The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-09-03
SPECIAL SESSION
DOWN TO WORK
ORGANIZATION PERFECTED AND
COMMITTEES NAMED.
QUICK AGREEMENT LIKELY,
Sentiment is All One Way, and Only
Question Of What Limitations
Shall be Placed on
Primaries.


Primaries.
Des Moines, Sept. 1.-The Thirty
sencond general assembly in special
session is ready for business.
1t convened yesterday afternoon,
appointed primary elections commit.
tees and heard the governors mess
age recommending the amendment of
the law and calling the attention OF
the legislature to the law respecting
filling a senatorial vacancy.
Later the republican members nam
ed their caucus committees, which
have in hand the calling of a.joint eau
Gus on the senatorial vacancy.
Tho elections committee held an in
formal conference. at which it was de-
cided to meet this morning. The
houses adjourned until 10 o'clock to-
day, and the opinion prevails that the
committees will rapidly formulate a
bin for the amendment of the primary
law to meet the situation.
1t was intended TO have a general
republican conference last evening
concerning the form OF the primary
amendment, but on account of the APP
pointment of the committee and their
intention early to proceed to work,
none was held.
Quick Agreement Likely.
Most of the members of the legisla-
ture entertain the idea that it is not
going to be so difficult to get togC,Ler
on the amendment of the primary law
as many have thought it might be. All
of the members display an apparent
desire to harmonic differences and
agree to the best possible thing to
make a strict party primary. White
the lawyers differ as to the legality OF
the proposition to limit participation
in the senatorial primary to those who
vote any specified part of party tick.
ct, there is a feeling that some
scheme will be advanced for snutting
out the voters not members of the par
ty from its party affairs which will
meet with approval by all.
The committees which have the
llldIlGI III Cltdl &c INV anu Will uSSlL
to thrash it out this morning are:
For the Senate-Wilson of Fayette
| Turner of Adams, Elerick of van bu
rem, Smith of Mitchell, Kline of a.c
! Alto, Maytag of Jasper, Young O
Calhoun, Peterson of Wright WhippIt
of Benton, Gilliland of Mills, Mates
of Sac, Wilson of Clinton, Stirton OF
Jones, Taylor of Appanoose.
For the House-Darrah of Lucas
Sullivan of Polk, Beery or Henry, Still.
man of Green, Jones of Montgomery
Lee of Emmett, Hacker of Webster
Moore of Linn, Grier of Poweshiek
| Harding of Woodbury., Price of War
| rem, Geneva of Keokuk, DeMar of Da
Wis, Mcdonald of Carroll and Pierce OF
Buena Vista.
To the elections committee of the
regular session of the senate OF the
Thirty second general assembly Gov
ornor Garst has added Senators Pet
erson, Whipple, Gillilland and Mates
| Messrs. Gillilland and Whipple are
| the senators who with Saunders OF
| Pottawattamie and others prominent
among the standpattcrs, made it pos
| sible to pass the primary law of 1907
| by joining in the compromise prOpO
sition finally adopted and which maze
| the measure purely and strictly re
| publican.
The house committee on elections
in 1907 was composed of forty mem
| bcrs. Not all could be included in the
special committee named yesterday.
Chairman Wilson of the senate and
Chairman Darrah of the house com
mittees on elections of the regular
session were ComplimentCd with reten.
ton in those assignments.
Test BY Numbers.
1t was suggested yesterday that
since there is disposition to raise the
question of the cOnstitutiOnality of the
proposed scheme of limiting participa
ton in the senatorial primary to the
persons who vote certain specific
parts of the party ticket at the gen
eral election, there may be compro'
mise on a proposition that no one be
qualified to vote in the senatrial pri
mary who has not voted for half or
two-thirds of threefOurths of the re
publicans on the republican ticket on
the official ballot.
1t is argued that this plan would
avoid the objection made TO the other
proposition. The objection that has
been raised has been that when the
voter could only participate in the SEN
atorial primary of a party if he voted
for the electoral, state, congressional
and legislative ticket of that party, II