The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-05
JONES AND DOWLING EASY.
BOTH WE'RE NOMINATED by AC-
CLAMATION UNDER sUsPEN-
SION OF THE RULES.
RAMSEY GETS KRAYENBUHL
While Rev. G. M. Heard for Chaplain
Is the Legacy Bequeathed to
Minneapolis.

speaker. ......".... .........J. ID. JONES
| CnleI clerk M. j. BOWLING
of Renville
| First assistant clerk ........W. B. STINE
Of Murray.
Second assistant clerk ......... @. X. DAZZLE
of Houston.
| EngroSsing clerk ........N. H. INGERSOLL
| of Crow Wing.
| Enrolling clerk. FRANK L. KRAYENBUHL
of Ramsey
| postmaster ..................... F.. w. NASH
of Blue Earth
Sergeant-at-arms ..............J. M. BAYER
Of Clay.
of Olmsted
! Chaplain ........ ....... REV. C. M. HEARD
of Hennepin.
The list above shows the indorse-
ments made by the caucus of the Re-
publican members Of the house last
night. 1t will be seen that the Sixth
| district gets the best part Of it, the
speakership and engrossing clerk The
First gets two places, second assistant
clerk and assistant sergeant-at- arms;
the Second, the pos ostmastership and
first assistant clerk. The Third gets
the chief clerk, the Fourth the enrolling
clerk, and the Fifth the Chaplain. The
Seventh gets only the sergeant-at-
arms.
Mr.. Jacobson, of the committee which
signed the call for the caucus, called it
to order. E. E. Smith, Of Hennepin, the
only Smith, by the way, in the house
this session, nominated c. P. Reeves,
Of Pope county, for chairman, and Mr.
Jacobson nominated M. T. Bowling for
secretary. Mr.. Feig moved that the
caucus proceed to the nomination of
officers, and Messrs. McGill and Dare
were made tellers.
B. F. Hartshorn, of the Forty-sixth
district, nominated his colleague, J. D.
Jones, for speaker, on behalf of Todd
county, the Sixth district and the best
interests of the Republican party. Mr..
jacobson moved that the rules be
suspended and Mr.. Jones be elected by
accclamation, which was adopted.
Mr.. Jones briefly accepted the honor
conferred on him, and then Mr.. Jacob
son nominated M. J. Bowling for chief
clerk. At the instance of Mr.. Harts-
horn this nomination was made the
same way as had been Mr.. Jones' Mr..
Bowling also made a felicitous re-
sponse. 4'
For the first assistant clerkship, Rob-
ert Deakin, of st. Paul, was nominated
by D. F. Kelly; w B. Slime, Of Murray
county by Ole O. Holmen. and j.
Frank Dean, Of Owatonna, by Fred b.
Snyder, of Hennepin.
1t was decided to call the roll by dis
tricts, and the absentees were. discov-
cred to be Messrs. Gum, Of Itasca
Reiner, Of st. Cloud; Wilkinson, of Wa
SEGA, and Wood, of Wilkin.
On the first ballot ,Deakin received
four votes, the others forty each. Mr..
Deakin withdrew, and Mr.. Underleak
called attention to the fact that not
all the members were voting. His mo-
ton that a majority of the members
voting only be required for an election
was adopted. On the next ballot Mr..
Stine received 46 votes, Mr.. Dean 80
and Bronson Strain, of Battle Lake, L.
Mr.. Strain was nominated for second
assistant by Henry tFefg, while Mr..
Briggs, of Houston, presented the name
of o. K Dahle, Of Houston. w. T. Coe,
of Hennepin, seconded the nomination
of Dahle on the strength Of a univer-
sity association. Mr.. Dahle was elect
ed on the first ballot, receiving 81
votes to 33 for Strain. Mr.. Feig moved
to make it unanimous
Mr.. Underleak, in nominating N. H.
Ingersoll, of Brainerd, for engrossing G
n
an error charged to that department
in the last house, when Mr.. Ingerscll
held the same position.
For the position Of enrolling clerk
Frank Krayenbuhl was nominated by
Representative Scott, of this city, and
H. G. Hays, of Sleepy Eye, by Mr.. Lar
son, of the Ninth. E. F. Beck, of Ram
sey, was also nominated. On the first
ballot Krayenbuhl received a majority.
As votes; Hayes getting % and Beck 16.
Then came the postmastership, for
which there were half dozen nomi-
nations, and even more names in thu
ballot hat at the finish. F. w. Nash,
of Mankato, was named by Mr.. Olds,
while Mr. Won Lehe did the honors for
postmaster of the last house. This
was indorsed by Mr. Grondahl. E. E..
Mcdonald named ]. E. Whitman. L..
E. Smith named E. G. III. Adams of
Fillmore. Mrs. NJ E. Hartman and
Mrs. Clifford were also nominated.
On the first ballot there were Sc
votes cast, of which Mrs. Hartman
and Mrs, Clifford received votes each,
Adams, 6; Whitman, 8; Swensen, 10;
Turrttin, 19, and Nash, SO.
Judge Hicks, Of Hennepin. spoke for
Mr.. Swensen, one of his constituents
The second ballot disclosed Nash g
election, he receiving AZ votes, Turrit-
tin, II; Swensen, 16; Mrs. Hartman, 4;
Mrs. Clifford and Adams / each.
For sergeant-at-arTns S. B. Lovejoy,
of Minneapolis, presented the name Of
Frank w. Farnham W. B. Douglas,
Of Clay, named John M. Bayer, the
former sergeant-at-arms, and Mr.. Sta
pies, of West st. Paul, J. B. Kelly, of
Pennington. Mr.. Grondahl seconded
the nomination Of Kelly and Mr.. Foss
spoke in behalf of Bayer. The vote was
as follows: