Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1921-02-02
HOUSE and SENATE
Committees NAMED
Bills for Acts Began Rolling In Rap
idly When Legislature Recon-
vened Last Week.
Prospects Are That Usual Number OF
Bills For Acts VIII Be Pro.
duced At This Session.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
Des Moines, Jan. "a, 1921.-Legis
Iation in the Both General Assemble
of Iowa is now well under way, ant
up to this time nearly rs bills fol
acts, and resolutions for other pur
poses, have been introduced in thu
House of Representatives. One woulC
hardly think that with General As.
sembly every two years so mucI
needed legislation could be found al
each session to keep the 100000 peo-
pie of this state regulated and con-
trolled as they should be. But each
session produces over a thousand
bills In both houses, and sometimes
five or six hundred of them become
laws. 1t must be stated, however
that a very large number Of bills
proposed are duplicated in each house.
as this has been found to be good
way to get by with some measures
where one house or the other might
not view them favorably. or the com
mittees might not be friendly to the
propositions covered.
On meeting again last Tuesday, af-
ter the four days recess, the mem-
bers started in like whirlwhind to
get their measures going before the
anticipated time for shutting off In
PRODUCTION of new bills. Then the
Senate took hold Of the proposed Code
revision resolution and amended it
so that bills may be introduced up
to the end Of the second days ses-
sion after the March adjournment
and there the General Assembly rests
on about the same basis as Of old,
with a three months regular ses-.
sion in prospect. After the March
recess and the opportunity it affords
Tor consultation with constituents at
home, members may be expected to
return for the second half of the ses-
sion loaded up with new bills for
acts, and these may all be presented
by the end of the second days ses-
sion on their return.
Committees Appointed Tuesday
The one event in which members
of both houses are most interested
at the beginning of the session is the
appointment Of committees by the
president of the Senate and the speak
er of the House. Ambitions for public
service are greatly promoted In these
committee appointments, and especi-
ally in the matter of committee
chairmanships. 1t takes an expert
Of almost supernatural discernment
to name all the committees and
have every member satisfied and
pleased with what he gets. Speaker
McFarlane in the House comes as
near to having this faculty as any.
body, and his sixty-three committees
are made up from careful study Of
each, and reconstruction Of the COM
mitteeships till every member has
nine committees on which to serve
And yet dissapointments are mani
fest as long as ambitions and self-in-
terest predominant in human nature.
Lieutenant Governor Hammill is
highly commended generally for his ar
rangement of committees in the SEN
ate. He has less committeeships to
give out than they have In the House
but his recognition of the older mem
bers who have displayed marked abil-
ity in some lines of legislation is cal
culated for the best results. And yet
some of these older members would
have drawn different cards il they
could.
Senate Committee Chairmanships
In the Senate the most important
committees are named first, and the
chairman of each committee for this |
session Is al follows:
Ways and Means-Witmore Of
Wapello County.
Judiciary-Parker of Polk.
Appropriations of Page.
MISUNDERSTANDING of Washing
ton.
Highways-Stoddard of Woodbury..
Educational Holdoegel
of Calhoun.
Railroads-Haskell of Linn.
Public Utilities-Th Thompson of Des
Moines County.
Elections-Smith of Madison.
Board of Control-Hale of Jones.
Public hols-Newberry of Clay
ton.
Banks-VanAlstine of Humboldt.
Cities and Towns of Ham
1iton.
Insurance-Frailey of Lee.
County and Township Affairs-Buser
of Louisa.
Fish and Game-Adams of Kossuth.
Dairy and Food Cessna of Powe-
shiek County.