, 1874-03-26
No Choice Of a Successor to
Summers Vacant Chair.
Of tho Massachusetts Lcgis-
Iature i'll Joint Convention.
But One Ballot Taken---Little
Change the Result.
Dawes Gains {; otes and Hoar TIA
Chance : "a New Man..
Tho ninssncI 5 stts Senatorial Elcc-

Tho H1nssncI 5 stts Senatorial Eloc-
:: tihn.
snteial D'st = 10 11.s Chteaoo Tribune. -
BosroN, Marc = Never ainoe ts organiza-
tfon has thero Il such d breach in tho Ro-
publican party. ~ tho Legislature of Maean-
chuBotts as tho $3.50 now between tho partiuans
OF Mr. Dawos and those Of Mr.. Hoar. Tho
former had 87,votos III tho joint convention to-
day, and the lattor 81. There Is
NO HOPE OF AN AGREEMENT
which can secure tho election aithor of uoar or
Dawes, and no ono can yet anggost tho name Of
third candidate with any ohanco Of Huccoas,
The voting to-day showed conc1usivoty that there
WIS nohopo Of any accession to tho ranks either
OF Hoar, Dawes, or Curtis from either of tho
othors andtho few scattering votcs. if copcon-
tratea on either, would leave him thirty yotos
behind thonuulbor necessary for all election.
OF tho 900 Republicans In tho Legislature,
loss than third assembled for conference to-
might and thoy refused to allow my motion of
any sort to DO put. Mr. Phillips, Of Salon, made
q speech in dcnunoiation Of Federal Interference
with elections, and against Dawes, because 10
was Buffers candidate, Which mado the other
sllo very angry; and in tho caucuH, the fceing
on all siioB wns worry bitter. There will be no
change in tho voting tomorrow.
DAWES TO LEONARD.
It has boen aaid In those dispatches thut Afr.
Dawes preferred to be slan In opon fight. Tho
following IL Ills letter to Senator Edward H.
LEONARD, Of pittsheld
WASHINGTON, D. g., March 10, 1874.
Mr. DEAn LEoHAnp: I do not desire to give thu
altghtest dfrectiont but an content TINT you,
ar 'n bs to go hsvs haa
very strange letter, however, from--; and / fear
mst 1s tbG Eroan Of S1 s9po proposition msdo to
friend but btu leter cut to tho quick. Tho short
Of It nj this Eject Judge noar for Tho short term,
ny clect lin for the long term" fnasmich a. Jadgo
Hour don't want It, shall telegraph you tn ho orn-
truly, II. L. DAWES.
THE EXCITEMENT
over tho matter of tho Sonatorship increases,
and tho crowd at the state-HouHe to.day was
much larger than that yesterday, but tho floor Of
the -ouse was kept coar Of persons who had no
right to bo there. The galleries wero thronged,
aud u vast crowd waited anxiously in Doric Hall
for tho announcement Of the result OF
tho Convention. Nobody expected an
election, and tho interest WIS confined to tho
| question Of who would gain the moat When
| the two Houses camo together, Just before vot-
| ing begaR, o member Of the Lowor House
| ASKED TO he EXCUSED.
from voting, saying that ho had paired OF with
Dawes willie ho should vote for Mr. Hoar. It was
ut onco objected TINT, under tito law Of Congress,
| every mombor present must vote; and It was
out Of order to entertain motion to excuso q
member. But President Loring, of tho sonato,
IN tho chair, ruled that it was proper 70 enter
| tain tho motion, aud that tho Convention WAS
| competent to decitiu whethor member could bn
excused from voting. Tho dobato was hot aud
sharp for about twenty minutes. The Conveu-
tion sustained Bho ruling Of the Clair, but refus-
| cd to oxcuso tho member from voting. He made
Ills vote Of no account relatively by casting 1t for
Wendell Phillips.
| THE VOTE
| was tEon taken with the following result:
Whole NUMBER. .2u
Necessary to CHOICE
Da"es'' 65
c4r@s'''s.
Aha!ns ............. .......-.......-.....-... 10
nanks.
scnttetlhe...'
Dawes gained 0, Hoar 6, Adams j. Banks /,
Curtis l. Sanford lost II. There wero only one
or two exchanges between Dawes aud Hoar.
But oue ballot was Ind.
| THE CHANGES IN THE VOTE
arc shown in the following statement:
Dawos gained from Sanford, and 1 each from
| ex-Gov. Clifford, Joshua B. Smith, Judge DOWNS,
Charles Halo, Wcndell Phillips, and Charles
| Francis Adams.
Hoar gained 8 from Sanford 2 from Wash
burn,--viz., Joshua B. Smith and Speaker 6an-
| ford AND from Dawes.
Curtis gained from Hoar and from Adams.
4 Bauka gAinel z from Sanford.
Tho officers Of tito last nights abortive CAUCUS
called
r" A CONFERENCE
for tonight. Tho attendance was less than
before, not third Of the party being proaent
No yotes wore taken, tho Hoar men saving they
would not remain If motions Of any kind wore
put to yoto. Tho time WAS apont In making
bitter B,eeo|,oa, which will not tond to conca-
ton. The 'n,inions Of tho Federal Government
ani "sho tools Of Jayne's counsel aua sanborn's
champion" working for Dawos, were contemptu-
ouHly denounced Mr. Dawoa' friends, injudi-
cously adopting Bntlor's orlos, replied By railing
ut Blue blood " aud II Boston aristocracy."
Probably this is the end OF Republican caucubcs
for tho prosout. Among the
NEW NAMES MENTIONED
az poasible rcsort is that Of eS-(}oVornor Emo.
rv Washburn. nov Professor III the law school of
Harvard College, an able ind thoroughly honora-
bio man.
milwaukee, Caty Politics.
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