The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-01-19
Organization Or the House hit the OBJ
stinate Senate Holds Out Against
Work.

Work.
The candidates for Speaker of the
House we're:
J. J. Woods, Of Wheeling.
Joseph Sprigg. Of Hampshire.
Fl. j. Samuels, of Cabell
w. E. Lively of Lewis.
! C. p. Dorr, of Webster.
The candidates for Clerk we're:
! J. B. Peyton, of Cabell.
j. M. Hamilton, of Calhoun.
/ Harry Gibson.
For Sergeant alarms.
A. A. Fanzheim
| c. o. Arbogast.
| J. H. Kelly.
In the Senate Candidates on the
Republican side were:
For President:
Bob Carr, of Charleston.
N. b. Scott, of Wheeling.
?. w. Morris, of Richie.
Edwin Maxwell, of Clarksburg.
For Sergeant-at-arms:
Steele A. Hawkins, of Kanawha.
Jake Kemple, of Wheeling.
The following officers were elect
ed:
Speaker of the House, Hon. j. j.
Woo DIS.
Clerk, j. M. Hamilton.
Sergeant at arms, w. III. Gibbs, of
Roane county.
Doorkeeper, A. w. Knots, of Ma
rion county.
The caucus to nominate the Off
GERS of the House was harmo-
NOUS and attended by all the dele
gates.
Over on the Senate side there was
every known political quantity ex-
cept harmony, and CONSERVATION
and fear followed the assembling Of
the honorable Republican Senators.
Bob Carr and Senator Minear, of
Tucker county, turned their backs
on their honorable colleagues and
refused to sign the call for the eau.
Gus, refused to attend it, or have
anything to do with it in any way.
This so angered the Republicans
they sent a proposition to Democrat
ic leaders saying that they would
concede to the Democrats the organ
ization Of the Senate, provided that
Carr and Minear were entirely shut
out. The recalcitrants we're not to
have a smell; Senator N. B. Scott, of
Ohio, was the bearer The PROPOSE
ton was put in two forms. The
first was that Senator George Price
should be made President and the
Republicans should get the minor
offices. The other was that the Re-
publicans should have the President
and the Democrats the minor Off
ces. Senator Scott stated en-
phatically that the purpose was to
cut out Carr and Minear and to
prevent them from having any hand
In the organization. Both PROPOSE
lions were peremptorily refused by
the Democrats.
Carr and Minear will absolutely
dictate the action OF the Republicans,
or they will act independently,
which perhaps means with the Dem
ocrats.
The Republican caucus for Senate
officers nominated.
Clerk, George J. Walker.
Sergeant alarms, ex-senator Co
burn, of Upshur county.
Doorkeeper, Jas. Madison, of Park
ersburg.
They did not undertake to nomi-
nate candidate for President.
The Senate caucus Of Republicans
finally resolved to support Minear
for President. This is Republican
Senator who voted for Camden two
years ago, and was charged with
every piece of rascality known by
his colleagues, and Morris, of Ritch-
lie even went to the extent of prefer
ring charges against him; but the
Senate refused to order an investi-
CATION, though Minear himself in
sisted upon it. The Democrats NOM
mated Bob Carr and dead lock en-
sued. The vote twas uniformity Ii
for Minsar IL for Carr and Morris
scattered. He could not vote for
democrat, and he would not vote for
man whom he had publicly eharg
ed with being a scoundrel, and so
there was no election on the first
day, and the Senate adjourned until
Thursday at noon, having donenoth
ing.
In the House the caucus nominees
were all duly elected and sworn in,
but as the Senate was still inorganic
ed nothing could be done The law
requires that the vote for State Of
ficers shall be opened and the result
announced in the presence Of both
Houses, before any other business is
done. and until the Senate organizes
nothing can be done.