Evening journal., 1896-12-30
FENIMORE AND RlGGIN.
Will Preside Over Senate and
House Respectively.
PYLE TO NAME SENATE CLERK
GEORGE w. sPICER HAS THE
SUPPORT or THE NEW CASTLE
DELEGATION FOR CLERK OF
THE HOUSE w. l.. MFARLANE
HIS STRONGEST OPPONENT.

JElEtA lON TUX OLEitk Of
THE HOUSE-W. l.. M'FARLANE
HIS STRONGEST OPPONENT.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal.
DOVER Dec. 3O.--On next Tuesday
the General Assembly will meet in
Dover The caucusses win be held on
Monday night. Despite all the Addicks
talk. the Democrats will organize both
branches Hon. John W. Fenimore. OF
Kent county. will be elected speaker OF
the Senate. and Representative Rig
gin. of Sussex. speaker OF the House.
II the clerkship OF the Senate comes
10 New Castle. Simon p. Doherty. OF
Wilmington. will be named by Senator
Pyle. while Senator Moore, Democrat,
OF Sussex, will name the reading clerk
and sergeant-at-arms Senators Fem
more, Harrington and Meredith will
probably name the speaker chaplain
and page. as the chaplain and page al
ways come from Kent county. Senator
Pyle will claim the clerkship. and there
is good reason TO believe that he will
get It. II he does not, and it goes to
Sussex he win certainly have the nam
ing Of the reading clerk and sergeant
at-arms
If Kent county names the clerk Of the
House, w. Lindsay McFarlane will
stand a good show. but New Castle will
make a try for It, and George w. Spi-
GER of Marshallton. already has three,
If not four, of the six New Castle mem
bers pledged to him. Should spicer
make it Sussex may take the sergeant
alarms; Kent the chaplain and page,
and McFarlane may be made reading
clerk
The situation is so complicated that
the caucusses may result In q number
of surprises.
Addicks talk of organizing a rump
Legislature is taken as an admission
on his part that the Democrats will not
only refuse to seat Alice. but also the
seven Addicks men who claim to have
been elected to the House from Kent
If a rump Legislature is set up, 1t Is
still a question whether Senators Al
richs, Moore and Pierce and Represen-
tative Eliason will become parties TO
It, leaving a certain thing for one ex-
ceedingly uncertain. Senator Handy
is expected TO follow the Addiclls lead,
no matter where Il may end. Should
all Of the Republicans bolt, the "small-
/ est legislative body in the world
]
would beat its own best record for di-
/ minutiveness.
The regular Republicans are backing
the pretensions OF j Frank Alice, not
because they love Alice any better than
they have no the past. but because they
want to prevent the Democ1rfa frpW
passing any legislation Of q partisan
character particularly measures affect
| ing the tax Office In New Castle county
Addicksites are talking a great deal
about what they intend to do In event
OF Democratic organization. Some OF
them are in favor of revolution, but
most Of those who talk fight would be
the first TO 90 home in event OF riot
Kent county Democrats are made oi
sturdy stuff They will not be caught
mapping. The last meditated Addicks
riot was nipped in the bud by General
II. n. KennC- who used no more ef-
fectlve argument than n spittoOn, which
he hurled at the head of the ring-leader
Of the would-be Addicks rioters. Every
proparatiOn has been made to meet
force with force, and If the AddickH
men and Republicans attempt 10 seize
the State House they viii be badly
wOrsted The Democrats have no OBJ
lection to Addicks setting up a rumI
Legislature, but IL cannot hold It's ses-
slons IN the State House.
II is understood here that John T.
Dickey will go through the form OF
defending himself against the contest
instituted by Woodward w. Cheairs, OF
Red Lion hundred, and then acquiescs
I'm the seating of Mr. Cheairs.
Whether he does this or not II IL
givon out by his friends that he does
not wish to be speaker of the House
! although his name has frequently beer
. mentioned In that connection