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Show MIX-UP IN PANAMA. I The national assembly of the republic of Panama is run pretty much the same j way as political conventions in the J United States. That is to say, an alter- j nate is elected for each assemblyman. , Recently this system of legislating for the people who abide on the narrow strip of laud running across the isthmus was given a severe shaking up. At the recent election the government party succeeded in electing nineteen of the thirty-three deputies and the opposition fourteen, and it seemed to the casual observer that the minority would be unable un-able to accomplish anything iu the way of gaining control of t lie assembly. They succeeded, however, in electing the presiding officer, aud the tangle that resulted v. ill be threshed out in the supreme court of Panama. The coup ' j was effected by a process sometimes I used in this country, but which is not patented. Three of tho government party alternates were secretly in sympathy sym-pathy with the opposition., and it was accessary to keep the three deputies away from tho assembly nnd ote the alternates in their places. This was accomplished ac-complished by getting two of the deputies depu-ties drunk and by having the attorney of another spirit him away upon the ' plea that it was neeesnry to make i out and record cert a i n papers in the ' matter of the title to an estate before j j the close of business that day, a trip! to the countrv to view the rotate being 1 part of the scheme. It rked like a j charm, a ad th" opposition succeed .! in electing the pre-dding officer of the 1 a.-sombly. Now there is. some fear that! the United Status government may jn- trvene, and the tension is said to be i ,t. I The trick turned by the lawyer calls to mind the story of how the late Guv- j ernor "Rob' Smith of Montana was once induced to take a trip into the wild? of Idaho to examine certain mining min-ing property while the lieutenant governor gov-ernor appointed a United States n- ator to tin a vacancy. l ov ernor a'-peunted another man after he emerged I fr.nn the tall timber and reached the Montana capita!, but the Unite ! states j enate refused to seat either of the contestants, con-testants, and the state s-Tubhvl alon with only one member of th upper chamber of congress for two ears. We j ha e not the remotest hba how tlw tn;L'g'e in Panama will terminate, but ' it ouht to be easy for the majority to ! jnntr d if the deput jes :i r. be induced to fceep t-ober nnd ntTm d the -sessions of th assembly. It is com pa rat i vHy ra -y to . ha ul' presiding officer:-. At the time "Uncle doe'' ( anuon'ff wir.ys were dipped in the house nf represen t.t t i ves he would ' have ben deponed from the r-penkrr.-hip had the I'emocrats and bolting K. publicans pub-licans w ho assisted them be. n i ilium to adopt the motion of Purle-nn of Texas, nnw post mast ri i;rnTa !. A n-other n-other c.?se in which the change actually was made occurred in the senate. l!av- j ard of Delaware had been elected pres- 1 ident pro tempore. One ote nn, nee- I essary to np't the nr.t u i n t ion. It was furnished by I 'avid La is of Illinois, Illi-nois, who had he,ln elect, ed riM-r the regular Republican candidate hy nuo-crati'- votes. The dav following the selection of Mr. P.aynrd, if our memory mem-ory sen es us correct ly, the K'epu Id lean le-an in the senal nominated Judeo bfivts for president pro tempore, and he secured the place by vot ing for htni-eelf. htni-eelf. We ef no gooil reason uhv the Panama statesman who ."rcin-ed the speaker's gnvd in the ae'iiblv cannot can-not t'O t unP'd nut of his office P n majority vote. |