Show MAY SOON GO OVER TO SWEET Populists Nearly Ready to Decide De-cide the Senatorial Question SUCH IS THE RUMOR I BOISE STRONGLY DEJflED HOWEVER BY THE LEADERS Slionp Most Still Confident of TJltl mate 8Dll to Consolidate Logan and Alturns Counties Being Vigorously Opposed Blerboirer MnlvCH Some Very Strong Charges I Republicans Sidetrack a Silver lICmorlnl I Special to The Herald Boise Ida Feb 15Todays ballot for United States senator the thirty fifth resulted In no change Shoup 19 I Sweet IS Claggett 15 paired Cozier and Thomas There is a persistent rumor on the streets tonight that the Populists are going to Sweet in a day or so but it i emphatically denied by the Populist leaders They do not deny however that Sweet men are making efforts to secure Populist support Shoup men I are more confident than ever of victory vic-tory I The fight over the bill to consolidate Logan and Alturas counties into one county to be known as Blalne was opened in the senate today by Bier bower who spoke against the bill and in behalf of Logan He styled i an attempt at-tempt to saddle a bankrupt county onto one whose finances were in splendid splen-did condition The trouble with Altu ras county he said was that the old regime before the division In 1889 was a pack of thieves Some of that element ele-ment now that they have ruined Al turas wanted to feed at the crib of Logan In the house the bill authorizing a bond issue of 25000 for a reform school at Mountain Home went through the committee of the whole The committee then took up Gambles bill making liens of farm laborers preferred pre-ferred claims Several Republicans assaulted as-saulted the bill vigorously on the ground that it was unconstitutional and also that If it became a law the farmers would be unable to mortgage their crops After a spirited debate the passage of the bill was recommended sixteen Republicans voted against it while nine Republicans nine Populists and the lone Democrat Davis of Oneida voted for it The Republicans sidetracked the Populist silver memorial to Congress passed by the senate |