The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-11
PART PLAYED BY The |, 4
rs LIKELY TO BE Shows
FORE THE GRAND Jups
GoebeI Proposes TO Put the =.
poration Out of Ixcntuclx -
BY Putting 1t Out OF the ~.
Especial to The pos. /,

Frankfort, KY, January 10
Of considerable importance is ~, q
prepared for early introduction Il 4. j
islature. Goebel proposes to anna /
charter OF the Louisville and Nj.
Railroad company in Kentucky, 4.
his campaign for governor. both NJ
and after nomination. Goebel wa A',,
fought by the Louisville and Nashv,u.
swore on the stump that II e,.e,,,
would put the Louisville and Ma
out OF politics. The bill to be ia,,,,
is intended to accomplish that M
Goebel charges that the L.ouIsyjr. .
Nashville spent fortune TO def.., I,
He has had President Smith, Geus,,,
Duke and other officials OF the Is,,,sl
and Nashville summoned before n. "
jury in the Whalen bribery case ~
try to bring out the financial pa,s y.
by the Louisville and Nashyills 4
campaign, and sensational deyelo,s'.'
are expected.
Frankfort, KY, January lo.--fh. Fl
ton of Hon. ]. G. S. Blackburn i }
United States senate was confrmed II
by the general assembly In Joint ~
A vote was not taken, the law orh
quiring that the journals Of IL
houses showing how the vote s,oa !.
terday should be compared. and a.
that If the candidate had received \
jority of the votes cast in each no.
should be declared duly elected. M,J
the senate and house exchanged natJ
tions of their readiness to 20 into
session.
When the senators got into the hi
the house, President Marshall Of ths 4
ate went to the stand and asked ~,
Trimble for the gavel. Mr.. Trimb|.
he understood that under the rula
himself had to preside, but he slK,s}
that they lock up the law. Mr.. Msr}}
sent for the statutes and was ursh
find any law showing that the prefs
Of the senate should preside. He ,hu,hI
yielded the point and Speaker Tsir3
presided over the Joint assembly 4
conclusion of the brief proceedings Stil
err Trimble announced the vote Of ysstI
day as 79 for Blackburn and 81 for I'd
ley and declared Mr.. Blackburn The
elected senator from Kentucky.
Frankfort, Ky. January 10.--The b
today by a vote of "a to A adop!st !
joint rules as passed by the senate SID
day. On the original call four demotrs
Gryder, Cochran. Hinton and 0rr--ys
with the republicans against the rules
fore the result was announced cotAz
and Gryder changed and voted In tn
firmative.
The adoption in the house Of the ID
which will govern the joint assembly
a decisive majority was surprise al \
as disappointment to the Republics
antiGoebel factions in the legisllIu
They had not expected to defeat The rti
but they confidently believed that The
would be close.
Elk Congressman W. c. P. Breckart
who has practically assumed direGin !
the nti-Goebel democratic forces, ri
conference with Ex-Governor Bradley 4
Governor Taylor's attorneys a long
today. aud it is said they are preparing
spring legal objections to the rnanar
which Goebel's contest is being condud}
one OF which is that the Legislature sAs'
have first passed an act authorship
contest, The list Of witnessed subpcta
TO appear before the Franklin county aI
jury today included President Milton
Smith and other officials of the Lcuisr
and Nashville railroad; Colonel Atllls
John II. Whalen and others who hauN
Identified with the John Young Bpr
democratic party. President Smith
ever, was in New York and the res
was returned unserved. 1t is undsrs
that the investigation of the witnesses
testified related to the Whalen-HiHs
bribery matter.
In the legislature several radical y
railroad measures were adopted.