| Show ijUAY MAY BE SEATED Republican Senators Are Anxious For Him to Return A t I PRECEDENT TO THE WIND F t SHOW THEN FOR UTAH CALIFORNIA = CALI-FORNIA AIm DELAWARE Open Secret In Washington That if Opportunity is Offered Governor Wells Will Make George Q Cannon Can-non a United States Senator Other Contests to Be Disposed Of 4 I I Special Correspondence Washington D C Sept The three contested election cases which will probably prob-ably come before the senate this winter all present unique problems for solution The most interesting of the three is Senator Sen-ator Quays attempt to secure a seat by reason of his appolntmonj by the governor 1 i gov-ernor of Pennsylvania This Is important I for several reasons not the least of which is the great Keystone boss desire for d 3 Sbftrt 0esIf i vindication and rehabilitation ia his part The Pennsylvania contest however involves in-volves three other statesUtah California Cali-fornia and Delaware The governor of California has already nominated a proVisional pro-Visional senator who will be sworn In I immediately if the senate acts favorably upon the Quay case The governors ofT I of-T tah and Delaware have thus far made no selections but it is an open secret I that Governor Wells of Utah will name cxDolegato George Q Cannon This I selection would probably invite another Roberts content in the n tU1nnl i Is no doubt that he would be heated The I senate Is much more conservative than I the house and It not at all likely to be i influenced by petitions or resolutions or otherclamOr It is therefore safe to say that if Quay Is seated George Q Cannon will be a senator succeeding to the scat tihgl occupied I oy his own son in the higher branch of > ihe national legislative body from te popular branch of which he was hlmelf ejected by alroos unanimous s vote voteWill Quay be seated Probably It Is certain that the Republican leaders in the senate are all very anxious to see 11ine meghQi1g him again with them The Quay sm are all serenely confident that he will be successful Senators Boles Penrose and Congressman James Rankin Young of Pennsylvania both ardent Quay men are In the city l they look lahln victory as certain Senator Penrose says he Is confident of the result from his knowledge knowl-edge of the views of senators and this t notwithstanding the precedents which are J i against gubernatorial appointees I Success Is Assured In fact Quays case Is likely to be made a partisan one and if that is so his success suc-cess is assured by reason of the great preponderance pre-ponderance of Republicans In the new senate There has recently been a Republican Re-publican state convention in Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania which endorsed the senator In unmistakable un-mistakable terms and urged his seating bj the senate This convention demonstrated demon-strated that Senator Quay has still the complete mastery of the Republican I organization in Pennsylvania Tne delegates dele-gates to the convention were elected by his supporters The slate wnich he selected select-ed was confirmed by the convention He was himself a delegate elected from his own county This fact will be cited to the senate to prove that Senator Quay is the choice I of the Republicans his state and that they demand that he shall be seated upon I the appointment of the governor Another I point favoring his being seated Is his icccnt alliance with the administration Senators friendly to the administration will be needed in the senate at the outset out-set Senator Quays Pennsylvania convention con-vention unqualifiedly endorsed both himself him-self and the administration thus Identifying identi-fyIng him for the first time with the strong supporters of the president This will of course have an Important bearing upon the result in his case as the new senate is certain to be particularly subservient sub-servient to the administration Clark Is a Quay Man It Is interesting to note that among the otes counted in the Quay column by his best figurers is that of William A Clark of Montana Thelatters own seat is in dispute and as the Montana case is not at all likely 1 to considered until long after the u t itofn seating the gubernatorial senators is disposed of It I will be clearly seen that JUr Clark Knows on which side his bread is buttered It Is a curious fact however that at the time of the Mantle contest which established the present precedent Mr Clark was here and Was among those who felt that gubernatorial appoIptees shpUld not be seated In cases where legislatures had opportunity to elect The Clark contest will be the first one in many years in which charges of bribery brib-ery will be cpnsidered It was just twenty years ago this winter that the last bribery case investigated by the senate 3t was the case of John J In galls of Kansas afterward celebrated for the vitriolic vindictiveness of his speech A memorial signed by some thirty odd members mem-bers of the Kansas legislature charging Mr Ingalls and his agents with acts of bribery and corruption were presented to the United States senate It set forth that the investigation before the Kansas committee I com-mittee was partial and Incomplete among other things because of repeated and corrupt efforts on the part of the agents of Mr Ingalls to intimidate and subborn Important witnesses I One of the members of that legislature signed a written confession that Mr In galls had agreed to pay him money for his vote and that the said Ingalls referred i him to a friend wh was assisting in the conduct of his canvass who paid him fr uoci part of the money This witness afterwards I after-wards swore to a different story denying the interview but admitting that he got the money and averring that he was drunk when he signed the statement Ingalls Bribery base The finding of the United States senate committee was jet more conclusive It was as follows Resolved that the testimony taken by the committee proves that bribary and other corrupt means were employed by the persons favoring rh eel r gyg nrg s1it ri the election of the Hon John J Ingaiib to the senate to obtain for him the votes of members of the legislature of Kansas in the senatorial election In that state But it is not proved by the testimony that enough votes were secured by such means to determine the result of the election elec-tion in his favor Nor la it shown that Senator Ingalls aqthorlzed the acts of bribery to secure his election And the lean Jayhawker held His job The third contest to come before the senate is that of McGraw against Scott from West VJrgfnia This case has been heretofore discussed in this correspondence correspond-ence The principal points at issbe are the qualifications of two Republican state senators and what number constitutes consti-tutes a majority of the legislature in joint convention It is really a very simple case The West Virginia constitution consti-tution made two men Ineligible to seats in the state senate Nevertheless they I sat and their votes elected Scott It Js more than an even guess that the senate will not pay the slightest attention to the I merits of the case but retain Scott in hIs seat There is a vvayrRepublican senators have of disposin of Democratic contestants contest-ants iSJ = I a Selecting Census Supervisors I The work of selecting the census supervIsors super-visors in the various states is completed and Director WillianrR Merriam is now turning his attention to divers other matters I mat-ters in his bureau Theselection of the enumerators conies nextand this is highly high-ly important The offidals of the bureau Ilay 1 great stress upon the fact that there flly ltg I Is no politics In the bureau although asa as-a matter of fact every appointment to a superviborsnip rv made bears the impression im-pression of a partisanship of the most extreme kind and itis presumable that the selection of enumerators will be governed gov-erned by similar considerations There are in all 50000 agf theSe otter to be appointed ap-pointed Director Merriam says to your correspondent 4 The selection ot these enumerators is a great undertaking We are trying strenuously to prepare tor a complete and perfect census The burden of the work of gathering the materials for it however how-ever will tall on the enumerators In any line of private bifsinesSjpreliminary I r f ers training or apprenticeship is required or those who are engaged to conduct its details de-tails says the director Lawyers and i doctors study before they practice their professions and machinics are required to serve a thorough apprenticeship before I they receive journeymens work or wages So In my view those who desire to be appointed census enumerators rest u d take up the study of census laws schedules and statistics thus familiarizing familiariz-ing themselves hea far as possible with the details of the work In this I way they will be prepared on the first of June next like a great and welldrilled army to begin their labors understandingly and harmoniously from ocean to ocean without with-out requiring day after day any further orders or instructions While I shall not undertake to appoint l ft ltakO UltrJ point enumerators without consulting with the proper census supervisor In order to learn the experience and qualifications I qualifi-cations of applicants I would like to suggest sug-gest that all r candidates take the c rgi have indicated and thus help ensure at the threshold of the twentieth century the most perfect census in the history of the republic |
