The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-02-13
THE CAPITOL DESERTED.
The Cold Wave Has Depressing Erect
Upon Legislators.
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special 70 EVENING HERALD
Harrisburg. Feb. i3.-The extreme cold
weather and heavy winds caused the state
capitol TO be deserted to-day. Most Of those
who left Tor their homes on Friday afternoon.
with the expectation Of returning this after.
noon in time for the evening session Of the
House, will hardly be able to get here ip
time In that case the effort to reconsider
the vote on the McCarrell jurors bill will
hardly be made at to-uights session, and will
be deferred until Tuesday.
The contending forces in the Senatorial
fight enter the fourth week with the pros.
poets ofa termination Of the light no brighter
than when the first vote was taken, uotwith
standing the rumors of deals to the contrary
Senator Quay is still in the fight and his
friends declare he will remain a candidate to
the end Every day there are stories given
out by his antagonists to the effect that the
ensuing ballot will show great changes, and
every day the balloting goes on with Qusy's
lines unbroken, his name lowering around
the number thirteen.
Everybody knows there are four or five
Martin men now voting for Quay who will
leave him as soon as they are ordered TO- A
great blast of trumpets was to have been
made when they took the plunge, but the
'antis' early gave the snap away aud
their deserton now will cause no surprise
We are now told these men are to take the
plunge tomorrow Whether they will or not
remains to be seen. The antis" are by no
means harmonious whole, and il is openly
charged by the Quay people that their op-
ponents cannot agree on any candidate, and
that is the reason they split up their votes
among lot of candidates, not one of whom
can secure the united support of the whole.
1t is scarcely probable that any change in
the situation will take place for at least two
weeks The opposition have about made up
their minds that they cannot defeat Quay ip
the Legislature, and their only hope is to
keep up deadlock There are enough Quay
men who will stick to him until the end to
prevent the election of any other Republican,
and an attempt to fuse with the Democrats
on a Republican will simply elect QUAY. as
there are from % to 30 Democrats who prefer
Quay to any other Republican, and who
would resent any attempt to transfer their
votes to Gutfey OF anybody else. The Quay
men are saying little about the fight except
ing that Quay will be elected before the day
for adjournment comes round Their oppo-
nents, however, deny this and assure their
friends that the contest will end with the de-
feat Of Quay before the latter realizes it.
The calendars of bills that have run the
gauntlet Of committees are rapidly filling up.
and many of great importance are now on
incubation, and will ere long either be laws
upon ouI statute books or else will have re-
ceiyed the grand Kibosh, according to the
temper of the majority of the members. A
large number of bills have been reported
| affirmatively to the House, and the calandar
is in shape to give plenty of work the coming
week unless there shall be further action on
the bill ito take away from District Attor-
neys the right to stand jurors aside" In
view of the fact that means almost super
human are being made to do So no one can
| tell what may happen.
Over $50 appropriation bills have been pre-
sented but most of them will be left by the
wayside. This week the expected revenue.
of the state will be carefully gone over, and
then the pruning knife will be used to pare
down expenses.