The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-07-30

IA this stage cf the proceedings.
the Senate was announced, when, in
ompliarce with o joint resolution,
the two Houses proceeded to ballot
for Chief Justice OF the Supreme
i Court. q ~ "
Tomlinson nominated D. II Cor
bin, Senator from Charleston, and
\ United. States District Attorney !;
/ ECoghlan nominated Judge F. j.
4 Moses, Sr.; Hoyt nominated Colonel
A. j. Willard. late Chief of the Mill
tary Bureau of Civil Affairs under
the administration OF General Candy.
Tomlinson requested and obtained
leave to have read from the clerks
desk, section two, of article eight,
section one, of article fourteen, of
the Constitution Of the State, and
section three, of the constitutional
amendment, all of which indicated
indisputably that, if elected, Judge
Moses would be disqualified from
taking his seat. a
A motion was made that the OPT
Mon OF the Attorney General be
asked as to whether or not q man who
was disqualified by the constitutional
amendment and elected to Office
could take his seat.
This the Chair ruled out of order.
and the ballot proceeded, with the
following result, the Democrats cast
ing the scattering votes:
Whole number of votes cast 100:
necessary to choice &C; of which f.
J. Moses received So; D. T. Corbin
63; b. r. Dunkin 8; A. J. Willard 6;
James l.. Orr 8; D. l.. Wardlaw Q;
L. N. Dawkins /; A. p. Aldrich I.
No candidate having received
sufficient number of votes, it was de-
clared that there was no election, and
second bnllot was held, with the
following result:
F. j. Moses 62 votes; D. T. Cor
bin Sc; B. F. Dunkin 8; j. L. Orr
4; A. j. Willard Q; A. P. Aldrich 1.
The Chair announced that there
was no election, and third ballot
was taken, as follows:
Whole number of votes cast 1873;
necessary to choice CT; of which f.
j. Moses received 70; D. T. Corbin
49; A. J. Willard Q; j. l.. Orr 2: T.
N. Dawkins 9; Wade Hampton /:
Rev. Senator Burnt District Ran
dolph (negro) 1; Beverly Nash (ne-
gro) 1.
The vote for General Hampton
was cast by the radical Senator
Charles P. Leslie, from Barnwell,
who, discovering what the result was
before it was announced officially,
expressed his thorough disgust ut it,
and his conviction that universal
suffrage was dead, and begged leave
to change his vote, which he did
from Corbin to General Hampton.
The vote was greeted with Kisses
from the floor, and some applause
from the spectators, and, amidst
great confusion, the President an
nounced that Franklin j. Moses,
having received the requisite num-
Der OF votes, was duly elected Chief
Justice. This was followed by great
cheering from his friends.
The joint assembly then proceed
ed to ballot for two associate Justices.
Hayes nominated Lemuel Boozer;
Maxwell nominated A. J. Willard;
jerks nominated J. M. Rutland;
Webb nominated - Hoge, In-
spector- General of the Freedmen's
Bureau0 j. II. Ferriter nominated
Hon. John A. Inglis; G. P. Leslie
(radicaD said that the experience of
day proved conclusively to his mind
that universal suffrage was dead in
the State, and that taking his cue
from this fact, he would henceforth
vote only for men of we'll defined
principles. He, therefore, nomi-
mated Judge A. P. Aldrich, of Barn
well. (Hisses.) The vote resulted
as follows: Whole number of votes
cast 131; necessary to choice &c; of
which A. j. Willard received 40; j.
NJ. Rutland 20; Lemuel Boozer II;
J. A. Inglis II; Hoge 16; F. J. Moses,
Jr., 2; Judge A. p, Aldrich 2; G. P.
Leslie 1; Senator j. j. Wright (ne-
gro) 2; Maj. M. r. Delaney (negro)
I; Senator J. H. Rainey (negro) L;
Senator Daddy Cain (negro) /; John
Mnrissey, NJ. O., Of New York, /;
q. T. Leslie and j. E. Hayne, both
radicals. voted for Judge Aldrich.
Neither of the candidates having re-
ceived n sufficient number of votes,
1t was declared that there was no
election; whereupon, on motion, the
Joint assembly dispersed, to meet
again ut noon tomorrow, when the
balloting will be resumed.
The HOuSa Of Reprasantofivaot thor,