Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-04
CAFFIN WILL GET THERE
speakership Contest Settled in Advance OF
Caucus Consideration.
RICH WILL NOT MAKE THE FIGHT
Says He Could Not Arord to Accept
the Place Mt the Hands of the
Republicans in the
House.

lut HltUlDOTS OF DOtn branches Oh the leg
islature will hold caucuses tomorrow even-
ing, At 10 o'clock a. m. the senators will
meet in an informal conference at the Lin
dell hotel. The house members will meet
at the same hour at the Lincoln. The fol-
lowing slate this evening received the en-
| dorsement of large number of members
of both houses, who are on the ground, and
is considered winner by both factions of
| the fusionists:
Speaker J. N. GafIin, Saunders county.
| President of the senate. Frank Ransom,
Omaha.
Secretary Of the senate W. f, Schwind,
Lincoln.
Chief clerk of the house, Henry C. Rich
mond, Red Cloud.
First assistant clerk, U. e. Foster Plain
view.
Second assistant clerk, ]. w. Barnhart.
Auburn.
sergeant-at-arms of the house, Hall B.
Schnarganer
With the close OF the caucuses tomorrow
night will come the onslaught for the minor
Offices There are swarms of applicants
now at all the hotels, and many have taken
rooms in the city, confident of retaining
them throughout the winter, There bids
fair to be several swarms of disappointed
ones ere the week Closes and the present
is to be an eventual one.
The overturning of a practically repub-
lican administration will occur on the 9TH
inst. Then Treasurer elect Meserve will de-
mand OF Treasurer BARLEY the money in
the treasury. The newly elected officials
will be rendered a reception at the state
capitol in the evening of that day. On the
5th inst. at noon, the Twenty-ffth session
of the legislature will meet and formally
canvass the vote cast at the late election.
Then also will come up the momentous
uuCSiiOn as n Whe thor M
judges have been added to the bench. Alto
gether, the present week promises to be a
lively one
RICH DECLINES TO RUN.
The speakershp contest is prac-
tlcally settled in advance of tho
for tomorrow night j. n. Gafin
OF Saunders county will be the man, Popu-
lists and democrats concede this: Edison
Rich OF Omaha said today: "While am sat
ished that | could be made speaker, and
while II is an honor that l would highly
prize do not purpose to remain out OF The
caucus and rely upon republican votes to
make me. do not believe 1t would be good
policy fer me to take such a course, neither
FOR me nor the party" There is but lttio
talk of A r, Shel Ion of Chadron, and no in
dicatons that his boom has received any
peroeptible impetus since he arrived in the
CITY,
There have been a number of assaults on
the Schwind forces today by various candi-
dates for secretary of the senate but he
appears but slightly demoralized tonight and
is not disfgured in the least G. W. Nc
Cune of David City Tom Smith of McCool
and Il. A. Walrath of Osceola have each in
turn attacked the Schwnd strongholds and
each has been given sight OF the strong
Bryan reserve that is backing up w. f.
Schwind. All this has been very discourage
ing to the latter's competitors and 1t can be
said tonight that Schwind Will 20 into cau-
Gus with strength which will be exceed
lngly difficult to overcome.
The great fight of the day has been over
the chief clerkship of the house. For the
last three days this feature has been pro-
life of surprises, and today was not an ex-
ception. The clerkshp appears to be a pivot
around which all other organization contin-
gencies revolye The Fifth congressional
district cuts the largest figure i'm this con-
test, and has already presented three candi-
dates for the Office Richmond of Red Cloud
and Waldron and McGaw of Hastings. The
latter's boom reached full head today, and
with its growth there was a perceptible sub
sidence of Waldrons hopes 1t was stated
in the Lincoln rotunda today that Waldron
was worth $4,000. With the populists this
was deadener, and they shook their heads
sadly. But this disqualification does not
appertain to III. B. McGaw, who is farmer.
Another point in his favor is the fact that
he has been secretary of the Fifth district
congressional committee two terms, and is
thought to have strong pull with Con-
gresham Sutherland. At any rate, the
Fifth district members, seeing that their
eighteen counties, mostly populistic cut so
much ice in the matter, got together today
and held a caucus. 1t did not reach the
point OF actually naming a candidate, but
they agreed to stand as a unit for whoever
might be the man named. OF course, this
agreement Is contingent upon the man
named hailing from the Fifth district
STORY ABOUT M'GAW.
Even Repre- sentative GrnndStaff whn has
been opposing Richmond said If he secured
a majority of the delegation he would take
his medicine. This reminds one that Nc
Cav is in the same boat with Richmond.
Grandstaff of Webster county is against Rich
mond, but both Fernon and sring. repre-
sentlng Adams county, are said to be against
McGaw and for Waldron. But Waldron has
$4,000. There Is another little story con-
nected with McGaw's candidacy. Supreme
Court Commissioner John NJ. Ragan made
McGaw his choice provided McGaw received
the support Of the Adams county delegation.
Ragan is said to have pledged himself to
provided neither Wadron nor
McGaw was supported by home influence
AS Waldron is practically out of the race
and McGaw's representatives, do not know
him on the street Richmond thinks that
Ragan should say good word for him.
At all events. w. H. Thompson of Grand
gressman Sutherland are tonight doing good
work for Richmond and he Is by no means
a dead cock in the pit
There is said to be a deal on by which
schwlnd Is to receive good backing from the
Fifth district. Attorney II. A. Edwards of
Grand Island has been one OF the leading
OF Schwind for the secretaryship.
Tonight 1t is given out that Edwards has en-
cred into combination with Schwind to
swing good portion OF tho Fifth district to
lim and accept the assistant secretaryship
or himself.
EAGER LOOKS GLOOMY.
Frank Eager. the Lincoln candidate for
'hief clerk. is still in the ring, but he looks
,loomily at the numerous Fifth district
ieals, none of which are In his favor He
believes that Calm is inclined to swing
Fourth district strength over
nto the Fifth, In return for fayors, and
rankly says that this is hard combination
o beat
j. w, Barnhart of Auburn, another news
PAPER man. came into the city tonight and
his candidacy for first assistant
,lerk OF the house He says he is the only
aight-out democratic candidate for this
'fice. He figures II up that the popullsts
Ire inclined 10 do something for the demo-
rats and after taking the speaker and clerk
will readily give the first assistant clerk
hip to the democrats. but as one populst
expressed himself "He don't know u.s.
M to eli,