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Show 111 RACE FOH U. S. SEtlATE Colorado Deadlock May Continue to Session's apse at Midnight SPEER AND ADAMS BOTH STILL STUTZCIIN Failure to Elect Will Leave ' State With but Cne t Senator, i ... - 1 1 I H I I I Ht III IIIIHMHII' '. 4 DENVER. Mar . But on 4 ballot waa- taken for .United 4 States senator at .the aooa joint 4 4 aeasioa of tha Colorado legis- 4 lature. Thi w unprodurtiva 4 of result, and tha joint aeaeion 4. 4 took a rare until 8 p. ra. Tha 4 4 ballot follow: - '4 Democrat fepeer 33 j Ward, 4 4 33. .' .' ... -4 Beptihlican Waterman, 2; 4 4 Vaila. 6. 4 4 Necctaary, 81. 4 : Sneer gained the- votei of 4 Tovev, elattery. Durfea and 4 4 McKeniie. 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 h 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 DEXm, May 4-tl Joint legl. latlT auarUic commltta this morning decided that but on ballot would be , the Joint see si on Beets at noon. , Adjournment will then be tskaa , antll o'clock this srvenlng. when the , real fight will begin. -. ' Thst ths fight to elect a saeeesaor to. . thi late Vnited States Ssnstor Chsrles i J. Hughes, Jr., will be wsged unreaa-i unreaa-i ingly to midnight, the hour for the ' final adjouramsnt of ths legislature, with a probability that the deadlock . of the lsst ISO days will be found un-i un-i broken at the finish, ars the indications 1 for (hs lsst dsy of the eighteenth gen- , ersl assembly. ; r airfare of Canene, ' ' Effort to bring the Detnocrstie r a-, a-, jor'ty af the Ir.iaUtnre to sn " , ment en the senstoralnp lsat- n -t , proved unavailing. A eaurus r 1 by the chairman 'mf the lAtiuorra. c joist conference committee waa at-traded at-traded by thirty-six of, the aixtv aix tvraorrsts In ths aaaerahlv. Of these, thirty-three voted for Mavnr Rupert W. Aieer of Denver, the biber three scattering their votes. Another caucus cau-cus called for. the supporters of former for-mer Governor Adsms of Pueblo, sdmit-tadly sdmit-tadly for the purpose Af preventing the atte'udasce of a legislative max-r-ity, fifty-one at the regular caucus, was attended by twentr-eitrht Democrats, Demo-crats, two Democratic le'giaiators hold log aloof from both caucuses. The Adsms forces signified their willingness to enter into caucus with " ths regulars providing Mayor Spear withdrew as a candidate. Thia was refused. Later each caucus appointed a conference committee of five, which met without reaching any understanding, understand-ing, bbnrtly after midnight both caucuses cau-cuses adjourned with the only devel- , opment the acquiaitioa of four new . votes by Speer, whose streogth heretofore here-tofore haa been twenty-nine. On the. eve of the final struggle thirty-three Demoerata stand oa the platform of . "Hpeer er aobody" aad twenty-eight declare "Nobody rather than 8peer.";! Lader existing conditions either -fee-' tion is strong enough to prevent aa, election. , Republicans Keep Oat, The thirty four Republican member of tbs legislature, with whom reata the balance of power, aavf eoaeiitently refused to give aid -of any kind to -either of the Democratic factions In , the senatorial son test, and it is thought unlikely that tkev will ehange their ; attitude at the eleventh hour. The committees from the 6 pear aad Adams camps failed to "get together" . this morning, aad aa a eoaerquence the joint aeasioa will meet wits the senatorial fight ia the same condition aa heretofore. Rumors wsre thick this morning that a tacit nnderstaading had been reached between the Republicans Repub-licans and the antt-8peer Democrats to force sine dine adjournment some time between S o'clock this evening and midnight, nalees in the meantime the totally .unexpected occurs aad some nil acceptable ia the anti-Speer Democrats Demo-crats looms up as a senatorial possibility. |