Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-07
SHANE ATTENDS
STANDPAT CAUCUS
WAPElLO COUNTY MEMBER PRES
.ENT At MASONIC TEMPLE
MEETING; SENATORIAL SiTUA-
TON UNCHANGED.
TBY w. H. POWELL

DeS MO1neS, Jan. o.-(opeCldl.)
Unless Paul Stillman and the progress
sives who are backing him. for speaker
/, will agree TO divide the chairmanships
evenly as between standpatters and
progressives, the standpat house mem
bers will not go into an organization
caucus and the legislature will be
stuck on rock at the very beginning
of it's cruise. From present indications
the voyage will be stormy enough to
daunt the most hardy political mari
ner, anyway, and last night the stand
, pat house members held a caucus at
the Masonic temple to appoint COM
mittee which will call on Mr.. Stillman
today and attempt to effect an agree
ment with him as to the committee
chairmanships. at
The caucus-which the standpatters
afterWard insisted was not: caucus,
but a conference-was not held really
for the purpose Of appointing this
committee, but more to allow the, new
members of the lower house to become
cidentally to allow the older ones to
tell the newer members how the land
lies. Some Of the new members who
have been considered somewhat
doubtful were there, among them be-
ing Frank Shane of Wapello county,
who went to the meeting and allowed
himself to be counted with the rest.
After the meeting there was great
deal of secrecy as to the proceedings.
Representative Ernest Moore of Cedar
Rapids, last year chairman Of the ap-
propriations committee, and now-al-
though he doesn't admit 1.-THE stand
pa: candidate for speaker, declared
that there had been nothing done that
was worth giving to the public. After
ward, however, others admitted that
the committee had been appointed.
but Mr.. Stillman, just before he re-
tired to his room, said no one had
called on him. It is probable that the
committee will see him this evening,
after more members of the legislature
shall have arrived.
May Not Have Caucus on Senator.
All hope Of inducing the standpat-
ters to enter caucus on the senator
ship has apparently been given up by
the progressives, and last night i: was
freely predicted that there will be no
caucus on the senatorship, unless one
Is held by the progressives. This now
looks doubtful, as Judge w. S. Kenyon
will arrive here some time tonight and
establish headquarters at the Savery,
prepared to fight till the end for the
senatorship. His principal spokesman,
Senator Frederic Larrabee of Fort !
Dodge, has already declared that the
Kenyon men will not go into caucus
Of the progressives, and even if all the /!
others but one is eliminated, there !
will still be. in addition to that one, /
Senator Young and Mr.. Kenyon in the
field.
Former Attorney General Byers is
practically out Of the race for the
senatorship now, having been elected !
by the Des Moines city council yes
terday to the Office of corporation
counsel. which carries salary of
$4,000 annually. Mr.. Byers said last
night that he had not accepted and !
would not make up his mind on the
matter for few days, but his closest !
friends declare that he will accept the
municipal job and let the others fight
out the senatorship campaign in their
own way.
This leaves A. B. Funk and ex-Gov-
ernor Garst as the two principal can
didates, with possibility of Con-
gressman Charles E. Pickett getting
into the race at the last minute Last
night Mr.. Pickett declared that he is
not candidate. but he said it with
one of those politicians smiles that
may mean the opposite of what one
says. Mr.. Pickett has been in the city
for two or three days and has inter-
viewed many legislators as soon as
they stepped into the hotel lobbies. He
says today that he will leave tonight
for Washington. but he said yesterday
that he would leave last night and he
IS still l~here. He will not think Of en-
tering the race for the short term
only, under the conditions that have
been proposed by George NJ. Curtis of
who is still the only candidate
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