Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1895-01-10
GENERAL NEWS,
FILLEY's SLATE FUT THROUGH.
The House officers Selected Just As
"De Old Man" Had Willed It.

"De Old Man" Had Willed It.
When the legislative caucus of
the house republicans met last
night office seekers packed the
lobby and the gallery and swarm
ed around the members on the
floor, says a Jefferson City dispatch
of Jan. 3. They formed combina
tons, swapped pledges and made
promises utterly impossible to car
ry out.
The caucus began its work at 1880
o'clock and it adjourned at 2:30
O'Clock this morning. The Filley
slate went through without a break,
and the rush to get into "de old
mans" band wagon even stamped
ed such experienced campaigners
and Filley haters as Bittingor of st.
Joseph and Tubbs of Usage.
Late yeste, day afternoon, after
the "silk stockings" found it i'm
possible TO form combination and
saw that they could not head off
Russell, it was a race to see which
could get out of the way the quick
est. Bittinger gave in first. His
friends were hot at Boutwell,, so
the St. Joseph man withdrew in
favor of Russell. That means prob
able the chairmanship of the ways
and means for Bittinger. Then
Boutwell, hoisted the white flag.
He will doubtless be chairman of
the judiciary committee, because of
his graceful surrender. Little
Tubbs of Usage was the last to
come in, so he may not get quite as
good a committee as the others.
Higbee of Schuyler, who was really
never in the race, was placated with
the craftsmanship of the house eau
cuts, where he gave everyindication
of being very poor man for pre-
siding officer.
After Russelfs unanimous selec-
ton for speaker the Republicans
settled down to an all-night fight
for the spoils. The Filleyites never
lost sight of the old mans slate.
But in order not to rub it in too
hard they gave the vast army of
candidates many, complimentary
votes. Albert Griffin, secretary of
the state committee, was the slate
candidate for chief clerk, but he
was not nominated until Carter Of
Grundy, Church of Harrison and
Bell of Newton has been led to be-
ieve that they were in it. Down
the line the Filleyites went, and
and when, at 2:30 o'clock, the list
was completed, not a t'of the old
man has been neglected.
This is the slate as they put it
through: Speaker, B. F. Russell Of
Crawford; speaker pro tem., K. W.
Mueller of St. Charles; chief clerk,
Albert Griffin of St.' Louis; assistant
chief clerk, w. G.. Kitchen of Stod-
dard; engrossing clerk, H. L. Eads
of Carroll; enrolling clerk, John P.
Collier of Christian; doorkeeper, G.
II. Fountain of Moniteau; sergeant
alarms, J. G. Eldridge Of Cole; Of
fetal reporter, Sam Kellar Of Pulas-
Xxi; chaplain, E. B. Lytle of Grundy,
folding clerk, D. Bell, colored, of
Galloway.
1t required only three hours tor
the senate democrats to beside how
they should dispense their patron
age. Lieutenant Governor OMeara
was in the chair, and in executive
session the following selections
were made: President pro tem.,
Senator G.. 4. Dunn of lincoln
county; secretary, Cornelius Roach
of Jasper; assistant secretary, Rob
ert r. Lozier of Carroll; sergeant
alarms, J. T. Wells of Bollinger;
chaplain, t6e Rev. G: p~is-vf'
Cole; official reporter, William NJ.
Smith of st. Louis; doorkeeper, U.
4, Mcbride of Johnson; folder,
Charles Allison of Henry; pages,
Masters Billy Jones of Galloway
county, William Martin ofst. Louis
and Jack Gray of Moniteau county.