Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-31
Senate Spends Early Part
of Day Dodging
Subject.
TO AMEND
Cock County Members Want
Changes to Provide Some
Sort of Conventions.

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Special)-Th senate is utterly at sea
as regards the primary election bill
1t met at 10 O'Clock this morning ani
after half an hours session during
which the Jandus bill favoring thu
opening of saloons Sundays was de-
feated, they took a recess until 1870.
The Cook county senators met BE-
tween the sessions and agreed on
some amendments to the Oglesby bill
affecting Cook county alone.
When the senate met at 1870 1t
amended some bills and passed by 36
TO I the bill increasing the fees of the
state architect from IL per cent tJ
.21a per cent and then took a recess
until 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Want Conventions.
The Cook county senators are anx-
ious to get a provision in the Oslesby
bill which will provide for party cou-
ventions. the conventions TO merely
carry out the will of the plurality of
the voters expressed at the primary.
They saw this would tend to keep no
the organization better. Some of the
country senators. including Berry, are
favorable to this plan, but they don't
know how it would strike the house.
Cannon is Active.
Springfield, Ill, Oct. 81 Speaker
Cannon is making frenzied efforts ID
persuade the legislators to amend the
Oglesby~direct primary bill in such
way that he will not have to fight for
the Illinois delegates TO the next ma
the delegates are picked by the voters
direct the state will be thrown wide
open to rival presidential candidates,
and that he will emerge from the re-
sulting contest with the Illinois delega-
tion so hopelessly split that it will
neither cast a solid ''favorite son" vote
nor be of use for trading purposes.
So he is desirous of having a state
convention pick both delegates and
presidential electors Such an amend
ment may wreck the primary bill, but
| it will remove the apprehensions of
Uncle joe
Talks Vigorously to Senator's.
corted to Mr. Cannon's room in the Le-
land hotel. where they learned some
| lessons. The sage of Danville was in
tfull blossom and vigorously strong Eng
| liSh, glowing with heat and blue flame,
| flowed from his lips in unbroken
stream. What are you afraid OFF" he
would eXclaim The Chicago papers?
I wv ,,C, .lnE.
been reelected to congress. l defied
them on the ship subsidy bill and the
meat inspection bill. l am not afraid
of them Are you towards? Are you
to stand by and see the republican
party ruined, and wiped off the map?"
This, and a whole lot more. Uncle
Joe" put ginger into the situation.
| Forced Into the Open.
| "Uncle joe has been forced by the
Oglesby bill into the open as an avow-
ed presidential candidate. "Uncle Joe"
and his friends, including all the Hi
nois congressman, want the delegates
elected in the old manner, and a state
lconvention TO instruct them what TO
do when they get to the convention.
If their election is left to popular vote
lby districts, Cannon cannot control
them There are districts in which
Taft, Hughes, or, too, Roosevelt dele
gates could defeat the Cannon men.
IThey would go to the convention unin-
Istructed and uncontrolled. So "Uncie
Joe" began to ask the elimination of
this feature. He arrived on the scene
early. With him came congressman
land office holders, federal and state, all
backing up his demands.
senate Has Short Session.
The senate met at o'clock last ev-
ening and Immediately adjourned until
} 10 o'clock this morning. The house
met at 10 o'clock yesterday morning
and adjourned until 10 O'Clock this
morning. The house. will not meet fo-
the transaction of business until the
senate passes the Oglesby bill.