Show BEASTS SICK BOOM the fate 0 the force and bill oa the senators rss life BOSTON jan 28 the post yesterday eaid the fate of the force bill may turn upon the aliffi oe senator hearst the brave california democrat who is with death at his home in this city the senator was a little bet to day alian he has been of late but it is only a question of time when ha roes and the most sanquine san quine of atie physicians around hie bedside carcell car cely hope to see him survive a week the california legislature is republican about SO and it will chose a re publican benator for efto years the re oi senator term with seyen republican senators voting against the force bill the republicans vill have a majority without the aid of the vice president it the republican opposition to death of senator hearst donld not change the result of the voto so lony as his buc ceasor had not appeared at the i bar of tho senate the majority against the force bill would be one vote instead of two the vice president may vote lo 10 break the tie but not to create one so anai the bill would be if however a republican successor to senator hearse should come here to vote for the force bill eight Republican senators in opposition would not be sufficient to defeat it for alie vice president would give a casting vote in its favor the revised statues provide that that a vacancy in the senate from ny state during the ees sension of legislature shall be acted upon on second tuesday after the lebis i lature lias organized and lias notice of auch vacancy if senator hearst can survive over churs chiy the legislature cannot proceed to choose hia assor uncil february 10 and the man chosen cannot be here before alie ur oth in case of a prolonged contest in the legislature the date of a final might be thrown past time when a vote for the force bill would be of any uie ui e if alie democrats in either house of the legislature were stronger s than they are they dejay an election by breaking alie quorum and the battle over the the force bill may be transferred from alie potomac to the distant capital in the Sac valey all that they siope to accomplish however in view of their small numbers is 10 offer terms to one af the republican factions kiich will contend cin tend for the they might in this vay secure a republican senator who would vote aa senator hearst would do and ag senator stanford tha present republican senator proposes to do it is quite possible that even without tho intervention of the democratic members of the a republican will be chosen who will vote vuth senator Stanford but there is enough uncertainty in the situation to make the death chamber of the popular californian an object of all ayea and thoughts death comes or the fourth of alach puts an end to the fifty first congress |