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On, Senate .Organization-TheY Plot
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-Ihe organization OF the legls-
lature is attracting large. attention
throug ghout the state. It. is dis
'cussed more apparently than ever
before. Why,it should be sois not
known, for. there IS less, Significance
to it than ever before. There. is no
question Of. who Is to be senator to
be decided. That was done by the
people in June, and the wireIpull-
ing, and barter usually incident on
that aoccount is, dispensed with.
Tie most that IS left. to, struggle
over is the temporary honor and
power incident tor the Offices of pre-
sidenti of)the senate and speaker of
The house, Men have petty .ambi-
tions and; these have to be reckon
ed with in all walks of life, Il in the
legislatures as we'll as out Of them. /.
lone wants to be- speaker. another
chairman of the ways and means
committee aud SO on through the
Legislative schedule, Just as one
wants to be constable of a; precinct
.snd another president of the y nited
States. - These influences are con
irving 70 make long and loud talk
on the subject; Of legislative organi-
zation. .,sli,, - -, l.,
F j For president of the senate, Sen.
Fator Haines Of Washington, a very
excellent. gentleman and Senate.
Hodsonr = Of Multnomah, another
| meritorions citizen are the, leading
candidates, Senator ,Haines is a
banker been Hillsboro !. and
|aSenator Hodson is a member of a
well known printing and publishing
house. His friends claim that the
Washington County man has the
plum already landed, but Mr.. Hod,
sons friends deny 1t. In this con-
,nection Senator Johnson of Benton.
is as yet unalligned.d He is fre-
quently counted with the Hodson
line4up but it is without authority.
Senator Johnson and a snumber' Of
Of central William cite Valley senat4
ors have an organization Of their
own In 3hich' they are understood
to be pledged to act tog' ther not
only as to organization but in all
matters Of legislation. They claim
that it is only BY some such an ar
rangement for. standing together
for better Or worse are they able to
make headway against the more
numnrous delegations of the larger
!, counties il Senator Johnson declared
yesterday that his. organization Is
still intact and tharvhe is absolutely
| pledged to neither candidate for the,
| presidency, and expects to so re-
main until the proper timelcomes. "a
I, Itis understood that Represen :
| tative Carter is similarly situa ted
/ in the house. ,s A three or four-cor7
nered fight is inEprogress for the
sreakership with chips falling in all
directions Frank, Davey9 the we'll
known newspaper man is leading
eandidate and Is said to have lots of
hackers, his friends claiming that
| he has no less than "a already
pledged Ben Jones of Polk is, an
eother leading candidate ! whose
friends are active in his behalf,
while W. 1. Vawter OF Medford, is
also in the field, and with many
supporters. Vawter's strength is
said to, be aided by Multnomah
sympathizeisi9 who will, if they car
not land a, Multnomah man &c
largely to him <Becauss eof what he
did for Multnomah on the speaker.
ship two years ago. It's, however,
a fact that DaVey Has friends in
! Maltnomah = Who Will 60 - him
even over a Multnomah candy late.
Representative Carter, far, is
declared to- beiunpledged; and with
an abiding hope of landing in the
right camp when it comes time to
line up and ,yote:iaaol His,l ( l,aas
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