Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-15
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

| ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DlSPATCHsI
COLUMBUS, January 1.-THE Legisla-
ture to-day confirmed the action of the Dem
ocratic caucus, and by the separate action OF
the House and Senate elected Calvin S.
Brice United States Senator. All the Dem
ocratic Senators were present and all their
10 votes were given to Mr.. Brice. But 10
Republican Senators voted, and IA of these
indorsed Ex-Governor Foster and 1 Murat
Halstead.
Senator Massie. in nominating Foster,
| eulogized him as the originator of the laws
taxing the liquor traffic in the State, which
laws, he said, were now so firmly established
that no party dared repeal them.
The center of interest over the election
was in the House, as among Its members
were numbered all the three Democrats who
failed to attend their party caucus. Senator
Brice was placed in nomination by Hunt of
Sandusky, and warmly seconded by Bel
vile, of Dayton, one of McMahon's
staunchest supporters.
HE GOT INTO LINE.
Counts, the first of the two suspected of
boiling propsnsities, cast his vote for Brice,
and was encouraged by general applause
from the Democratic side. Munson did
likewise.
Smith, of this county, the remaining one
of the boilers, voted for Lawrence T. Neal.
Mr. Briee's total vote in the House was 81,
with Foster 50. All that remains to be
done will be for the two Houses to meet in
Joint session tomorrow. and declare the re-.
suit of their work to-day. Representative
Smith received kilograms from Neal request
ing that he change his vote from himself to
Mr.. Brice, but did not comply. He said
afterward that ne did not believe in electing
a man to the Senate whose only qualification
is money.
eff precedent of this kind is made" he
said, "a young man must inherit wealth or
wait until he amasses it before he can hope
to enter public life.'
ALL AGAINST HIM.
Mr.. Smiths action is generally censured
by Democrats. They claim that he has
been given Office almost constantly for
about 40 years, and it is strange, indeed,
that he should now be the only one willing
to defeat the expressed interests OF mis- politi-
cal benefactors, at crisis in their affairs,
the most important that has arisen for
years. The vote for Neal, they claim, is
gratuitous, and not desired by the recipient.
1t would have bee1 more gracious for the
bolter to have cast it for Foran, Converse or
any other known disturber of party har-
mony who has been melting Mr.. Smith to
his course.
Mr.. Smiths political life will be tride
Ioneso ese for the remainder of his career.
He has already been asked to resign by
numb .rs of those who have always been his
friends heretofore. Mr.. Brice and family
have been receiving an almost constant ova-
ton at the Neil House since the election.
JUST A POSSIBILITY.
There is bare possibility that point
may be made in joint session tomorrow
that Mr.. Brice has not received majority
OF the votes of all the members of the
House, but there is no great probability of
such a question being raised. He had a
clear majority of all present in the House,
and this has been held to be sufficient In
the Senate he had clear majority of all
Senators elected, and in the House exactly
one-hAlt of all elected, and considerably
more than a majority of all present. There
was more than a quorum voting in each
case.
When Senator Schraeider cast a solitary
vote for Murat Halstead there was great
uproar of Kisses, groans and laughter.
There was also great commotion in the |
House when Pennell, Democrat, voted for |
Foster by mistake, and pandemonium |
reigned until the necessary correction was
made.