The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-22
He Receives Fifty-Eight Votes
on the Joint Ballot.
oCoSTA CLAIMANT GETS THIRTY
Calkins Men Conspire to Violate Law
by Postponing Vote.
to Beat squire--Lehmsn De-
serts Squire, but senator Forsythe
Leaves the Ocosta Camp-Parkinson
Faithful to Lauhgon, Whatcom Coun-
ty's Choice.

Squire will represent the state of Washing
ton in the United States Senate for the
six years beginning on March 4, 1891,
and ending March 4, 1897. The joint
convention of both houses today rat
ified the action of the houses of yesterday,
giving Squire fifty-eight votes, exactly
the same number he received in yester-
days ballots. Squire gained one vote,
Forsythe, and lost one, Lehman of Spo-
kane, the latter of whom had been from
the first an open Squire man, and whose
reasons for the desertion at time when a
few votes were of vital Importance are I'M
known. Indeed, it makes no difference
what they were, if he had any, which is
doubtful. Forsythe voted for Squire be-
cause he was disgusted with the disreputa-
BILE obstructive tactics of the Calkins BOOM
ers. displayed in an extraordinary and rev.
olutionary attempt in both Senate and
House to postpone the election of senator
and to defy by express action the statutes
of the United States.
Some time during last night the Calkins
boomers deliberately decided TO disobey
the mandate of the law and to defeat the
election of Squire or of any other senator
Their plot was ingenious and well ar
ranged, and came within an ace of being
successful. The United States statutes re-
quire that in every state legislature on the
second Tuesday after organization ballot
for United States senator must be taken in
separate houses. If some candidate fails
to secure majority of all the votes in
each separate branch, joint convention
shall on the following day proceed to the
election of United States senator. In
case no candidate receives majority of
all the votes on this ballot required to be
taken, the joint convention shall again
assemble on the next day and take one or
more ballots, and SO on each day
until the session ends. The provision
requiring the legislature to assem-
BILE in joint convention on the
day after the ballot in the separate houses
is explicit. mandatory and unavoidable.
Further, the joint convention shall as
semble on the second day (Thnrsday), only
when the joint convention of the day be-
fore has met, balloted and failed to agree.
Eminent legal opinion declares that failure
or refusal to meet on Wednesday carries
with it inability TO assemble on the sue
ceeding days. The Calkins sobstructionists,
desperate, driven to the last ditch and will
ling to resort to any sort of expedient,
legal or. Illegal, to encompass the defeat of
Senator Squire, proposed and unanimously
urged hypocritical device to defer the
election to an indefinite time, when I'M
questionably the point of order would have
been raised that the legislature, having in
the first instance failed to comply with the
mandates of the constitution, had placed
the election of a United States senator ir-
retrievably out of its power. A reso-
luton, the text of which is giving
in another place, was proposed in both
houses, reciting that the investigating
committee, appointed to look into the
bribery charges, would not be able TO make
report and that injustice would be done
if the ballot proceeded before the commit
tee made its finding. The manner in
which this astounding proceeding was
broached and prosecuted is told in another
place.
The accuracy and thoroughness with
which Mr.. McGraw and his iieutenants
canvassed and sized up their strength was,
to say the least, remarkable. 1t will prob
ably be remembered that ten days ago the
PosT-INTELLIGENcER announced Calkins'
of Squire was 60. These were from the
estimates made by Mr.. McGraw,
and it turns out that they
were almost precisely right. Squire
got SO votes Palmer of Garheld was de-
pended upon to vote for Squire. Palmer
was pledged to his support, and in his own
county openly told his own people that he
would vote for Squire. If Palmer had at
that time betrayed his real design to vote
for Calkins of Ocosta, probably he would
have been defeated, inasmuch as Garfield
Republicans were almost unitedly for
Squire and would have emphaticaliy re-
sented an avowal of preference for any
other. The sixtieth man was Andrews of
King. detained at home by serious illness.
Parkinson-but the least said about the
waywar1l Parkinson the better. He has
fallen between two stools He is an Ish-
maelite, his hand against every man and
every man against him. The Calkins
pressure was too great for him TO vote for
Squire. and the Squire pressure was too
strong for him to vote for Calkins.
The Squire strength today was So, and
Calkins 80 Just as soon as the result of
the balloting in the House was announced
and the mighty cheering had in a measure
subsidized the crowds of visitors from Sc
attle. Tacoma and other points started for
the boats. The Bailey Gatzert was soon
filled with the Seattle people, and the
steamers Potter and Multnomah mostly
with those from Tacoma. A large crowd
assembled on the wharf and cheered for
Senator Squire, Mrs. Squire, John Leary,
owner OF the Gatzert. and few other fa-
vorites as they appeared. 1t was rumored
that there was TO be brush between the
Potter and Gatzert, but the former left the
wharf some time before the latter, and it
j. not known here if race occurred.
Olympia is now left with its legislature
and the few stragglers who remain after
the senatorial contest.
In the House this morning, after the
Joint convention was dissolved, Snively
/ allied up his bill pr oviding for filing Of va
| caneies that occur in the legislature dur
| ing the sessions of the legislature. The
| feature of the bill was to do away with
/ the necessity of new registration at the
/ time snch elections are called. Sharpstein
/ objected. because il prevented new voters
not registered from voting. sniyeIy adj
I fnitted that this was true, but Tor various
/ reasons the inequality could not be
/ avoided.
| The bill introduced by Representative
| Plunlmer Of Jefferson, provides that when
| ever arabic land has been held IN fee simple