The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-29
Louisiana Solons Obtain
Important Commit
tee Places
Democratic Delegation Wins
Recognition from Republi
can Majority


Jared better, perhaps, than did any
other solidly Democratic state in the
matter of committee assignments.
Senator Ransdall secured the chair
manship Of one OF the committees
allotted to the minority-that Of the
Mississippi river and its tributaries.
The Democratic steering committee
conceded place on the important
comittee on foreign relations that
Senator Gay might be retained on
the committee on appropriations.
The strategic position occupied in
the House by Representatives Mar
tin Of the Third Louisiana District
allows him to continue, with the con-
sent OF each party, to hold his place
on the important committee of ways
and means. With Representative
Dupre reassigned to the committee
on rivers and harbors and Represent
ative Sanders retaining his place on
| the committee on interstate and for
eign commerce, the state thus has
representation on he capital three
committees of the House.
Representative Watkins of the
Fourth Louisiana District has the
distinction of being the ranking
member on two committees, that of
the revision of laws and that of ter
ritories. Representative Wilson is
| in second place on the committee of
flood control, as we'll as holding
membership in the committee on im-
migration and naturalization. Rep
lreSentative Aswell is the ranking
Representative Lazaro is the rank
| ing member of the committee on en-
rolled bills and retains his place on
| the committee of merchant marine
and fisheries.
In addition to the importance Of
the committees to which the Louis
lana members have been assigned.
three of them are of unusual impor-
tance just at this time. Merchant
marine. good roads and immigration
are questions which will be much to
the fore during the present Con-
gress.
With the death Of General Esto-
pinal Louisiana loses it's representa-
tion of the naval affairs committee.
General Estiponal's successor, or
any new member, could not hope to
secure a place on that important inn
portant committee.
The full list of Senator Ransdell's
committee assignments is as follows:
Mississippi river and its tributaries
(chairman), agriculture, commerce,
woman suffrage, public health and
national quarantine, print, interocea-
mic canals, civil service and retrench-
ment.
Senator Gays committee assign-
ments are as follows: Appropria-
tions, pensions. postoffice and post
roads, fisheries, expenditures in the
Navy Department, coast and insu1ar
survey, public buildings and grounds.
Williams On Suffrage
Senator Williams is opposed to
delaying the vote on the Susan B.
Anthony amendment. His views in
that connection expressed to the
Senate are as follows:
:" do not think this question needs
debating it needs settling. 1t has
been debated for some twenty years.
Big men, little men and middle-sized
men have talked about it until the
whole country is tired of hearing
talk upon this subject. The advo-
Gates OF it have consumed time
enough Let us, the opponents of it,
not initiate their example. | think
the sooner we can get a vote upon
this question the better. | expect to
vote against this proposed constitu-
ional amendment, but | do not want
| to retard its consideration.
The truth is that in some eleven
or twelve states where for twenty
years or more it has been tried il
has been tried it has done neither
good nor harm. So far as | am con-
cerned, | was opposed to it, and I
am yet, because it affects to cer-
tain extent the social fabric of the
South, but | see the handwriting on
the wall do not want to initiate
old Jonathan Higginbotham, who
during the war refused to secede
with Arkansas, and after the war re-
fused to make peace when Arkansas