The San Francisco call., 1898-01-02
PRELIMINARY. !. <. <. SENATORIAL.
 SKIRMIS.H.ES. The.Legislative States. That May Be
 Broken. ..:.:.: :-":.. Hanna Short Four. Votes. of Putting Through: :. His Ticket. =" CaucuSeS of the Factions Held at Columbus During
 the Day.
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 SCHEME OF FUsIONIsTs. Governor. Bushnell and the Entire Ohio Administration Taking Part in the Struggle.
Caucuses of the Factions Held at Columbus During
 the Day.
SCHEME OF FUsIONIsTs
Governor Bushnell and the Entire Ohio Administration Taking Part
 -. -. in the Struggle.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


 COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 1.-The- eau cuses for the. nomination of the officers of the Legislature, which cOnvenes- next Monday, were held tonight Usually these :caucuses are of State in terest only. Tonight the reelection of Senator Hanna was involved, and, in directly but openly and aggressiYeIy, Republican. opposition in Ohio to Pres ident Mckinley and his. appointments assumed organic fractional form. The result of the :caucuses show that the nominees of the Hanna slate are short three votes .of:.electiOn in the House and one vote in the Senate. And the opinion prevails that Hanna will be short four votes of election on the joint ballot on Wednesday, Jan uary F. unless changes are made in the meantime: --. -..-.- -< 1-. At the joint Republican caucus next Wednesday night MT. Hanna will have no opposition for the nomination, but it is stated now: that there are enough Republican members who will not en- ter the caucus: to. prevent his election. The Legislature stands seventy-five Republicans, sixty-five Democrats and five fusionists. The fusionists are Sen ator Noight and Representatives Droste, Kemper, Lane and Otis, all of Cincinnati. In the: House Republican caucus tonight Droste, Kemper and Lane participated, and are pledged to Alexander BoxWeu for Speaker, John R. Malloy for chief~clerk, and Andrew Jackson for rgeant-at-arms, and other candidates for minor places on the Hanna ticket. > Droste, however, says he will not enter the Republican
 
 he proposes to present the name of . JephJhah Gerard, a silver Republican, for Senator against: Hanna. Including the fusiOnists there. are sixty-two Re epublicans and fOrty-seven Democrats in the House, a total of 109, with fifty five necessary to <elect. # There were only hfty-tNO. present at. the Republi- can caucus tonight. The ten absen- . tees. were Branley. and Mason of Guy ahoga, Griffith of. Clinton, Griffith of Union. Jones of. Stark, Joyce of Guern- Sey,s Manuel Of Montgomery, Otis of Hamilton, Rulan- of Carroll, and Scott of Fulton. Griffith of Clinton, Griffith of Union and Manuel of Montgomery are reported as sick, and the others are in the fusion with the Democratic members to beat what is called the Hanna slate. next: Monday, and one week from next Wednesday to defeat Senator Hanna. for reelection
 The anti-Hanna Republicans and Democratic members in their joint House caucus. dominated Harry c. Ma son son or CIeVeland for Speaker, and charles Gerrish1 gas inspector, under - Inspector Charles L: Kurtz for chief clerk, and a. complete list of other can aldates for other: places in the organi- zatIon of the House.. The opposition 10; Mckinley VIII have enough votes -Mohday to organize the House with uIly-HVe votes. for the Mason ticket ftty-tWo for the#BoXwelI ticket and TWO dpsehl on account of sickness. The Hahnd men claim that Griffith of Clin- toh,' GrlIIlth or Union and Manuel of montgomery will vote for RoxwelI HIoHuay I d,, ana elect. him. The members - rom Cl1nton and Union are however reported tonight as so sick that +hev will be unable: to be in tbaiT -eaa+s Monody. PreVlous. to the ca1Icus MT Boxwell called tQ.see Charles r, K11rtz "no IS IeaulhS the: opposition for Han na, and KurtZ refused to racaiJ-a bi1., MT. Boxweu then:.asled Renreso,l+a,. iiti.i tive Mason for a .c6nference an, I,,os again declined an audience '--i' W f'9
 While both sides, claim the oroa,,i,s tion of the House: the opposifio,, to senator Hanna and the. Boxwell. ticket is most demonstratiVe Rerraea,,fo tive Mason tonight. gave a tbeatar party and a banquet afterJyard to lie Republican colleagues, who rer,a;,iio,5 ili1 away from the Republican. House can GUS "a N
 The Hanna managers clairn +b.4.. Senator will succeed even if inc poII o-I well ticket is defeated. The .onnoeit jrr would then have the formation' of oii the committee and with the Chaiyrna;1 ships and other patronage at:their dii-. posa1 it is believed MT. :Ianna5s chances will not be even. if his .a,,,1r,, ents get the organization on Monday Representative Mason, the opposition candidate for speaker, comes from Senator Hanna's home. Mason is hit terly opposed to Hanna for Senator as he is the friend of Mayor MeKisson Mason is for McKission for tie short term and Governor Bushnell for the long term for Senator, and he is run : ming for speaker on the issue of "any- body for Senator to beat Hanna' .'
 Governor Bushnell and the e1tire State administration took an attive part in the caucuses tonight aga'nst Senator Hanna, joining the Democritie members and those Republicans Who remained away from the caucus. WhIe the~croWdS around the opposition head quarters were jollifying it was learneJ that six Democratic members of the House were also absent from their caucus tonight, which was secret. The Republican caucuses were open to members of the press. It is claimed that these Democratic members are op- posed to voting for Republicans and want to vote for Democratic candidates for the legislative offices and Senator. Under the law, if there is not ma 5ority of all after ten ballots, the ma Jorlty of quorum will elect officers of the general assembly, and until the House selects speaker Secretary of State Charles Kinney, a strong Hanna man, presides. The Hanna men de clare with confidence that Boxwell will be the speaker
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