Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-16
MANY HATS ARE SWITCHED
CumminS tfioia Plurality Falls Below
Twenty thousand Mark.
OFFICIAL CANVASS BY LEGISLATURE
Telephone Message from senator
DolIiver Announces he win He
In Capital City This
Evening.
CFrom a stan Correspondent

(From stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Ia, Jan. l5.-(Specisl Tel
egram.)-As a result OF the canvass Of the
votes on governor and lieutenant governor
in Joint session OF the house and senate
today, II is shown that officially Governor
Cummins received plurality Of 1892, and
this means new hats for a great many
people who thought they had lost Them.
Bets were made all over the state OF
Iowa on 2O,OO0 as the plurality Of Cow
ernor Cummns. The semi-official figures
were above 1900, but the official figures
show Just twenty-elght short of 20,0O0. Gov
ernor Cummins' vote was 2l6,O95 Portey's,
1878; Shank, S72S; Coffin. s,s72; Norman.
941: Hisey, $40; George d. Perkins, !. For
lieutenant governor the vote stands:
Garst,> /22, 49, Dennison, 1909; Clifford,
s,47O Brown. 1885, Harvey, 1885, scattering,
20. Total vote on governor. 4S15O6; total
on lieutenant governor 4l0532. Following
the canvass of the vote. Representative
Hambleton of Mahaska and Senator
Hughes of Iowa were appointed COM
mittee to notify Cummins and Garst Of
their election.
DoIllver Coming Today.
Ex-Representative Meservey talked over
the long distance telephone tonight with
that the senator will come to Des Moihes
tomorrow night, leaving Fort Dodge at
o'clock. Ex-Representative Russell Clark
of Webster City reached the city tonight
to take charge of his candidacy and as
sist State Pharmacy Commissioner B. F.
Keltz The date of the joint republican
caucus on United States senator has not
been settled and may go over till Mon
day.
Dull routine, broken only by occasional
sallies Of wit during the drawing Of seats
in the house, marked the second days pro-
ceedings of the legislature. The senate
adopted the report Of the committee on pro-
gram for the inaugural and appointed a
committee, consisting of McKlveen, Jami-
son and Lambert, to draft resolutions in
honor of the late Samuel l., Bristow Of
Charlton, one-tlme democratic lieutenant
governor of Iowa and the only democratic
| lieutenant governor OF the state During
the greater part of the forenoon the senate
was in recess. Both houses were surprised
by having the journals on the desks of the
members the morning of the second day
containing the proceedings Of the day be-
fore. with the governors message in full,
and well printed at that.
| In the house. when the drawing of seats
were an asylum for the deaf McAllister
of Linn moved that all persons with de-
fective hearing be given first choice of the
seats In the front row. There was an
| amazing number of deaf persons, and they
didn't confne their choice to the first row
seats, but took the best In the house. There
were twenty or more who claimed to be
deaf, and they were scrambling for choice
three or four at a time. AS soon as the
deaf OF the house were taken care Of Weeks
| OF Guthrie secured the floor to say that II
the democrats desired TO be segregated by
| themselves II was now time for them to
speak Springer. for the democrats, asked
that they be given the seats on the east
| side of the hall towards the speakers desk.
! Their wishes were respected by the repub-
licans when the selections began.
Appointed Bank Examiner.
Auditor Carroll has appointed David H,
Mckee Of Mediapolis to be state bank
examiner.
wish Jury Case Appealed.
o. NJ. Brockett attorney for County Clerk
Cofin and County Auditor Burnett in the
| jury probing case, has asked the supervis-
| ors to pass resolution appealing the case
| to the supreme court from the decision OF
the four district court judges, throwing out
| the 1urleS. IL is polnteu out that WIN HO
| juries for two years every prisoner under
| indictment can escape on a writ Of habeas
| corpus because OF lack of means for a
speedy trial II is Furthermore argued
indictments returned last year will have
to be dropped as the code requires that
no case can be continued over two terms
without the consent of the defendant. The
supervisors have referred the matter to
their attorney for an investigation. bill
drawn by Judge McHenry and applying to
counties with population of 1900 or more,
which limits it to Polk county, and provid-
ing for a jury commission of three persons,
| is being discussed by the Polk county bar
and will be one of the first bills introduced.
Would Control O. o. ID. BusineSs
The Iowa Anti-Saloon league will ask
] the legislature to enact a law providing
| for the state to control all collect on de-