The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-12-31

His Friends Are Confident Of the
Final Success Of His speak
ership Candidacy
..vulture'' Predicts That j. =.
jacobson Will Be Leader
Of the House Forces.
Special Correspondence.
ST. PAUL, Dec. %. The passing of
The present week is expected to settle.
the question Of the organization of the
legislature, and if present indications
hold good at least two of the offices are
already accounted for, namely, speaker
and chief clerk. It is understood that
81 .. Jones has positive and uncondi-
1tional pledges of more than enough
votes to secure the caucus nomination.
for speaker, and M. j. Bowling is said
TO occupy the same coveted position in
the contest for the chief clerkship. j.
Frank Dean, the other candidate for
chief clerk, has been making a cam
paign on entirely different lines from
his opponent, and no one seems to
know just what strength he will bring
il, but Dowling's friends seem to be
absolutely at peace with themselves
and satisfied with their showing. Dean
has not been in the city very much.
and is said to have been making an in
Edustrious circuit of the field while his
chief opponent has been all the time a
|guestSof the Winsor hotel, in st. Paul.
The fight for sergeant-at-arms seems
to be trifle more implicated, with
John NJ. Bayer, of Moorhead, and John
q Kelly, Of Dakota county, las the
Leading contestants. It is not expected
that there will be any great struggle
lover the organization of the senate.
There isa disposition to simply choose
fa successor to Capt. West, who was the
EElast sergeant-atrarms, and who is not
Eagain candidate, and to re-install the
EDld clerks, etc, as far as possible.
!.
H. H.sDunn, who was elected to the
senate from the Sixth senatorial dis
|trict on the assumption that avacancy
Twas created when Frank Day succeeded
Eglough as lieutenant governor, is put
/ ling up a hard fight for the place. and
Iitssis now obvious that there will be a
tgoreus fsesshtzeven his point, but pay
will retain his seat. &
s. i. :. 4. :.
There is very nice complication on
this point. If Day vacated his seat in
the senate when he became lieutenant
governor he had no right to vote
after that, and if he had no right to a
vote then the Anderson bill was never
legally passed, as it only had major
ity OF one, and that one was in favor of
the bill. There are but two prece-
dents, so far as / know, governing in
such cases. One is the well known
Dupont case in Maryland, in which it
was held by the courts that the vote
was valid, and the other similar case
in West Virginia about 20 years ago
which is even more parallel to- this.
The senate consisted of % members.
and it required IL votes for majority.
One senator died, and bill which was
pending received IL votes. The presi-
dent of the senate, who was Louis
Baker, since editor of the st. Paul
Globe, declared the bill passed. It was
taken to the supreme court, and Baker
was sustained. According to these
two precedents Day would have had a
right to vote on the Anderson bill, and
his vote would be valid, even if the
present senate should unseat him, for
the court which passed upon the valid
ity OF the law would simply consider
his status at the time the vote was
taken, and could not properly consider
any subsequent action of that body rel
alive to Days standing at a future
time. However, if Day should be I'M.
seated it would be taken as an indica-
tion that his standing at the former
session was in doubt, and the friends OF.
the Anderson bill would again intro
duce it and have it submitted to the
people. to remove all doubt. II IL
should transpire that Day had no right
to4a vote on the bill, and that it was
therefore void, this would be the quick
est way to get it into effect.
The proposition to take the offices Of
railroad. labor. dairy and insurance
commissioners and uperintendent of
public instruction out of the appointive
list and make them elective offices is
growing in favor every day, and bill
having that for its object will probably
be introduced at the coming session.
This is an innovation which can not
too soon be made. It is altogether
mistaken idea that the governor would