The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-01
The second ballot resulted:
Mr. Reed was declared 20 have received
the caucus nomination.
M'PHERsoN FoR CLERK.

Henderson .......................... o
Mr.. Reed was declared to have received
the caucus nomination.
MPHERsoN FOR CLERK.
Voting down q motion to take a recess
until evening, the caucus Immediately pro-
ceeded to select the nominee for clerk, and
the various candidates were presented in
short speeches. The result of the first bal
lot was the election of Mr. MCPHERSON OF
Pennsylvania, who reeeivGA f1d votes to so
for Mr.. Carson of Pennsylvania. the veteran
newspaper correspondent Of the Phila-
delphia Ledger.
THE OTHER NOMINEES.
"A. ]. Holmes, ex-representative from
Iowa, and A. FL. Reed, of Minnesota,
were the candidates for sergeant-at-arms,
and Mr.. Holmes was selected by vote Of
142 to 13.
The candidates for doorkeeper were
Charles w. Adams Of Maryland, and James
A. Wheat, of Wisconsin, and Mr. Adams
was nominated by nne majority.
Mr.. Wheat Of Wisconsin, was nominated
for postmaster, receiving SO votes
Rev. Charles B. Ramsdel OF the North
Presbyterian church Of Washington was
nominated for chaplain, receiving 81 votes
out of total of 147, the remainder being
divided among half dozen other candi-
dates. The caucus then, at 5:15 O'Clock, ad-
journed.
A HAPPY QUARTETTE.
Reed, Quay, Belden and Lodge nre happy
men to-ulgnt. They held New England and
New York solidly and Pennsylvania almost
solidly for Mr.. Reed, and secured his nomi-
nation as speaker. They are particularly
pleased because they did this without the
help of Leonidas Cesar Houk's southern
squad. Mr.. Reed got just three southern
votes, those of Cheatham and Brewer of
South Carolina, procured by Senator Quay,
and Wade of Missouri, who expects to be
chairman OF the committee on agriculture.
Between the first and the second ballot Mr..
Houk rendered Reed the uthern squad on
condition that Mr.. Adams of Missouri
should be made a doorkeeper. but Mr..
Reeds men had captured northwestern
votes by promising to support MIR. Wheat
of Wisconsin for doorkeeper, and SO could
not at that late hour have accepted Mr..
Houk's tender.
OWES HIS RIVALS NOTHING.
As none of the four western candidates
broke to MIR. Reed, although Messrs Bur-
rows and Henderson would have liked to,
Mr.. Reed owes nothing to them. He picked
up the seven additional votes he got on the
second ballot just where he could among
the delegates, but chiefly in the southwest.
The men who changed were Messrs. Gull
bertson Of Pennsylvania (the only only one
Of Mr.. McKinley's ven Pennsylvanians
who did change; Berger OF New Jersey.
formerly for Mr.. Henderson; Lind Of Min
nesota, formerly for Mr.. Cannon; Hans
borough of North Dakota and Pick
erell Of South Dakota, Henderson mem,
and Efford of South Dakota, a Cannon
man. Besides these be got the vote of Mr..
Herman Of Oregon, who was absent when
the first ballot was being taken.
TARDY OR ABSENT.
Mr.. Taylor Of Tennessee, a Mckinley
man, did not arrive until after the second
ballot. Messrs. Morrow of Califor-
ria and Wilser OF New York,
Reed men, did not arrive at all
These seven votes gave Mr.. Reed IS on
the second ballot, or one more than the
necessary number, and not "a, as the official
announcement states. Mr. Reed owes his
western votes, as well as some of his eastern
votes, chiefly to the influence Of railway and
steamship corporations. All the corpora
tion agents in Washington favored him, no
tably the representatives OF the Canadian
Pacific. "The bosses and the corporations"
said one of the defeated candidates by way
Of a summing Of the causes Senator Quay
is happiest Of all, for besi les electing Mr..
Reed, he elected Mr.. Mcpherson, a by
helping Mr.. Holmes Of Iowa to be sergeant
at-arms and Mr.. Wheat to be postmaster
(Mr. Farquahar of New York having
deserted Mr.. Wheat for doorkeeper by
voting, to the disgust Of the other Reed
men, for Mr.. Adams, succeeded, he
thinks, in side-tracking the Iowa and the
Wisconsin candidates for sergeant-at-arms
of the Senate, so as to give his candidate,
ex-State Treasurer Bailey. of Pe1nsylva-
nia, the right of way for that Office. MIR.
Canaday, it seems, is TO get out, but he thinks
he holds the balance bot power In