Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-26
Two-Thirds of Members Agree to
Support the Measure.
BECOMES EFFECTIVE AT ONCE
Will Provide Preference Vote &
President April 8. '
PRIMARIES IN NEW YORK TODAY
Up state District. VIII Elect Eighty
six Delegates to National Re-
publican Convention at
Chicago.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, siarch s5.-Gov.
ernor Deneen today ordered a call issued
for a special session of the legislature to
act on a proposed presidential preference
primary bill. The session will begin late
tomorrow.
Some time ago the governor announced
that II two-thirds OF the legislators will
agree to pass such a bill. he would call
special session, and II became known
today that the necessary number was
willing.
To make the law effective In time for
the primaries April g. as an emergency
measure. the bill would require the af-
firmative votes of two-thirds Of the legis-
lators.
In a statement made public with the
call for the special session Governor De-
reen declared that aside from the presi-
dental preference primary question there
is need for an extraordinary session OF
the legislature.
Among the subjects which he deems
necessary for the state legislators TO take
action on in the near future are appro-
priations for the repair Of the state capt.
tol and the state fair buildings injured
in the Springfield cyclone, the amend
ment Of the Insurance laws and the vail
dation Of the appropriation for the Uni
versity OF Illinois Medical school. which
was recently declared by the state su-
premo court to have been improperly
passed and therefore void.
Failure TO print and read all the sec.
tions OF the appropriations act In the last
general assembly was the point on which
the medical school bill was attacked.
Governor Deneen said that II other
laws were found to come under the ban
Of the supreme court decision they would
be added to the call.
1t is the idea of the governor that the
general assembly shall pass the prefer.
entail primary act and then recess until
more convenient season to consider the
other matters covered by the call for the
special session.
Primaries In New York To-day.
NEW YORK. March 25-Actfve prep.
arations were made today for the New
row. Chief interest centers in the choice
OF eighty-six republican district delegates
to the Chicago national convention, max
ing up the entire representation OF New
York state except the four delegates-at-
large. who will be chosen later at the
state convention at Rochester.
OF the nineteen upstate districts there
are contests in only two districts-the
Twenty-slxth and Thirty-third.
Most OF the contests are In New York
City. out Of fourteen districts In Mau-
haitian there are contests In thirteen dis.
tricts. Brooklyn with its eight districts
has a contest in only one district. the
Ninth. One of the suburban districts, the
Second, also has contest.
Democratic primaries also will be held.
but the delegates chosen will be to the
state convention and not TO the national
under the privilege given by
the primary law.
District Conventions In Indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. March r.
Four district conventions this afternoon
and a state convention in this city to- |
will go far toward deciding the |
close contest between the Taft and |
Roosevelt factions for majority Of the |
Indiana delegation OF thirty to the ma
tional republican convention. The Third, |
Fourth. Fifth and Eleventh districts |
today ere to elect two delegates each, and |
at tomorrow's convention four delegates |
at large will be chosen. Other district |
are TO follow.
Unofficial returns from ward and town |
ship primaries or meetings show the Taft |
faction will have a majority of about 150 1
in the state convention and will carry |
sight OF the thirteen districts. But mar
gins are so narrow in many districts |
certain decision must wait on the results
of the conventions. and the Roosevelt
managers are claiming eight districts and |
The state convention.
Two Taft Delegates in Michigan.
MARQUETTE. Mich, March 2S-Re-
oublicans Of the Twelfth Michigan dis
.rict, at Ishpeming. today elected two
delegates TO the Chicago convention and
instructed them for Taft