Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-05
GETTING READY.
Legislators Are Arriving and
the Capitol Is in a Bustle.
Caucauses Of the Senate and House
Republicans, Tonight.
Who the Nominees will Be- Other items
from State House.

ihey are coming by every train
now, singly, by couples and by groups
the newly elected members of the
House and Senate, the officials of the
last session, those ambitious for office,
and those who are here for ends of
their own or merely to see the fun.
1t is good to see them back, and Au-
Susta is putting on the. hospitable
smile SO familiar to Legislators. Yes
,terday many came, and today the
crowd will swarm in to be here for the
oaucuses this evening. Everything is
IN readiness at the Capitol, and the
quiet between-session spell is COM
pletely broken there. The department
offices are now no longer the chief
center of activity and interest, but the
corridors, the lobby and the executive
chambers are filed with the buzz of
conversation as matters of State and
ether matters are being settled, The.
gathering Solons find the temperature
and the. slush about the same as they
usually are when they adjourn and go
home.
The hotels are lively places these
days, second only to the CAPITOL in i'm
portance. The hotels will have good
share of the legislators, but many will
board in families and in boarding
houses. Many bring their families and
some take houses for the winter. Most
of the Kennebec delegation will make
their headquarters at home. Several
representatives will board in Gardiner.
Governor-elect Powers and one of
his young sons was given cordial well
come at the Capitol. Gov. Cleaves
came in the afternoon and the Council
will have a session, today.
This evening, at $50 o'clock, the Re
publican caucuses of the House and
Senate will be held in the two cham
bers. OF course a nomination in these
Caucuses, tonight, is equivalent to an
morrow, and so much interest centers
in them. AS there are no Democrats in
the Senate and only five in the House no
caucuses of their party are announced.
Most of the nominations will be made
by reclamation, the only contest being
over a few OF the minor offices. Sem
ator Day of Penobscot and Represen-
tative LARA bee of Portland will be the
unanimous choice of their associates
to preside over the Senate and House.
Secretary Dunbar of the Senate and
Clerk Cotton of the House will be NOM
mated, each for his fourth term.
Among the lower officers there will be
two or three contests but for the most
part the old officials will remain. Mr..
Day will room at the Hotel North, and
Mr.. Larrabee at the Augusta House.
Both arrived, yesterday.
Wednesday morning, the two bodies
will convene, seats will be drawn ana
the nominations of this evenings
caucuses will be endorsed by formal
election. After the organization both
bodies will adjourn to Thursday, when
they will meet in joint convention,
elect the State officers and listen to
Governor Powers inaugural address.
Tomorrow evenings joint caucus VIII
he the occasion of the week, as the
important State officers VIII pc NOM
mated then. Most of the nominations
will be by reclamation, but the tight
for the attorney generalshlp Is eX-
citing and uncertain. Six OF the seven
MANNERS of the new Council are set
tied upon, but in the AnAroscossih
district there is an interesting quad
rangular contest.