| Show NO GllANE IS GHl1E 0 YET IN SIHT Shoup Sweet and Clagett Men Are Still Standing Fin POPULISTS ARE LOOKED TO Can Change the Position at Any rioment Prevalent Opinion is That Slionps Election is Only n Matter of Time Sweets Friends Claim That He las I 3IoKfgnse on the Populists and That They Will Soon Go to Him Both Houses Adjourn Till Saturday on Account of Wash ingtons Uirtlnlny Special to The Herald Boise Ida Feb 21No change in the vote for senator Shoup 10 Sweet 18 Claggett 15 Senators Parkinson and Golden were paired The contest has practically resolved re-solved itself into a question as to whether Sweet can secure sufficient Populist strength to elect him If he can not do this in a very short time Shoup will draw enough from Sweets forces to elect him Sweet is holding his 19 together with promises he can corral the Populists but it seems certain the Populists will stand pat If they should break the unit rule it is believed Shoup will get 10 out of the 15 Sweet men circulated a story today to the effect that Shoup had offered to throw his strength to I Chief Justice Huston and that the caucus of Shoup men on Wednesday I night received the Chief Justices refusal I re-fusal with dismay and at once set about to select some other man to go The story is declared absolutely without with-out foundation by the Shoup men The Sweet men made another desperate effort ef-fort to gobble up the Populists today and much interest was felt in the Populist Pop-ulist caucus held tonight They did nothing however It is the prevalent opinion that Shoups election is only a matter of time although might not occur oc-cur until the last ballot In the House the memorial to Congress Con-gress for the election of United States senators by the direct vote of the people It peo-ple passed by a vote of 31 to 5 The bill to locate the agricultural college in Weiser was killed in the committee of the whole The house concurred in the report of the committee com-mittee by a vote of 31 to 1 I is more than likely that Moscow will win the fight although Idah Falls is malting a desperate effort I In the senate the bill to reduce the liquor license to 300 was defeated 10 I lquor 1cense to 6 toA A bill was introduced to create Elaine and Lincoln counties out of j Alturas and Logan the object being to I I compromise the bitter fight to consolidate consoli-date Alturas and Logan with the county seat at Haley the county seat of Elaine now Alturas is to be Halley and of Lincoln now Logan at Shoshone The change of the present boundary lines gives Little and Big Camas prairies now in Logan to Elaine Bellevue the present county seat of Logan will fight the new measure but I is believed it will pass Both houses adjourned over until Saturday on account of Washingtons birthday |
