Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-24

crat, still leading and with Young
Kenyon and Funk closely punched
Inc vote was as follows:
Ioitei ................. ~
IouHs .................. Al
NeHyoH .-... ................. AZ
- '''''.'l'.. ...21
Dyels .................. II
So '''''.'..''... ............... 4
Ihere were but three changes.
representative Fraley changing from
funk to Young, Representative Skin
ner, who was absent Saturday.
changed his Fridays vote from 6en.
yon to Funk and Representative Stipe
from Towner to Young.
Ihose absent or not voting were
Brockway, Cowles, Fischer, Hayes.
Leach, McCulloch Of Wayne, Milton,
Penn. Sammis, Safer, Saunders, Tay.
iorz OF Onion and Van Law.
Little Done In Either House
Both the house and senate did little
but kill time this morning, the former
being in session but one half an hour.
and the latter but 10 minutes. Rep
iesentat1ve Boettger's measure relat.
ing to the legalizing of an election
neld at Bettendorff Scott county. was
the first measure adopted by the
house when the bill went through this
morning.
Representative Cousins introduced
measure in the house providing for
furnishing homes for sheriffs.
Speaker Stillman this morning do.
clared that fifty per cent more bills
had been introduced in the same time
than had been introduced in previous
sessions and urged all committees to
make haste with their work. Among
the bills introduced in the senate were:
BY Allen. of fferson-Eliminatine
Indebtedness Of independent school
districts.
The. Senatorial Deadlock.
Inc legislature started on it's third
week today, with no more prospect for
settling the senatorial question than
existed when the first ballot was
taken. In fact, there Is less encourage
ment for those who would like to see
settlement than there was two
weeks ago. At that time there was
every prospect that Judge Kenyon
would be able to pull enough OF
Lafayette Young's strength away from
him and combine it with his own
natural following and whatever pro.
gressive vote he could win from A B.
Funk and Warren Garst. thus secur.
Ing majority Of the legislature.
AS time goes on 1t becomes more
and more evident that this is not
going to be done. Senator Young IL
on the job, as tenacious as a bull dog
and as watchful as the guardian OF q
watermelon patch on cloudy night.
He has been here in Des Moines since
he arrived at home for the holidays
and although every day sees the term
for which he was appointed diminish.
ing rapidly, he is not disposed to re-
turn to Washington while there is
chance Of getting another vote here.
All Sides Standing Pat.
Standpatters who were ready ten
days ago to change their vote to Ken.
yon when they found that Young could
not be elected are now openly declar-
ing that they will not desert the
standpat candidate under any con-
sideration. They are equally opposed
to joining with the democrats to sup
port the Oregon plan, which might II
rumors, are to be believed, gain them
the democratic support for their spec.
ial primary scheme.
There is about as much chance, as
matters now stand, for the dissolu.
tion Of the present deadlock as there
Is for declaration by Senator Cum.
minis that he favors the Aldricf
financial program. The Funk-Garst
progressives are growing more bitter
toward the Kenyon progressives every
day, and the Kenyon progressives are
just as bitter toward the Funk -Garst
progressives. The standpatters are
presenting solid front and both fac.
tions of the progressives agree on only
one thing-that the standpatters are
"undesirables" unless they turn pro-
gressives. And that they refuse to do.
The democrats, who could settle the
whole thing tomorrow IL they so
willed, are standing as solidly for
Porter as the standpatters are for