The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
BRADY SECURES PLACE
COMMITTEE ON MINING
Is WELL PROVIDED FOR IN SEN.
ATE COMMITTEE ASSIGN.
MENTS.

Although he has been in the senate
just little more than four years, Sen
ator James II. Brady is today better
provided with committee assignments
than any senator of equal length of
service, and in fact is as we'll provid :
ed as any senator from the west. Con-
steering the class of legislation in
which his state is interested, Senator
Brady Is now in a position to help
practically every bill that is to be in
troduced affecting Idaho.
Senator Brady in the sixty fifth con-
. gress holds all his committee assign
ments of the last congress, and in ad-
dition Is made member of the COM
mittee on public lands, and the COM
mittee on mines and mining. The SEN
ator's full list of committee assign
ments during the new congress will be
as follows: Agriculture and forestry,
conservation of national resources, ex-
penditures in the department of COM
merce, military affairs, mines and mi
ming. national banks, public buildings
ana GROUNDS, puDllc lands.
Will Aid West.
AS a member of the committee on
. agriculture, Senator Brady in the past
has been able to secure many appro-
priations of aid to the farmers, not on
,ly of Idaho, but of the entire west
When the hog cholera epidemic was
sweeping over certain sections of the
west, Senator BRADY was instrumental
in getting a liberal appropriation for
its determination; in the recent bill
he secured an appropriation for
sheep station in Fremont county, Ida
no, and also secured this year, as be-
fore, appropriations for various forms
of work designed to benefit the farm
ers of his and neighboring states.
The conservation committee al
though less active than agriculture
handles some of the bills designed to
regulate the development of natural
resources. but the bulk of this legisla-
ton, such as water power develop
ment, coal, oil and gas leasing, legis-
lation affecting the public range, is
now all considered by the committee
on public lands, of which Senator Bra
dy is hereafter to be a member. Leg
islation affecting forest reserves is all I,
considered by the committee on agri-
culture
Handles Important Legislation.
No more important legislation has
been before congress in recent years
than that before the committee on
military affairs. During the late ses-
sion Senator Brady as a member of |,
that committee. sat for six weeks
through hearings on the universal
training bill and joined in reporting
favorably such bill to the senate
The shortage of time made considera-
ton OF this bill impossible, but it will
come up again at the special session. {
as will the army appropriation bill,
which failed Of passage last session.
Not until Senator Brady was as
signed to the committee on mines and ,
mining did Idaho, with its vast min i
ing interests have representation on {
this committee. Senator Brady was $
especially DESTROYS of going on this 6
committee, in order that in general q
legislation the interests of Idaho may ,
be fully protected.
But for the legislative tangle. the r
public buildings committee would have I
reported an omnibus public building I
bill, one having passed the house in
January. This bill makes provision
for public buildings in all the states,
and the omnibus bill having failed {
during the short session, 1t will be re-
vived at the special session and will
be considered by the committee on n
public buildings and grounds. t
In Strong Position. a
In all. Senator Brady is a member n
OF three committees that handle and 8
report appropriation bills agriculture. @
military affairs and public buildings, d
There are few. If any other members $
of the senate who are members of so f
many committees that report appro- a
priation bills after they have passed y
the house. +
The additional assignments accord s
ed Senator Brady are in part by way t
of recognition of his faithful work on /.
committees to which he heretofore T
has belonged, and incidentally these c
lew assignments will impose upon the v
senator additional responsibility, and f
attendance upon those committees will h
be further tax upon his time. For c
the next two years Senator Brady will c
have all the public business on his "
hands that one senator can attend to. 3