Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-12-22
New England Shaken up by a
Genuine Old Earth
quake.
A Bad Case of Black Mail Worked
up in New York.
Organization Of the Les islature.
AS IT LOOKS FROM MILwAUKEE.

AS IT LOOKS FROM MILWAUKEE.
Especial to Madison Democrat.)
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 10. Political ad-
vices here are to the effect that the Or
ganization of the coming legislature
will be the most exciting of any yet
held in the Badger state. The contest
among republicans for positions in the
senate will be more bitter than among
the democrats in the assembly for
obvious reasons. The principal one is
that the republican place hunters did
not calculate for an instant on either
branch Of the legislature going against
them politically. AS a result, scores
of workers" had made up their minds
to "have something" when the legisla-
ture convened, snd in many instances
had picked their place. The result of
the election pied their calculations to
some extent, but most of them will go
to Madison at the opening and rely
upon being cared for by the senate.
Senator Wiley will, from present indi-
cations. be elected president pro tenn
pore. This, unless he is sold out, which
may occur as the senator is looked
upon as an unusually good-natured
fellow, who will not resent any
"slumping and one who can be re-
lied upon to stick to his party what
ever they do to him. The chief clerk
ship is more mixed. 1t has been pub
lished that there was no doubt of
Bross' election, but Jack Turner's
friends here laugh at the assertion and
say that it is preposterous. Jack, him
self was seen to-day and says that he
will be elected, and that Bross has not
half enough senators pledged to elect
him. l am informed that Ed. Coe is
not candidate, but John Eldred may
be, and it Is asserted that Rock
Flint, Of Menominee, has g candidate
to bring forward from his district. do
not know who it is. Bat of this you
may be certain; there is going to be
big fight for the place which may re-
suit in the defeat of both Bross and
Turner, and the election Of a compro-
mise candidate, possibly III the
person of the Hon. E. w.
Young the old and efficient
clerk of the assembly from Sauk cou.-
ty. This would really be a victory for
Turner, and would secure him all of
the minor loaves and fishes he might
ask for. On the whole, / think 1url-
er's prospects much the better of the
two.
For sergeant-at-arms it looks as
though Glaze would be reelected in
the end, but there will be scramble
for it.
In the assembly the speakership
question is narrowed down TO Finch, of
Oshkosh, and Mcbride, of Neillsville.
This contest has not reached the di-
mensions of respectable fight at all,
and will not Finch and Mcbride are
hobnobbing together over the state
| very much as Lincoln and Douglass
used to. They slept in the same room
one night last week in the flankinton,
aud both refused to be interviewed.
Each simply asserts that he is a
candidate, would like the position,
but that he does not want it badly
enough to get down and make bitter
! fight for it. They both profess to have
implicit faith in the good sense of the
assembly to select the proper presid
ing officer and assert they will be salts
fed whoever is elected. Each assert
the other would make a creditable pre-
siding officer and is entitled to il as
much as himself. And this is so.
These two gentlemen are both of them
unusually brilliant young lawyers, en-
ergetic, honest, industrious and popu-
lar. There has been no such ability In
contestants for that position since
Judge Cassoday was speaker.
1T. Carr apparently has the boom
for chief clerk, but there are multi
tude of other candidates. and Ewing,
of this city, Bohan, of West Bend, and
Murphy, of Green Lake, probably
stand az even chance with him. You
need not be surprised to see this posi-
:ion go to a dark horse.
For sergeant-at-arms it is utterly I'M
possible to predict anything, although
Carter, of Vernon, or Kennedy, of
Iowa, would seem to be ahead just
now. The right down bitter fighting In
both houses viii be ever the subordi-