The age-herald., 1900-02-16
QUAY STANDS
 A GOOD CHANGE His Friends Think They Will
 Yet Seat Him. DON'T CARE FOR PRECEDENT It is Said the Pennsylvanian Will Re- ceive Several Votes from Demo- crats-Has Always Been
 Popular in Senate
DON'T CARE FOR PRECEDENT

Washington, February 15.-Cspecial.)-It develops that ex-Senator Quay stands far better chance of being seated upon the certificate of appointment by Governor Stone of Pennsylvania than had been pre- sumed. His friends have asserted from the beginning most emphatically that Quay
 would win out, but their boastfulness was then regarded as pure bluff" intended to make the weak-kneed senators who want to be with the majority declare themselves in hs favor. There is no doubt that the Quay men did ''b;uff' a great deal, but they have been working most assduously and evidently with success.
 Senator Quay was always popular in the senate. He made point of doing favors for everybody. If a democrat or repubi- can had a particular bill he wished to have passed he could always depend upon Quay to help him out. He never antagonized any one unless it was necessary to do so for political reasons The democrats liked him as well as the republicans. This good natured policy is telling now for Quay
 when he needs support Then, too, all kinds of influences have been used in his interest, and the senate, which refused to seat Corbett of Oregon, on the ground that gubernatorial certificate of appointment
 was not sufficient when the legislature had failed to elect, seems prepared to seat Colonel Quay. It is humiiating for the senate, but it has habit of doing what 1t pleases, regardless of sentiment. Some Demo cratic Votes
 A member of tine senate committee on privileges and election, who has been sup porting Quay earnestly. said to-day that an addition ito the republican votes that would be cast for him, Quay would have the votes of from six to ten democrats. That IS the present situation, but he said he could not tell what the senate might do after the case had been heard and the pull ing and hauling that always charactertzes such a contest had ended. The fact is that if Quay has majority of the senate favor- able to him now. seems very likely, it has been secured regardless of recent prec- edents, and nothing in the debate is apt to change the result, save to increase Quay's vote through the addition of the wavering, who fear to be recorded against Quay in the event of his election.
 The opposition to Quay seem Ito appre- ciate that by various means he has secured IudJOIlty, dnu rney seek 10 secure ueldy fin the hope that something may develop which will change the aspect of affairs. The Quay people are most anxious to force the consideration of this privileged question, and they would have done so before if they did not fear to antagondze men who will naturally vote for Quay. If it appears that insistence upon an immediate vote is apt to create irritation, that will jeopordize Quay's case, his friends will permit other legasla- tive matters that are pressing to be con- sidered first.
 The seating of Quay w.ll create most unfortunate precedent, and encourages the governors of Utah and Delaware, where there are vacancies caused by the inability of a majority of the legislature to agree upon a senator to make appointments to fill them. The senate can hardly, jmmedi- ately after seating Quay on a certificate, refuse to seat candidates from these two states Then, again, the seating of Quay and the senators from Delaware and Utah is most likely to encourage factions in leg islatures to encourage legislative deadlocks in order to secure the naming of their can didates for senators by the governor, when they know they cannot command a majori- ty in the legislatures. Thus we are likely, ito considerable degree, to have the gov ernors assume the functions of electing sen-. ators that the constitution intended should be exercised by the legislatures. This is cer- tainly a grave danger, but Quay and his friends do not care so long as they att tain their object, the seating of Governor Stones appointee.