Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-14
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! have great weigh. with the new MEM
bers. They will be divided as
among the three. New members have
received a letter from one Of the quiet.
/ conservative men reelected. in which
he presents the availa ability of the Linn
county man as follows
Il presume the friends OF the diff
ferent candidates for the speakership
have spoken to you OF their Qualitica-
| tons. l want to add word relative
TO the special fitness of the Hon. Justin
Barry of Linn county.
Although the Thirty sixth general
assembly Will have no lack OF speaker
ship timber it is too important an Of
flee 10 be filed with less than the very
best availa BILE man.
The presiding officer of the house.
insofar as these qualifications may be
found com bined in any one aspirant.
should he a man of strong character,
unquestioned integrity, absolute fair
ness. unruTled good temper, sane out
look. unbiased Judgment, steady poise
, and constructive push.
He should be resourceful and
prompt in emergencies. able to curb
se,ishness. harmonic conflicting inter
ests. maintain good feeling. expedite
house tends always for the general
welfare rather than the selfish benefit
Of any locality, class or interest.
Il, IS q big JOB and the wise selec
ton of the proper man Cor the most
i'm portant preliminary task before the
recently elected state representatives
because the results and successes OF
the coming session will probably de-
pend more on this one choice than on
any. a, present undetermined factor.
each one of the candidates has
much TO commend him: they are all
splendid, good men-but 1t seems 10 me
that altho modest and unassuming.
Barry of Linn, combines more OF the
requisite qualifications than do the
others
Il is interesting to note not only the
estimate placed upon the various cam
didates for speaker by one of The
strong men who served with them in
the last house. but 10 observe what is
regarded by experienced members as
the qualifications for the office The
contest probably Will be on a good ma
tured basis. with recognition that any
one OF the candidates would be all
right.
The speakership selection. however.
is only a part of the matter of organ
| ization. The clerkships and other SIM
liar places are of no Importance what
ever. The big thing Is the arrange
/ ment of the committees. And the
| speaker of the Thirty-sixth general as
| sembly is going to be very little ham
/ pered by presidents or the claims OF
| this or that person 10 recognition be-
cause Of service in the past. There are
| fourteen members of the house re-
elected. as follows Barry. Brady. At
kinson. Ring Bingham. Efwood. Bux-
ton. Monro. Griffin. Rome Heiming.
Jones. Anderson of Greene and Ander-
son OF Montgomery. What material
here TO head committees?
Running down to the judiciary COM
mittee Of the last session and the first
| name to reappear Is that of Ring. fol-
| lowed by Griffin, Elwood, Buxton.
On the ways and means committee
the logical man seems to be Bling
ham. but Brady. Ring. Munro and An
! derson of Montgomery served on that
/ committee also.
! On appropriations, Anderson OF
| Greene. is highest on the lis, of those
reelected followed by Atkinson. Jones.
| Griffin and Barry.
| On schools Atkinson stood high at
| the last session.
! On highways. Jones is at the head.
! but Buxton, Atkinson Anderson OF
Greene. Munro and Ring all served
! there
On agriculture. Brady has the pole
position, as also on railroads.
II will thus be seen that the new
speaker VIII have before him the task
! of reconstructing the committees al
/ most wholly out of untried material.
He will have little to guide him He
/ will have to take men at their face
value and chance ii in many instances.
/ There is doubtless lot of excellent
! material in the house but not until af-
ter the session has proceeded some
distance will the exact relation Of each
TO the other be apparent. The import
ance OF the work of committee making
is therefore apparent.
The committee making in the state
! senate may be a little easier Always
( there is rnle of precedence which Is
| followed. Men move I'D from year 10
year on the committees after much
service.
! N'' lhS ways anu means committee,
! Joe Allen. chairman, is again mem
+, Der and of course will retain the place
on the leading committee Close after
| him are Savage. Francis. Chase Hill
| singer. Heald. Spaulding Doe. Dorar,
Arney and Kimball. Of the republicans.
OF the democrats, Clarkson, White and
| Farr are left.
| On the judiciary Francis will re-
tain the Craftsmanship. On the COM
! rnittee Of old members are Chase. Al
! len, Head, Crist. Perkins. Hilsinger,
! Larrabee. Wilson of Appanoose. KIM
ball. Clarkson, Quigley. Farr, Gillette.
Sheean and Hageman.
There viii BE c re-. man ct the head
Of appropriations. 1t will be Savage.
who was second last session. With him
are Larrabee. spauiding. Jones. OAR
rah, Robinson, Doran, Fellows, Taylor,
Schrup.
The schools committee was headed
by Savage, but will go to someone else.
Larrabee was chairman Of railroads.
Balkema headed the highway commit
tee. but on that committee there Is
good material in Robinson, Darrah,
Perkins. Spaulding. Jones. Crist Doran,
Crist u still la member and he headed
the public utilities committee last
time. Arney had educational institu-
tons.
Il Among the new men elected to the
/ senate there 10 excellent material II