Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-01-13
BALLARD HEADS
BRIDGES COMMIT Tee
Madison Representative Also On
Body That VIII Handle Normal
# School Legislation

stt representative Leonard IL.
Ballard, of Madison county, was
5 made Chairman of the Committee
on public bridges, by Speaker Joe
F&Bosworth of the House at
Frankfort. Announcement Of
the committee appointment of the
various members of the House
3 and Senate was made Monday.
Mr.. Billiards. craftsmanship may
have been received because the
Speaker has heard of the agita-
ton over the Gays Ferry bridge,
litigation concerning which is
now before the Court of Appeals
This committee usually has very
little to do, however.
~ Mr.. Ballard drew a position on
the Normal schools committee.
(which will enable him to look
after legislation affecting the big
State institution located here. He
= Is also on the committee to which
li'are deferred questions or meas
ures affecting fourth class cities
which will enable him to look aft
er any legislation affecting Rich
mond. His other committee as
'signments are committees on
agriculture, assignment of COM
1nittee rooms, constitutional a
mendments, education Mol, fed
eral relations.
T4aState Senator Clarence F.
Il Miller, of Irvine, who represents
this district in the upper house OF
the Legislature, was we'll taken
care of by the Democratic House
Committee on Rules, which nam
ed the committees in the senate.
Senator Miller was made chair
man of the important committee
on courts and legal procedure.
He was also placed on the COM
mittees on Charitable, Penal and
-Reformatory Institutions, COM
pensation for industrial injuries,
education and judiciary.
Mack Morgan, the young repre-
sentative from Garrard county,
was made chairman of the i'm
portant committee on agricul-
ture He was also placed on the
following committees: Educa=
ton No. |, Forestry, Normal
Schools, Public Libraries, and
cities of fifth and sixth class.
Lincoln cOunty's representative
H. G. Skiles, a prominent young
banker OF Grab Orachard, drew
assignments on the committee on
banks and banking, geological
survey insurance, life and acci-
dent; congressional redistricting,
and sinking fund.
Mr.. Ballard spent the week
end at his home in the country
He likes his work at Frankfort,
and is much pleased with the way
things started off Speaking OF
his vote against the woman suf-
frage amendment he said that he
would have voted for the amend
ment giving the people of the
state a right to vote on the .ques-
tion. Then, too, he said, it
seemed to him that the suffrage
proposition was rammed down
the throats of members, sort of
"failroaded" through; that the
members were asked to vote it
through before they had hardly
gotten their seats well located,
and for that reason he didn't vote
for it, as he didn't approve of
such hasty action on any subject,
especially one as important as
amending the constitution OF the
. United States.
Asserting that it is not the inten-
ton, of the law of kentucky that this.
state should accept money in return
for privilege which it does not pro-
7tect, Representative John Murphy, of
CoYington, introduced in the House
of Representatives 4 resolution pro-
viding that the state refund to all
saloon keepers the unused part of
their state license fees. Murphy said
that he did not know the amount in
volyed, but that in Kenton and Camp
bell counties alone it would run up in
to the thousands Of dollars.
A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney Gen
eral of the United States, was invited
to address the Legislature.
The resolution of Senator C. S..
Num-, unanimously passed in the
Senate, calling on the United States
Senate Immediately to ratify the
peace treaty, was defeated in the