Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-12
LAWMAKERS
TOLEARN CHOICE.
ON COMMITTEES
Ellis Good Of Nemaha Re-
garded as Choice for
Finance, Ways and
Means of House.

Continued from Page one.J
ening 10 put a spoke in the wheels
OF their fellows when they favor
certain appointments.
To Bar Members.
after this, in the interest OF har-
mony, provision should be made to
bar from appointment as chairman
of any committee a member who
serves on the committee on COM
mittees."
While it has been facetiously OBJ
served by Speaker Daily of the
house, because Of the tremendous
republican majority in both branches
Of the legislature, that politics are
adjourned" a majority of the re-
publican members of the senate and
house say this will not be the case.
Eve will never lose sight of the
fact that this is a republican legis-
lature," said Lieutenant Governor
Barrows, president of the senate,
and that as such the people will
hold US responsible for all of the
legislation we pass or fail to pass.
We must redeem our platform
pledges and promises and do it as a
republican body.
we cannot be neutral nor lose
our partisan identity. Our majority
must be kept imbued with its sense
of partisan responsibility to the peo-
pie and as republicans we will be
judged by the voters.
Members who keep this in sight
will act in harmony with the ma
jority and it will prevent the house
and senate republicans from being
split into factions which is the al
ways present menace OF a legisla-
ture such as this"
Al Are Farmers.
An analysis of the house member
ship by vocations and professions
shows there are Al who give their
occupations as farmers, stockbreed-
ers and ranchmen, and one fruit
grower. There are four bankers, IL
lawyers, one dentist, one detective,
one salesman for an adding machine
company, one broker, one carpenter,
one contractor, one baker. one FORE
man of bridge construction. one me-
chanic, one auditor, two physicians,
two lumber dealers, one grain mer-
chant, one abstractor, one feed,
grain and hay dealer and one auc-
tioneer. This shows total of 70
professions, avocations and business
occupations distributed among the
III members and is peculiar in that
this is one of the few sessions of
the legislature where the farmers,
rather than the lawyers are in the
majority
IN the senate there are 10 lawyers,
seven farmers, four real estate deal
ers, three editors, four bankers, of
whom two are retired; two insur-
ance men, one coal and lumber deal
er, and one horse dealer.
With the assembling of the legis-
lature as soon as it is organized for
business will begin the gathering of
those who are interested in certain
classes of legislation,
County Commissioner Harris, Ne
n1aha, chairman Of the legislati
committee of the State County
Commissioners association, is al
ready on hand. ]. o. Shrover,
Richardson, of the Farmers union,
has been familiar figure during the
opening days of the legislature and
will appeal for matters wanted by
his organization. 1t is not probable
that the telephone and railroad cor
porations, because of government
control, will have lobbyists at this
session, but there are numerous
other interests that are liable to be
affected by proposed legislation that
will have their representatives on
hand.
Good Roads An Issue.
Good roads legislation will come
up as a matter Of course. Omaha
organizations viii be interested in
the passage of bill that will have
for its purpose the stopping of
wholesale automobile thefts. The
new measure may be modelled on the
California law. It is estimated that
the loss of automobiles by theft in
this state during the past five years
will approximate more than $3,000,-
0O0.
State Police Force.
One of the innovations proposed
Is bill for the creation Of state
police force, fashioned after those of
Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania and