The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1916-12-29
CAUCUS SLATED
| FOR TOMORROW
NAY Be TWINS
Possibility That Republican as
Well as Non-Partisan Pow.
4 Wow Will Be Held
FRAZIER AND .KRAABEL
ARE RECENT ARRIVALS
Governor and Lieutenant Govern
or on Job for Session Hotels
Filling Up


Filling Up
Saturday will be day OF caucuses.
The big three-ring show will be the
Non-partisan league conference.
There will be at least one interest
ing side.show, staged by Republican
standpat and holdover members OF
the senate. 1t is possible that one
or two other attractions will be- Of
fered.
The leagues big talk-talk tomorrow
will be on the constitutional conven-
tion, how, when, where and why to
hold it. That there will be con-
stitutional convention there is no
question. Prominent statesmen free
lY admit its necessity, even though 1t
is apparent that the news leaked out
a trifle earlier than was anticipated.
A complete legislative, program will
be mapped out tomorrow by the
league. Final sanction will be given
the election of Howard f.. Wood OF
Deering to the speakership, and his
committee appointments and those OF
Lieutenant Governor A. T. Kraabel
will be given the once over. Wood
is understood to have his chairmen
picked. subject to approval at the
caucus tomorrow. Committee news
no doubt will be announced tomorrow
evening" #
Some insurgency
Some insurgency in the senate
seems certain. While the league
claims small majority in this body,
there is serious question as to tho
disposition Of even certain league
members to stay put. T. OF the % cen.
ators elected last November, 1S are
committed to the league and seven
are Independent of any allegiance.
OF the "a holdovers, all but two are
Republicans, making the Independent
Republican membership of the SEN
ate, including the seven elected this
year, 20, giving the free-lances ma
jority of five, If all herd together.
The league, however, claims at least
seven of the holdovers, in which event
the league would have a majority OF
three in the senate.
It is understood that a Republican
caucus will be held tomorrow, when
the question to be determined will be
whether the control of the senate is
to pass from Republican hands, where
it has reposed since the beginning of
time. One interesting result of this
caucus should be to reveal the actual
lineup in the senate, and to show
just where the leagues strength will
lie with the holdovers, many Of whom
have been careful not to show their
hands since the general election.
r. May Interfere, ..,
This uncertainty as to the senate
may Interfere to some extent with
the leagues plans for constitutional
convention. II the senate can be or
ganized safely there is no question
that a constitutional convention, COM
posed of legislators, would be the log
ical thing for the league. With "a
holdover senators who do not owe
their election to the league, and with
seven others who we're elected in
spite of the league, there is, however,
a possibility of complications.
Governor On the Job.
Governor Frazier, the man of 81
lence," is on the job today, dropping
a priceless word here and there. but
in no conversation yet on record vol
unteering more than a dozen sylla-
bles. The governor arrived with his
family late last night, on No. I, and
has quarters temporarily at the Nc
Kenzie, pending the provisioning of
the executive mansion.
kraabeI is Here.
A. T. Kraabel of Clifford arrived
last night to take up for, the second
time the burdens of lieutenant-gover-
nor. Kraabel is one of the real vet
erans of the present assembly, this
being his fifth session. The lieuten-
ant-governor has nothing as yet to say
on the subject of appointments. He
has even less to say as to possible
legislation Even the impending con-
stitutional convention was news to
him, his first inkling of the plan COM
ing from a newspaper report which
he read enroute to Bismarck.
Hotels Filling Up.
All of the hotels are fast filling up.
Lleutena0C-IOVcTQOT hTddDel mas Is
tablished headquarters at the Grand
Pacific, where Judges Robinson and
Grace of the supreme court and a
number of legislators are located.
President C. A. Townley and other
league leaders are established at the
Mckenzie. pending the opening of the
Northwest. Many of the prominent
members of the general assembly are
uuartered at the Van Horn, and 9TH
ers have taken rooms for the session
at the Annex S. A. Olsness. commits
sioner of insurance. is at the Grand
Pacific, and John N. Hagan. commits
sioner of agriculture and labor, is at
the Mckenzie.
"The carrying out of the wishes of
the people of North Dakota as plainly
expressed in the primary and in the
general election is to be the program
of the new state government"
So declared Lynn ]. Frazier Of Hoo
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