The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-11
CANDIDATES ON
ANXIOUS SEAT
Thirteen State Conventions to
Be Held During the
Present Week.
FORAKER WILL ASK A VOTE
INTENTION is TO PUT THE SEN
AToRS ON RECORD.

Inc conference OF governors or var
ious states, looking to the conservation
of the natural resources of the country,
at Washington. beginning Wednesday,
promises one of the most important
news features of the week. Thirteen
state conventions viii elect delegates
to the national conventions during the
week and a score or more of district
conventions will be held i'm various
states for a similar purpose.
Other known events include the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the new mil
lion-dollar home of the bureau of
American republics at Washington on
Monday, the national drainage con-
gress, representing the industrial and
commercial interests of the country at
Washington on Tuesday, and the fes-
tiyities at San Francisco in honor of
the officers and men Of the Atlantic
and Pacific battleship fleets.
State Conventions.
In ten states Republican state con-
ventions will be held to elect delegates
to the national convention: Louisiana
at New Orleans on Monday; Idaho at
Wallace and Michigan at Grand Rap
ids on Tuesday; North Dakota at Mi
not. Washington at Spokane, Montana
Oregon at Portland, on Thursday: Tex
as at Fort Worth on Friday, and
Georgia at Macon on Saturday.
Three Democratic state conventions
will be held to choose delegates to the
national convention at Denver. South
Carolina Democrats will meet at Co.
lumbia on Wednesday and on Thurs
day Minnesota Democrats will gather
at ST. Paul, Wyoming Democrats will
meet also on Thursday at Cheyenne.
Extra Session in New York.
The New York state Legislature will
convene in extraordinary session at
Albany on Monday. when il is expected
that Governor Hughes will urge enact
ment of the Agnew- Hart Z auti-race-
track gambling bills and other meas
ures which the Legislature failed to pass
at the recent session.
Confidently anticipating that the
house Republican caucus TO be held
Monday night will agree on the terms
of an emergency currency bill, the Re
publican leaders IN congress are pre-
pairing TO give such a measure right of
way whenever it shall be presented to
the house. They count upon having the
bill before the house for consideration
before the close of the present week
1t is not expected that the discussion
will be extended
The military academy appropriation
bill will probably be considered by the
house Tuesday, and it is possible that
the general deficiency bill which will
probably be reported Tuesday or We'd
nesday may be taken up for considera
ton by the house toward the close of
the week This is the last of the great
supply bills and probably it will not
be pressed until the currency bill shall
have been disposed Of Bills will con-
tinue Monday to be considered under
the suspension of the rules.
Conflict in the Senate.
A conflict between Senator Foraker.
who has given notice that he will move
OF the negro soldiers who were dis
missed from the service by the presi-
dent on account of the Brownsville af-
fair, made the unfinished business of
the senate, and Senator Elkins. whose
joint resolution suspending the com
modify clause of the railroad rate law
now occupies that advantageous posi-
ton, is promised Monday when Mr..
Fora ker has said he will present his
motion. MIR. Elkins is anxious to have
his resolution adopted, and it is be-
lleVcd that he VIII not yield Willingly.
Mr.. Foraker is DESTROYS of putting the
senate on record on the Brownsville
matter and he has evidently reached
the conclusion that this result can be
accomplished on a vote to proceed to
as satisfactorily as on
some other point.
The postOffice appropriation bill will
follow the agricultural bill in the SEN
ate, and it is hoped that by the time
that measure shall have been disposed
of, the sundry civil bill will have been
from the committee on appro-
priations and be in a position to be
Throughout Japan there is much in
terest in the general election which
will take place on Friday. The Liberal
party expects to poll large majority
of the votes against the opposition,
which has appealed TO the anti-military
sentiment of the voters, ur~ing a re-
vision of the budget and financial
methods.