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homes at night to give attention to
private business.
To Canvass the Vote.
Part of Mondays session will be
devoted to canyassing the vote cast
for Governor and Lieutenant Cover
nor at the November election and the
formal declaration of the election Of
Charles r. Miller as Governor and
Colen Ferguson as Lieutenant Gov
ernor. They will be inaugurated on
Tuesday. January q In fact that
Tuesday will be big day in Dover
as in addition TO the inauguration OF
the Governor the frst ballot for
United States Senator will be taken
that day. Between the two events
the politicians will have plenty TO in
tercst them, and both parties viii be
represented. The new Governor Is a
Republican and the Democrats have
majority Of the Legislature on joint
ballot and are to elect a Senator to
succeed Senator Harry A. Richardson.
A meeting Of the joint committee
TO make inaugural arrangements. Of
which Senator +. G. Walls is chair
man, will be held on Monday.
Senator ID. J. Reinhardt and Senator
f. p. Ewing are to be the Republican
floor leaders in the Senate, which the
Republicans control and Senator T. Il.
Gormley probably will be the Demo-
ocratic floor leaders there. In the
House Representative Il. O. Cooper
will be the Democratic floor leader
with Representative Charles Owens as
his right hand man. and on the Repub-
lican side Representative Edward G..
Bradford. Jr., will be the leader, with
Representative Charles II. Grantland
as his assistant
Both branches of the Legislature
start out with the fricndliest feeling
and with the idea Of cooperating as
much as possible on general legisla-
ton, and differing on party lines only
on what is regarded as political legis-
lation. Not much is expected to be ac-
complished in the way of enacting par
tisan legislation. as the two branches
are of different political complexion.
The Democrats in the House, how
ever, will put through some radical
legislation with the idea Of putting it
up to the Republican Senate and
thus playing politics. While Willard
Salisbury has announced a simplified
ballot bill some of the Democratic
members intimate that the Salisbury
bill will not be passed, but that the
Democrats will advocate voters as
sistant repeater. which would leave the
ballot as at present The Republicans.
however. will insist on simplified
ballot If the voters assistants are to be
abolished, as they believe such assis-
tants are necessary with the present
ballot. and that this was demonstrated
more than ever at the last election
The commission that was appointed
to draft an employers liability and
workmen's compensation act will re-
port at the present session.
The commission appointed to inquire
into whether the Delaware Railroad
Company owes large amount of
money to the state. representing money
loaned by the state for the building oi
tho railroad will report that II has
found that the company made settle
ment for its obligation. The commit
tee made that discovery shortly after
IL began its investigation, with the
late Walter n. Hayes as its counsel.
Kent Man for senator.
Some of the anti-Saulsbury men
are now agitating that a down-State
man he elected Senator, and as Kent
county has more members Of the Leg
islature than any other one county
that the new Senator should be Sc
lected from Kent In line with this
there now is talk OF trying to get
the Kent county Democratic members
OF the Legislature to have a caucus
Of their own, nominate their own
candidate for Senator and vote for
him all the time. There are nine
Democratic Representative and three
Democratic Senators from Kent coun-
ty. Although there are twenty-nine
Democratic members of the Legisla-
ture. II thus will be seen that Kent
county alone has but three votes less
than a majority Of all the Democrat
ic members of the Legislature That
the plan of some of the anti-Sauls-
bury men to try to have Kent county
to dominate the Senatorial selection
has reached the ears of the Salisbury
men is evident from the following
editorial today from the Delawarean
the Salisbury organ:
What is it we are hearing about
the little caucus? Instead OF being
anti-caucus some OF the malcontents
we understand, now want caucus
within the caucus Instead of all the
Democratic members meeting togeth-
er and deciding the matter in the old.
time Democratic way. they now want
the members from one county to meei
by themselves and try to select can.
didate for all the other Democrats. II
is not the caucus idea which so much
worries the malcontents, but the fact
that they are in the minority and a
pitiably small minority it is They
would rather have seven than fifteen
choose for the twenty-nine Demo
Gratis They object to majority rule
yet TO promote their own ends they
would. if they could, let less than one.
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