Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-01-05
LEADERS TO CONFER
PRIOR TO CAUCUS
Price and Trippe Slated for
Presiding Officials.
LEGISLATURE 10 MEET.
Both Houses viii Get Together To-
morrow Night and Agree on Desk
Leaders

Democratic leaders and a large
number Of members of the Legisla-
ture will gather in Baltimore tonight
for conferences preliminary to the
ca icus 10 be held here tomorrow night
and the conveninE of the Legislature
at noon on Wednesday.
Most Indications now point to
the reelection to the Presidency of
the Senate and the Speakership of
the House of Senator Price and James
McC. Trippe, respectively. The lin.
ing up of the leaders upon these
two places is awaited with a great
deal of interest because there has
been some element of doubt about
the election of Price and Trippe
despite the heavy tide toward them.
Price is regarded as the one more
liable to have trouble. There i. some
positive opposition to him which has
failed to concentrate thus far. 1t is
doubtful if this opposition would be
effectual should il concentrate. but
there is always a chance in such mat
ters. Trippe seems to have no real
opposition, and he probably will have
no difficulty unless Price gets into the
sort of fight that would change the
whole situation.
The general belief is that Price
will have about 2 of the II Demo-
cratic Senators, as follows: Shep-
herd, of Dorcehster;; Collier, of Tai
bot; Cooper, of Caroline; Beck, of
Kent; Benson, of Baltimore county:
Curran, Campbell, Maloy and Ogden,
of Baltimore city; Watkins, of Anne
Arundel Hammond, of Howard, and
his own.
Some of these men would like to be
for another candidate, notably Ben
son, who would like to be the choice
himself, and one or two of the East
ern Shore Senate rs. But the Eastern
Shore leaders are disposed to stand
together and that gives Price sufFi-
cient strength to attract more.
Ia the event that a fight against
Price develops, the opposition may
line dP behind Senator Lewis NJ.
Milbourne, of Somerset, or J. Frank
Harper, of Queen Anne's. Should
such fight go far enough to disturb
the present organization lineup be-
hind Price, the Smith people might
take up Sen itoi Beck, OF Kent.
That Mr.. John r. Sullivan, of this
city, will be reelected to the secre-
taryship of the Senate, is regarded
as certainty.
The State House is reaiy to receive
the solons, some of whom will begin
to arrive in the city tonight. The
majority. how aver, will not get in
until tomorrow morning. The cham
bers of the Senate and House have
been thoroughly cleaned, and the
desks arranged in groups for the dele =
gatic rs from the several counties and
Baltimore city.
A decided convenience for the
members and others at this session
will be the operation of an elevator
between the main floor where the
chambers are located, TO the second
floor, where are the executive Offices
and number of committee rooms.
The last Legislature appropriated
$4,000 for the installation of the
elevator. Work on it was commenced
early last year, and it is now prscti-
cally completed.
The message which Governor Colds
borough will send to beth houses of
the Assembly after they have con-
veued and organized on Wednesday
has be IN in the hands of the printer
for several days. 1t will be ready
for distribution tomorrow.