Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14
TALK OF BOLTINC DOLLIVER
strangeSt Part is That standpsttsrs Want
to Elect Cumuins Senator.
,or LOVE FOR HIM, BUT TO SPITE FORMER
Both Houses Expect TO Organize and
Have the Committees Named
on the First Day of
the Session.
CFrom a stan Correspondence

DES MONIES, Jan 1S.-(Special lone
thing is lacking. in the opinion Of many, to
elect Governor Cummins senator instead
of Dolliver. That one thing is a leader to
organize the movement and get the votes,
and 1t begins to look every day as though
a leader was more likely to appear. The
leader must be a stand-patter. The Cum
minis followers could organize the move
ment and Governor Cummins could himself
start the movement by simply saying that
he would accept the election, but he will not
do that and his followers will not start the
movement to organize the votes for the rea-
son that the people of the state would con-
slider it playing a trick on Dolliver and 1t
would make a martyr of Dolliver. More
than twenty stand-patters stand ready to
vote for Cummins and have made overtures
to the Cummins leaders. but they have not
done it in the open. They are not sufh-
cient In number. either, to turn the trick.
II one stand-patter would actively take the
field and organize the stand-patters enough
votes, 1t is alleged, could quickly be secured
to elect Cummins. The anomaly Of stand
patters voting for Cummns seems odd. but It
is simply a case of where they are more OPP
posed to Dolliver than they are to Cum
minis. The candidacy Of Chase and Tobin
for district attorney Of northern Iowa, and
their threat against Dolliver II he does not
commit himself on their appointment is
| keeping the situation in such a feverish
state that no one can forecast the results
| Governor Cummins personally believes that
Doliver will be elected and that there is
| not the slightest danger of his being de-
feated. But Cummins' friends believe that
the defeat of Dolliver would be the easiest
thing that ever happened.
| ThIrty-second General Assembly.
| The Thirty-second general assembly Of
IoV-2 will convene at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning Each house will meet in its re-
| spective chamber The temporary organiza-
| ton will be formed in the forenoon and the
| permanent organization in the afternoon.
| Then both houses will adjourn till the next
| day, when they win meet to hear the gov
ernor deliver his message TO the legisla-
| ture. The committees in the house will be
announced by Speaker Kendall Monday aft
| ernoon. The committees in the senate will
| not be announced till Thursday or Friday
after the inaugural. This year there will
| be two additional committees in the house
! One will be a committee on public accounts
The proposed bill TO subject county accounts
| to state inspection will be referred to that
| committee, with other bills of the kind.
| The other committee will be a committee
on educational institutions and all bills,
such as the bill to consolidate the institu-
| lions under one board, will be submitted to
| that committee. With the reading of the
message and the inaugural and other for
malities of organization, the end Of the
| week will be reached before any real work
| is done towards legislation.