The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-04
Wanted the Earth, and Will Get
Nothing.
ROW OVER IDAHO SPOuS
LOWER HOUSE WILL BE ORGAN
IZED TODAY.
Populists Wanted the Bulk of the
Patronage In Both Houses In Ex-
change For Two Populist Votes
In the Senate-Deadlock In Up
per House.
Especial to The Herald.)

Boise, Ida, Jan. 3.-The Populists are
now out of the legislative organization
game. When s o'clock came. the time
set by the silver Republicans and Dem
| ocrats for the expiration of the ulti-
matum to the Populists. the fusionists
found their clock had stopped. At 9
o'clock, however. the timepieoe was
again set in motion. and the PoDullsts
not having come to time. negotiations
were broken off. Later, however. the
PODulists asked for further conference,
which was granted. The Populists then
made a written memorandum for the
following officers: House-Chief clerk.
sergeant alarms, enrolling clerks, two
other clerks, one page. control of the
committees on railroads and corpora
tions military, mines, irrigation. chair
man Of the judiciary committee and
some other ehairmanships.
In the senate-Secretary, Sergeant-at-
arms, journal clerk, clerk of the 1udic-
iary committee and chairmanship of
the mining, lands, education, county
boundaries and other committees. Be
sides, they asked for a share of the leg
islative printing.
This modest request was hurrledly
hoisted into the waste basket Negotia-
tions were again broken off. this time
for good
The Democrats and silver Republi-
cans then proceeded TO carve the house
pie The following division was agreed
upon:
crats-SDeaker, assistant chief
clerk enrolling clerk. assistant embos-
sing clerk, sergeant-at-arms, page, jan
itor.
Silver Republicans-Chie clerk. as
sistant enrolling clerk, engrossing clerk.
door-keeper, page, committee clerk and
journal clerk.
The silver Republicans proceeded at
once to select their nominees, and
agreed upon the following: Chief
clerk. Judge Keats of Kootenai; as
sistant enrolling clerk, Miss Mollie
Sideb0tham of Boise; engrosSing clerk,
Fay Lombard of Blaine; doorkeeper,
Major Manning of Kootenai; commit
tee clerk, Miss Mary McCrea of Boise;
journal clerk, Miss May V. Sweetman
of Moscow.
At $50 in the morning the house
Democrats will name their quota.
The effort TO reach some agreement
on the senate organization had not
proven successful when the caucuSes
adjourned about midnight. The fusion
lists made a proposition to the Repub-
licanS to give them a third of the pat
ronage, reserving the president pro
tenn and the chief clerk, but the Re
publicans rejected it. Pending action
on another tender, both caucuses ad-
journed until this morning.
AT midnight it was stated as coming
from an authoritative source that the
silver Republicans and Democrats
would make an effort to organize the
senate this morning. They would pre-
sent a straight ticket, dividing the
patronage equally, and depend upon
Republican votes to elect it.
The deadlock may be prolonged for
a couple of days more. The Democrats
will have some difficulty in deciding on.
a speaker. Mr.. Evans, it is said, has
but ten of the twenty-one Democratic
votes. while the. friends of Mr. Bixby
and Mr.. Bebee will stand firm So
that fight may delay matters, and, of
course, the senate conditions are not at
all indicative of a speedy organization
of that body.