The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-01-06
TOM HONAN LOOKS
SURE FOR LEADER
Race for Senatorship Is Still Lively,
But Slack Is Only Candidate Who
Will Venture to Give Any Figures
Rich Man Wants To Be Door
keeper Jus tor Fun.
TIMES BUREAU
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.


AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 6.-Four leg
islative caucuses will be held tonight.
two by each party. The republicans
of the senate will meet to elect
president pro tenn. secretary, assistant
secretary and doorkeeper and to adopt
rules that will govern their course
during the session. Among the rules
will be one under which all commit
tee appointments will be made by the
senate as a body instead of by the
democratic lieutenant governor. An
| other rule will be that power to adopt
resolutions, pass motions and tran
sact other business in the hands of all
the senators instead of in the hands
of a majority Of those present. This
rule will absolutely prevent the demo-
cratic minority from taking advantage
| of the majority when some of the re-
publicans are absent This will also
prevent Lieutenant Governor Hall from
doing anything more than presiding
| over the senate.
Democratic Senate Floor Leader.
The senate democrats will caucus and
elect floor leader. That is all there
is left for them to do, as they are in
|
| be either Senator Kistler of Logans-
port or Senator Stotsenburg of New
| Albany.
House democrats will caucus in the
house of representatives. They will
elect a speaker, chief clerk, assistant
clerk and doorkeeper, also a floor lead
er. There seems little doubt that Rep
resentative Tom Honan of Seymour
will be elected speaker, though Repre-
sentative Garrard of Vincennes is run
ming strong. The other candidates have
no chance whatever.
Republican House Leader.
The republicans of the house, who are
in hopeless minority will caucus and
elect a floor leader, which is the ex-
tent to which they will be able to go in
this session. There are several names
under consideration for this honor,
among them being Representative Ell
lott of South Bend, Representative
KING of Wabash, Representative Fitch
of Muncie and Representative Grieger
of Laporte county. It looks like a
horse race between them all, with the
chances of Elliott little better than
the rest.
Caucuses Main Thing.
Everything else is taking a back
. seat today for these caucuses to-
night. 1t is necessary for both par
ties in both houses to be ready for the
opening of the session of the legisla-
ture tomorrow noon, and they must
get their caucus work done in time.
1t is the general understanding that
nothing will be done in the senator
ship fight at these caucuses. These
are mere organization caucuses. The
senatorial caucuses will come later,
probably about Jan. II or IS, as the
first ballot for senator is to be taken
on Jan. 10.
Senator Race stu Lively.
But, even at that, the sena torial sit
uation is just as lively as ever. All the
candidate are here working like Tro-
jams to land the plum. A delegation
numbering about $50 rooters for John
E. Lamb came in from Terre Haute
yesterday afternoon and marched
: through the streets and through the
hotels, yelling for Lamb. They are but
, ton-holing every legislator that will
! stand still long enough for them to get
at him, but they are not making any
. Roadway While they make a very
imposing sight and the legislators were
glad to see them and to shake hands
with them and to take a hoist" with
|, them everybody is saying that they
came too early to do any good and
that they should have saved their mon
$ ely. This is the only real delegation
that has shown up, and no others ex
pected until about the time for tn,
democrats to caucus on the senator
= ship.
3 A False Alarm.
: Nobody has been able yet to find on
l. who called the democratic caucus 70
yesterday afternoon at the Denison no
c. tel. It developed that all the letter
making the call and which were sen
to the members of the house wer
70 mailed at Charlottesville, but tn
democratic statesmen from Montgom
q cry county deny with scorn the in
= situation that any of them sent then
out But whatever the purpose or what
ever the scheme that was behind tn
call it did not work, for none of tn
q representatives went to room $40, II
which the caucus was to be held. Il
Ia fact. no one paid any attention to tn
IS call
l. Slack Only Makes Prediction.
One peculiar feature of the presen