The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-01-28
POLITICAL CIRCLES.
The Senatorial Question in Kansas
Settled.
W. A. PFEFFER WILL SUCCEED SEN
ATOR INGALLS,.
Ex-senator Villas Elected as Senator to
Succeed Spooner of Wisconsin-Pro-
ceedingS of the Farmers National
Alliance at Omaha-The Nebraska
Legislature Approves the Senate's
Action on the Election Bill.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

Congress meets the seat OF Hon. John
James Ingals will be occupied by Will
liam Alfred Pfeffer, of the Farmers Alli-
ance, who in the joint session of the
Kansas Legislature tomorrow will be
formally declared elected United States
Senator.
The predictions of the knowing ones'
that the Alliance would be unable to
agree upon candidate. and that its fail
ure to agree would disrupt tho organiza-
ton, went wide of their mark. The eau
Gus was harmonious last night, and on
each ballot the one receiving the lowest
vote was dropped from the list until the
| choice was made.
The rumors of a DETECTION in the vote
| in the House to-day were likewise proved
unfounded.
The proceedings of both Houses We're
of an orderly character. In the House
fifty-three petitions from G. A. r.
veterans throughout the State, for re-
election of Ingalls,, went over under the
rules. When the result of the ballot was
announced. the Alliance men went wild
and cheered for several minutes.
The ballot for United States Senator re-
suited: House-Pfeifer So, Ingalls, %,
Blair5. Senate-Ingalls 50, Pfeffer 2, Blair
(Dem.), Congressman Morrill, and Sena-
tor Kelly each
William Alfred Pfeffer was born in
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in
1881, and is of Dutch parentage. In
1850 he caught the gold fever and
went to California, where he remained
two years. He made considerable money
and returned to Pennsylvania, and soon
| after removed to Indiana and later to
Missouri. He served during the war in
the Eighty-third Illinois Volunteers. At
the close OF the war he settled at Clarkes-
vile, Tenn, practicing law, and in 1870
he moved to Kansas, taking up a claim.
| At different times he edited various
papers, served in the State Senate, and
was delegate to the National Republi-
can Convention in 1880. In that year he
| moved to Topeka and assumed editorial
| control of the Kansas Farmer, and after
| ward bought the paper. He has been en-
gagged in the publication of that M paper De
ever since. The paper was of wide cir
| culation among the Kansas farmers, and
had much influence over them.
He joined the Farmers Alliance move
| ment a year ago, and in the spring of last
| year began a bitter determined warfare
ago Pfeffer was a stanch Republican,
when he joined the Farmers Alliance.
he outlined his policy as Senator to the
Associated Press representative to-day
He said that he favored the absolute and
unlimited coinage of silver and conser-
VatlVe expansion of the currency along
other lines. He was in favor, he said, Of
protection to home industries, but be-
lleved that the best protection did not
always result from high tariff. Protec-
ton by tariff as general principle, he
said, was wrong. A high tariff should be
called in to aid only individual struggling
industries. He now favored an average
ad valorum duty of 20 per cent. He is
opposed to the force bill.
Senator ingalls, in an interview this
afternoon said he had no plans for the fu-
| ture except that he knows he will remain
| in Kansas.
| MOODY LOSING GROUND.
PIERRE Is. d., Jan. 27.-Two ballots
for Senator were taken without result to-
day. Moody has released the Republican
| caucus, but will not Withdraw from the
race. His vote fell to-day on the last bal
| lot to 80, against Y yesterday. All sorts
OF speculation is being indulged in.
NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE.
TRENTON, Jan. 27.-In both branches of
| the Legislature last night a resolution
was made the special order for Tuesday
next denouncing the elections bill and
declaring the State will withhold the APP
preparation for the Worlds Fair if the
bill becomes law.
Villas ELECTED.
MADISON (Wis.), Jan. q. = Villas
received a majority over Spooner TODAY
when both Houses of the Legislature
voted for United States Senator.
| The Democrats of the Lower House
this morning passed, under suspension
of the rules, a bill to repeal the Bennett
compulsory education law.
NO RESULT REACHED.
SPRINGFIELD (Ill.), Jan. 27.-After the
| {l,,,
Senator had been taken without result
the joint session adjourned till noon to-
! morrow.
| OPPOSITION TO THE ELECTION BILL.
LINCOLN (Neb.), Jan. 27.-Resolutions
We're adopted in both branches of the
Legislature this morning approving the
action of the United States Senate in
refusing to consider the force bill
INDIANAPOLIS Qnd.), Jan. 27.-The
Senate this evening, after long debate,
adopted the House resolution not to
make an appropriation for the Worlds
Fair if the elections bill becomes law.
An adverse report from the committee on
the bill requiring the American flag to be
| f1oated over the school houses was con-
Cured in.
FARMERS NATIONAL ALLIANCE.
| TOPEKA, Jan. Z.-The eleventh annual
meeting of the Farmers National Alli-
ance convened here this morning. A re-
solution was adopted excluding all per-
sons not members of the alliance from
the sessions. About one hundred and
| fifty delegates were present The morn
| ing session was consumed in routine
business and the reading of President
Powers annual address.
President Powers, in his address, advo-
| Gated the general organization of trades
unions and knights of Labor with the
| Alliance. No effective arrangements of a