Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-01-21
COMMITTEES ARE
NAMED BY Warner
ORGANIZATION WORK CONFLICT
Ed AND LEGISLATURE ALL
SET FOR BUSY SESSION.
Detroit Representative Has Measure
Providing Death Penalty For
First Degree Murder.
(By special Correspondent


house by Speaker Warner was the
chief event of the reconvening of the
legislature. The new speaker man
aged to satisfy everybody with his
appointments and the work of the ses
sion will speedily be under way. Fol
lowing are the members of the most
important house committees, the first
named representative In each case be
ing the chairman of the committees.
Committees Organized.
Agriculture: Read. Ewing, Averill
Johnson, Hopkins, Rasmussen, Rowe
Locke and Emerson.
City Corporations: Kooyers, Hart
way. Dunn, Culver, G. f.. Miller, Pal
mer, Brown, Raucholz and j. e. War
ner.
Drainage: Barnard, Butler, Menery
Raucholz and Fuller.
Education: Curtis, Hall, Wells, Mo
sier. Ham, Barnard Manwaring
Dacey and Hartway.
Fish and Fisheries: Woodruff, Da.
foe, Miles, Dean, Case, Strom, Kooy
ers, Wade and Leedy.
Game Laws: Glaspie, Coleman, Full
Ter, Hubbard and Morrison.
General Taxation: Aldrich, Lord
Jewell, Allard, Smith, Read, Francis
Byrum and Mosier.
Insurance: O'Brien, Hunter, Chase,
Robinson and Emerson.
Judiciary: Liddy. Copiey, Hunter,
Woodruff, Harris, Dafoe, Macdonald,
Titus and Lewis.
Local Taxation: Miles, Atwood.
Raucholz, Menery and Burnham.
Private Corporations: Lord, Ohm.
sted, Lennon, Ewing, Watson, Steven.
son. Gettel, Butler and Rankin.
Public Health: Welsh, Case, Sar.
gent, Nevins and Townsend.
Public Utilities: Copley, Allard, Da-
foe, Green, w. F. Miller, Manwaring,
Wade, Ham and Pitkin.
Railroads: Smith, Moore, Meggison,
Reuter-, Stevenson, Glaspie, Holland,
Rowe and Ewing.
Roads and Bridges: Evans, Aldrich,
McKeon, O'Brien, Johnson Atwood,
]. e. Warner, Strauch and Kirby.
~. Rules: Case, Jerome, Moore, Vine
and Evans.
State Affairs: Hunter, Welsh, o.
born, Liddy, Prick, Vine, Town, Curtis
and Ramsey.
Towns and Counties: Averill, Far
rier, DAM, Burnham and Samson.
Village Corporations: Johnson, G..
H. Miller, Pitkin, Leedy and Rasmus-
sen.
Ways and Means: Jerome, Hopkins,
Wells, Olmsted. Farrier, Braman,
Watson, Jensen and Byrum.
State Police Opposed.
The long rumored effort to abolish
the state constabulary saw its real
inception on the first day for The in
PRODUCTION of bills in the senate, when
Senator Ernest ]. Bryant of the Lena
wee Monroe district, put In a bill to
do away with the constabulary and
empower the board of state auditors
to dispose of Its property. Senator
Bryant declared that the establish
ment of the constabulary was a war
measure, no longer needed now that
the National Guard is being re-estab-
iishe1 Federal and local authorities
can enforce prohibition without the
state also doing it through the con-
stabulary, he argues. Senator Nc
Naughton, of Kent county, announced
himself opposed to Bryant's bill
Senator Condor introduced bills to
compel marriage licenses to be obtain.
ed a definite number of days before
weddings; to raise the salaries of SUI
preme court justices to $4,000 year
each; and to permit the admission to
the bar of law students who have stu
died four years in attorneys offices.
Jensen Has First Bill.
The first bill introduced in the
house was from Rep. Jensen, of
Escanaba. II would raise the maxi
mum age OF inmates of the Boys In
dustrial School from II to IS. Rep.
Russell A. Hart, a new member from
Detroit, gave notice that he will in
troduce later a bill to provide the
death penalty for first degree muir.
der, making 1t optional with juries to
impose death or life Imprisonment in
the convictions. The Hart bill will
provide for the electric chair being in.
stalled in Jackson prison for execu-
lions. Hart declares that statistics
show more murders in states where
there is no death penalty than in
those where executions occur. He
expects a hard battle over this meas.
ure.
Rep. Aldrich, of Cheboygan, an.
nounced that he will introduce a
plan for submission to the people at
the April election of proposal to
bond the state for not to exceed $780,.
600 900 for the purpose of distributing
bonus payments to all Michigan men
and women who saw service in the
world war
Governors Appointments.
Gov. Groesbeck, who is keeping an
eye on all proposed legislation and
IA.