The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-27
THE POLITICAL
WORLD
IN INDIANA
PROM THE TINES Own xnA..-
Anapol1B Bureau
TIMES BUREAU
AT STATE CAPITAL.

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INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 25-The DEM
ocratic senator's who held a conference
here yesterday afternoon put a few
more kinks In the state senate sltua-
ton. where's there already is enough
uncertainty to keep anyone on the
anxious seat. There will be twenty
Eve democrats and twenty-five repub-
lieans in the senate. including sem
ator Walter McConaha of Wayne
county. who was elected as a progress
sive in 1914, but who is now Affiliate
ed with the republican party This tie
vote in the senate mas raised the ques-
ton Of what party can organize and
control the senate. Lieutenant Gov
ernor 0'Nein, democrat. Will be the
presiding officer of the senate the first
few days of the session. and the dem
ocrats say that the twenty-five demo-
Gratis with the vote OF O'Neiil can elect
officers. select committees and appoint
all employees. They say too. that all OF
these selections would stand at least
until Edgar p. Bush, republican. be-
comes lieutenant governor to succeed
~ ~NC-AA- AAG uG&AAoGEdIS aunt kD9E the
republicans could then upset ali that
the democrats had dore with the ex-
ception Of the election OF secretary.
assistant secretary and cnief door
keeper OF the senate. These three po-
sitions. they say. are statutory offices.
provided for and authorized By the
statues. and that when once elected
by the senate they could not be GUST
ed except BY repeal OF the law which
creates the three offices. II would be
impossible for the republicans to re-
peal the law. because they viii have
only twenty-five votes in the senate
and IT takes twenty-six votes to pass
bill or make a new law.
So the democrats Insist that they
could control these three places and
thus control the organization. The
republicans do not admit that this is
true. and there the matter rests.
Before the conference yesterday
Bernard Korbly the democratic state
chairman. called on Will H Hays. the
republican state chairman. and propos-
ed to him that the republicans and
democrats split the senate offices and
Jobs and also the chairmanships Of
committee Korbly indicated that re-
fusal on the part OF the republicans
would mean war in the senate that
might prevent any legislation getting
through that body Hays told Korbley
/ he had no authority TO speak for the
republican senator's, but that he would
/ lay the proposition before them at the
/ conference which they will hold early
4 In December. Hays said the republi-
cans were in favor OF the enactment OF
beneficial legislation. and that they
had promised that kind of legislation
in the campaign. He said he was in
favor of anything that would help in
the passage OF beneficial legislation
Later the democratic senator's APP
pointed a committee consisting OF
Lieutenant Governor O'Neill. Senators
| Walter s. Chambers. Newcastle; d
Frank Culbertson. yincennes; James
r. Fleming, Portland: and Edward r.
Elsner. Seymour. to meet with CON
mittee OF republican senators. If one
is appointed. and agree on a division
Of the senate plumber. Whether the
republicans Will agree to this plan re
mains to be seen.
1t was expected that the democratic
senators would discuss legislation. but
they did not Prohibition, woman suf-