St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-22
MAY Be A DEADLOCK.
The Montana Democrats Ap-
pear to Hold the Key to
the Situation.
They Can at Least Prevent the
Republicans From Nam
ing Senators,
And Gov. Toole Can Then Send
Two Good Democrats to
Washington.
A Leading Republican Sem
ator Deserts to the DEM
oeratic Camp.
Special to the Globe.

HELENA. Mont, Nov. 21.-There is a
mad lot of Republican schemers in
Helena tonight. and it all comes from
the commissioners of Lewis and Clarke
counties renting the legislative halls to
Gov. TOOle instead of to the secretary of
state as heretofore, there being no state
house in Montana, and the county court
house being the only available place
where the leg islature can have COM
Portable qua rterS. Since its completion
and under the territorial government
the secretary of state, who always paid
the bills out of Uncle Sans funds, Sc
cured quarters in the county building.
Now that Montana is state and will
pay her own bills the governor applied
to the county commissioners for the
rooms and they were rented TO him. 1t
has been no secret that the Republicans
intended to get possession of the
chambers before the legislature
met and hold them, leaving the
Democrats, in case there were two
houses. to meet on the outside
To-day the county commissioners put
strong guard within and outside of the
chambers under the command of Capt.
Jack Smith, a veteran Democrat, and
who is
NOTED FOR HIS BRAVERY.
His orders were, Hold the rooms
subject to the orders of Governor
Toole, and allow no one to
enter except under the instructions of
the executive. Tonight the Demo-
Gratis have possession of the keys of the
legislative halls and will hold the fort.
Another thing which has ruff1ed
the temper of the Republicans
is the deSertion from the ranks
of one of the eldest members of
the party in Montana. i. B. Olds, Re
publican senatOr-elect from Madison
county, announces that he is opposed
to the methods the Republicans have
used to secure control of the legisla-
ture, and that he will not only
not aid them in any way, but
| will oppose them. He says his party
has neither law or justice on its side,
and the feeling in his county among his
own party is that the trIckery should
the Democrats be allowed, with
out further hindrance, to reap the
advantage of whatever victory they won
| at the polls. Olds is one of the most
prominent men in Southern Montana,
| wealthy and bitter partisan. His out
| spoken condemnation of his party's tao
| ties has thrown the Republican
LEADERS INTO PANIC.
! and while they dOnot accuse him of being
| Influenced by anything except his own
| ideas of right. they fear other Repub-
| lican members of the legislature will
| follow his lead, and they are preparing
| tHx.I + inf hot fiaa
| Gratis are buying up Republican repre-
sentatives. A large majority of the
members elect of the legislature are in
| town tonight and all save one will be
here by tomorrow. The one exception
| is senator-elect Mcnamara, of Fergus
! county, democrat. who is confined to
| his bed by kick received from horse
a few days ago. His absence will not
| affect the contest in any way, as the
| senate will not organize until the house
| is ready for business.
TWO LEGISLATIVE BODIES.
There seems to be no doubt now but
| that there will be two legislative
bodies, one, the members of which
| bear legal certificates from the
| county clerk, and the members of the
| other those of the state canvassing
! board. The governor will undoubtedly
recognize the body bearing the county
| clerks certificates. The senate 10 tie,
eight Democrats and eight Republicans,
| with a Republican lieutenant governor,
who will cast the deciding vote in case
case of a deadlock. The house, giving
| the Democrats the ten members of the
Sill, er Bow delegation which the courts
say they are entitled to. stands: Demo-
| erats %, Republicans %. with one seat
a tie, for which new election will have
/ II
| the five members which they gain by
throwing out the Homestake precinct
in Silver Bow County, the house will
stand: Democrats y, Republicans 81.
Each side is determined TO prevent the
| other from having a quorum. Thus be-
fore the legislature meets
| DEADLOCK Is OUTLINED
| and as the body can only sit for ninty
] days, if it remains unbrOken, and no
! senators are elected. Gov. TOOle will
| have the duty of naming them. 1t may
be that one party or the other will get
| enough members of the other side to
| come in with them to break the dead
| lock, and in that case the trouble would
be over. There is result predicted by
| number of well-intOrmed men. Ii is
particularly noticeable that the Repub-
| iicans fear a break in their lines. In
| case the Democrats are successful in
| their plans ON whom will their choice
fall? To understand the situation it
| must be remembered that the Rocky
| mountains divide Montana into what is
| called the east side and the west side,
| and by common consent, one senator
| from each division will be chosen.
On the east side the choicest
man, the one most likely to be.
chosen, has never announced himself as
q candidate, or even intimated that he
would accept if rendered. Still it seems
to he generally understood that eX-GOv.
S. T. Hauser. the man referred TO. will
he the Democratic East side senator.
Hauser is pioneer, interested in and
the originator of nearly every big enter
| prise i'm the territory, and who, while he
has made money, has not done so at the
| expense of his friends. Hauser's pros
| perity has been cOincident with that of
| Montana. and he has never refused to
aid any public or private business en-
terprise when called upon or failed to
| RESPOND to a call for assistance when
| hard winters came. meaning loss to the
| stOckmen, or when money was needed
TO place a promising but impoverished
mining enterprise where it would make
returns TO the owners.
AN EARLY-DAY MoNTANIAN.
who has experienced all the hardships
which were the lot of the men who laid
| the foundations on which rests the new
state, in his prosperity he has not for
| gotten those associated with him in
those trying times. and who have not
! been so fortunate as himself, but has
bound them to him by thousands of kind