Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-02 | Page 1 | Session Will Expire Today

Montana Legislature Remains Hard and Fast in Deadlock on Senaiorshin. AGREEMENT POSSIBLE IN CLOSING MOMENTS Dark Horse Certain of the Toga if the Democrats Can Get Together. HELENA. Itloul.. March 1. Unless the deadlock is broken tomorrow, Mon- IH tana will he but half represented in J the federal senate for the next two IH years. Tomorrow uiht at midnight the session expires by limitation, and al-though al-though Democratic leaders arc hope- J ful that an agreement may ho reached J which will result in the selection of a compromise candidate, there is nothing J on the surface to indicate au important H break in the aliamcut of the forces of side. Five ballots taken today were devoid of significance. So fast did the dead- J lock appear that Senator McCarthy, the J Democratic floor leader, after the third ballot, moved the dissolution of the joint as?.embly. Senator Uallwey pro-tested, pro-tested, saying that the Democrats liad jH agreed to take five ballots today and to H ballot tomorrow from noon until final jH adjournment. "There 13 no reason why this solemn pledge should bo violated," he rle-clarcd. rle-clarcd. "and 1 want to say that if tho agreement is violated torhrv thpvo is not in lie 1 1 chance of it being; effectho hereafter." H Voted Against His Own Motion. Gallwey's speech alarmed the Demo cratic leaders and they decided to op-pose op-pose the MeCarthv motion to dissolve. Division was calfcd for aud the mo-tion mo-tion was defeated by a strict party vote, Senator MeCarthv himself vot-inp vot-inp against his own motion. The initial ballots today showed jH some gain on the part of Conrad. Rep- IH rcsentativc Word, who has been in the scattering - column for many ballots, voted for Conrad ' for tho first tune, supporting him on the last four ballots. Representative Martin, who has voted for Walsh on overy previous ballot, voted five times for Conrad today. Brady of Park, who has also supported Walsh with much consistency, voted for Conrad. On the second, third and fourth ballots of tho day Conrad regis-tercd regis-tercd twenty-eight votes, the highest HH point he has reached during the ses- BH sion. On the last ballot of tho day, BBB however, there were indications of tho IBBb dissolution of the Conrad strength. Rep-resentative Rep-resentative Dobcll of Silver Bow. who B has voted for Conrad on practically IBBf eveo ballot, voted for T.M. Swindle- IBBa hurst, while Representative Law of BBB Gallatin, also a strong Conrad man, BB voted for Judge J. E. Erickson of Kal Walsh Man Serves Notice. BB Biunard of Silver "Bow, in explaining BMV his vote, virtually served notice on the Conrad faction that Walsh, whoso elec- jH tion the speaker admitted to bo an BBa impossibility, would continue to receive IBB votes as long as Conrad was in the BB race. After a stirring get-together BBf speech, in which he advised the oluniua-tion oluniua-tion of the two leadiug candidates, Bin-nard Bin-nard voted for Walsh. Tho last ballot, today, the fifty-sec-oud of the session, resulted: Democrats W. G. Conrad, 2(5; T. J. Walsh, 20: T. M. Swindlehurst, 2; C. BB B. Kolau, 1; W. T. Piggott, 1; S. V. BH Stewart, 1; J. E. Erickson, ; paired, 1. IBB Republicans T. H. Carter, 44; W. R, BB Allen, 1; W. E. Meyer, 1; E. C. Web- H ster, .1; paired 1. IBH Necessary to elect, 50. BH