The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-28
HER NAME is ELL
Chicago Seems to Get There
When She Hustles.
THE STAR OF EMPIRE GOES WEST,

And the Garden City Boomer shouts
1--WE Are the Peopie"-The Eighth
Ballot in the House Fixes the Site OF
the Worlds Fair-An AlI-Day Contest
Over the Matter-Names of the Voters
ON the Winning Side.
WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 25-Excepting
few moments occupied in administering the
oath of office to John f. Reyburn, Of Penn
sylvania, the new member who succeeds the
late Judge Kelley, the house spent the entire
session yesterday in settling the question of
the proposed site for the Worlds fair.
Eight ballots were taken, and on the eighth
and last ballot Chicago secured l57 votes and
the prize. When Speaker Reed raped for
order at noon, there were 300 representatives
on the floor. The galleries were crowded
with pc Jple waiting to witness the struggle
for the priz, between the adj ,sren.s of the
rival cities. Chauncey NJ Depew ana ex-Sec-
rotary Whitney and others iroXi New York
city; Mayor Cregi T., of Chicago; Governor
Francis, of St Louis, and host of repre-
sentative men from these cities, and many
Washington men, members of the original
board of promotion, were in the galleries or
corridors, interested and anxious spec
tators.
The BaIloting Begins.
At 12:15 p. m., after Reyburn had been
sworn in and had taken his seat the clerk of
the house read TN special order prescribing
the mrthci OF votiu, on the site question,
an requiring some one place to have ma
jority OF the votes cast.
Blount OF Georgia wanted to know If there
would be an opportunity afforded to pass
upon the question as to whether there should
be a fair before selecting site. Speaker
Reed replied that under the special order
there could not be, and directed the clerk to
call the roll for the first ballot, which re-
suited: Chicago, 115; New York, ~; st.
Louis, 81; Washington City So, and l vote
for Cumberland Gap, cast by Skinner of
North Carolina.
AS fast as the roll could be called and the
result announced the balloting proceeded.
nevery ballot there were numerous changes,
but it was noticed that Gambler of Massa-
chusetts, chairman of the Worlds fair COM
mittee, did not vote. Skinner went for
Washington City after his first vote for
Cumberland Gap, and number of members
failed to vote on each ballot. The second
ballot resulted: Chicago, 12l; New York, S3;
st. Louis. 50; Washington. 46.
Third ballot-Chicago, 1877 New York, 90;
st. Louis, 50; Washington, "a Fourth bal
lot-Chicago, 1874: New York, 95; st. Louis,
As; Washington 90 In this ballot Chicago
gained z, New York 3, while st. Louis and
Washington each lost 8. Fifth ballot-Chi-
cago, 14O; New York, 10; St Louis, 3S;
Washington, "A. The great increase for New
York-l5-made Chicago men look little
blue, but they still had such big lead that
they retained their confidence.
Gotham Votes Her Full Strength.
The sixth ballot was taken under great ex-
element. The southern members who had
supported st. Louis had been breaking
away, and the question was where would
they SO. Under the rule-a majority of all
the votes cast--provided 312 was the full
vote Chicago needed but IL votes to get the
prize, while New York was looking for
something TO drop in her direction. The
vote was-Chicago, 149; New York, ZIG; St
Louis, 49, Washington, 10. New York was
in the dumps. Her full vote was in and she
was not "the people," To gain time for con-
sultation the reading of the vote was de-
manded, and just as the seventh ballot was
m. to-day was made by Wilson of West Vir
ginia, the yeas and nays being demanded
The motion was rejected-l74 to 1873. These
dilatory tactics caused much excitement, it
being rumored that the object thereof was
to enable New York to make dicker with
ST. Louis.
Amid cries of "Call the roll" from the Chi
cago people the seventh ballot was begun,
1t resulted-.Chicago, 154; New York,
liz; st. Louis, 25; Washington, 1T-just
two votes short of a win for Chicago. Just
before the result was announced Mason of
Illinois was observed wildly seeking to at
tract the speakers attention, and at the same
time dragging Reyburn, the new Pennsyl-
vairia member, forward, saying the latter
wished to change his vote to Chicago. This
was done, and Chicago men looked eagerly
for stampede in their direction. But it
did not come. No one else followed Rey-
burns example, and tho western metropolis
had to go to another ballot with the plum
dangling before its mouth, and only need
ing one vote to capture it,
Settled on the Eighth Ballot.
Everybody expected that the next ballot
would be decisive, and in this case the ex-
pected happened The roll was called for the
eighth ballot, and anxious tally was kept by
New Workers. The result was-Chicago,
157-three more than a majority, there being
in all 307 votes cast; New York, 107; st.
Louis, 25: Washington, IS. The vote'in de-
tail for Chicago was as follows:
Abbott, Adams, Anderson, Allen of Michi-
gan, Allen of Mississippi. Anderson of Kansas,
Atkinson, Bartine, Barwig, Bayne, Belknap, |
Boothman, Boutelle, b ever, Brickner, Brook
shire, Brewer, Il. NJ. Browne, j. Il. Brown,
Bullock, Burrows, Burton, Butterworth, By |
mum, Caldwell, Cannon, Carter, Caswell, |
Cheatham, Chapman, Clark of Wisconsin, Gu |
ME, Cogswell, Coleman, .Comstock, Conger, |
Connell, Cooper of Indiana, Cooper of Ohio, |
Craig, Grain, Culbertson of Texas, Culbertson |
of Pennsylvania, Cutcheoa, Dalzell. Darling |
ton, Davidson, Dolliver, Dorsey, Dunnell, Ev- |
ans, Ewart, Finley, Fithian, Flick, Forman,
Funston, Gear, Gest, Clifford, Greennage, |
Grosvenor, Grout, Hall, Hansbrnugh, Hare, |
Haugen, Hayes, Haynes, Henderson OF |
Illinois, Henderson of Iowa, Hermann, Hill, |
Hit, Holman, Hopkins, Houk, Kelly, Kenne-
dy, Kerr of Iowa, Lacey, LaFollette, Lane, |
Lanham, Lawler, Laws, Lewis, Lind, |
Martin of Indiana, Mason, McClelland, |
McCord, Mccormick, McCreary, Mckenna, |
Milliken, Morse, Morgan, Morrill,, O'Neill of |
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