Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1907-01-25
SendteS and Houses Effect Or.
ganlzailOn In Two States.
ALL THE SESSIONS WERE SHORT
Jones and Falconer Viii Handle the
Gavels in Washington, and Haines
and Davey in Oregon.

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the election on the first ballot in each
house OF f. W. Haines, of Washington
county, for president OF the senate, and
of Frank Davey, Of Marion, for speaker
of the house, the Oregon legislature
made itself ready yesterday for law
making. Committees will be announc-
ed Wednesday or Thursday.
Haines was elected over Hodson, OF
Multnomah, by vote OF IL to I, four
Democrats, Caldwell, Yamhill; Smith,
Umatilla; Hedges, Clackamas, and
Multi, jackson, joined the Is support
ers of Haines, and Haines voted for
Bowerman, one OF his followers. Hod-
son voted for Bailey, and Miller, Of
Linn, voted for Coshaw, and CoShaw for
Smith, of Umatilla.
In the house, Dayey received so votes
and Rothschild, the lone Democrat Of
that body, who nominated himself, re-
ceived one, each voting for the other.
In the Republican nominating caucus,
Davey, had "A votes, one OF his support
ers, Reynolds, being absent. and Vaw-
ter, IA. There was no contest and the
voting was perfunctory, all knowing
what the result would be.
Haines was elected at $50 O'Clock
and Davey few minutes later.
George Z. Chamberlain second in
augural as governor will be held at 1870
p. m. today. The two houses will meet
in joint cony en- ion to canvas the vote
for 60 ernor, and as soon as the vote
has been announced the oath of office
will be administered by one of the JUS
tices OF the Supreme court. Governor
Chamberlain will then read his mes
sage.
There will be no ballot on United
States senator until Tuesday, Jan. %,
when the formal election of F. w. Null
key for the short term and Jonathan
Bourne for the long term will take
place. 1t was thought that the election
of Mulkey would take place immediate
ly, for the reason that the appointment
Of Gearin was only until the next
meeting of the legislature" but an in
vestigation shows that even in filling
vacancy the election must be held on the
second Tuesday after organization.
Olympia, Wash, Jan. l5.-Washing-
toms tenth legislature spent about go
minutes in organizing yesterday and
then took a rest until this morning.
The senate proceedings were out of
the ordinary for the most part. Thus
Nichols of Seattle nominated Jesse 5.
Jones of Tacoma for president pro TEN,
and Jones, a new member here, for the
first time was selected by aeelamation
to a position which heretofore has al
ways gone by seniority. J. Will Lysons
was named for secretary, which was a
concession to the desires of President
Coon, who wanted Lysons chosen again
because of his experience as secretary
of the past two sessions. W. T. Laube,
of Seattle, was nominated for assistant
secretary, and Billy Conner for ser
geant at arms. Both were elected by
unanimous vote.
The house session ended almost as
soon as it began. A. J. Falconer was
elected speaker by acclamatlOn, Reid
of Tacoma making the nomination and
Goldman of Dayton offering a motion
on behalf of the Democrats that it be
unanimous. L. o. Meigs of North
Yakima for chief clerk and Glenn Cot
terill for sergeant at arms were elected
by acclamation.
A joint committee of the house and
senate called the governor and arranged
that the message be read in joint ses-
sion at o. clock today.
Each house provided for special
committee on employees, the senate lin
iting the number to 33 and the house
to 3S, all at salaries based upon ordi-
nary pay, which will cut the gross en-
ployes' payroll to less than half of that
of last ceaaion