Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-11
SENATE AND HOUSE CANVASS THE
ELECTORAL VOTE.
M'KINLEY DECLARED ELECTED
M'F<INLEY AND HOBART, 271; BRYAN,
17G; sEWALL, 14o; WATSON, ~.
Many Distinguished PersonnEes At
tend the Joint session-The Fam
Gus TiIdcn-Hayes Count Re-
cnIIed-Cnnvass Was
Formal Affair.

Washington. Feb. 10-The electoral votes
of the forty-five states of the Union were
formally counted at the joint session oil
the house and senate held to-day for thdt
purpose, and Vice President Stevenson pro-
claimed the election of Mckinley and Ho-
bart as president and vice president, re-
spectively. The totals were as follows
For Observation-Disclosures, ri; Bryan, 1l6.
For vice president-Hobart, 21; Sewall,
149; Watson, p.
Although the sky was overcast, the
weather was auspicious and the galleries
of the hall of representatives We're throng-
ed. The general public besieged the doors
in vain, as but small space was reserved
Tor them. Ladies were arrayed in gay
toiletteS and gave touches OF color to the
brilliant setting of the scene. Many dis
tinguished personages witnessed the count.
among them Ambassador Patenoue and
Chancellor Bouve, OF the French embassy;
Mr.. Chat Chung, of the Chinese legation;
Baron Won Thielman. Secretary MatSu. of
the japanese legation; Viscount Thryso,
of the Portuguese legation, and Sir Rich
ard Cartwright of the Canadian govern
ment. No member of President Cleve-
lands family was present:
A Gordon of blue-coated, brass-buttoned
police hedged about the senators as they
marched majestically owe" TO the house.
preceded by Vice President Stevenson and
Mr.. Cox, secretary of the senate. with the
returns locked in cherry Colored box.
This guarding of the returns was a precau-
tion first taken by Acting Vice President
Ferry, of Michigan, twenty years ago, dur
ing the wild excitement attending the Til
den-Hayes contest, in anticipation of a
possible raid. AS the house and senate sat
ly to the count those stirring days were
recalled. OF the fifteen men who sat on
the famous electoral commission which de-
cided that contest by peaceful means. Sem
ator Hoar. of Massachusetts. was the only
one present to-day. The Others excepting
Justice Field, have all retired from public
life have SSpd The NiciSSitu0eS
of political fortunes in two short decades
have removed all but seventeen of those
who then sat at either end of the capitol.
Most of the seventeen survivors were con-
sptcuous to-day in the Joint assemblage.
Two of them. Senator Sherman, who is
soon to be called to the hrst place IN the
Mckinley cabinet, and Senator Morrill,, of
Vermont. author of the war tariff, entered
public life together forty years ago. The
Gordon, OF Georgia: Allison, of Iowa; Cock
rell, of Missouri; Mitchell, of Oregon, and
roughs, of Michigan; Mills, of Texas:
Blackburn, of Kentucky. and IGlkins, of
West Virginia, who were then in the house.
Vice President Stevenson was also a men,
ber of the house at that time. Mr.. Can
non, of Illinois Cwho lost one term). and
Mr.. Culbertson, of Texas, also survived in
although DIR. Danford of Ohio. who was
member of that congress, is also a member
of the present body.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas. and Senator
Butler of North Carolina, who managed
the Democratic and Populistic campaigns,
were present, but did not appear TO take a
deep interest in the count.
Prominent also in the sea of faces was
white haired Senator Palmer. of Illinois.
who headed the gold Democratic ticket last
| fall.
The count itself was of very formal
character. Vice President Stevenson sat
at the side of Speaker Reed and presided
over the joint session. Senators Lodge and
Blackburn. on the part of the senate, and
| Messrs. Grosvenor ann Richardson, on be-
| half of the house, acted as tellers. The re-
turns We're opened by the vice president and
announced by the tellers. The reading of
| the certificates, long in verbiage was quit
| ted, after that of Alabama had been read.
No demonstration occurred at any point
during the count, but when the vice presi-
dent, at its conclusion. announced the re,
suit. there was Il round of applause. both
on the floor and in the galleries, after which
| the senator's filed out into the hail, as they
| had come, while the members of the house
| stood up and the ceremony was over. AT
| 1:50 the house adjourned.
The following is the vote as it was an
nounced in detail: