The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-08
THE SENATORS MEET
RESOLVED THEMSELVES 0uT OF
THE CAUCUs WHICH WAS BILLED.
Officers Will he Chosen Tonight
The Speakership Fight-The Jack
son Banquet Tonight.

The members of the Senate who are pres
ent in the city held a meeting last night
at the Denison House. It had been an
nounced as a caucus. but when the twenty
five Senators were called to order. Sena-
tor MeCutcheon. of Vanderburg, made the
point of order that the caucus had no
prestige because no one had been author
lied to call a caucus, and that whatever
done could have binding force upon
any Senator There ought to be thirty
members present, he pointed out, whereas
five Republican Senator's were absent. 1t
was agreed that the point well taken,
and caucus there was an immediate
adjournment. The meeting, however,
manned intact for informal discussion of
the matters in which Republicans and Sem
ators were interested The chief topic of
conversation was the contest in the Bluff
ton senatorial district, in which Adam
Foust, the Republican candidate, whose
Democratic opponent. John Rinear, was de-
clared elected by a plurality of twenty-one
votes, was allowed to make a statement.
He presented instances of fraud in the
election from which he was the sufferer.
He was given no assurance of what would
be done, but it is known that the pro-
gramme will be to permit Rinear, who
holds the certificate of election, to be
sworn in. and notice of contest then filed.
The Senate will appoint a committee or
authorize the committee elections to
hear the evidence which Mr.. Foust says
that he can produce, and will engage, as a
judicial body, in the fair and just treat
ment of the case. There was no DISPOSE
ton manifested by any Senator to take the
snap judgment on Rinear that the Demo-
cratic majority took when John McHugh.
Of T fax tod 70,
One of the Republican leaders said last
night, in recalling the McHugh contest,
that a prominent member of the majority
at that time had told him that the treat
ment given McHugh's opponent was one
of the most unfair acts he had ever par
ticipated in, and that he had never ceased
to regret that he had voted in the caucus,
without hearing, to unseat the Republican
trouble and humiliation that McHugh has
caused his party that caused this repent
ance. The Democrats, in caucus, had voted
to unseat the Republican without hearing
the evidence further than McHugh's I'M
supported statement: The decision, was
reached in caucus before it was possible to
act legally upon the matter, and was made
in defiance of the rights of the Republican
candidate and of all rules of fairness.
Rinear will have a fair trial, and the Sem
atOrS said last night that they would be
governed by the evidence and not by par
tisan considerations in the vote they would
cast.
The meeting adjourned after this subject
had been discussed. The regular caucus
will be held tonight at the Statehouse, and
every Republican Senator is expected to be
present The officers of the Senate will be
chosen. Z: B. Oglesbee has no opposition
and will be nominated by reclamation.
There are three candidates for assistant,
namely, Olive, of Lebanon; Ennis, of
Princeton, and Alwes, of Seymour. Olive
has been a candidate for a position under
he e' knows nothing of Mr.. Daileys inten-
lions, and chooses to stand as a candidate
for assistant secretary. There was not
night.