Show or LIVELY i I ILL TIMES EXPECTED 4 t Colorado Legislature Will Elect E ct a Senator This Week Weak and an anIt It lt Seems ee s Lively iely That Mr Retain j 1 t r M His H IS Toga T oga 1 4 ENVER Colo Jan 18 Interest Inter t fn In Inthe DENVER D the senatorial senat fight in Colorado ce in ih the report of the house h u e I elections committee which h has been in investigating Investigating Investigating the contests cont ts filed flIed against the seating of seventeen Democratic members of the house The matter has been In the hands of the committee for lor several days and while positive ve evidence has been gathered g that frauds were committed in several precincts of Arapahoe county the large majorities claimed by the Democrats ranging from 2000 to it is believed will willbe willbe be hard to overcome in every instance e eThe The report will m be made ma e to the house tomorrow Chairman Breckenridge a because of his known fairness 11 members and the Demo Democrats Democrats Democrats because of his known fairness in an interview stated that he be believed believed there would be two reports a majority report by the Republicans who control the committee and one by the minority members He said that he thought that both sides Ides w would stand together but he lie did not want the in ln zI ference drawn that the entire seven seventeen seventeen teen Democrats would be b ousted It Itis is the general opinion that tho c Demo Democrats Democrats whose majorities reached close to the maximum given above will be al at allowed allowed lowed to retain their seats but that the others will be thrown out It is also believed that the unseating of the entire seventeen which the demand will give gle them the balance of power po er in the house But should this thisbe thisbe thisbe be done and the threat of the th Demo Democrats Democrats Democrats who control the senate to unseat every Republican senator be carried out the result would likely he be a dead for the senate then unanimously Democratic D would refuse to enter a joint session So that whatever the re report report report port of the committee may be there will be sufficient opposition to make tomorrows session an interesting one On Tuesday the legislature meets neets in joint session to ballot for a successor to States Senator Henry M Teller The equal division of the Republicans for and against E O 0 Wol Vol Wolcott cott remains intact with no apparent hope of a change between now and Tuesday |