The herald., 1895-01-17
THE sENAroKIAL FIGHT.

in fact are majority of the members.
THE eENATOKTAL FIGHT.
Louie Jacobs on Dsck-PSIkins and De-
Young.
Special to THE HERALD.
SACRAMENTO. Jan. is De Young's
forces were added so today when Louie
Jacobs. who was turned down in the
Sacramento convention, arrived. Louie
commenced opevationa with neat lit
tie dinner at q notorious resort not q
mile from the Golden Eagle hotel
Many and varied were the dishes and
as varied wcs the complexion OF the
company. Except the fret o)urse Ia
subsidized press. q few sampea of
which are distributed among the mem.
bers of the senate and assembly,
each morning after the mail arrives.
dark horse, which does not satisfy is
the only dish so far in evidence. Rumor
is rife as to the gains made by Frank
Stone ct al, but on investigation the
most robust rnmors lack confirmation in
fact, and the situation practically re-
mains unchanged. Senator Perkins
has the balance of power and
his managers claim to hold
the senalorship safely within
their grasp. II they can only hold tho
advantage gsined I'll rough the medium
of sndorsem snt in tho regularity of eau
Gus nom nation they will win out. The
charge which has bean made by them
thar the assembly committee will be
made up with an eye single to the sena-
torial contest, seems to have some
undation; in fact there ia good sized
thunder cloud. heavily charged with
lightning. rising above the political
horizon.
Frank II. Powers OF the Forty-frst
San Francisco district holds it in his
power TO change the present aspect OF
the situation if he will rise to q question
of personal privilege and divulge the in
side history OF tine programme which has
been carried out in the assembly and
which resulted in the election of Lynch
ne speaker.
In conversation with THE HERALD
representative tonight. Assemblymsn
Powers stated that ne had been prom
ised tn second place on the ways and
means committee in consideration OF his
standing in on the slate as programmed
by Sps alxer Lynch-that he IS chair.
man OF ne San Francisco delegation he'd
delivered the goods, and now that his
part had been done he was not
only lett without a committee. but Isaac
M. Merrill, whose seat is to be contested
had been placed on the ways and means
COMMITTEES, in the place previously prom
ised to him (Powers). He contends
that he does not wish to stand in the
attitude of O kicker, but he naturally
objects to passing before the public
In the light of five spot.
which counts neither high nor low nor
figures in the count for game. He states
that he will not vote for De Young, ss
he has no desire to be hung in effigy by
his constituents, and intends to cast
his ballot for J. B. Stetson until he sees
he has no chance for the nomination,
when he will vote for any one to
beat De Young. What his chances for
securing place on the committee Of his
choice might have been had he stood in
for the director-general cannot be stated
positively, but in view OF the fact
that other known friends OF
the De Young contingent have
had no trouble about committees
lends color to the belief that Mr.. Pow
ers might have made his mbition good
had he followed suit. In this connec-
ton it is rnmorsd that the San Fran
ciscc delegation were shown through
the right and proper road to travel Last
Saturday. Be tkis trre or not, certain
it is that De Young went booming
when they came back to legislation
Monday morning and no man knows
the wherefore. II Mr.. Powers continues
in his present frame OF mind for a
hours more, something will be sure to
drop. AS was outlined in former
letter, Senator Mahoney had cogent
reasons for not visiting the Bay city
on Saturday, and tonight anticipa-
ton is rife as to what the result
Of the exposures made in the Baldwi
hotel stuffing episode will be. Quite q
ripple OF excitement was caused by a
dispatch from the city tonight that the
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