Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-01-20
COMMITTEES ARE
NAMED BY WARNER
ORGANIZATION WORK coMPLET.
ED AND LEGISLATURE ALL
SET FOR BUSY SESSION.
GOVERNOR ASKS PRISON REFORM
Detroit Representative Has Measure
Providing Death Penalty For
First Degree Murder.
(By Special Correspondent. }

hoho-up vi the % committees or the
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 SEES.
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 committee:
Committees Organized.
Agriculture: Read. Ewing, Averill.
Johnson, Hopkins, Rasmussen, Rowe.
Locke and Emerson.
City Corporations: Kooyers, Hart.
way. Dunn. Culver. G.. III. Miller. Pal.
mer. Brown. Raucholz and J. +. 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. Allsrd. Da-
foe, Green, w. +. Miller. Manwaring,
Wade, HAN and Pitkin.
Railroads: Smith, Moore. Meggison,
Reuter-, Stevenson, Glespie, Holland,
Rowe and Ewing.
Roads and Bridges: Evans, Aldrich,
McKeon, O'Brien, Johnson Atwood,
]. f. Warner, Strauch and Kirby.
Rules: Case, Jerome, Moore. Vine
and Evans
State Affairs: Hunter, Welsh -Os-
born, Liddy. Frick, 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 J. Bryant, OF the Lena
wee Monroe district, put In bill to
do away with the constabulary and
empower the board OF state auditors
70 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-
lished. Federal and local authorities
can enforce prohibition without the
state also doing II 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 sn-
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 hrst 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 IL to IS. Rep.
Russell A. Hart, 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 10
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.
tions. Hart declares that statistics
show more murders in states where
there is no death penalty than in
those where executions occur. lie
expects a hard battle over this meas.
ure.
Rep. Aldrich, of Cheboygan. an.
nounced that he will introduce
plan for submission to the people al
the April election OF proposal 10
bond the state for not to exceed s30,.
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
interested In the preparation OF the
big bills to carry out his ideas OF con.
solidatlng departments. found time TO
talk over prison discipline with the
members OF the Jackson and other
prison boards and has ordered that
logging of prisoners. under any cir
cumstances. must be done away with.
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