Evening star., 1902-01-04
DRAW AT COLUMBUS
The Foraker Forces Will Organize
the Senate.
HANNA MEN GET THE HOUSE
This Seems to Be the Latest De-
veIopment There.
COL. DICKS WITTY
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

special DlEpatCE to Ihe Evening Star.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 4-By giving
up the senate to Foraker and making all
possible combinations in the house, where
his forces are concentrated, Senator Hanna
seems this morning to have made the legis-
lature organization game a draw. George
B. Cox said this morning that the Foraker
forces lacked two votes of enough to or
ganize the house. However, Charles l..
kurtz does not yet give it up. 1t is sig
nificant that Jones, one of the Toledo dele
gates, who declared for the Foraker slate
in the house this week, left for home this
morning and will not be in the caucus.
He said that there was sickness in his fam
lily, but the Hanna men say he felt the
ground slipping from under him and want
ed to get away Some of the more enthu-
siastic Hanna men declared this morning
that the fight being won by their side in
the house, they would now take up the
senate situation, and possibly turn defeat
into victory there. That is not possible
however. The Foraker slate will have at
least thirteen of the tWenty-one votes in
the senate caucus.
Caucuses This Afternoon
BY Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 4.-The re-
publican caucuses for the organization OF
the Ohio legislature will be held at, 2 pm.
today. What are termed fractional eau
cuses' were held during the night and were
continued this forenoon. The Foraker SEN
ators formed one caucus and the Hanna
senators another, and the same lines We're
drawn in separate caucuses of the represen-
tativeS.
The Hanna men had such boom during
the night tfat posted bets on McKinnon
for speaker stood untaken. One for $500 on
Mcklnnon was posted early last night near
the Price headquarters, and it still remain
ed there today. The McKinnon quarters
We're crowded early, but at o'clock the
Price headquarters were not opened. The
drift was strong for Mckinnon that 1t
carried McElroy for clerk and all the rest
of the Hanna slate with it. The turn Of
affairs in the organization of the house re-
vived in the senate contest, which had al
most been abandoned by the Hanna men
until the tide turned their way last night
There will now be separate tickets before
the republican senatorial caucus this aftcr
noon.
Cox and Dick in Comm nicatiOn.
While the contest in the house republican
caucus is considered settled in favor OF
McKinnon for speaker and McElroy for
clerk, there is still much agitation over the
senate organization. Congressman Dick
and George B. Cox, managers of the oppos-
ing factions, had not met up to noon, but
messengers had been kept busy during the
forenoon between their respective hotels
While no quarter was given in "the fight
for the house, Dick proposed that Cox
name the president pro TEN. of the senate
and he DicO would name the clerk, with
the other places to be equally divided. 1t
is known that Dick would name w. B. Uhl
of Cleveland for clerk, and if Cox should
accept the proposition, it is believed that he
would name Senator Nicholas Longworth
of Cincinnati for president pro tenn. When
the fight centered on the speakership in the
house, it was thought that the senate re-
publican caucus would have only one ticket,
and it is claimed that eleven Of the twenty
republican senators are bound by a written
compact to support Archer for president
pro tenn. and Scobey for clerk
Congressman Dick says that since this
compact was made circumstances have 50
changed as to not make it binding.
No Compromise Possible.
Cox replied to Dick that he was so
pledged to Archer and Scobey that he could
not consider the proposition for a compro-
mise by dividing the places in the senate
Dick and others then called another con-
ference and it was decided to carry the
Senate fight into the republican caucus at
pm, with Writ and Uhl heading the
ticket against Archer and Scobey.
The republican senators met in separate
caucuseS at pm. and together for the
purpose of making nominations at pm
Cox and his associates now state that
their opponents have everything in the
mouse and they want everything In the
senate so that one branch will counteract
the other In legislation affecting the re-
apportionment of congressional districts
and state legislation in which advantages
by either side might be gained