Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-02
NEW SENATE WILL BE SHORT.
Probable That illinois and Wisconsin
Will Be Only Half Represented.

lopcCl3tl SOilCopOlAuCliSSi
Washington, March 2.-When the
special session of congress opens March
Is, the number of senators will proba-
bly, be ninety. With a full membership
there should be ninety-two.
Indications are that Illinois and Wis
consin will each have only a single sem
ator. All the prophecies from those two
states agree that the chance of elec-
tions before March, Is is small. In
deed, Wisconsin politicians here seem
to doubt if the state will have a sena
tor even when the long session opens
next December. Senator Stephenson,
the leading candidate to succeed ito his
own seat, has been losing strength, and
it has been made apparent that the
narrow margin which prevented his
choice in the beginning is more likely
to widen than to be closed up.
In the Illinois legislature likewise
Senator Hopkins has been losing both
votes and sentimental support as his
contest progressed He has never had
more than eighty-five votes, while,
1O5 are needed to elect There seems to
be Just one man in the state who could
win the place if he would allow his
name to be used. That man is Govern
or Deneen, of whom it is said that if
he would allow his friends to present
him he would be elected on the first
ballot.
But Deneen is standing loyally. by
Hopkins, for two reasons. One is that
he is pledged to do so, and the other
that he wants the primary election law.
to which he has been devoted, and
which passed under his administration,
to be vindicated in the outcome of the
contest. The primary resulted In in
dorsement of Hopkins, and primary ad-
vocates all over the country are anx-
ious that Hopkins win because of this.
For the same reason they want Steph-
enson to win in Wisconsin.
xaas
The house was discussing the sun
dry civil bill. and an item had been
REACHED to appropriate for the work
of the bureau of American ethnology.
Mr. Hitchcock, Of Omaha, wanted
change made in a paragraph, and Of
fered AN amendment. The paragraph
intended to appropriate for the work
of making the bureaus Handbook of
American Indian Languages" on which
it has been at work many years. Mr.
Hitchcock wanted the item to read for
the completion of" this work Judge
Smith, who at the time was in charge
of the bill, rose. He is from Iowa.
II have had doubts about the desir-
ability of this work." he said. Some
time ago 1 picked UP the volume al
ready published, and turned to look up
the derivation and significance of the
meaning of my own state. Now, every
body in Iowa knows that the name
Iowa means "the beautiful land"
Everybody else ought to know it. Yet
turned over the pages of this hand
book. and found learned discussion
proving that Iowa means ithe sleepy
ones"
Amid the laughter which followed,
Judge Smith explained that while this
egregious error had long prejudiced
him against this work he had been in
spired to further investigation, and
had convinced himself that to err is
human, to forgive divine. The bureau
had done much good and valuable
work. He had found nothing in it's
work to controvert his long established
conviction that Illinois ought to be
known, as 1T Is, as the sucker state"
and. Likewise 1t had not iAtxuded any