, 1896-04-11
THE VOTE CANVASSED.
But.the Tie Still Remains a
Tie.
THE 11o WAS NOT 124
Unsolicited Advics From Men who
DOME Know Any More About Law
Than They DO About Ihe
Newspaper Business.

The city council met at s o'clock last
evening to canvass the vote of the re-
cent election, and a full house greeted
the performance. At the appointed
the seal on the door to the closet in
which the ballot boxes had beer stored
for safe keeping and to unlock the
door, but it wouldn't unlock. He twist
ed the key, but the bolt refused to
shoot. Then the marshal tried his
hand. and the engineer of the fire
even refusing to act under pressure
from the skeleton keys of the editor Of
Il burglarious contemporary. After
ten minutes of anxiety and all sorts OF
predictions. the lock yielded and the
ballot boxes were brought forth.
Considerable discussion was indulg-
ed in as the method of procedure,
everybody taking a hand whether they
had any chips in the game or not, but
finally the council took the advice OF
City Attorney Hills and concluded not
to count the ballots; simply to make a
anvas of the turns made by the
judges of election . Beginning with
precinct No. | the clerk proceeded to
o pen the boxes. A careful check was
kept by many in the room upon Re-
publican extras and the figures were
found to be correct in every case, with
the single exception of Andrew Mil
ler's vote in the third precinct, where
ne received 113 instead of ia, as re-
ported. This makes his majority in
the ward AZ instead of 43. The conten-
ton of the Taxpayers that Mr.. Coke
fair had received 124 votes in the third
precinct proved to be groundless.
Upon completion Of the anvas Of
the vote, considerable discussion arose
as to the authority of the council to
count the ballots. OFT and Low were
both swelled with advice, although
their opinion had not been asked, and
they had not the ordinary courtesy to
ask permission of the council to adj
dress it. They simply shot their
mouths at random wherever an OPEN
ing seemed to present itself. Some
times they talked single-handed and
sometimes they both talked at once.
They talked inside of the railing and
they talked outside OF the railing. Low
said he thought the council did lot
know enough about law to determine
what a legal ballot was, and therefore
when they should come to the disputed
ballots in the second precinct they
would they would not be able to act in
an impartial amer
One man who had nothing else to do,
said he followed OFT through his unso-
licited argument and that he actually
expressed an idea. but it was lost, and
the council simply took the advice of
Mr.. Hills and proceeded to declare the
result of the election upon the face OF
the returns as made by the judges Of
election.
At this point in the proceedings Mr..
c. S. Greenbaum gave notice of a con-
test on the ground hat certain ballots
we're counted for ]. A. Cokefair which
cid not state on their face the inten-
ton of the voter casting the same. the
same being illegal, unlawful and
SHOULD not have been counted for the
said Cokefair. He further made the
request that the ballots be placed in a
safe place.
The following resolution was then
introduced and passed by a unani-
nous vote:
Whereas. Upon a canvass Of the
election returns for the several pre-
clncts of the City of Laramie of the
votes EAST for the various officers. the
following persons are hereby declared
elected to the various offices herein,
after set forth, to-wit: Mayor, Mel
| vile c. Brown: treasurer, H. D. BEEN,
err: councilman First ward, A. c. Jones
councilman Second ward, Andrew Mil