Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-09
Returns COMPLETE
OunminI Plurality in State IL Over
Twsnty-TWO Thousand.
cANaLs stvLN Of ELLvLN OIsTRICIs
Democrats Gain Eight Members ot
the senate and Ten in House, hut
Are stin Largely in the
Minority.



DIES MONIES, Nov, s.-Cspecial. )--Prac-
tically complete returns give Cummins a
plurality Of o. 456. The returns are semi
Official and the oficial returns will not
vary from that figure more than 100 or 90
either way. The reports show that Porter
carried the First Second, Sixth and Eighth
congressional districts and Cummins car
ried all the rest. The effect is 20 give the
northern part Of the state o much greater
representation in the next state conven-
ton in proportion to the southern part
than Il had at the last convention. Aside
from the governorship the results Of the
election shows that the democrats elected
ten of the twenty-five members to the sem
ate elected this year. which at the next
session gives them a total membership TN
the senate Of fourteen, where they had but
eight at the last session. In the house the
democrats elected thirty-two members out
OF a total membership OF los They had
but twenty-five at the last session, giving
them a gain Of ten. The republicans will
have seventy-six members in the next
house. as compared with seventy-eight the
session before. An increase in the menu
bership of the house permits the democrats
making a gain OF ten, while the republicans
lose but two.
In the senate democrats were elected
from the following districts: Black Hawk
Grundy. Floyd, Clinton, Craw-
ford Harrison Monona, Des Moines, Du-
buque. Fremont-Page, Lucas-Wayne. Scott,
wapello, OF these districts Clinton Des
Moines and Dubuque were represented by
democrats at the last session. d. A. Lyons,
the democratic senator from the Howard
winneshiek district, at the last session was
defeated.
In the house democrats were elected from
the following counties; Adair. Adams,
Allamakee, Bremen. Buchanan. Buena
Vista, Carroll. Cherokee. Chiclasaw. Clay
ton, Clinton (2). Crawford, Davis, Delaware,
Des Moines %. Dubuque ~, Howard, Iowa,
! Jefferson, johnson, Keokuk. Madison,
Marion. Plymouth, Scott, Shelby. Van Blu
rem, Wapello, Warren and Washington
Republicans Maintain Headquarters.
! When the republican state central COM
mittee Is called together this week or the
( first OF next to close matters up for the
campaign the proposition win be presented
/ Of maintaining the headquarters in this
city permanently, instead of storing the
! furniture till the next campaign. 1t Is
argued that when the desks, office furniture
and other property of the state committed
is stored till the next campaign. as has beer
the custom & in the past. the letters and
other material are inaccessible and, cannot
be gotten at for reference or for any Other
purpose, 1t will be urged that the commit.
tee rent an inexpensive room. place all the
furniture and property of the committed
in it and keep up some work during the
interim between this and the next cam.
paign.
Discipline for Drake students.
meeting OF the discbpline committee OF
| Drake university called for today is taker
as an indication that there is trouble II
store for fifty or 100 .1jfake students who
hauled A. r. Hisey. tiiB Tama canddat,
for governor, through the streets in
buggy election day. There Is a rumor abou
tho university that a large number of tn,
ringleaders in the event. will be suspended
for the remainder of the term. The AT
fair consisted of more than giving tn,
peripatetic candidate a free ride about tn,
city. Hisey went out to the universit!
grounds and bunch Of students seeini
him broke into the chapel while the morn
ing exercises were under way and had hin
make an address, much against the wishe
OF the members of the faculty present
This broke up the chapel meeting. Mi
Hisey has returned to Tama county, wher
he lives. In Polk county he received ,