Evening journal., 1897-01-20
ON TO WASHINGTON.
Mr.. Kenney Will Take His
Credentials There Tomorrow.
HOW AN ADDICKsITE REGARDS 1T
SAYS "KENNEY WILL NEVER BE
SENATOR" - WHY CHAIRMAN
BROWN is INDIGNANT-NOTEs
OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE.

ney expects to go to Washington to-
morrow and place in the hands of the
president of the Senate the certificate
CT election to the seat vacated by Mr..
Higgins. Governor Tunnel will prob
ably issue him his commission this af-
ternoon.
]. Edward Addicks, who was elected
United States senator by his rump AS
sembly, will go down on Friday, but
without a governors certificate He is
trusting to the influence Of Senator
Quay, CT Pennsylvania. to prevent the
seating of Kenney and DUPONT and to
effect the seating of himself; or,
if he cannot do that much, to at least
continue the vacancy until two years
hence, when Senator Gray's term will
expire.
Kenney's friends believe that the free
silver Republican senators will aid the
Democrats in seating him, for he is a
free silver man.
AN ADDICKS VIEW OF IT.
"Kenney will never be senator" de-
clared a prominent Addicks man this
morning. THE Republicans will elect
senators from North Carolina and Ken
lucky. Governor Bradley, Of the latter
state, has promised to convene the
General Assembly. With these two
elected the Senate will be a tie, with
Vice-President Hobart casting the de-
Gliding vote. To enable the Republicans
to maintain control it is necessary to
have contests from South Dakota and
Delaware"
BALLOT-BOXES SENT BACK.
zell, of the House Committee on Elec-
tions, returned to Sheriff Finn the bal
lot-boxes and election papers of New
Castle county. Last evening they We're
hauled to the station and loaded on the
train leaving here at 5.23. At New
Castle they were taken off and returned
to the cell in the Jail, which they occu-
pied prior to the demand Of the House
for their use in the Cheairs- -Dickey con
test.
BROWNE is INDIGNANT.
Chairman Hugh c. Browne, of the
regular Republican State Central Com
mittee, is indignant that the Dickey
men used his name in t.. list of wit
nesses which they petiioned the House
to subpoena before acting finally upon
the majority report of the Committee
on Elections. What makes him par
ticulariy mad is the fact that Mr.
Dempsey, in the course Of his remarks.
stated that the witnesses produced
would prove that the ballot-boxes had
been tampered with prior to being
brought TO Dover.
Mr.. Browne came down to enter a
protest against the use OF his name in
such a connection. He saw James w.
/ Ponder enc of Mr.. Dickey's lawyers.
and asked him what it meant Mr..
Ponder told him that Willard Sauls-
bury, Jr.. had instructed him to put it
in the list and he had merely followed
| instructions. Mr.. Salisbury thought
that Mr.. Browne knew something about
the manner in which the boxes had
been held in custody.
Mr.. Browne will now wait on Mr..
| Salisbury and demand an explanation.
He says that he knows nothing about
the boxes being tampered with. and re-
sents the imputation that he possesses
such knowledge.
FIRE IN THE STATE HOUSE.
An incipient fire was discovered in
the State House early yesterday morn
ing. Two representatives Of afternoon
papers worked in the Senate chamber
| until 3 o'clock One Of them got
| through his work sooner than the
other and walking out into the corri-
dor detected q strong smell OF smoke
He called his c0-laborer and the two
after hunting high and low for the
fire, called Janitor Cooper upstairs. He
looked in all the rooms, but could
find nothing, the smoke being strongest
in the lobby. He went to the offices or
the first floor and even to the cellar
but there was no sign Of FIRE in any C.
these places.
One OF the newspaper men went K
the third floor, but found nothing bu
Jimmie Norton sweetly sleeping. He
came down again and discovered thu
smoldering flame back of a cuspidor il
the lobby near the Senate door.
Sergeant-at-Arms Quillen, of th
Senate, who had been awakened by tn
Z newspaper men, got a bucket of waite
and put out the fire.
/ Someone had thrown a lighted ciga
stump at the cuspidor, missed It AM
the fire had communicated to the mat
ting with wood work on two sides Of il
But for the lateness of the Demo
cratic caucus, which kept the newspa
per men up. Delaware might have bee.
/
SENATOR-ELECT SERENADED.
Yesterday afternoon the Nationa
: Guard serenaded Senator-elect Kenne
in honor of his prominent cOnnectio
with the military organization and hi
indefatigable efforts for it's materis
welfare. He greeted the serenade1
: gracefully and greatly appreciate
their action.
/ SenatOr-elect Kenney was adjutanl
general under Governor Biggs. and ha
{ for many years held important pos
Il tiOns ON the staff.
: Harry Wcotten, of Laurel, who was
schoolmate of Senator Kenney, say
that in his boyhood days he declare
that he would one day hold the positiO
= = to which he was yesterday elected.
II PASSED THE SENATE.
/ The Senate passed the Senate bill {
l. supplement chapter Az, vol. 15. Laws
r Delaware, being the act in relation
s.1,. a