The party of Senator Hanway still had control of the committees and generally of the Senate organization; but that election had sent to be the Senate's presiding officer a Vice-President who belonged with the opposition.

On a tie, Senator Hanway's party would find defeat by the vote of that new Vice-President.
It was then the pouter-pigeon chieftain moved that the Senate organization be given over to him and his fellows.

The motion would seem to settle it.

The vote on the floor would be equal, and the sagacious pouter-pigeon reckoned on the new Vice-President to decide for him and his.

The party colleagues of Senator Hanway, many of them four terms old in Senate mysteries, were eaten of despair; they saw no gateway of escape.