The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-02-13
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ana Pest oHees and Post Roads Il
addition each senator is TO have tire,
other places i've in all. Each of thD
slider senators will have a prominen
committee taairmauSbip. but Will no
he allowed 10 serve rs a couferee c1
any other Oumittee. Lanroot. o
Wisconsin. Suoyt. Of Utah: Norris
u Nebraska; Cummius. OF Iowa
Hardug Of ohio. Knox. of Penn.
lylvan'a and Hale Of Maine. have
seen named To put the plan into full
sheet before he beginning of the
special session.
Prevents Corner on PlumhS.
As sAe result Of lhis it is thought it
rill not be possible for it to be said
tbat the Republican party in its re-
Turn n power is to De held under the
direction in the senate of a few men,
well on in Years. who hail from any
particular ton CT the country. 1t
Is asserted b. Moses and Hale that
sne OF the principal causes Of the
fefeat OF tie Democrats at the last
tlectiCa was the oiigarchic cornering
~ the Southern hog combine" of
committee cbaismanships which en-
sbled il to discriminate against wheat
and il favor of cotton and TO deluge
sRe South with appropriations for
solitary cantonments and munition
7ants.
In The House, too. the Republicans
are preparing to do away with this
fomination Of the South, and to
make the speaker a lessened force in
8as making OF laws. The great fight
over the Reed rules in the insurgency
kays under Uncle Joe" Cannon
Srought about the selection of a
Committee en- Committees which took
Hom the speaker the controlling in
suence in naming the membership of
al committees and therefore in
hrgely determining the character of
she bills to be suppressed by or re-
ported favcgab,y cut of them. While
Uncle joe is now regarded as
haying made an excellent speaker,
snd while he was subject to removal
1t any time by a majority in the
House, there is no tendency on the
part cf the Republicans TO e. back to
the old way Of doiDg .hings.
Speaker Clark and the Democrats.
Fith the South N control. have
shaped Legislation Vih d view to
Eeir own interests quite as much
throush the sinai. number OF men
50 the Committee III Committees tC
as g at an extent and therefore, it is
urged by the Republicans, as much TO
Ne detrtment Of the country. as the
1ight have done had the speaker the
full power he had in former times.
10 offset this the Republicans have
Samed a Steering Committee COM
sOsed of Mann, of Illinois; Moore, of
pennsylvania; Anderson, of Mime
sofa; Gillett, of Massachusetts, and
Eondell, of Wyoming. A similar
committee will be continued during
she next session, to confer with the
speaker regularly and to see that the
sork of one committee does not over
zap that of any other. 1t will go be-
g0nd the functions of the Committee
on Committees, which selects the
membership of all the committees,
and of the Committee on Rules,
which frames the order of business
Of the House, and do what its name
2adicateS: steer bills on an even
toUrse through the hands of the
aembers and the committees to en-
9ctment.
Will Advise With Members.
It is likely that the hew speaker,
shoevut lie may be, will also have
about him, in addition to the commit
tas mentioned, personal advisers
whom he will consult from time to
time in regards to methods and pro-
sedure. He will therefore be even
less of czar than now. The great
slice once held by Clay, Blaine,
Carlisle, Crisp, Reed and Cannon will
ss almost entirely parliamentary
sue. 1t will be exceedingly difficult
lor the new speaker to either run his
sarty in the, House or in any way
directly manipulate the making of
laws. He will still be decidedly i'm
sortant influence when his argument
Is heard on the floor, but that will be