Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-01-27
BISMARCK. NORTH

Il 1G1O LA - IAN " AN ~ 10
johnson, Worst, Young, Bullard. Haugen,
Hurley, Larson, Ritter, Strom, Wallen.
Wright, Walsh-15.
Those who voted for Benton ON the first
ballot to-day. who did not vote for him on
the second were Bullard and Ritter who
voted for Smith. MIR. Enger voted for
Anderson but changed to Benton, which
would have made his vote As had Bullard
| and Ritter remained, and had Hagen
| voted for Benton, and Bullard and Ritter
| remaining, he would have had 46 which
would have been sufficient to elect, and it
| did so vote that the claim is made by Nc
| Cormack and others that Benton was
elected. On this ballot Sorley, Lohnes
Veeder and Wlneman changed to Walsh,
| and Pierce to Anderson.
Casey had IA, Smith Is, Benton 43, Worst
| 6, Walsh &, and the remainder scattering.
Benton had the following republicans on
| this ballot: Enger, Pinkham, Churchill,
Macarthur, SeversOn.
Mr.. Oliver was sick and absent, and OH
that account and to gain time call of the
house was ordered, during which time the
verification occurred. Though sick, Oliver
put in an appearance, making AZ necessary
| to choice. Hitler being absent, repub-
| licans were necessary to add to
the populists and democrats to elect,
Ssa ne2 So getfa Senp on the she FIRST
ing paragraph, but Stevens, Hagan and
Logan voted for Muir on this ballot, which
would have made 10 republicans necessary.
On this ballot Casey had Is, Worst 20,
Benton 4S. The others scattering. Those
who voted for Worst were Messrs. Arnold,
Moure, McGillivray, Young Cochrane,
Haugen, Havrevold, Hurley. Larson, Oil
| YER, Simpson, Strom. w allen. Wright, Yegen,
Walsh-21.
! Messrs. Sorley, Worst and Halverson
voted for Anderson.
LOhnes voted for Muir.
Messrs. Boynton and Satterlund for
| Plummer.
Messrs Qkserdahl, veeder and Wine
man for Walsh.
Senator Mccormack claims that
| ficatiOn OF the vote before call of the
house was ordered.
Mr.. Little demanded a call of the
house and that the lobby be cleared. n
d zen members were on their feet second
| ing the call.
Mr.. Mccormack was, during this
time, seeking to attract the attention of the
president, and finally was recognized when
| he demanded a verificatiOn of the ballot,
claiming that forty. six instead of forty
three had voted for Mr.. Benton and that
he was elected: Mr.. Kelly and others near
a veriication. Mr.. Enger changed his
vote to Benton on assurances by Mr.. Nc
| COrmack and others that his vote would
elect and that then was the time to get on
the band wagon, but the tally of all the
reporters agreed with each other and with
the official tally, and that Mr.. Benton had
but fOrty-three votes after all changes
| had heHn made.
Mr.. Mccormack protested and said he
should file written statement and de.
manded that it should appear in the
journal. as it would be needed for q con-
jOurnment.
The floor of the house swarmed with
men from the lobby. Benton, Bud Reeve
and democratic members personally
solicited republican members to change
their votes. Half dozen swarmed about
Mr.. Hagen who still remained true to Mr..
Muir.
Oliver was sick and scarcely able to at
tend, but responded to the call of the house
and no doubt saved the day to the repub-
licans.
Those who voted for Mr.. Benton on the
Senators Bidlake, Brynjolfson, Burke, En-
ger, Engle. Kinter, Lamb, McCarten, Nc
Cormack, Patch, Pinkhan, Stevens. Cald-
well. Churchill, Deans, Ebbighausen, Ell
lott, Hall, Hailum, Hodgson, Holiday,
Horgan. James, johnson of Sargent, John
son of Grand Forks, Johnston, Kelly, Lee
Culloch, Mclean, O'Keefe, Plain, Rinde,
Sanford, SeversOn. ThextOn, Thompson,
Towers. Ueland-4S.
MIR. Hagen. Ritter and Builard, necessary
to make the 46, did not vote for Benton.
At a late hour Tuesday night the agree
ment was made to vote for Benton to-day,
and there was an understanding among
republicans not voting for Casey that they
would endeavOr to unite first on kingman,
then on Smith, after that on Worst and
on the fourth ballot to-day on Anderson.
carried out in measure on the first ballot
but Smiths vote changed to Benton
which was the first intimatiOn that others
OF the anti Casey republican combine had
that the Smith men did not intend to stand
by the agreement and were in a deal t"
others, Notwithstanding this break, voted
for Smith on the second ballot, as they had
agreed to do. At first Mr.. Smith denounced
this as an outrage, which placed him in =
bad light, and that he had no knowledge I
the deal; afterwards he said to members
was a good thing and no could
not be blamed for getting votes wher'
ever he could; that that was the
North Dakota way OF doing things. The
night before he expressed the opinion
that it would be \ wise thing to send Il
democrat in view Of the change in the ad-
ministrati0n, II so lie was in favor of Ben
ton. When the last vote was cast yester-
day, Smiths manager, Charley Showers
drew sigh of relief and said "that ends
the Benton deal" Afterwards he said the
Smith men had no idea of electing Benton.
1t was rumored that II BeEtOn failed on
this scheme yesterday, that the Benton
vote was tO be thrown to Smith to day.
THE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCES.
At the republican caucus last evening IS
republicans We're present. The question
came up as to who the members of the eau
Gus would not vote for for United States SEN
at0r, and the vote was first had on Casey, q
voting for him and IL against. For Ander-
son there were is and 25 against: is for
Kingman and % against; II for Smith and
28 against; for Worst 70 and % against.
1t was understood that those who voted
against would not vote for the candidate