The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1921-01-21
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LEGISLATURE PREPARED
FOR IMPORTANT SESSION
Speaker Warner Completes Commit
tee Organizations and Several
Bills Under Discussion.
(By Special Correspondent

(By Special Correspondent.)
Announcement of the makeup of
the ci committees of the house by
fred L. 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 arc 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. H. Miller, Pal
mer, Brown, Raucholz and J. E. War
ner.
Drainage: Barnard. Butler. Menery.
Raucholz and Fuller.
Education: Curtis. Hall, Wells, No
sier. Haan. 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: AIdrich, 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, Haan and Pitkin-
Railroads: Smith, Moore, Meggison,
Reuter-, Stevenson. Glaspie. Holland.
Rowe and Ewing.
Roads and Bridges: Evans. Aldrich.
McKeon, O'Brien, Johnson Atwood.
y. e. 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, Danz, Burnham and Samson.
Village Corporations Johnson G.
H. Miller, Pitkin, Leedy and Rasmus-
son.
Ways and Means: Jerome. Hopkins,
Wells, Olmsted. Farrier, Braman,
Watson, Jensen and Byrum.
STATE POLICE UNDER FIRE.
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
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-
lished. Federal and local authorities
can enforce prohibition without the
state also doing 1t 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 su-
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 ofices.
DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER.
The first bill introduced in the
house was from Rep. Jensen. Of
Escanaba. 1t would raise the maxi
mum age of inmates Of the Boys In
dustrial School from IL to ia Rep.
Russell A. Hart, q new member from
Detroit, gave notice that he win In
troduce later bill to provide the
death penalty for first degree muir.
der, making it optional with juries to
impose death or life imprisonment in
the convictions. The Hart bill win
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 IL NO death penalty than in
those where executions occur. He
expects a hard battle over this meas