Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-16
THIRD EDITION.
SATURDAY EVENING. JULY 10. 1881.
AT LAST.
PLATT's SUCCESSOR CHOSEN.

An Obscure Congressman Elected-Ono
With . Bari and In the Lowest
Category OF Public Men,
ALBANY, July 16.-In the senatorial
convention to day Speaker Sharpe rose
and asked permission to make a statement,
to which there was no objection. He then
proceeded to detail the failure to secure
caucus at the start and referred to the one
called by majority Of the Republicans.
He acknowledge its authority as it eman
ated from majority. He had delayed
action in accordance with the esult Of
that caucus because he saw in the eleo-
ton Of the candidates it nominated great
danger. He now warned the convention
of that danger, saying the Democrats of
the United States Senate would do what
they could to make the election futile. He
concluded by saying that when his name
was called he would vote for Elbridge G..
Lapham instead of for Roscoe Conkling.
(Applause.1s
The vote was then proceeded with. Sen
ator Forster, when his name was called,
explained his action as a member of the
caucus committee. He concluded by vOt-
ing for VIM. NJ. Evarts.
Senator Holbert, when his name was
called, denounced the action Of Senator
Forster and said Speaker Sharpe had
made the greatest mistake of his life. He
concluded by voting for Roscoe Conkling.
Senator Strahan said he was not yet
ready to admit that he had been doing
wrong. He was ready to accept the will
of the people but it must come through
the regular medium.
The vote stood as follows: Potter AZ,
Lapham 8S, Conkling 80, Evarts neces-
sary to a choice 73. Senator Baker,
Speaker Sharpe and Assemblyman Sisson
were the only ones who changed from
Conkling to Lapham. The changes in the
Assembly vote indicate the election of
Warner Miller Oh the next ballot.
Mlller's Election.
The convention then proceeded to vote
on the long term vacancy with the follow
ing result Kernan AZ, Miller &c, Fish 9,
Chapman 2, Daniels 1, Adams 1, Starin 2,
Tenney /, Wheeler 4, Talcott 1, Bliss !.
Necessary to a choice, 73. The chair de-
clared Warner Miller elected to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation Of
Thos. G.. Platt. The convention then adj
journed.
Warner Miller, Of Herkimer, was born
in Oswego county, New York, August 12,
1888 graduated at Union college in 1850
commenced teaching in the Fort Edward
collegiate institute, but on the breaking out
of the war enlisted as private in the Fifth
New York cavalry served in the Shenan-
doah Valley; was promoted to be sergeant
major and lieutenant ; was taken prisoner
at the battle Of Winchester is now Ell.
gagged in the manufacture OF paper, and
farming was a delegate to the nationa
convention at Philadelphia in 1872 was
elected to the New York Legislature in
1874, and also in 1875 was elected to the
Forty sixth Congress-, and was reelected
to the Forty seventh Congress rs Repub
lican, receiving 19, 792 votes against IL, 9O(
votes for Dennis O'Brien. Democrat.
Mr.. Miller has always been Republi-
can and formerly acted with COnkling,
but split off from him some years ago and
has been active in the anti COnkling ranks.
In Congress he has taken no special rank
except in the defense of his own special in
terest, the wood pulp monopoly, and OF
his course in that matter the Tribune
itself said in al editorial of March II,
1880:
els it true or not that Mr.. Russell and Iii
fellow congressman Mr.. Warner Miller ut
tended the paper.makcrs' conventions OF
| August 1878 and 1879? Is it true or no
that at those meetings agreements wer'
adopted for stopping work and demanding
higher prices Is it true or not that meet
tings have since been held at the St
Nicholas hotel, in this city, and elsewhere
to regulate the price of woOd-pulp? Th
committee [0f ways and means then con
sidering the question of removing the dut!
on wOOd-pulp] might do we'll to interrO
gate the gentlemen named upon these
points"
The New York Ecening Post, an abl
Republican paper, about tho same tim
said of him He presented the disgrace
full spectacle OF member of Congress be
fore the committee of ways and means Ell
deavoring by speciOus argument
and false statements to further his owl
pecunjary interest,"" The Times, too
spoke Of him with similar severity IN
put him in "thc lowest category Of pub
lie men,
The causes which led to the election tt
day were partly the fear of DemOcrati
legislature being chosen if adjournment o.
Cured without an election, and are partl
traceable to the treachery of Sharpe I
Conkling. This, in turn, it is alleged,
due to the detection of Cornell and Arthu
from their chief, and there are rumol
that Blaine and Arthur have made a true
of which this result was one Of the cond
tiOns.
All sorts of rumors oftrades and cOrrul
combinations against COnkling arc afiOa
and the prospect is that great livelines
will come out Of this struggle. ACCORD
ing to Mr.. Conkling's theory the electio
of Miller reduces the slender Republica
majority in the House by one vote whic
cannot be replaced before the time of o.
ganizatiOn. INTELLIGENCER.1
Rioters Sentenced In Rome.
ROME: July 16.-Six men have be,
fined and imprisoned for disturbing Il
funeral procession of Pope Pi
Tx. en- Tuesday last. There W
great disorder at the trial OF tt
prisoners and the court was cleared twic
The sentences were received with stOr
of shouts and Kisses. Nearly three tho
sand people cheered the prisoners whe
coming out of court.
The Saratoga Races.
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