The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-01-07
.REACT|ONAR|ES To
RUN LEGISLATURE
Shively Is Side-tracked for
Speaker Because He Is
Too Progressive.
CAUCUS is TONIGHT
ORGANIZATION Will Be Effect
ed and the Patronage Is
To Be Distributed.
palladium Specially

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. Al
ready the members of the legislature
are arriving in town and getting set
tied in places to live during the SEES
sion, and with every new arrival there
is fresh talk about the caucuses that
are to be held tonight and the distri-
button of legislative patronage.
Thomas Taggart has arrived and
will remain until after the session is
started and everything is running
smoothly. He wants to see everything
working right before returning to
French Lick. And present indications
are that there will not be any bitches
in the Taggart program. 1t provides
for the election of Homer l.. Cook, of
this city, for speaker of the house; S.
N. CULLEN, of Linton, for clerk of the
house, and Paul Hill, of Greencastle,
for assistant clerk, although the lat
ter arrangement may be changed so as
to put Phil Lutz, of Boonville, in as
assistant secretary. David Poer, of
Ehelby county, appears to be out of
the running for house doorkeeper.
Tageart Not in One Race.
Taggart and his forces have not TAX
en- any part in the race for doorkeep-
er. Frank Sweet, a union plasterer
and business agent for the plasterers'
union in this city, has become a
candidate for the place and so has
Douglas Bolser, of New Castle. Sweet
has a good following.
The senate will elect Wade Free
secretary, and probably Smith Ask
rem. of Corydon, assistant secretary.
This has been the plan for some time.
Jack Shea, of this city, will be the
senate doorkeeper. But the Demo
cratic senators are going to have a
hard time electing a president pro
tenn, who will also be a Democratic
! floor leader.
Senator Stotsenburg, of New AL
bany, was the floor leader two years
ago, but there was so much newspaper
criticism of his connection with the
bipartisan combine that he says he
does not want the place again.
Quoted kistIer.
Senator kistler, of Logansport, was
one of the active leaders in the SEN
ate, but because of his corporation
connection and his record on matters
in which the interests were interested
quiet at this session.
! Reactionary Democrats will be in
! control of the senate, and this makes
it practically certain that the floor
| leader will be a man of their kind,
and the choice appears to lie between
| Senator Harlan, of this city, and Sen
| ator Houck, of Lawrenceburg. Harlan
is a reactionary and belongs to the
crowd that will be in control. He is
the man that killed the housing bill
which was before the legislature at the
last session and which proposed to
! improve tenement conditions in In
diana. He was also on hand every
time anything was to be done to help
| kill the franchise referendum bill on
Senator CRUDE.
No Chance for ShIvely.
! Senator B. B. Shively, of Marion
would like to be floor leader, but he is
too progressive for the reactionary
majority and he stands no show what.
ever.
Along with the arrival of members
of the legislature there has come also
a long line of job hunters who want
places in the legislature. Some OF
them will get jobs but many will not
The house and senate plumber com
mittees have decided on 80 day ap
pointments, this changing the employ.
es in the middle of the session.
Lobbyists are also beginning to ap
pear. A number of these fellows are
at the hotels. There they can meet
and mix with the members. 1t is
practically certain that the legisla