Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-01-24
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.


hank whclen Made Clerk OF the |
SDivorce Committee - TO Inquire |
UNTO the Ownership OF Kent Island
t-Other Legislation.
lIaff Correspondent OF Gazette and journal.
DoyxR, Jan. 10 Well, it Is Senator
Higgins now. Tho General Assembly, In
g1oint session, ut moon to-day, ooms
Spleted the proceedings which have placed
Ehs senatorial togA upon the Bholders Of
the triumphant Anthony.
TT has been won literally by the skin
Ia his teeth. Just how nearly George v.
MASSEY came TO being nominated on the
l9Drtieth caucus ballot will bear telling
again, He had received eight yotes-juAt
one short--on the 3sth ballot. That one
yots was about to be oast by Mr. Msull
when the hat was making it's 40th round.
nv. Maull had written his ballot and
held II In his hand ready to drop ii In
He turned to Mr.. Moore and said, In
Substance: ''This will make Massey the
nominee; will you vote for HIM" Mr..
Moore replied that he would not and left
The room, thereby knocking everything
Unto ri for the remaining 15 members
'Sild mot make majority of the two
houses and could mot elect any one with
Mr.. Moore present and voting for any
other man.
Mr.. Moore told me his aide of the story
JShis afternoon. II was near train time
Sand he talked hurriedly. give the insos-
lyiow In his own words: 'sThey have put
ali that did on the old man Smithers
He 10 psrfectly innocent. He diint
know what I was going 10 do, any more
than you did, nor how L was going to
treat the question OF oil. A few minutes
before went into the caucus l said TO
Mr.. Smithers and John Mowbray thas
would not vote for George Massey, aud
also said that left II entirely with Kent
county, with one OF their men. l was
willing 10 help them willingly with one
man. consider that ID their fault aud
NOV one else'a. / went TO Mssten AND
said II their eight men would 60 fol
)8mithers would make the ninth. They
were the men that defeated Smithers a.
well as Massey. / told Speaker HoffsckeI
In the caucus that they would lost
MASSEY and Smithers both and Anthon!
HiQpins would be the man and wouls
support Anthony Higgins but not Massey
Nhat Higgins was my second choice. No
lonly myself knows that, but our peopl
at home know IT,"
"One word moro, MIR. Moore. Why di
Won leave the caucus ?"
81 left to drive the choice to Higgins
was the terse reply.
\ The latest analysis shows that the
remaining members voted az follows o
the decisive 43d ballot: For Higgins
Downham, Wallace, Maull, Lingt
Sackett, sbort, Hynson, Masten and v
i. Dsvis-9; made up of six Sussex an
three Kent mepbers. For Massey.
Richardson, Hoffsoker, Il. A. Davi
CLARK, DIR. Richardson OF Kent, en
Morgan Of Sussex--8. questioned III
Morgan, who parted Undergraduates al
remained non-committai. He, howeva
was the last man to leave Treat, castir
one lone vote for his candidate on q
Goth ballot, when tho other Trent mt
went over into the Higgins camp. :.
Mr.. Wallace was tho secretary OF q
caucus and kept the official tally, Of viii,
the following Ia a transcript, with q
single substitution of figures for the SEQ
marks:
THE OFFICIAL SCORE.
r. A. Davis, chairman; u. e. Wallat
secretary. On motion that we Piled
ourselves TO stand by the caucus no
inee; lost, is TO 1. Proceeded TO ball
Tellers, Hoffeoker and Downham.