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TILLMAN ELECTED SENATOR
Over Butler by a Very Large Marjority
In Both Houses.

Over Batler by Very Large Marjority
In Both Houses.
COLUMBIA, s. c., Dec. 12.-The elec
ton for United States Senator took
place in each house at exactly Il
o'clock. There was no joint session
and each body voted on its own hook
There will be a 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 M
G. 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 1O2 votes for Till
man, Is for Butler, for Murray and
for Crum. The Senate cast 20 fol
Tillman and six for Butler. Senator
Turner was absent and did not vote.
The absentees in the House were
Messrs. Barkley, Shuman and Will
hanson. Two of them would have
voted for Butler and one, Mr.. Shu
man, for Tillman.
The Charleston members did not ap
pear to be dead stuck on voting fol-
Butler, as all of them were 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 factfonal one.
A 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,
tions without speeches.
In that body Mr.. Thurmoud OF
Edgefeld nominated B. R. Tillman OF
Edgefeld. The nomination was Sec
onded by every Reform county in the
State.
Mr.. Patton of Richland nominated
"Gen. NJ. G. Butler of South Carroll,
na," dwelling on the South Carroll
ma" in contradistinction to Mr.. Thur
mond's ''Edgefeld." The Sumter del,
egation seconded General Buffers
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,
G. NJ, Davis, W. c., Duncan, Eadens,
Earle, Edwards, Elder, Ellerbe, Est.
ridge, Finkley, 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
nedy, Kinard, Kirk, Lancaster, Lem
mon, Lesesne, Leverett, Love, Magill
Mellard, Miles, Mishoe, Mitchell, 7. P,
Mitchell, j. w., Moore, Murray, Nc
Intosh, McKeown, McLaurin, D. W.,
McLaurin, J. F., McSweeney, Nun
merry, 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-102.
Butler Bacot, Devereaux,
Dothage, Gadsden, Lotion, Manning,
Mehrtens, Mellett, Patton, Pyatt, San
ders, A. K, Thomas, Weston, Wilson
-15.
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 nominal,
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 a capital speech.
Senator Barnwel placed the name
of General Butler in nomination. 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, Derhaln, Douglass, Du
bose, Efird, Finley, Fuller, Harrison,
Jordan, Kirkland, Mauldin, Mayfeld,
Miller, McCalla, Mcdaniel, Norris,
lO'Dell, Ragin, Sanders, Stackhouse,
Stribbling, Williams, Walker, Wat
son, Wilson-29.
Butler-Barnwell, Buist, Moses,
Mower, Sloan, Verdier-6.
Neither Butler nor Tillman was
present when the vote was being tax
en.-Register.
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