The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
ENDED IN EXCITEMENT.
Thatcher Vote Increased to % at
Yesterdays Session.

Yesterdays Session.
Yesterdays session of the Joint as
sembly opened as peacefully as a June
morn and ended in a furious tempest.
Thatcher came within four votes of a
majority of all the members, and then
with very slender majority at their
command, his opponents filibustered for
an hour and at length forced an ad-
journment, just as the Rawlins move
ment had been checked exactly one
week before. Two sessions were held
and during the early balloting two
Rawlins men, Shepard and Wilson,
went TO Thatcher, followed by Martin
and Dotson and the solid Populist vote
Thatcher's supporters believed that
victory was within their grasp and con-
Sented to recess to 8 o'clock
Thatcher'S opponents declared that a
motion for adjournment had previously
been carried and protested that all sub
sequent proceedings would be irregular
and illegal. They renewed their pro-
tests at the afternoon session, and,
amid the most intense excitement. con-
sumed an hour in filibustering tactics
and attempts to adjourn. Finally, by
a vote of 81 to %, a motion to adjourn
was carried, and the Thatcherites
stormed from the building in a state
of boiling rage.
The crowd that assembled at the
morning session was all unconscious of
the impending storm The assembly
and spectators viewed the opening pro-
ceedings with languid interest and the
president ordered the roll call for the
thirty-eighth joint ballot.
THE THATCHER WAVE.
Dotson and Martin went back to
Thatcher. This had been expected, but
when Shepard and Wilson, two of the
Rawlins leaders, who had voted and
worked for that candidate from the
first ballot, went over to Thatcher,
their course produced a great SenSa-
ton. Speaker Perkins also returned
from Henderson to Thatcher, and the
Thatcher wave was mounting high.
His vote jumped from 10 to "a, and
Rawlins again went down to the Is
mark, while Henderson was reduced to
IA. On this ballot the PopuliSts voted
for Judge NJ. NJ. Kellogg of Provo, and
the three Republicans gave their COM
plimentary vote to Mrs. Emmeline 3.
Wells. Calls voted for Chambers and
Bennion for Harris.
Now look out for the Pops" was the
comment of the politicians when it
was seen that a Thatcher boom had
been launched. And the Populists did
not disappoint expectations. Harbour
Dresser and Thompson threw their
votes to the Thatcher side on the next
ballot, and the Thatcher vote mounted
to q, while the assembly was plainly
growing excited. Rawlins and Hender-
son remained as before.
When Mr.. Bennion was reached on
this ballot, that rowing member an
nounced that he had changed his vote
several times and was now about to
change it again. He believed that
many of the members had voted so
long for one candidate that they had
become tongue-tied and could not vote
for any other. Lest he might become
likewise afflicted, and in view of the
fact that the other two members who
had been voting for Harris had de-
serted that candidate, he would vote
for Judge Powers.
On the fortieth ballot Calls dropped
Chambers and went back to Rawlins.
increasing his vote to II. This was the
only change.
MANGAN GOES TO THATCHER.
On the forty-first Mangan Joined his
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