Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-11-06
AT LAST!
The Question Of Supremacy is Settled
by the Roard of State
Canvassers.
The Republicans Hold the Lcgisla'
ture by Six Majority on
Joint Ballot.

THE FINAL COUNT.
The Result as ascertained by the state Can
wasting Board.
At 10 O'Clock Monday morning the
state canvassing board, consisting o.
Governor White. Chief Justice Blake
and Secretary Walker, re .umed the of
fetal canvass Of the state vote. AL
the returns having been examined
previously. the board had nothing to
do but foot up the totals and sign theil
reporf. This was done in about five
minutes. Chief Justic Blake then
moved To ad ourn sine die. The mo.
tion was seconded by Sec'y Walker
put by the Governor and carried unsn
imonsly.
The abstract OF the votes and the re.
por. were then placed on the secre
tary's table, where the press reporters
and groups Of politicians gathered tC
inspect them.
Following is
THE REPORT OF THE CANvAssEhs:
TERRITORY OF MONTANA, l.
COUNTY OF LEWIS & CLARKE. 90
We, Benjamin F. White, Governor,
Henry n. Blake, Chief Justice, and
Louis A. Walker, Secretary Of the
Territory Of Montana, the duly ap,
pointed and authorized canvssIne
board designated in the act Of con-
gress, approved February 22nd, A. D.
1889, providing for the admission 0i
Montana as state Of the Union. and
also under and by authority Of Ordi.
nance No. 2, passed and enacted by
the constitutional convention of The
said territory, do hereby certify that
that the above and foregoing Is full
true and correct abstract of the votes
cast in said territory at the election
held on the first Tuesday in October
A. ID. 1859, as appaars by the duly err
titled returns from the counties named
and ss counted and as counted and
canvassed by US, this the ith day oi
November, A. d. 1889.
And we further certify that having
convened as such canvassing board on
the 3lst nay Of October, A. D. 1873. and
having received no duly certified re-
turns from the county NJ Silver Bow
we duly appointed Benjamin Webster
a special messenger t. proceed forth
with to the said Silver Bow county Il
demand and receive from the county
properly certified copp of the ahsirGc
OF votes cast in raid county at sal,
election a. canvsssed and declared b,
the proper canvasslng board.
That the said messenger. BenjamiI
Webster, did proceed to the said Ell
yer Bow county, and did demand from
the county clerk Of said county. tn
duly certified copy of said abstract O
votes as aforesaid, and returned b
Helena and made his sworn returl
that the demand for said abstract wa
by thu said county clerk refused.
Being therefore without any prope
copy of the abstract OF votes cast 4
Silver Bow county, and having ex
hausted the authority given by tn
statute In endeavoripg to obtain tn
same, 1t now becomes their duty to Al
certain and declare the same from tn
best sources of information obtainsbl'
We have before us the official certif
cate Of Chss. f. Booth. county clerk ,
Silver Bow county, showing that
certain number of votes were cast Il
the different candidates in that coun
ty. In the different precincts thereo
naming each Of them, and the numb'
received by each OF the candidates !
each precinct, and including the 34t
precinct as having voted at said ele'
tiop. We also have before us an of
cial notice signed by Mr.. Booth, sta
ing that the board OF csnvassers m
on the l4th day of October, 1889. au
did then and there canvass and couI
the vote OF said Silver Bow count
and declare the result thereof, and th
they did not count. but did reject
false. fraudulent and void, all Of Il
votes reported as cast and counted
election precinct No, "a, In said count
No other or further action havlI
been had by the oanvasslng board
said county In relation to the canvas
the vote therein. we conclude that u
true result as canvsssed and declar'
must be found by eliminating fro
the list Of votes cast by County Gle
Booth the vote Of precinct "a. whi
was rejected by said anvsssing boa
rs stated In the certificate Of ss
county clerk, and which shows I