, 1891-12-06

MILLS IS IN THE LEAD.
The Veteran Corsicana States
man Crawls Ahead of Crisp.
BallotAfter Ballot TakenW With
out Conclusive Result.
Devoted Friends of Each As
pirant Stand Firm
after Hours of Exhaustive La
Dor the Caucus Adjourns.
Mills In the Lead.

WASHINGTON, Dec. From . O'Clock
this afternoon until IL the Democrats
caucus, held for the purpose of nominal
ing the next speaker for the house of
representatives. ballotted with a heroism
that shows how staunch each congress-
man is for his t~avorite. Those receiving
votes were Mills, Crisp, McMillin,
Springer, Hatch and Stevens. After
balloting for several hours the caucus ad-
journed until 10 a IN. Monday.
1t was agreed that the nomination of
candidates should be made by name only
and ballots taken by a vive voce vote, the
majority of all votes cast to be necessary
to a choice. Mills was nominated by
Culbertson Of Texas; Crisp by Blount of
Georgia; Springer by Newberry of Illinois;
McMillin by Richardson of Tennessee and
Hatch by Bland OF Missouri. Balloting
then began.
The first ballot resulted: Crisp "a,
Mills rs, Springer 80, McMillin Is, Hatch
IA, Stevens l..
In the next two ballots Lawson, Peel,
Smell. Stevens and Weadock broke to
Crisp and Mansur aud Williams to Mills.
Illinois desertions handicapped Springer
at once. Fithian, Forman and Lane were
subsequently, joined by Wike. Scott and
Williams, who also deserted their candi-
date and voted steadily for Mills. Dur
ing all the time, however, Springer re-
ceived the constant support OF the Michi-
gan delegation and a portion Of the 1ndi-
ana and Wisconsin delegations and his
loyal followers In Illinois for a long time
felt encouraged that this outside support
would ultimately rally the deserving lii
nois members to the solid support of
Springer.
On the ninth ballot, Giants OF Ohio
changed from Springer to Crisp in order,
he said. to partially offset the action of
some of Springer's Illinois supporters who
deserted to Mills. 1t was after 8 o'clock
this evening when the tenth ballot was
concluded and the members began to get
very weary as ballot after ballot passed
without showing any material change.
During all these six hours a constant
pressure was being exerted By various
leaders 10 scatter the forces of Springer,
Mcmillan and Hatch but the hardy fol-
lowers of these gentlemen stood resolute.
The last ballot. which was the if
tenth. stood: Mills 81. Crisp 81,
Springer I9, McNIillIn II, Hatch 5,
Stevens !.
On the twelfth ballot Crisp and Nc
Millin lost one each while Springer showed
a gam of three. Bullock of Florida and
Weadock of Massachusetts concluded to
support Springer, while CAN'T of Ohio
returned to his first choice. The secre
tary drawled YEARLY through the fifteenth
ballot and Springer's seventeen
votes showed an apparent gain of
three votes over the preceding but
Holman announced that through error of
computation Springer was credited with
fourteen votes IN the previous ballot,
whereas, the Illinois candidate actually
received seventeen votes. The record of
the fourteenth ballot was accordingly cor
rected.
The decision to adjourn was a result
OF a prior understandings on the part OF
all five candidates who being unable to
see whether there would or would not be
any advantage in holding the caucus to-
gether. agreed to adjourn and take the
chances, The members quickly dispersed
to seek a much needed rest before begin
ming the difficult task of breaking the
deadlock.