The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-12-19

over ruiief ny a. 'Eit Large -HarJorlt!
in Both Houses.
COLUMBIA. S. c., Dec. 12.-The elec-
ton for United States Senator took
place in each house at exactly -
o'clock. There was no joint session
and each body voted on its own hook,
There will be joint session of the
two bodies today at noon to tabulate
the vote and declare the result.
Ex-Governor B. r. Tillman was
elected United States Senator over NJ.
c.. Butler by a vote of 131 to 81.
George w Murray, colored, received
two votes and w D. Crum, colored,
one vote
The House cast 1G2 votes for Till
man, Is for Butler, / for Murray and
l for Crum. The Senate cast 20 for
Tillman and six for Butler. Senator
Turner was absent and did not vote.
The absentees in the House were
Messrs. Barlley. Shuman and Will
Hanson. Two OF them would have
voted for Butler and one, Mr.. Shu-
man. Tor 11llnl3n.
The Charleston members did not ap-
pear to be dead stuck on voting for
Butler. as all of them We're absent
when the doors were closed to take
the vote They appeared at the door
as the voting commenced. The Speak
er ordered the doors opened for their
admission.
In the Senate Butler did not get the
full Conservative vote. Walker Of
GEORGETOWN voted for Tillman and
Turner of Chesterfield managed to
avoid voting. The House vote was a
strictly factional one.
\ rouSing cheer was given in the
House gallery when the vote was an
nounced.
The House agreed. on motion of Mr..
Cooper, that it should make nomina-
tons without speeches.
In that body Mr.. Thurmoud of
Edgefeld nominated B. R. Tillman of
Edcefeld. The nomination was sec
onded by every Reform county in the
State.
Mr.. Patton of Richland nominated
Gen. N. G.. Butler Of South Carroll
ma" dwelling on the South Carroll
ia in contradistinction to Mr.. Thur
nond's "Edgeield :" Tie Sumter del
egation seconded General Butlers
nomination.
The vote in the House was as fol
lows:
Tillman-Ashley, Barry, Blackwell,
Bowman, Breazale, Breeland, Bran
lett. Brown. Bunch, Burns, Carroll,
Carrothers, Caughman, Conner, L. S.,
Conner, J. B.. Cooper. Crum, Davis,
c.. NJ, Davis. w. c.. Duncan, Eadens,
Earle, Edwards, Elder, Ellerbe. Est
ridge, Finklev. Floyd, Fowler, Garris,
Gary, Castor, Goodwin, Hammett,
Hardy. Haprer, Harvey, Haselden,
Hiott. Hollis, Holloway, Hough, Hun
ter, Humphreys, Ilderton, johnson.
B. j., johnson, W. j., Jones, Ken
nedv. kinard. Kirk, Lancaster, Lem
mon. Lesesne, Leverett, Love, Maglll,
Mellard. Miles, Mishoe, Mitchell, T. P,
Mitchell. J. w, Moore, Murray, Nc
Intosh. McKeown. McLaurin, D. w,
McLaurin, J. f., McSweeney, Nun
nerv. Otis, Phillips, Pickens, Pollock,
Price, Prince, Rainsford, Rast, Robert
son. Rowland. Sanders, John g., Sin
gletary, Skinner, Sturkie, Tatum,
Thompson. Todd. Townsend, Thur
mond. Tyler. Wallace, War;, Wat
son. Welsh, Whitmire. Williams. T.
s.. Williams, L. j., Williams j. g.,
Williams, Fred, Winkler, Wolff,
Wyche. Wymann-1O2.
Butler-Adams, Bacot, Devereaux,
Dothage. Gadsden. Lotion. Manning,
Mehrtcns, Mellett, Patton, Pyatt, San
ders. 4. K. Thomas Weston, Wilson
Is.
Anderson and Gregory, two of the
colored members, voted for George
W. Murray. making two votes for that
renowned black statesman, Miller, the
other colored member, voted for w.
D. Crum, another colored statesman.
The Senate permitted brief speeches.
Senator Watson of Edgefeld nomirlat-
ed Captain Tillman. saying that his
name is a household word. He re-
viewed the history of this great po-
litical leader. Senator Norris and 9TH
ers seconded the nomination. Sena-
tor Norris made capital speech.
Senator Barnwell placed the name
of General Butler in aomination- He
said that no politics animated him in
his support and nomination of Butler.
1t was a debt of gratitude he owed
that grand soldier" Senator Mower
seconded the nomination.
The vote in the Senate resulted:
Tillman-Barton, Brice, Brown,
Byrd, Dennis, Derham, Douglass, Du-
bose, Efrd. Finley. Fuller, Harrison,
Jordan, kirkland, Mauldin, Mayfeld,
Miller. McCalla, Mcdaniel, Norris,
O'Dcll. Ragin, Sanders. Stackhouse,
Stribbling, Williams, Walker, Wat
son. Wilson-29
Butler-Barnwell, Buist, Moses,
Mower. Sloan, Nerdier-6.
Neither Butler nor Tillman was
present when the vote was being TAX
en.-Register.
\ British Act.
GUTHRIE. O. T., Dec. 12.-Race
troubles have broken out in the Oak
Grove school district. As the children