Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-11
Majority in Senate is Three and in
HOuse Four.
SENATE CLOSE ON OPTION
Temperance Forces and Brewers Com
bine Claim it by One Vote.
HOUSE is ALSO NEARLY EVEN
FOrty-FOur Members Ave Reported
Pledged 60 County Optioa and
FiftY-six Are AsRinut AZ
or NOncommitnl.

Almost complete returns on the leeisla-
ture indicate that the Joint session viii be
democratic va majority OF eleven The
party division IN the two houses will he
eighteen democrats to fifteen republicans
in the senate and fifty-four democrats 10
forty-siX republicans in the house. This
will make certain the organization OF both
houses by the democrats u the democrats
act together in parts caucus as they are
pretty certain TO do and it viii not be long
before speakership lightning rods are
erected
on the vital question of county option
both sides are claiming 70 have 1naioritiea
in each house Superintendent Poulson OF
the anu-saloon league in statement de-
clared that seventeen members OF the SEN
ate were committed for county option. and
more than majority OF the house. Rem
resentatlves Of the LIQUOR dealers and al
lied ORGANIZATIONS are also claiming seven
teen OF the senate against county option
and also a majority Of the house Tho
discrepancy between the two In the senate
turns on the vote OF the senator-elect from
Otoe county, Henry Bartllng, republican
his name appeared on the county opfiou
slate and did not appear on the slate nut
out by the brewers combine which WAS
backing his opponent, senator Buck the
democrat up for reelection II is asserted
now that Bartling announced before the
election that he would DO against county
option and those opposed 20 county option
are depending upon this announcement. IL
Is barely possible that the fate OF the bin
III 'he senate may hang on this one vote.
Division in the House.
In the house, while the preliminary ros.
n eFt1a -
information obtainable by The Bee. makes
the division on county option forty-fou,.
pledged to the bin and fifty-slx aeaInSt il
or nor-committal
II a few Of the nontonlnittal n,e,nhae.
turn out to be- county optionists the bosyss
may present repetition of the close vol.
expected in the senate.
quite few Of the republicans elected In
both senate and house have subsoribed
10 statement No. on the Oregon plap
Ior United states senator for the candi.
GATE receiving the highest preferential
vote lnasmuch however, as the Joint ses-
sion is surely democratic. as Is also ~.
candidate with the high preferential vote
these pledges win not be put to any strain
seven democratic senators in the last
legislature, which It will be remembered
were read out Of the party by Bryan a
leW Hohths aBo and denounced by him as
liIs'epresentatves OF these seven, two.
Ransom and Howell I'm DougIas az ~,
stand for recollection. Two, Buck IN Otos
and Klein in Gage, have been defeated eor
Reelection while three Bartos I'm saliro
Noipp IN Dodge and Tanner in DouRIss
/ nave been neglected. Mr. Bryan To the
contrary. Notwithstanding.
| DOWN IN Nemaha. the redoubtable Ton,
NiaJor' VINO was conspicuous in the last
senate and was running for flost ren-oS
sentative in the house was sIaigbtered
petore e. b. Quackenbush. who was a,
the mouse four wears ago. Up in the Cedar
county district George W. Wiltse. who has
n peen one OF the republican leaders IN the
isst Two senates and whose name adorns
the S-o'cloek closing law, was defeated ~.
stranger in the halls Of leglsIat,on ~
Burt county, which has been ovsr.,,,o,,.,
ingly republican from time immernor,a, t,
and which this year gives the head of ,ha
republican ticket nearly 1000 majority
sends democrat 10 the state senate ana
another democrat 10 the house In pIaoa or
the republican veteran, H. b. BYRON
Feter Jensen who has represented Jsf
ferson county several times. reappears az
a republican senator from Gage. and over
IN the York and Fillmore district state
Senator Diers who was a leader anons,
the democrats the last time viii be sue
eeeded by man with the euphonious
name OF smith. In fact. there win be two
smiths in the senate the other being
Au0ry smith Of Boone county, who has
also had service IN the house.
Vote on Governor.
Aldrich continues to maintain the pro.
portion OF his lead over Dahlman ana ~.
state republican ticket appears safely
elected with him