Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-19
THE DEADLOCK BROKEN.

THE DEADLOCK BROKEN. MT. KIeiner Elected President of
 the Hoard of Councilmen-Finy-
 Seven Ballots Taken Before the
 Result Is Reached-The Board Take A Midnight Lunch And Sit Until Three o'clock.
 The second meeting of the Board of Coun- cil men for the purpose of effecting an organi- zation was held last evening in the Council chamber.
 At S:O5 o'clock Councilman Stevens, presi- dent pro tenn, called the Council to order. Clerk Willett called the rolpand all the mem | bers answered to their names. After the reading of the min utes President Stevens said the first business in order was the election of president of the Board. He said that the tellers who served so faithfully ct tue last meeting had asked to be excused from ser wing this evening and he thought 1t no more than right that they should be so excused. He then appointed Couheilmen Palmer and Knoth as telers for the evening.
 The first ballo. for president was then or dered. 1t resulted as follows
 Whole number of votes s.....ttttt.,.,,,,t,.,t4 90 | Rire Wlheell iis
 
 There being no choice second ballot was ordered, resulting tf for Wlnehell, IS for Kleiner md 1 blank.
 When the ballot was announced Council man kleIner arose and claimed that under parliamentary law he was elected on the last ballot and he therefore claimed the election, aa there had been one blank ballot east which should not counted
 Councilman Barnes said he saw iio reason why the elaiin was not a valid oiie.
 President Stevens said at the last meeting thefs were blai4 ballots east and h6thihe WIS said about It:
 AiF EielHeF said that Iii that ease iii6fe than 6He blank ballot WIS east. He desired te saY iH this e6hteetl6H that whatever the deaisi8R 6f the chair might Be he should nest certainly claim ah election;
 The president FHed that there was it6 choice 6A the last ballet and ordered the Bal letting "a proceed;
 MT, iSleiner asked that the clerk enter his protest en the minutes against any further haliating and It was sa ordered,
 The hailating then proceeded, the third ballot resulting as follows;
 Whole number of votes ...,.....-..........: 86 Necessary tn choice l9 J. Rice Wmchell ls Charles kleiner. .,,--,,,..-.:--.-.-'ls
 On the fourth ballot 37 votes were cast, there being 10 for Winchell and IS for Klein er This was one more vote than there were Councilmen.
 The fifth ballot resulted in IS for Winchell and IS for Kleiner.
 The balloting continued with no change in the result up to the twenty-fourth ballot, when Councilman Warren moved that re cess of ten minutes be taken. The motion was lost by a tie vote, and at 9:3o the ballot ing proceeded.
 There was no further Interruption until the forty-fourth ballot was reached, when Coun- cilman Vischer asked permission to pair with his colleague, Councilman Donahue. No ob lection was made, and these two gentlemen retired from the contest and went home.
 The result of the forty-fourth ballot was IF for Winchell and r for Kleiner. The balloting continued until the fftieth was reached without any change.
 At this poinit, it being LAO o'clock, Councilman Asher moved that recess be taken for one half hour. The motion pre- vailed without opposition.
 Councilman Beers invited the Councilmen with the clerk and reporters to repair to the ante room where he had caused @ lunch to be prepared for all. The announcement was received with applause.
 During the recess a conference committee of Republicans and three Democrats were appointed to what could be done in the matter. The Republicans were represented nett, and the Democrats by Sullivan, Brennan and Asher. A conference was held between the two com mittees, during which the Repub- licans offered the Democrats two offices, and they to take two, the Democrats to have their choice of which offices. This proposition the Democrats promptly re- fused. The ffty-frst ballot was then taken with the following result:
 Winchell 16, Kleiner 16 Fifty-second ballot-Winchell 16, Kleiner 16.
 Fifty-third ballot-Winchell 16, Kleiner IF, one man voting twice on this ballot.
 Fifty-fourth ballot - Winchell 15, hHaer balos wa,eAe 1, Barnes i4 kleiadf p'y-fh ha Barnes 2. Fifty-sixth ballot-Winchen fl, Keiner 16, Chillingworth 2. Fifty-seventh ballot-Winchen IA, Kleiner 16, Barnes 1; necessary to choice sixteen, one man not voting.
 Acting Chairman Stevens then state' that MT. Kleiner had been elected and he was es- corted to the chair by Counoilmen Barnes and Winchell.
 Mr. Stevens then said it was the custom to pass a resolution declaring him elected. At this point Mr. Kleiner arose and said that to pass such a reso- lution would be out of order, ballot was conclusive similar having been tried in the Supreme court where it was decided that the ballot was conclusive and anything after that was out of order.
 Councilman Barnes then moved that they proceed to ballot for an assistant city clerk, and Councilman Pohlman nominated 1heo- dore H. Mcdonald and Councilman Schorer nominated Seymour c. Loomis.
 First ballot-McDonald Is, Loonis 16 Three more ballots were taken with the same result, when motion for adjournment was made, and the Board adjourned at 3 o'clock until next Monday night, when the fight will cont;nue.
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