Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-07
special to Times-Republlcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Jan. o. The regular
order for the opening Of the Thirty
fourth general assembly next week In
cludes the following:
Both houses called to order at 10
O'Clock a. M, Monday, July 3. Presi-
dent Clarke presiding in the senate and
Representative Fraley calling the house
to order.
\ Election OF temporary secretary
and temporary clerk Immediately.
Election of permanent officers. the
chairman Of the republican caucus pre-
senting the republican caucus NOM
)inees and the chairman of the demo-
cratic caucus presenting the democrat
ic nominees.
In the house it is customary to elect
the speaker first, then the minor OFF,
GERS, and in the senate to elect the Sec
rotary before electing the caucus Sc
lections.
Appointmnt Of joint committee on
inauguration.
Meet in joint session on Tuesday to
count the vote for governor and lieu
tenant governor.
II Reading of message OF the governor
Tuesday or Wednesday.
Inauguration probably. on Thursday.
II Announcement of the committees OF
house and senate.
II Tuesday, Jan. II, both houses vote
upon United States senator.
Wednesday, Jan. IS, general assem-
bly, meets in joint session to verify the
vote and to announce the result. II II
should happen that no person Is shown
to be elected, then the joint Assembly
is REQUIRED to vote for senator.
Thursday, Jan. 10, in case OF dead
lock on senator, assembly must meet
again in Joint session at noon ana
proceed to ballot for senator. SO Ions
as the deadlock continues, even to the
end Of the session. the law requires
that the Joint assembly be held and that
balloting continue every day until
senator is elected.
In case of failure Of the two houses
to organize on Monday. Jan. ,. the hrst
vote for senator will have to be de-
ferred for one week and the oa4!ot1hs
will commence Jan. -.
II AS soon as committees are appointeo'
introduction Of bills will be In order:
but in case of deadlock on senator an
LEGISLATION will practically cease and 1t
Deadlock Certainty.
1 The immediate prospect. almost GER
tainty, of the success of the deadlock
program on the senatorship. brings up
the question as to how the vote Will
stand The deadlock program Is based
upon the theory that Senator Young
has not sufficient strength among the
republicans to warrant placing his
On
certain his name will not be presented
at all. The republican candidate will
therefore be either Kenyon. Garst,
Byers, Feely, Pickett, Curtis. FRANKIE or
Wallace In the meantime the demo-
Gratis will have party candidate In the
person Of Dan Hamilton, who will re-
ceive the solid democratic vote.
There are in the legislature fifty-four
democrats and 1O4 republicans. OF the
latter there are somewhere between
sixty and sixty-five who will enroll
themselves as regulars by going into
the regularly called senatorial caucus
in the interest OF harmony. and aside
from these there are some who will.
even If they are persuaded that 1t Is
their duty to remain out Of the caucus.
refuse to bolt the party nominal
ton. 1t is therefore certain that the
regular republican nomn nee Will receive
about seventy votes in the assembly no
matter what may be the orders given
by the Young committee The ballot
would therefore he about as follows:
For the republican candidate. 20.
For the democratic candidate, 81.
Scattering. "a.
Eighty Necessary to Elect.
The number Of votes in the Joint as
se,nhly neces ary to eject Is eighty,
provided every member IS present when
the vote is taken II would he necss-
sarv for the republicans to &c. ten
more votes to elect During each ard
every day Of the entire session this
question would be faced. ana II Is proh-
able that the greatest care would be
taken to sec to It that every member
rem ms in the city all the time and is
present every day at the time OF the
vote taking. II twenty Of the demo-
Gratis and boiling republicans should
be absent at any time an election would
take place.
The democratic organization gives it
out that under no circumstances will
any democratic vote ever be cast for
any republican candidate: nor for Sem
ator Young.
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