Connecticut western news., 1891-12-10

CHARLES FREDERICK CRISP.
 their support to Mills Then most of the strength of Springer, of Illinois, went tc Crisp, giving him more votes than were needed to make him the victor. The thirtieth and last ballot resulted as follows Crisp, l19; Mills, lO5; Springer, 4; Stevens, l Total 229; necessary to choice, IA
 The Decisive Vote
 The following is the thirtieth and ina vote in detail:
 For Crisp-Anderson, Alexander, Allen, Aller man. Bacon, Bankhead, Beeman, Beltzhoover Bentley, Blanchard. Blount, Branch, Bullock Bum, Bussey. Byrnes. Cadmus, Campbell Catchings, Clarke (Ala.). Cobb (Ala.) Cochran Compton, Cowles. Crawford. Cummings. Dan fell, Donovan, Dungan, Dunphy, Durborow Edmunds. Elliott, Ellis, English, Epes, Everett Fellows. Fitch. Forney, Fowler, GantZ GeiSen hainer, Gillespie. Goodnight, German. Grady Greenleaf Hallowell. Hatch. Haynes, Hemp hill Henderson (N CD, Herbert, Holman, Houk Johnstone (S O. Jones, Kribbs Lawson (Va) Lawson (Ga), Layton Lester (Va). Lester (Ga), Lewis, Little. Livingstone, Mallory, Nc Aleer, Mcclellan. Mcdonald. McGann, McKalg McRae. Montgomery. Moss. Oates, O'Ferrall Outhwaite, Owens, Page (R. I), Page (Md ) Pattison, Painter, Peel Pendleton, Pierce, Price Rayner, Reilly, Richardson, Robertson, Rock well, Rusk. Shell, Shively. Springer, Stack
 
 Stockdale. Stout Stump, Tarsney. Tillman Turner. Turpin' Van Horn, Warwick Wash ington, Weadock. Wheeler (Ala.). Whiting Williams (N @, Wilson (Mo), Winn. You mans. Total, 1l9. For Mills-Abbott Andrews, Arnold, Rabbit Bailey. Barwig, Bland, Boatner Bowman, Braw ley. Breckinridge (Ark.), Breckinridge (Ky) Beck, Bretz, Brickner, Brooks. Brown. Brun ner. Bunting, Bushnell, Butler, Bynum Cable Caminetti, Caruth, Cate, Causey Cain, Chip T~Ll T~l, l Coombs, Cooper Covert, Cox (N. Y.), Co, CTenn). Crain Crosby, Culberson. De Forest Dickerson, Dixon. Dockery Enloe, Fithian Fillmore. Geary, Hall, Hamilton, Hare, Harris Harter. Hayes, Heard, Hoar. Hooker (Miss. ) Johnson (O). Kendall Kilgore, Kile Lagan Lane, Lanham. Lapham. Lockwood. Long Lynch, Wagner, Mansur, McCreary. Mckinney McMullin. Meyer, Miller, Mitchell Moore Mutchler, Newberry, Norton, O'Neill (Mo) Parsett, Patterson. Pearson, Scott, Seerley | Snodgrass, Sperry, Stewart (Tex. ), Stone (Ky.) Terry Tracy, Tucker, Warner. Wheelock White. Wike, Wilcox. Williams (Mass.) Vii Hams (Ills.), Wilson (W Va.). Wise. Wolverton Total lU5
 Speaker-Elect Crisp's Speech. When Mr. Crisp, the victorious candidate was escorted to the hall he was received | with tremendous applause. He said: REPRESENTATIVES: Profoundly grateful fo | this mark of your confidence and esteem, l pledge myself here aud to devote what | ever industry and ability possess to the ad vancement of the real interest of the Demo l cratic party Applause. ] beg to say to yo1 | now. when speak the first word to you sine | am your selection for speaker. that my cleo | tion means no step backward ill tariff reform [Cheers l desire to say that there is in ou party no man who more earnestly believes il l the Democratic doctrine of tariff reform than l do Tremendous applause After ths lonl | struggle through which we have passed whe1 l representatives are fatigued and when othe l officers are to be nominated, it does not becom | to consume your time. l wish to say, however | that during the progress of this canvass 1 hay | said no word respecting any individual or ind l viduals which would at all justify him o | them in having any feeling of unkindnes i against me. I have felt that it was friendl struggle; have felt that we were all Dem | ocrats, and that whatever might be the resul | of the contest when this house shall meet an | organize we will stand together one body | working and laboring for the good of the party | Loud applause thank you again for you confidence and kindness and beg to assure yo that this whole contest has left in my bosom | unkind feeling toward any member of tn | house. [Great enthusiasm and cheering] l Kerr for Clerk.
 James Kerr, of Clearfeld, Pa., was the nominated for clerk of house by acclama tion. Ex-Representative Yoder, of Ohio got the nomination for sergeant-at-arn and ex-Representative Turner, of Ney York, was declared the choice of the caucu for doorkeeper.
 The vote was as follows: Turner, 17S Field, 27; Colt, 8. Dalton, of Indiana, wa nominated for postmaster by a small ms jority, and Rev. w. H. Millburn was re nominated by exclamation for chaplain. A Il 80 the caucus adjourned.
 Mills Anticipated Defeat.
 MT. Mills took his defeat like proverbs Texan. He also had been waiting anxiousl in a room near by to learn how the ballotin was going. Right after the recess he scene to feel that something was going to happe and that the decisive moment had arrived.
 Springer votes for Crisp" cried out
 messenger, rushing into the room. Mill who had leaned forward to catch his mes sage, recoiled. Another boy came pantin in For the first time during this remark; ble contest the Texan then showed sign C emotion.
 "Wen," he said, raising his hand as thoug to ward blow, "what is itf'
 He Hears the News.
 The boy took one look at the pale, anxiou face of Mills, and, although trembling wit excitement, he checked the yell upon hi lips. and turning his head said in low voice 'It's Crisp; he's elected" Mills stood a though petrified. Slowly his head, wit little jerks, bent forward and his hand nervously clasped before him. It was as
 he had bowed to the inevitable.
 Then with head erect, with stride littl more swinging than usual he hastened int
 the house, and walking up to Crisp graspe him cordially by the hand and congratulate him more warmly perhaps than any OH else on the victory he had won.
 The New Speakers Career.
 Charles Frederick Crisp was born in She
 field, England, where his parents had gor
 on visit, Jan. 29, lS45 His parents T.
 turned within a year, and he was reared
 Georgia, receiving d common school educI
 tion in Savannah and Macon At the breal
 ing out of the war he was only sixteen, bl
 he enlisted in the Confederate service
 May, 1861, becoming lieutenant of Compan
 K, Tenth Virginia infantry, and servir
 until May l2, lSG3 when he was taken az prisoner of war and sent to Fort Delawar