-14
GLOOM POSSESSES "PLATFORM
DEMOCRATS" AT HELENA
OVER THE RESULTS.
HIGGINS STARTS THINGS
MissouIa Representative Makes Mo-
ton, Which Prevails, Ordering Free
Phone Taken Out of the House
Same Member Fathers a Motion
Which Will Prevent Railro aiding.
tStaff Correspondence.)

Helena, Jan, 13-The legislative
feature of the day was the naming OF
committees in both senate and house.
In the senate these came from the
committee on committees, and in the
house from Speaker Macdonald.
The old guard in democratic ranks
Jared We'll in the senate. Stout got
the chairmanship OF the committee on
corporations other than municipal:
Muftly. that of counties, towns and
municipalities; Whiteside. finance:
Duncan. judiciary; Gallwey. mines
and mining; Burlingame. public lands:
Darroch. irrigation and water rights;
o'Shea. labor; Edwards, railroads and
transportation, and Donlan. rules. An
analysis will show that reactionacies
are at the heads of not only a ma
iority of the committees, but of those
that will pass upon legislation affect
ing the corporations.
In tho House.
In the house results were mixed,
though Silver Bow got the lions share
of the big committee chairmanships.
OF the Silver Bow members, Norton
got the Craftsmanship of the commit
tee on affairs Of cities: McNally, OH
appropriations: Walker, on Judiciary;
Cults on labor: Mcmahon, on mines
and mining; Burns, on state boards.
or the other important committee
chairmnnships, Rhoades of Flathead
was given corporations other than
municipal; Phillips of Fergus, of edu-
cation; Word of Lewis and Clark, ir-
rigation and water rights; Lovelace of
Park. railroad and transportation;
GRAPHICAL or Gallatn. state nstitu-
tions: Johnson. of state lands; Day OF
Lewis and Clark. ways and means, and
Hustead, Of rules. The reactionaries
did in the house
Much Depends on Reference.
Much viii depend in both bodies
upon the reference of bills to COM
mittees. This was exemplfied in the
senate. when the bill by O'Shea of Car
bon. for compensation to injured
Workmen, was referred by the presid-
ing officer Lieutenant Governor Nc
DoWell to the committee on finance,
Of which Whteside Is chairman
The committee on committees in tho
senate evidently slipped one over on
It's chairman, the progressive demo-
cratic candidate from Fergus, for
while Senator Stout got the chairman
ship Of the committee a pronounced
majority Of his associates are as defi-
nitely standpat as he is progressive.
Another significant feature of the
makeup of the organizations is that
not single straightout progressive
was placed upon the committee on cor
porations other than municipal in
either branch.
Reactionaries Cheerful.
ON the whole, the absence of en-
thusiasm in the camp of the demo-
cratic platformists Is comparable only
to the absence of gloom in the camp
of the reactionaries.
House Committees.
The following Is the makeup of the
committees of the house:
Agriculture--F'ishbau Clark. Nc
clung. King. Holt, Christmas, Phillips,
Mains Poulsson. Rowe, MacRae.
Crull, Conner.
Affairs of cities--Norton, Smith,
kiley. Johnson, kuphal, Fisher Camp.
Crull, t.liel, Crippen.
Aprortionment and representation
Clark, GRAPHICAL, kiley, KirschWing,
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