The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-03-10
ADJOURNED SINE DIE
And Without Electing a United States
acknowledgement Scenes Mark
the Closing Hours.
The Appointment of Senator Will
Probably Take Place Next Week
Who Will lie Be!

HELENA, March Especial to Til
TRIBUNE. The final scene in the sena
torial fight was enacted in the auditor
ium here today, when the joint assembl.
with the democrats in majority of one
adjourned sine die, without electing
United States senator, and eft the APP
pointment with the republican governor
Fully four thousand spectators wit
messed the dramatic scene. The assem-
bly, had been adjourned to the auditor,
ium for fear the hall of the house would
not safely accommodate the great crowd
w. A. Clark, the democratic caucus
nominee, had kept his forces from break.
ing on the false claims that he would
get enough republicans to elect in spite
of the opposition of friends of Congress
man Dixon. The first incident was
when Senator Hatch of Park voted for
Clark. The first anne on the house roll
was Annear, republican. He voted for
Clark. The next change was when
Bonner, one of Dixon's men, in a long
and eulogistic speech. also voted for
Clark. When Graves. republican, was
called, he made a speech in which he
said that owing to personal differences,
malice and enmity, the legislature had
failed to elect. He held a petition from
seventeen hundred of his constituents
asking him to vote for Clark, which he
did, amid cheers from the democrats.
and cries of Craven and "Traitor.'
from the republicans. Three more re-
publican members of the house voted for
Clark amid great excitement. They were
Coder, Lewis and Van Cleve. The total
vote was 60, making - necessary for a
choice. Clark b, just three short; Man
tie %; Dixon II; Carter l. Senator
Goddard (rep.) S id, without comment
upon the proceedings, that he would
move to adjourn sine die. Representa-
tive Bach (dem.) asked for the ayes and
noes, saying be wished the democrats
placed on record whether they were will
ing to elect or not. This brought to his
feet Senator Mats, the leader of the
Dixon forces. lie said his side had made
an appeal to the Clark men over three
weeks ago to unite or name some good
democrat. They wanted a democrat
asked that his name be not tainted by
charges of fraud, bribery and corruption.
Others had put themselves in the posi-
tlON OF Saying IL snOulu De Sldlh VI Do-
body. The blame rested with them.
After some further bitter remarks, Lieu
tenant Governor Botkin put the motion
on the question of adjournment and it
was carried by 81 to 81. OF these six re-
pulicans and twenty six democrats voted
against it, and twenty. four republicans,
eleven Dixon democrats and two popu-
lists voted for it.
The opinion is divided as to whether
Gov. Richards will appoint Sanders, the
present incumbent, or Lee Mantle, the
latest caucus nominee, or whether he
will resign and let Botkin become gov
ernor and Botkin appoint him IRickards)
to the senate vacancy.
Opinion may be divided as to where
the blarae rests, but disinterested demo
Gratis will say that the false hopes held
out by Clark had more to do with the
failure to elect than had anything else,
He never had the votes and he knew it,
but he wanted to throw the responsible
ity of failure to elect on Marcus DAILY.
1t wa, like a man who wanted to kill a
dog and took the animal out in a snow
bank with the thermometer 90 below
and held it there. When he got through
IL job the man was frozen TO death and
tie dog was still kicking.